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It doesn’t take a lot to get Scott Weiland started.

The mercurial singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver spent a recent interview about his Purple to the Core Tour seething with resentment at the very mention of Stone Temple Pilots. And although it’s a solo tour, the set list will be focused on the first two STP releases of brooding commercial-alternative rock, “Core” and “Purple.” So it’s kind of hard to talk around the elephant in Weiland’s room.

Here’s what the singer had to say while speaking slowly and deliberately and peppering his rant with expletives before deciding that was all he had to say and hanging up.

Question: What made you decide to focus on those albums in particular?

Answer: Well, originally, before the whole STP thing blew up, I said, “Look, we need to take a break. We need to make an album. We’ve been playing the same (expletive) set for four years. Without a change. We’ve been watching ourselves go from playing 20,000-seat arenas to county fairs and 2,000-seat casinos.” I said, “I will not sit around and destroy the brand of this band. I will not do it. Will not do it. We have to get in the studio and make new music.” That’s what we loved to do in the first place. We were artists. We were creators. They didn’t see things the same way. They had different management. Their managers, who are just basically booking agents, to put it lightly, they have no problem with STP and its legacy being destroyed. A 22-year band who sold more than 40 million records and had numerous No. 1 hits, numerous No. 2 hits, top 5, top 10. Two Grammys. They don’t give a (expletive). As a matter of fact, I think they’re getting paid per hour. So I wouldn’t (expletive) do it. And they can’t do it without me.

Q: Right.

A: So they can say Guys From STP. But they’ve already done two bands and failed. The whole thing is, I came up with this idea because I’d seen a couple other bands do it. And it worked. You bring back your first album or your first two albums that were hugely successful back in ’91, ’92, ’93, ’94, when the biggest bands were selling 6 to 7 million records, like we were.

You take the first two records and you put those records on the set list....We were supposed to do “Core” because it was the 20th anniversary of “Core.” There was supposed to be a new greatest-hits album, a boxed set, everything, which (guitarist) Dean (DeLeo) had originally agreed to and backed out. And I was giving all this press, saying we were doing this. We were booked into all these huge places.

As soon as promoters found out that’s what we were not going to do, everything got pushed in, shut in. We were playing theaters. Now, is that how I want to see STP now? Not at all. Not the band that I started. Not the band that I named. Not the band that when I was in Huntington Beach, took a shot and called Robert DeLeo at his apartment, doing nothing in music, living with his girlfriend, and said, “Hey man, would you like to do a band?” It was with me and Corey (Hicock) at the time, my best friend. And eventually, he said yes. Then, we got (drummer Eric) Kretz and the whole evolution of it. We went into Mighty Joe Young, then STP. But do I want to see that, everything that we grew turn into a circus sideshow? No (expletive) way.

So the whole idea of Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, us doing this, is because it was something I wanted to do. And our fans heard we were going to do it. And fans of STP were so sick of hearing the same songs over and over, the same set list. The Wildabouts making a new record, which is more of a rock-and-roll record, as opposed to an artsy record like my other two solo albums were. But why don’t we do the hits from “Purple” and “Core?” Why don’t we do that?

Q: And now you are.

A: That’s what we’re doing. And the shows on the last tour, we had great numbers and the reviews were great. But now the numbers are even bigger. The places are bigger. We’re growing it, you know? Before, in ’96 and ’97, I had the same management as STP. Of course, they didn’t want to take a risk on really pushing me because the bread and butter is there with STP as a whole. I’m the guy. And if it took off, then it would really take off. But then, what would (former STP manager) Steve Stewart have said to the rest of them. “He’ll be back whenever? Like Gwen (Stefani) said to No Doubt?”

Q: Where do things stand between you and those guys?

A: You know, I don’t really think about it a lot. I think about how disrespectful they are, sometimes, in between a sip of coffee and a hit of my cigarette. I think about how selfish they are and how much it blows me away that after two times of trying this, they still think they have any opportunity of doing it without me. And it’s not me saying that I’m the greatest because you know what? I’m not. John Lennon. Paul McCartney. They are ... better than I am. But as far as this band goes? The vision? The artistic direction of the band? And trying to keep them from sounding like Rush? I’m sorry. I have to be totally honest. It was me. I’m guilty. I kept them from doing it. That’s all I’ve got to say.

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I can't help but root for Scott in this whole thing. Yes, the guy sounds like a notorious pain in the ass, but he oozes charisma and the idea of STP without him just bores me (much like the idea of a Scott-free VR).

I'll listen to what they do with this new singer, but the new song sounded meh. I just hope this leads the way to a full-blown VR reunion.

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I can't help but root for Scott in this whole thing. Yes, the guy sounds like a notorious pain in the ass, but he oozes charisma and the idea of STP without him just bores me (much like the idea of a Scott-free VR).

I'll listen to what they do with this new singer, but the new song sounded meh. I just hope this leads the way to a full-blown VR reunion.

VR reunion..LOL....you're more delusional then Scott is mate

...it will never happen as Duff, Matt and Slash want nothing to do with that train wreck named Scott Weiland.................

There is a reason he was kicked out of two successful bands and bandmates in his solo band are abandoning ship...........

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If I were weiland i would just start my own band to hell with VR and STP. Weiland something.

Bands are realizing the value of conjuring identifiable and unique brands more and more these days I think. Adler was wise to call his band Adler's Appetite. Sebastian Bach I think also is very well aware of this. Kings Of Chaos I think is a great concept, a band deliberately with a revolving door of musicians, why didn't anyone think of it earlier? (actually I HAD, about Velvet Revolver, get it? But I'd only conceived it as revolving singers, which btw, could still work... it would mean that a talented singer wouldn't have to be committed to VR for life, and hell, he could always do Kings Of Chaos...) and I think KOC will endure and probably make the gunners involved more money than VR (btw, I wonder who owns the name, I would not be surprised at all if it is Duff and Matt, and... Slash - notice how he was brought in sneakily at the last minute...; I wonder if that was deliberate as well).

Anyway, Scott needs his own new band. I'd just call it Weiland. Their debut album could be an amazing exposé on backstabbing in rock circles... are you reading this, Scott?

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If I were weiland i would just start my own band to hell with VR and STP. Weiland something.

Bands are realizing the value of conjuring identifiable and unique brands more and more these days I think. Adler was wise to call his band Adler's Appetite. Sebastian Bach I think also is very well aware of this. Kings Of Chaos I think is a great concept, a band deliberately with a revolving door of musicians, why didn't anyone think of it earlier? (actually I HAD, about Velvet Revolver, get it? But I'd only conceived it as revolving singers, which btw, could still work... it would mean that a talented singer wouldn't have to be committed to VR for life, and hell, he could always do Kings Of Chaos...) and I think KOC will endure and probably make the gunners involved more money than VR (btw, I wonder who owns the name, I would not be surprised at all if it is Duff and Matt, and... Slash - notice how he was brought in sneakily at the last minute...; I wonder if that was deliberate as well).

Anyway, Scott needs his own new band. I'd just call it Weiland. Their debut album could be an amazing exposé on backstabbing in rock circles... are you reading this, Scott?

he is already trying that with his current solo band and he is such a train wreck his hired musicians a quiting on him and his solo stuff is mediocre at best so don't see that being a great success..........

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