It would take the band almost a year before they settled on a singer. The band would put out ads in music magazines and on radio holding open auditions for a singers for their unnamed project. Duff would suggest a friend of his and high school mate of Slash Dave Kushner to be band’s rhythm guitarist. The band didn’t entertain the idea and soon enough Izzy split. Accoding to Slash’s 2007 book he would reveal the reason he couldn’t work with Josh Todd revealing “Josh’s voice was just too linear and grating, it was a distraction from the music, not to mention just a tad off-key.” Soon enough former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin joined his old bandmates to write some songs.Īccording to Slash’s book, izzy suggested the band be a quartet with him and Duff handling vocal duties and playing just some clubs in a van tour. Soon afterwards Slash couldn’t work with Keith Nelson claiming the guitarist just doubled whatever he was playing so Sorum fired him too. He would tell Sorum he couldn’t work with Josh Todd, but Slash according to Sorum wasn’t the type of guy who could fire people so the drummer fired the singer and the group became a quartet.
Within a few weeks Slash walked away from the band saying he was out. Sorum would organize a benefit show with his former Guns N’ Roses bandmates Slash and Duff McKaganin in addition to Stevne Tyler, and Buck Cherry members Josh Todd and Keith Nelson Sorum would recall how electric the gig was and how the next morning he got calls from Slash and Duf saying they should form a band with the guys from Buck Cherry. Castillo would play with Motley Crue on one record, but struggled with health issues dealing with cancer until his death in 2002. Sorum would turn down the offer instead suggesting Castillo for the job. It was around this time that Sorum’s old band the cult reunited. Sorum would reveal in his autobiography that he was initially offered the job to fill in for Tommy lee following his departure from motley Crue in the late 90’s. Former Guns N’ Roses and the Cult drummer Matt Sorum was close friends with drummer Randy Castillo.
Velvet Revolver went from being one of the most highly anticipated bands of the 2000’s to imploding on stage half a decade after their formation. It would be his passing in the early 2000’s that brought one half of Guns N’ Roses and one part of Stone Temple Pilots together with mixed results. The origins of the supergroup velvet revolver began with drummer Randy Castillo who played with Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and Motley Crue among many others.
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