It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown. Co-produced by Angell and Martin and mixed by Seattle veteran Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden), Walking Papers features 11 tracks spanning punk, blues, rock, and ambient music, including the hard-rocking single ' The Whole World's Watching.' Walking Papers are currently scheduled to perform on the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour with Alice In Chains beginning Aug. Angell and Martin subsequently began recording together and later recruited McKagan and Anderson to form Walking Papers. Walking Papers was initially conceived in 2012 after Angell and Martin shared a bill at a local Seattle venue while performing with the Missionary Position and the Barrett Martin Group, respectively. And I haven't done the van thing since the punk rock days.' Cool enough, in fact, for me to sit in a van and go. 'And after recording and hearing the final mixes, I knew this was something really special and cool. 'I remember sending me the MP3 for a song called 'Your Secret's Safe with Me' and thinking it was just majestic,' said McKagan. Ahead of the album's release, has your exclusive first listen to eerie rock track 'Your Secret's Safe With Me.' That guy…You hope (Weiland) pulls it together I shared enough good times with that guy that I wish him nothing but the best.Walking Papers, a Seattle super group featuring keyboardist Ben Anderson and vocalist/guitarist Jeff Angell (the Missionary Position), drummer Barrett Martin (Mad Season, Screaming Trees), and bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Loaded, Velvet Revolver), are set to release their debut self-titled album on Aug.

It’s a sad situation any way you look at it. But the chemistry of Matt and Slash and Dave and I is really good, so you don’t want to let that just go away.”Īs for former VR frontman Scott Weiland’s current dust-up with Stone Temple Pilots, meanwhile, McKagan simply notes that, “You could kind of see it coming, I suppose. We’ve tried out a bunch of singers, but I think we’re just waiting for the right person to come along. Slash and Matt (Sorum) and Dave (Kushner) and I played in South Africa at the beginning of June…and of course we talked about it. And, he adds, Velvet Revolver is not a dead issue. McKagan - who continues to write a column for the Seattle Weekly and has a weekly radio show in England - says he plans to continue working with Loaded, though that group is on hold while he concentrates on Walking Papers. “The songs are a little bigger I suppose, because when you write with a band it’s always bigger than if one guy sits down and writes a song,” he says.

The group has also continued writing and has more than 20 new songs, according to McKagan, some of which Walking Papers is playing live. 6 and will be part of this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival starting Aug. Walking Papers, which also includes Missionary Position guitarist Benjamin Anderson,- releases its self-titled, Jack Endino-produced debut on Aug. I’m really excited about the prospects for this band.” I think you know Barrett’s capable of going off at any second on his drums, but he doesn’t - although live we go for it quite a bit more than on the record. WE have this really cool, perfect restraint, which is sort of cool. “I hadn’t played bass, really, in a band for a little while,” he says, “so I loved the idea of me playing bass with Barrett playing drums and being in a really fiery rhythm section. McKagan, who plays guitar in his own band, Loaded, adds that it was nice to strap on the bass again for this new endeavor. Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Lands Brandi Carlile, Duff McKagan, Taylor Hawkins and More for Peak to…

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