The Little Band That Could; They all said this supergroup of legendary misbehavers would never fly. Wrong.(Velvet Revolver )

From: Newsweek | Date: June 14, 2004| Author: Ali, Lorraine | Copyright information

Byline: Lorraine Ali

Train wreck? Car crash? Trailer Park in a Tornado? Any of these would have been a more appropriate name than Velvet Revolver. This supergroup, comprising some of rock's most notorious bad boys--Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses, singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots--spent the past year working hard on an album that everyone just knew would never happen. After all, Weiland had been busted on drug charges three times in the pa...

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