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Out on a solo tour that started earlier this month and comes to House of Blues on Wednesday, Stone Temple Pilots’ frontman Scott Weiland says playing Northeast Ohio still means something special to him. Though born in California, he spent his youth in Bainbridge Township.

”From the age of four until right before my freshman year of high school, I lived in Ohio,” he says. “My fiancé lived an hour from me and my bass player is right from the same region. And the [tour manager] being forced to drive the RV right now, too.”

For the current tour, Weiland has been playing a number of deep tracks from STP’s first two albums, 1992’s Core and 1994’s Purple. That, in turn, provoked the guys from Stone Temple Pilots to issue a terse statement saying that Weiland was “terminated.” Weiland maintains he’s still a member of the band and can’t legally be removed against his will. “I think it was a reaction to the fact that this tour had sold out within a week,” he says with regard to the band’s statement. “It was probably not the smartest thing for them to do since I founded the band and there are certain legal terms within the contract which don’t make sense as to that decision, or that threat.”

He admits, however, that the last few tours with STP haven’t been particularly inspiring.

This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2013.

Jeff has been covering the Cleveland music scene for more than 25 years now. On a regular basis, he tries to talk to whatever big acts are coming through town. And if you're in a local band that he needs to hear, email him at jniesel@clevescene.com.

3 replies on “Former (?) STP singer Scott Weiland looking forward to playing Northeast Ohio”

  3. I think he is right…STP’s last album was pretty good, I thought well produced and recorded and it was the first in like 7 or 8 years..but a real band continues to record, so whether that is the reason he got fired or let go or it’s something else, its a solid argument to make to that band. There was talk of them heading back into the studio 9 months after that last CD and it just fell apart, and that was too bad for the fans and too bad for the band.

    and the sooner they record their last album with Atlantic, the sooner they can move on with their lives…..Who’s idea it was to tour off their first few albums had a screw loose, as that’s the hyper-drive to the Rib-off summerfest tour.

    Kudos to Scott if it’s all sincere, if he just b.s.-in it’s still valid

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