Velvet Revolver Fired Their Frontman
April 4, 2008
Velvet Revolver bid farewell to Scott Weiland.
The mega-band is certainly parting ways with its lead singer, due to his “erratic onstage behavior” and other personal issues, most particularly a current time in rehab rooting from 2007’s DUI arrest.
While there was no announcement on the band member’s alteration on Revolver’s website, the group’s publicist at Sanctuary Management sent out the statement just hours after Revolver finished its European trip Tuesday night in Amsterdam.
“This band is all about its fans and its music, and Scott Weiland isn’t 100 percent committed to either,” guitarist Slash said in the statement. “Among other things, his increasingly erratic onstage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on.”
Oops, No Crow Flying with Fleetwood Mac Afterall
March 27, 2008
Seems like Sheryl Crow were a little overeager when she declared that she would be accompanying Fleetwood Mac in the next few months.
AOL music site Spinner.com’s latest interview with the 46-year-old vocalist declared that she and the classic-rock group “definitely have plans for collaborating in the future.”
That being said was good information to Fleetwood Mac, nevertheless, band’s singer Lindsey Buckingham, confirmed that plans to bring Crow on the bus were unsure.
“I think we were all a little surprised [Crow] was announcing that to the world with such certainty,” he advised Billboard.com.
The Smashing Pumpkins Filed Legal Charges Against Virgin
March 25, 2008
The great 90’s alternative band Smashing Pumpkins are filing legal charges against Virgin Records, stating that the record company has unlawfully utilized their name and music in promotional transactions that damaged the group’s integrity with fans.
Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the breach-of-contract lawsuit contended that the rockers have “worked hard for over two decades to accumulate a considerable amount of goodwill in the eyes of the public,” and that Virgin’s exploit of the rock group in a “Pepsi Stuff” endorsement with Amazon.com and Pepsi threatens their character for “artistic integrity.”
