They released a new single, 'Meadow', a day later.Ģ016 - In February 2016, STP launched an online audition for a new vocalist, stating, "If you think you have what it takes to front this band, record with this band, and tour with this band, we would dig hearing from you.". It would take another few months until October, before the band would speak about their singer search again, with Dean stating that it was "going great," and that the band was "working on new material." On November 14, the band announced Jeff Gutt as their new lead singer with a concert at the Trubadour in West Hollywood. During the summer, Chester Bennington sadly died on July 20, 2017.
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STP extensively toured North America starting two weeks before the album's release through the end of the year, ending with a unique acoustic concert in Norwood, Massachusetts on December 14.Ģ017 - With no official word on a new singer at this time, internet speculation continued, while the band took their time to see how they would gel with Jeff Gutt on a personal and professional level. That same day, the band announced the March 16 release of their new self-titled record. Recorded, mixed, mastered and packaged before the band embarked on their first European tour in 9 years, the album would be kept under wraps for another six months, until it was officially announced on December 2.Ģ018 - A second single, 'Roll Me Under' was released on January 31. On July 31, STP offered a unique pay-per-view feature through, showing recently recorded 'live in studio' performances of all tracks from their 1992 debut "Core", except "Wet My Bed".Ģ019 - The new year started in February with a tour of South America, after which the band took some time to record another new album, the acoustic-based "Perdida". Not much later, the summer tour opening for Nickelback was also cancelled.
Subsequently, the band's Australian Tour with Bush and Live in April was postponed to 2021 due to the CoVid-19 pandemic. The coinciding acoustic tour, dubbed 'An Evening with Stone Temple Pilots' was cancelled due to singer Jeff Gutt needing surgery on a herniated disc. “‘Cause I sure feel like I’m caught in the middle of it emotionally, and all I want to do is play music.Last update: August 3, 2020: This page is currently under heavy revision.Ģ020 - "Perdida" was released on February 7.
“I apologize to those fans out there who are, feel like they’re caught in the middle of it,” he said at the time. The group eventually reached a settlement out of court. But not, of course, without Weiland storming off in dramatic fashion.Īfter ex-members of Stone Temple Pilots sued the two-time Grammy-winner in 2013 for playing their material during his solo shows (STP was later fronted by Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington), Weiland countersued, calling his ex-bandmates’ claims “ridiculous.” In 2008, Weiland reunited with STP for the last time before leaving the band again and embarking on a solo career. “I’m still on the verge all the time,” he said of his fight to remain sober. “My brother passed away, and that’s something that will always stay with me.” The band eventually split up, again because of Weiland’s substance abuse.
Weiland later split from Stone Temple Pilots and formed supergroup Velvet Revolver with ex-Guns N’ Roses rockers Slash and Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. “OK, I struggled with heroin and cocaine and I was a big rock star. “People have this misconception about me,” he said in an interview with USA Today in 2011. In 2008, he checked into rehab after being arrested for a DUI and once, after a fight with his wife, leapt from a moving car to score heroin. Their music still plays in heavy rotation on alternative rock stations alongside ’90s grunge acts Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.īut it was Weiland’s rock star ways that often got him in trouble offstage.Īfter spending five months in prison for possession of heroin in 1998, he was later charged with domestic abuse for assaulting his wife. Wielding a megaphone alongside his bandmates for sound effect, the fiery-haired frontman led the Southern California-based Stone Temple Pilots for two decades.Īlso known as “STP” by their fans, the quartet first broke out in 1992 with hit single “Creep” before going on to become one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with power ballads like “Plush,” “Big Empty” and “Interstate Love Song.”
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