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"Velvet Revolver"

So, what do you guys think of them? I got their first album, pretty awsome. If you don't know who they are, they're the band with three former GNR members and 2 other people.

Paradox: wrote:
> I have an opinion which is uncommon nowadays.

No you don't. You have the 'I'm a bitter music journo - I'm so much better than you' opinion that's really very common indeed especially in publications.

Oh and you see bands for their image not for their music which really does lump you in with the journo scum of this world.

I think mine's quite a common one too, it's called 'I don't listen to anyone's opinion, I make my decision based on the music from the band I have heard: regardless of whether they're popular or not'.

Memorandum! wrote:
> Slash OWNS. Velvet Revolver are okay.
> I love guitar solos and don't really see the problem with having one
> in every song. But then again, I listen to a lot of instrumental
> guitar music, so I'm used to (and really enjoy) constant soloing.

Ditto.

Oh, ok

...

Download.
They even said it...

Paradox: wrote:
> I was having my tea sat on the big hill and couldn't help but hear
> them.
>
> The jacket potatoes rocked, it's all I ate!

Where was this? Live 8?

Instrumentally its fair enough but when there's lyrics too it makes the song a bit overcrowded I think.

Slash OWNS. Velvet Revolver are okay.
I love guitar solos and don't really see the problem with having one in every song. But then again, I listen to a lot of instrumental guitar music, so I'm used to (and really enjoy) constant soloing.

I was having my tea sat on the big hill and couldn't help but hear them.

The jacket potatoes rocked, it's all I ate!

Paradox: wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> They're a bit bland really. Their sound isn't anything original or
> special, and the singer is an arrogant prat.
>
> Yes indeed.
>
> Only Download people understand that.
>
> And he sounded crap live didn't he?

I didn't stop to see them, I walked past the main stage and then decided to go to the second stage and watch something good.

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> and the singer is an arrogant prat.
>
> Huh? How?

Download highlights:

"We're the best rock and roll band in the world"

If that's not arrogance then I don't know what is.