Get Out the Door
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"Get Out the Door" is the third single
from Velvet Revolver
's second album Libertad. This song is about a transvestite. Also, the song's solo features the use of a talk box
by lead guitarist Slash.
" and "The Last Fight". The band's official website started a poll on which track, out of "Let It Roll", "She Mine" and "Get Out the Door", to decide which song should be chosen as to be released as the third single. "Get Out the Door" won with 53.3% of the votes.
By coincidence, the appropriately titled song was the last song by the band to feature singer Scott Weiland before his departure from the band.
. The Director of Photography for the video was Rocco Guarino. Rocco filmed concert footage of the band and took photos throughout the course of their career, then Dean used this footage to assemble a performance video.
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
from Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...
's second album Libertad. This song is about a transvestite. Also, the song's solo features the use of a talk box
Talk box
A talk box is an effects unit that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument. The musician controls the modification by lip syncing, or by changing the shape of the mouth...
by lead guitarist Slash.
Song History
It is the third single from Libertad, after "She Builds Quick MachinesShe Builds Quick Machines
"She Builds Quick Machines" is a rock song by Velvet Revolver, and was released as the first single off the album Libertad on May 21, 2007. The song was made available for digital download on May 16, 2007. Besides being featured on Libertad, "She Builds Quick Machines" was also featured on the EP...
" and "The Last Fight". The band's official website started a poll on which track, out of "Let It Roll", "She Mine" and "Get Out the Door", to decide which song should be chosen as to be released as the third single. "Get Out the Door" won with 53.3% of the votes.
By coincidence, the appropriately titled song was the last song by the band to feature singer Scott Weiland before his departure from the band.
Music video
The music video for "Get Out The Door" was directed by Dean KarrDean Karr
Dean Karr is an American photographer and music video, commercial, and film director.-Official biography:Director/Photographer Dean Karr's signature style, often copied but never...
. The Director of Photography for the video was Rocco Guarino. Rocco filmed concert footage of the band and took photos throughout the course of their career, then Dean used this footage to assemble a performance video.
Personnel
- Scott WeilandScott WeilandScott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
- lead vocals, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - SlashSlash (musician)Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
- lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, talkbox - Duff McKaganDuff McKaganMichael Andrew "Duff" McKagan is an American musician and writer. He is best known for his twelve-year tenure as the bassist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
- bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists... - Matt SorumMatt SorumMatthew William Sorum is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses and supergroup Velvet Revolver , which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash .-Early career :Matt Sorum was born Matthew William...
- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, backing vocals - Dave KushnerDave KushnerDavid "Dave" Kushner is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver...
- rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...