VARVATOS REVOLVER
Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 11:46am by Axl RosenbergYeah, dude! Velvet Revovler are a real rock n’ roll band, man! And anyone who doesn’t believe it should just shut their piehole and listen to the band members themselves. As Scott Weiland told The New York Times, “It’s a fucking rock’n’roll band. It’s dirty, raunchy… Everything a rock’n’roll band should be.” KA-POW! “Dirty!” “Raunchy!” Yeah! And then there’s this quote from Duff McKagan, from the band’s official RCA Records-sanctioned press bio: “We can’t play nice or play radio… To me, this is the first dangerous band that’s come around in a while — truly dangerous.” Yeah, man! VR don’t play nice to no radio, muthafucka! They’re “dangerous!” Yeah! ROCK N’ FUCKIN’ ROLL!
And nothing, I mean nothing, says “dirty,” “raunchy,” and “dangerous” like doing ads for fashion designer John Varvatos!
I mean, Chris Cornell did it… so it’s still totally rawk… right?
-AR
The scarf that guy’s wearing on the first page of the ad just screams “hardcore.”
[...] a career of co-opting rock n’ rollers from Alice Cooper to Chris Cornell and Iggy Pop [and Velvet Revolver - see above - Ed.], has taken over what used to be CBGBs. His store will open in the spring. [...]