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Merlin Alderslade

"It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off

Velvet Revolver posing on a red carpet in 2003.

Ex-Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum has made a fairly bold claim by suggesting that the acclaimed supergroup could have eventually become as big as his other former band, Guns N' Roses. Sorum makes the claim in a new interview with Get On The Bus, where he discusses the formation of Velvet Revolver - also featuring fellow GN'R alumni Slash and Duff McKagan, alongside Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland and former Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner - and his sadness at the band never reaching its full potential.

"It wasn't as big as GN'R, but it could have been," he states (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). "It just didn't last long enough."

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