You know old Slash is a pretty good guitar player and everybody seems to like his book and stuff but, this sure makes him look like a knucklehead.
Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has admitted that the band forced Scott Weiland out by ignoring him.
Slash says that during the band’s European tour he and the other members acted like Weiland didn’t exist until he took the hint.
He revealed: “We basically didn’t speak a word (to Weiland) that whole time. We gave him the cold shoulder in the U.K. like nobody’s business.
What is this-High School!!??
The kind of thing you would expect at cheerleader camp.
“Oooh, we don’t like Scott anymore, let’s all not talk to him.”
You are a real rebel Slash, an icon to the take no prisoners, rock and roll attitude.
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Sans Direction wrote,
I’ve spent some time reading the MixerMan Diaries, which I think might’ve been mentioned someplace on this blog. The online version covers 2/3s of the story, which, if you hadn’t read it, is this:
That kind of “Jenny said that Tammy said that you stink” high-school bulldada and passive aggression sounds exactly like the Mixerman Diaries.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..That Was NOT Fun
Link | April 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Pribek wrote,
Thanks for Mixerman Sans, I had not seen that before. Funny, inside look and eerily similar to VR.
You know, there is a trickle down effect in the music biz. It’s not just bad at the major label level and, it’s not just the record business. Each day there are fewer fewer places to play. You constantly hear about how the suits have screwed things up. But, the artists seem to escape culpability.
You would think that bands/artists who are at the higher end of the ladder and still doing decent business could find it in themselves to see what’s going on and act like grown ups.
Link | April 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
J wrote,
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over,
Yes we are
Dumb all over,
Near’n far
Dumb all over
Black ‘n white
People, we is not wrapped tight.
- FZ
J’s last blog post..Theramin Cat
Link | April 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
We idolize Mick Jagger and Axl Rose. We idolize Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen. Some of us idolize Mick Fleetwood and Keith Moon. Fewer of us idolize Bill Wyman and John Entwistle. Some idolize Tom Dowd and Ted Templeman and Rick Rubin and the like. Nobody who doesn’t have an office with a name on the door in the Long Plastic Hallway idolizes the label heads and the other cogs in the starmaking machinery. So we say “The guys at Warner are putzes for dropping Wilco for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot“, but it’s harder to say that maybe Jeff Tweedy is a putz, too. I’ve been a Tweedy fan since Anodyne, I kinda like YHF, and I saw I’m Trying To Break Your Heart, and I feel very comfortable saying Jeff Tweedy is a putz.
I read a bit from the competing Clapton’s-life biographies, and while I love early-70s Clapton, he’s a putz, but it was hard for me to reconcile my love for Layla and the fact that it was created by a junkie putz.
Nobody was bigger in 1984 than Van Halen, but really, if Eddie and Dave hadn’t been putzes, the album that would’ve come out instead of 5150 with Hagar would’ve been even better. (I lived in St. Louis in the early 1980s. KSHE forced me to love the Red Rocker. There simply was no other choice. “Three Lock Box”. “Red”. “There’s Only One Way To Rock”. All choice stuff. Van Hagar is still an abomination.)
We don’t want them to be, but they are. Because they’re human.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..That Was NOT Fun
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Pribek wrote,
Ahah! a fellow KSHE’er. It’s all starting to come together now, Sans.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Sans Direction wrote,
Am I right? Do you have fond memories of Sammy due to his high ranking on their playlist? Or am I imagining things?
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Chapter 3: Repetition and Stress
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Pribek wrote,
Oh yeah, I was hip to Sammy because of KSHE. Earlier on, they played the Montrose stuff which really had some starch. Damn, Ronnie Montrose, there’s a guitar player. I actually saw him open for the Allmans at a KSHE birthday party.
“Get on you bad motor scooter and ride…”
I kind of felt the same way when Hager joined Halen, kind of screwed two things up. That being said, I do think that Van Hagar had some good moments.
You got me thinking now, Sans
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Sans Direction wrote,
That’s always a good thing, that thinkin’.
The main good thing from Van Hagar, to my mind, is “Finish What You Started”. And it’s clear that Eddie thinks it’s a country thing, but you tell me that his break on that track isn’t a close cousin to Cornell Dupree’s lick on “Memphis Soul Stew”. It’s not Country, hoss, it’s classic Atlantic Soul!
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Chapter 3: Repetition and Stress
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Pribek wrote,
“Finish What You Started” is a tough track.
Funny how we perceive. On that track, I remember thinking that Eddie was trying to get the Albert Lee thing going but, abandoning that and then just blowing. There’s a nervous edge on that track that almost sounds like frustration morphing into mayhem.
I got to go listen to “Memphis Soul Stew” now.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Sans Direction wrote,
And I have to get me some Albert Lee one of these days.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Read Your Contract!
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Pribek wrote,
Listening to Albert Lee, for me, opened the door of perception on the hybrid picking thing.
I don’t know exactly why because, I knew of others that were using the technique. But, for some reason, listening to Albert’s playing clarified it for me somehow. I wasn’t trying to learn his stuff. I didn’t sit down and transcribe solos, just listened. And for some reason, through that, I came up with an approach to working on it in my own way.
Great guitar player, that Albert Lee.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Sans Direction wrote,
I heard of the technique, started putting a pick on the middle finger and all of a sudden I was doing it. That’s not to say I’m doing it well yet….
He recently fell and broke his arm, Albert. But he recorded a track for Brad Paisley’s instrumental album first.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Read Your Contract!
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Pribek wrote,
Well, I remember going to a used record store the same day I had bought 9th row tickets to see Clapton (he ended up canceling)and, the guy at the store heard me talking about it with my buddy. He said something like; “You are going to see the best guitar player in the world and it’s not Clapton.” I ended up taking home a record by Heads, Hands and Feet and maybe, some Emmylou (”Luxury Liner”?)that Albert played on. Anyway, I immersed myself in that for a while.
I’m out of the loop-didn’t know Brad Paisley had an instrumental album.
Get well soon, Albert
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Sans Direction wrote,
It’s not out yet, but coming. I’m on TDPRI (look for SatelliteOrders) and they’re all about Brent Mason, Brad Paisley, James Burton, and Albert Lee. I saw a Youtube clip of Emmylou’s take on “LL”, which would’ve been 2/3 shorter if they didn’t give two verses to Albert for every one for Emmylou. Not that I minded. Still prefer the GP International Submarine Band version, but I’m willin’ to change my mind.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Read Your Contract!
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Pribek wrote,
I think Emmylou was using that as a vehicle for Albert and a tip of the cap to GP.
“My Baby Thinks He’s A Train” by Rosanne Cash is another cool one.
There are also a couple of cuts from early Steve Morse solo records that were real nice. Showed two vastly different ways to skin a country cat.
Really though, Albert’s one of those guys that can cover a lot of stylistic ground-not just the corn.
I always liked his singing too.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm