Velvet Revolver - Appetite for Deconstruction

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Guns n Roses is ready to prove that NYC still has an appetite for destruction. Which has me thinking... why did they name themselves Velvet Revolver.

Three theories -- pick one if you like:

1: Iron Butterfly. Led Zeppelin. Velvet Revolver.

Is Velvet Revolver the reincarnation of the Classic Rock guitar driven supergroups of the 60s and as such they name themselves as an oxymoron with two contractictory elements, objects or ideas?

2: Name yourself after a God. Or two.

Velvet refers to Velvet Underground.
Revolver refers to the Beatles.
Combined you have.... (drum roll...)
A piss low marketing concept?
A grandiose vision of what the band aspires to be?
The Jury is Out.

3: “The Velvet:Revolver::Guns:Roses Parallelism.”

They might as well have called this band AK-47s 'n' Tigerlillies. Or Fragrant 357. Seems most likely the band is a direct rip off (homage to?) Axl's genius.

Just wondering...

― alex sherman (alexsherman), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

i think it's because their singer is a junkie loser

― alex in baghdad, Friday, 5 May 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I think the formula you're looking for is "[something bad-ass] + [something sexy]," which is a pretty natural duality for rock bands to shovel into their names.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

i agree. zeppelins are about the sexiest thing i can think of. next to firearms, of course.

― alex in baghdad, Friday, 5 May 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco is otm.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Haha, cf Anal Cunt!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

"[something bad-ass] + [something sexy]," which is a pretty natural duality for rock bands to shovel into their names.

that's it, my next band name is bronson tits.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Baghdad, are you dyslexic? VELVET REVOLVER.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

You can compare the aesthetic pretty easily to a certain genre of tattoos, which try to strike the same balances based on the same formula:

badass + sexy = romantic

For L.A. (and not just during the hair-metal period), that seemed to be the working model. Just sleazy enough to tittilate, just dangerous enough to make you swoon, and full of a hard-bitten romance between people who wear leather for non-BDSM purposes --

Have none of you seen the "November Rain" video or something?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Peckinpah Thong

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Grizzly Bear

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

And You Will Know Us Because While We are Stone-Cold Heavy and Will Rock You Senseless There is Also a Decadent Seductive Glamour about Us to which You Will Swoon

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Eastwood Five-Year-Olds

― Gary Glitter, Friday, 5 May 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Federline Spears

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Ska Punk

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

when I was trapped in the Pittsburgh airport a couple summers ago, Scott Weiland drifted past on one of those conveyor-belt things. It was the last thing you expect to see when you're staring blankly into space for hours. Eerie.

Oh, and his would still suck even if their name was Fresh-from-the-Dryer Holocaust.

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

concrete blonde

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

belle & sebastian

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was going to be a thread about their new album...oh well

― def zep (calstars), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Shark Lips

No, that doesn't work. It makes me think of that Warrant video.

― ratty, Friday, 5 May 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Britney Fox

Britney= lolita temptress
Fox= savage predator of rodents (also a hot babe)

the algebra:

[something sexy] + [(something bad-ass) + (something sexy)]

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Silk Missile sounds like it could be a real band.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Atomic Punani

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

skid row

― Queen gotgonorreahfromseabstian bach one night, Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Explosionary Breastilingus

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Boobs 'n Broadswords

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Nashville Pussy

― Cee Bee (Cee Bee), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

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