Immortal Entertainment

Immortal Entertainment is Velvet Revolver's management agency.

Infectious Grooves

Infectious Grooves started out as a side project for Suicidal Tendencies vocalist Mike Muir and bassist Robert Trujillo. They enlisted various musicians to help out, including guitarist Dean Pleasants and Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins. The music is an energetic mix of funk and Suicidal-style metal/hardcore, but without Suicidal's serious focus; this is simply good-time, over-the-top party music, and the band makes no pretense to anything else. Ozzy Osbourne was featured as a guest vocalist on their first album The Plague that Makes Your Booty Move; the band was subsequently featured as his opening act on the No More Tears tour. After their 1991 debut, Infectious Grooves issued Sarsippius' Ark in 1993 and Groove Family in 1994. Mas Borracho followed six years later.

VR's Dave Kusnher played on Infectious Grooves' first album 'The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move'.

>>> Infectious Grooves Website
>>> Infectious Grooves Shrine

Italian Job, The

VR recorded the Pink Floyd cover 'Money' for the 'Italian Job' movie in May 2003. The movie is a remake of a 1969 Michael Caine heist. The song was released May 30th, and is not included on the soundtrack. It is on the ending credits of the movie and might be used as a b-side in the future.

Here's the story of the movie: The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Wahlberg) never saw coming was a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang -- inside man Steve (Norton), computer genius Lyle (Green), wheelman handsome Rob (Statham), explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def) and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Sutherland) - can't believe when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Enter Stella (Theron), a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in LA history. Now the job isn't the payoff, it's about payback.

>>> The Italian Job Official Site

Lavish Studios

Lavish Studios is the name of Scott Weiland's recording studio in Burbank, CA. It's here that Velvet Revolver recorded the vocal tracks for 'Contraband'. Scott worked with Douglas Grean to record them in November and December 2003.

Other artists who have recorded at Scott's studio are: Emma Ejwertz (untitled demo, 2003) and Wonderlove ('Katherine Montgomery The Invalid' 4-song ep, 2001).

Lee, Ang

Ang Lee is the director of The Hulk (2003), the movie for which VR recorded their first original 'Set Me Free'. Ang invited the band to record a song for his movie.

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters Degree in Film Production at New York University.

At NYU, he served as Assistant Director on Spike Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983). After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film scene with Pushing Hands (1992), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts and cultural adaptation, centering on the metaphor of the grandfather's Tai-Chi technique of "Pushing Hands".

The Wedding Banquet (1993) as Lee's next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual Chinese man who feigns a marriage in order to satisfy the traditional demands of his Taiwanese parents - it garnered Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie in his trilogy of Taiwanese-Culture/Generation films, all of them featuring his patriarch figure Sihung Lung, was Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.

Lee followed this with Sense and Sensibility (1995), his first Hollywood-mainstream movie. It acquired a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and won Best Adapted Screenplay, for the film's screenwriter and lead actress, Emma Thompson. Lee was also voted the year's Best Director by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. Lee and frequent collaborator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997) , an adaptation of Rick Moody's novel involving 1970s New England Suburbia. The movie acquired the 1997 Best Screenplay at Cannes for screenwriter James Schamus, among other accolades.

The Civil War drama Ride With The Devil (1999) soon followed and received critical praise, but it was Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), that is considered one of his greatest works, a sprawling period film and martial-arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss - it swept the Oscar nominations, eventually winning Best Foreign Language Film, as well as Best Director at the Golden Globes, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America.

Lee then filmed the comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003) - an elegantly and skillfully film with nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film - Hire, The Chosen (2001) - and is currently working on Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by E.Annie Proulx.

Loaded

Loaded features Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses fame playing guitar and singing lead vocals. After GN'R, Duff had a short-lived career in Neurotic Outsiders with prominent players Matt Sorum and Steve Jones from Sex Pistols. The original line up of Loaded circa 1999 was Duff on bass and vocals, Dez Cedena (founding guitarist Black Flag) on guitar, Michael Barrigon (from Plexi) on guitar, and Taz Bentley (formerly Reverend Horton Heat & Tenderloin) on drums. It was formed in LA.

They toured up and down the west coast and into middle America getting as far east as East Texas. They decided to record a live album and distribute it through the website. Eventually it was released on May 27, 1999 under the name of 'Episode 1999: Live'.

They put out the live record because Duff's second solo record got lost in the legal shuffle when Geffen and Interscope Records merged and Duff was dropped from the roster of the "new combined" label. Somehow or another he had lost all commercial rights to release the songs on that record as they had been recorded. It was recorded entirely at Pimp Studios, his home studio.

Loaded was formed, when Duff moved back to his birthplace Seattle after living in Los Angeles during the GN'R years. He teamed up with drummer Geoff Reading, guitarist Dave Kushner and bass player G. Stuart Dahlquist.

When he and his touring band, Loaded, found out that the album wasn't going to be released, they decided to record a live album and distribute it through the website. Eventually it was released on May 27, 1999 under the name of "Episode 1999: Live". After that there was talk about Loaded re-recording "Beautiful Disease", but the tracks never reached the public.

Then sometime in late 1999, Duff and Taz hooked up with Izzy Stradlin to tour Japan (as Izzy's rhythm section), and then the new line up of Loaded was assembled in Seattle (mid 2000). Geoff Reading on drums (formerly of New American Shame), Duff on guitar and vocals, Dave Dederer (P.U.S.A.) on guitar, and the bassist from Alien Crime Syndicate. ACS's guitarist would later replace Dave Dederer when he departed Loaded for the re-united P.U.S.A. Then when ACS really took off, that's when G. Stuart Dahlquist and Dave Kushner came on board.. This lineup did some gigs in the Seattle area and a five-date tour of Japan.

Their second album, "Dark Days" was recorded over the winter of 2000-2001 by Martin Feveyear. It features Duff on vocals, guitar, bass, and piano. Geoff Reading on drums. Taz Bentley plays drums on the last tune. Dave Dederer on guitar. Martin Feveyear produced the album and also played keys, and played keys in the live band.

Loaded was disbanded so that Duff could focus full time on Velvet Revolver