Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum is keen to get the VR show back on the road.

Speaking to Music Radar, Sorum has been talking about how the band have come close to deciding on a new frontman on numerous occasions recently but are still yet to find the right man.

“The way I like to put it is, we were ‘dating,’” Sorum laughs. “We had already tried out Spacehog’s Royston Langdon – came close there. Then we tried out a few more people, including this guy from Canada (Gord Prior), but nobody seemed appropriate. Then we found this other dude…”

“This guy felt like he could be the one,” he continued. “So I took him into my studio and recorded his vocals over a bunch of instrumentals we have. Immediately, he blew me away. ‘This is the guy!’ I told myself. I was on top of the world.”

“There was something missing in the swagger department,” Sorum sighs. “His vocals were great, but the attitude, it wasn’t really there, not all the way at least. Plus, I played his recordings for my girlfriend and a couple of friends and I didn’t get the reaction I was hoping for. Nobody went ‘Holy shit, that’s amazing!’ That really sent signals to me that something was wrong”

“We need a singer soon,” Sorum sumarrizes. “We need the right guy in six months. We can’t wait another year. Otherwise, it might not matter.”

Velvet Revolver have been looking for a singer since they fired Scott Weiland on April 1st last year. Recently, Shooter Jennings claimed that he had been offered the job twice and there was also audition tapes that were leaked from Blu Bone’s frontman Gord Prior and Inanna’s Brother frontman Tony Montana.

In other VR related news, Slash is continuing to work on his solo album and you can get all of the details here.