Advantages: Insane guitar, great songwriting, good vocals Disadvantages: Very few indeed
I've never been that great a fan of Guns n Roses, so when it was announced that their drummer Matt Sorum, bassist Duff, and of course incredible guitarist Slash had formed a new band under the name of Velvet Revolver, I didn't exactly jump at the opportunity to rush out and buy it.
However, several months passed, and I found myself browsing the shelves in HMV for the album, after being told by several friends of similar taste that it was well worth ...
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Advantages: Great Guitar, good vocals and truly unique songwriting Disadvantages: Not enough solos, lyrics sometimes unclear.
Slash has left Guns N Roses and started a new rock band "Velvet Revolver". This is there debut album "Contraband".
"Sucker Train Blues"
This track is awesome, insane guitar solo where Slash makes full use of the whammy bar!! Its a fast song, the lyrics in the verse are slightly unclear and are hard to make out. The chorus is very catchy and you will be humming that for a long time.
"Do It For The Kids"
This album keeps getting better ...
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Advantages: Part of Guns`n`Roses Disadvantages: Nothing. It'll kill chavs
This is the BAM. this is. when guns`n`roses went belly up with a slash, some stayed and made another band. Velvet Revolver. I appsalutely love the band with their uba strenght guitar solo (man slash is the best les paulist) and the fast dudu dududu dudu dudu dudu dudu you can not beat. A les paul guitar is the best guitar to own in the bowl of this world. So the chavs of this world, why not commite suiside now rather that let this kill you if you ...
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Contraband [Digipak] -
Contraband, the debut album from Velvet Revolver, arrives with both a great deal of
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expectation and a great deal of baggage. That's the trouble with "supergroups": there's always the difficulty of stepping out of the shadows of the members' previous ba...