And Now Let's Go Over to the Leather Report: Velvet Revolver
Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, March 2008
IF THERE'S A definition of a rock star, Scott Weiland is it. The ever-present Aviator sunglasses; the hip-jutting swagger; the slow croak of an LA drawl are all clues. But it's the unique, outlandish and often inspired sense of style that's the real clincher. Weiland, with his taste for army surplus, fake fur and fine tailoring, is not a man who does inconspicuous.
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