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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/158501 ... lots.jhtmlStone Temple Pilots Reunite To Continue 'Legacy,' Thanks To Scott Weiland's Wife
Stone Temple Pilots at their reunion-tour press conference on MondayAfter five years apart, grunge rockers kick off 65-date trek May 17 in Ohio.Unlike most bands that reunite after a bitter split and several years of animus, Stone Temple Pilots — who shared the stage for the first time in five years on Monday night at the former Hollywood Hills estate of magician Harry Houdini — claim they aren't in it for the cash. Nope, STP — frontman Scott Weiland, bassist Robert DeLeo, guitarist Dean DeLeo and kitman Eric Kretz — just missed being STP.
"This is home for us," Dean DeLeo said, following Monday's press conference, during which the band announced it would be heading out this summer on a full-fledged, 65-date reunion run. "I'm fond of our legacy, and I'm fond of our band — I'm a fan. I get off when I'm riding down the highway and an STP track comes on the radio. I get off on that."
But just how did the reunion come together? "Scott's mom called mine and Robert's mom, and then they called Kretz's mom, and they thought it would be a great idea for the boys to do," DeLeo joked. "I hate begging to be whipped and hit, because when they ground us, we can't go out and play. It's the worst, man."
Truthfully, the Stone Temple Pilots reunion, which DeLeo said has been in the works for about eight months, began with just one phone call — from Weiland's wife, Mary.
"Mary called me, because Robert and I have this band with [Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers drummer] Steve Feronne, doing this big 12-piece band [called Farm Fur], and Mary called me, because there was some private party she was involved with, and she asked us to play," said DeLeo. "And then she said, 'Scott's here. Do you want to talk to him?' And we started chatting."
"We were just putting a bunch of guys together to play this beach party — covers and stuff like that," Weiland chimed in. "And Dean is saying to me, 'Man, it would be cool if people could see us onstage together.' Not long after that, I was on the road, and Dean called me up. He said, 'Are you sitting down?' I was in Jersey somewhere, and he said he'd heard from our agent, and that some offers had come in for some festivals this summer. He said he'd been listening to our music and asked me what I thought about doing this."
And the reunion — which has been heavily rumored since late last year — couldn't have come at a better time. Perhaps in anticipation of STP's goings-on, Weiland's most recent band, Velvet Revolver, fired him last week, citing the singer's "increasingly erratic onstage behavior and personal problems" as the impetus for the break. The singer played his possible final show with the band last Tuesday in Amsterdam. And the DeLeos have been free since last May, when their other band, Army of Anyone, went on an indefinite hiatus, allowing frontman Richard Patrick to return to his first love, Filter.
"It's been five years we've been apart, and there's all these young kids who had older brothers who were STP fans, and now they're these little hipsters — 18, 19, 20 years old — and they're STP fans," Weiland said. "These kids come up to me all the time and tell me they loved the band, that they have all of our records. To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love — the ones that influenced me. The ultimate goal of this band was to leave a legacy, to have our songs make an impact, to be on the radio still 30 years down the road, and to be enjoyed by people, whether it's something that gives them a feeling of heartache, or something that they relate to because of a struggle they went through in their life. Music is just something that makes you feel, believe and be inspired — that was the goal always, to have our music out there and for it to continuously, over a period of years, inspire."
For STP, the process of healing has been ongoing since they first split back in 2003. According to Weiland, the separation wasn't smooth, and at one point, he and Dean DeLeo came to blows. But Kretz said it feels as though the band never threw in the towel, and that STP still "has a lot to contribute to music."
The band's reunion tour will get underway May 17, in Columbus, Ohio, and run through August 31 in Seattle. After the tour concludes, Weiland said it's back to the studio, to record STP's next LP.
"The whole record machine is f---ed up now, so we really want to get to a place of having some freedom, because we have a lot of leverage," he said. "We have sold almost 40 million records, and we're in a position of power. We want to be free agents, whether it's putting our records out ourselves, or doing some interesting, very creative deal with a nontraditional major record label. The system as it is now ... that formula does not work. We've seen it; we'll need to do things differently, do things wiser."
According to Robert DeLeo, the band has already started crafting material, and he anticipates they'll probably end up writing
100 songs before tracking the effort. The band wouldn't comment on the record beyond that.
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Stone Temple Pilots Q&A: Got any good drugs?LOS ANGELES — After a tumultuous 10 years together and five years apart, Stone Temple Pilots have reunited.
