Once the band got down to work on tracks, they revived the raw, gritty energy once held by Guns N' Roses. However, that song was left off the Contraband disc. The summer of 2003 also saw the band record another soundtrack song as they covered Pink Floyd's "Money" for The Italian Job remake. By the time the Contraband album came out nearly a year later, the track had a few changes. The driving rocker was produced by Nick Raskulinecz with the song's main riff generated by Slash, who also lent a rather complicated guitar solo to the song. The song arrived in 2003 as a soundtrack cut for the film The Hulk. That was the record." Velvet Revolver, "Slither" Music VideoĪs stated, "Set Me Free" was the first song most people heard from Velvet Revolver. Once we did those, then we wrote six or seven more songs together, with all five of us in the room, as a band. Once we found Scott, he listened to all the songs, and he picked out about six or seven that he thought he could really do his thing on. Of course we had been writing songs for about a year. Speaking about the process, Kushner stated, "We really wrote… we wrote about 60 songs with Scott. The set mostly consisted of Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses covers, but there were two new tracks that surfaced - " Set Me Free" and " Slither." Not long after, the group inked a record deal with RCA and the beginnings of their first album were set in motion. The singer entered rehab in June and the band worked around his rehab sessions.Īfter settling on the name Velvet Revolver, the band played their first show at the El Rey in Los Angeles. However, a month later, Weiland was arrested after a traffic collision and was charged on suspicion of driving under the influence and drug possession. This is the guy.'" Velvet Revolver, "Set Me Free" It was him … It’s like he came in and we gave him a demo of one song, and he came back a day and a half later and it was 'Set Me Free,' you know, it was from The Hulk soundtrack … And once we listened to that, it was like, 'All right. Guitarist Dave Kushner told, "It was so undeniable. Then, in April 2003, Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland became available and eventually landed the gig. Jay Popoff and future Slash band member Todd Kerns were among the names rumored to have tried out, while Faith No More's Mike Patton, future Alter Bridge and Slash vocalist Myles Kennedy and The Cult's Ian Astbury were also rumored to be invited to audition, but each had reportedly turned down the offers. Days of the New's Travis Meeks, Neurotica's Kelly Shaefer, Sebastian Bach, Lit's A.
Over the next few months, a few names surfaced as potential vocalists. In addition, another former Gunner, Izzy Stradlin, was reportedly writing with the group, though he would eventually exit the project after a few weeks. By September, they were putting out ads seeking a vocalist "somewhere in the realm of early Alice Cooper/Steven Tyler, the harder-edged side of McCartney and Lennon." By October 2002, the still unnamed act added guitarist Dave Kushner, who had played with McKagan in Loaded.
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