SPACEHOG's Royston Langdon reportedly jammed with the band a number of times, but guitarist Slash said that while he and the rest of VELVET REVOLVER had clicked with Langdon, they agreed that his voice was too much like Weiland's to suit the group's new sound.

"I think Royston's fantastic, but he's more in the Scott Weiland range, which is great for that, but what we want to do is something aggressive and very hard rock," he told Entertainment Weekly. "Basically, what we originally planned to do the first time around that was sort of molded differently when Scott came into it."

Robin ain't coming back. That is so beyond obvious at this point.

And now they've got Azoff, VR has went dark, rumors of hotels... you know i'm sayin'.

Just putting it out there.

Guys those were really huge IF's to those points. That's not even mentioning the possibility
that the next singer for VR will be something very, very special.  And it's another big if that the
guys even want a reunion. And a huge if that Axl would somehow spontaneously say, okay, I got
that out of my system, now back to that other unfinished GNR album... And then there is the
business of going about a reunion. Axl is not going to do a 360 degree change of who he is for
the benefit of the old days and for what the fans want.

I'll say anything is possible. But I'm looking at this logically and I'm not interjecting a possible
reunion scenerio into every topic. That gets old after a while. I think a lot of it is meant to try
and undermine the current GNR by some disgruntled old line up fans who don't want CD to be
a success, because failiure of CD, in their minds, will lead to a fantasy reunion.

A reunion is not that simple.