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And Finally
Weiland joined Velvet Revolver for the cash
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 18 May 2011
Scott Weiland has admitted that the main motivation to join Velvet Revolver in 2003 was the money he was told he could make.
In a new autobiography Weiland admits he wasn’t 100% convinced by the initial tracks he was sent by the former members of Guns N Roses who formed the band, but that he warmed to the project when one of them, Duff McKagan, indicated the project could be quite an earner.
In the new book Weiland writes: “They put some songs on a CD and my wife said: ‘They think you’ll like what they’re doing’. I didn’t it sounded like Bad Company and I never liked Bad Company. A week or so later another CD arrived with songs custom-designed for me. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to hook up with these guys”.
He continued: “[But] Duff said: ‘There’s soundtrack stuff we’ve been asked to do, and the money’s great’. The money attracted me. I can’t call it the music of my soul. There was a certain commercial calculation behind it”.
Velvet Revolver has, of course, been on hiatus ever since Weiland’s acrimonious departure from the band in 2009.