On Monday, they celebrated their upcoming 65-city North American tour, which starts May 17, with a private performance at the famed Houdini House in the Hollywood Hills. The Grammy-winning band performed a tight, 30-minute set, and it felt like the ’90s as they rocked hits including ‘‘Plush,’’ ‘‘Vasoline’’ and ‘‘Big Empty.’’
The quartet — singer Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz — each took on solo projects during the band’s split. Weiland’s group, Velvet Revolver, was arguably the most successful. That group, which includes former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, announced on April 1 that Weiland was no longer a member: Slash claimed Weiland’s ‘‘increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on.’’
Weiland was arrested several times for drug possession and did a few stints in rehab during his time with Stone Temple Pilots. He pleaded innocent last month to charges of driving under the influence of drugs stemming from a November car crash.
After a brief sound check and before taking the stage for their first show in five years, Weiland and his bandmates sat down to talk about the past and future of Stone Temple Pilots.
Q.Why was now the time to reunite?
Weiland: Well, I kept on dropping hints in the press constantly. Every time I did an interview and everyone would always ask...
Dean DeLeo: And I usually read Scott’s press, so I was getting the signals.
Weiland: [They’d say,] “Do you ever think you guys will reunite?’’ And I’d say I can’t really see the story being over. I always picture another bookend.
Q.You felt like a reunion was inevitable?
Weiland: I did. After everything we’d achieved, as close as we’ve been, the way that we got together and it’s really quite an interesting story. For it to end the way it did was very kind of anticlimactic. I feel like one of our best albums we ever made was our last album [‘‘Shangri-La Dee Da’’]. The people that we’re working for us and with us did not get where we were coming from and tried to market it as a completely different record and so it never got the chance that it should have gotten. That record feels very special to me, as I know it does to all of us. So I felt like the story’s not finished. There’s more to be revealed. There’s more to be told. And I thought that because as much everyone really does care about each other that one day it’ll all kind of come around and we’ll talk and we’ll air things out and we’ll end up wanting to play music together again.
Q.What sort of things had to happen before you could get back together?
Robert DeLeo: A lot has happened over the past five years. We’ve individually accomplished a lot in our lives. I think we’re all proud of that. We’re proud of each other. And, you know, things happen for a reason. I don’t think there’s really any coincidence in life. And this was something that felt — I don’t know if right’s the word — but it felt like we should get together and do this.
Q.Do you feel the passage of time?
Dean DeLeo: I think it’s about getting on stage with these guys and playing loud rock and roll. It feels like no time has gone by. It still feels the same.
Weiland: Except I think we’re a bit smarter, a lot more wiser. Because the music business has shrunken so much and has eaten itself, those survivors out there, they’re a lot more cutthroat. You definitely have to watch your back and you have to be smart in order to not get taken advantage of. So I think we’ve all learned from those experiences.
Q.Are you going to record after this tour? Do you see yourselves putting out another album?
Weiland: Yeah.
Dean DeLeo: That sounds great. Love to.
Q.What happened with Velvet Revolver?
Weiland: This happened very organically. It wasn’t people trying to angle and beg. It just happened the way it sort of happened. I got a call from Dean. I was on tour. He said, ‘‘Man, are you sitting down?’’ I said yeah. He said, ‘‘I was talking with our agent, and some offers came through.’’ We’d all been starting to talk more often. I had talked to Slash, mentioned it to him, and things were cool for a while. And this last tour, things just disintegrated really badly. I just came to the point where I decided that ... if I’m going to commit the next 10 years of my life to touring ... then I want to do it with people I want to make music with. People who I get inspired by making music with. ...I have to start weeding out stuff. It’s kind of like going through your closet going, ‘‘Eh, I don’t need this anymore. It takes up too much space.’’ Certain things don’t feel good, although it may put money in your bank account, but it doesn’t feel good at the end of the day. It became one of those situations.
This feels good, it feels right. It’s always inspiring. It’s always that high.
Q.What about the drugs?
Dean DeLeo: You got any? I shot some good dope in the ’70s.
Weiland: I was never in New York in the ’70s. It all began in 1992 for me. I think I have the world record for detoxes though.
Q.Yeah, how many?
Weiland: I couldn’t count but I think it’s over 40. That’s a good song title, though, ‘‘What about the drugs?’’
par Olikatie » Mar Avr 08, 2008 10:02 am 
Jeremy est né le 28.04.06 et Fanny le 17.07.09 
Weiland quipped before giving the crowd one final song, 'Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart'.
COOOOOOOOL !
