VELVET REVOLVER Explain Why Free Show Was Important To Pull Off

October 19, 2004

VELVET REVOLVER played a 45-minute free show for an estimated 3,000 fans last Wednesday (Oct. 13) in a Hollywood parking lot, after they were denied a permit to play on the roof of Sunset Boulevard's Hustler store on October 12th. Bassist Duff McKagan explained to Launch Radio Networks why it would have been too reckless for the group to play without getting a permit. "Simply, if you play without a permit and someone gets hurt, you know, you're sued and blah blah blah — there's a lot of downsides to it. And if somebody in the band gets arrested, your tour is in peril...okay, enough said."

VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland says it was personally important to him that the group find another location and make the show happen. "I was obsessed with the idea of doing it really, because the STONES did it, you know, in New York on a flatbed truck...we originally wanted to do that down Sunset Boulevard, but logistically, you know, it was kind of impossible. But, you know, I think we're a band that just likes to do things that are sort of against the rules, and borderline against the law."

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