i was totally prepared to hate this album - being another supergroup composed of scott weiland of stone temple pilots fame, and slash, duff mckagan, and matt sorum of G 'N F 'N R (that's guns 'n fuckin' roses for the rest of you) - i expected it to be another mediocre rock album with a decent single and not much else. i guess having low expectations was the correct strategy here, because i really really like this album.
i like it because their single "slither" is the eleventh song, but i really like the obvious guitar chemistry between duff and slash that we haven't heard since the first two guns and roses albums. this might be the guitar album of the year, and the songs ain't bad either. in fact, they are quite good. there's not a bad track here. you can definitely hear influences of all the bands in velvet revolver's family tree, and scott weiland on top of this backing band just "works."
first audioslave, and now velvet revolver. hail to the return of the supergroup.
