Velvet Revolver Music Group

The machine shop in industrial Burbank is nearly quiet on this April day. Inside is a clandestine rock star palace, where a new band plays with the volume turned low, working up an acoustic set beneath a ceiling of billowing red velvet. At the moment, almost no one has heard the band Velvet Revolver, or knows much about its upcoming album beyond the pedigree of its key members: Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.

There's nothing approaching an interband love song in the acrimonious missives shooting back and forth between Scott Weiland's current and former bands. After the singer's announcement this week that he plans to revive Stone Temple Pilots for the group's first tour in seven years, the other members of Velvet Revolver, the band he's been fronting in recent years, declared their intention to keep going without him. In turn, Weiland has dissed his Revolver cohorts as "a handful of discontents who at one time used to call themselves a gang," according to Billboard.

There's nothing approaching an interband love song in the acrimonious missives shooting back and forth between Scott Weiland's current and former bands. After the singer's announcement this week that he plans to revive Stone Temple Pilots for the group's first tour in seven years, the other members of Velvet Revolver, the band he's been fronting in recent years, declared their intention to keep going without him. In turn, Weiland has dissed his Revolver cohorts as "a handful of discontents who at one time used to call themselves a gang," according to Billboard.

The machine shop in industrial Burbank is nearly quiet on this April day. Inside is a clandestine rock star palace, where a new band plays with the volume turned low, working up an acoustic set beneath a ceiling of billowing red velvet. At the moment, almost no one has heard the band Velvet Revolver, or knows much about its upcoming album beyond the pedigree of its key members: Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.