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Stone Temple Pilots fire lead singer
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
FIRE Lead Singer Scott Weiland BREAKING NEWS Stone Temple Pilots has unceremoniously FIRED its lead singer Scott Weiland ... who's been the face of the seminal rock band for 20 years. The group released an ominously curt statement today, saying, "Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have officially terminated Scott Weiland." They don't give any further explanation. It's pretty shocking for several reasons ... the main being Weiland has been a core member of the group since it came together in 1986. His voice has become synonymous with STP's sound ... on hits like "Plush," "Sour Girl," and "Sex Type Thing." Another reason this came out of nowhere ... Weiland denied rumors he was leaving the band just yesterday, telling Rolling Stone, "STP has not broken up. I haven't quit. I haven't been fired." Rumors of a split began a couple of months ago when Slash said STP had fired Weiland. STP reformed in 2008 after a 5-year hiatus and toured through last year -- but apparently it hasn't been working out. So far, it's unclear who STP has in mind to replace Weiland ... if anyone. Weiland is set to launch a solo tour next month. Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/27/stone-...#ixzz2M7YJSpty Visit the TMZ Store: http://tmzstore.com |
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When Dane left chiefsplanet that embarked CP's Grunge Period. Then he came back. and Glam chiefsplanet came back.
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Slash is happy with his current band with Myles and if he ever gets bored with touring and putting out albums every year, he'll likely turn to film scoring. |
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Seriously, I went to UCM (formerly CMSU) for audio engineering, but once I got out playing in bands and working sound in clubs, etc. and wound up in CoMo at MU, I decided to change to something more 'practical', school-wise. I figured, I'll pretty much always be able to find work in music around here at this point...but that may not always be the case. I'm young and brash and some people find that endearing and charismatic (in person, at least) but that shit only lasts so long, and it takes real substance to make a career out of music to make any scratch. I mean, tons of really talented awesome people wind up broke and working shit jobs because they couldn't weather the storm, and maybe just put all their eggs into that 'star trip.' I ain't trying to be a star...just wanna make good music. And get paid, if I can, in the process. I mean, we already get paid usually anywhere from $300-500 a night to play mostly originals, which is amazing and great. Had a few thousand-dollar nights here and there. But that's just in Central MO. It's different everywhere else. Too dumb for New York, and too ugly for LA is indeed how I feel. Quote:
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I have Pro Tools and a Tascam reel to reel 8-track. I have some decent mics and good preamps...I can make some really good-sounding demos. In order to have access to all the preamps and compressors and $2k vocal mics, along the ability to use all that gear, I have to pay an hourly rate at a pro studio. So we duck in and out as money and schedules permit. We cut basic tracks to get drums, and have been overdubbing on top of that. Not cutting any corners, not saying 'good enough', etc Like, I have a bunch of multitracks from live shows, and there are AUD and SBD recordings of us on archive.org and bt.etree.org, etc. So there's no point in just trying to replicate that in the studio...I feel we should push ourselves to actually be great. So who knows...it might be enough to get someone interested in working with us...(dorky cross-mouthed guy here)
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His sobriety and Axl's erratic behavior were the other main contributing factors. Poor Izzy; he's so scarred from LSD (lead singer dysfunction) that when VR was forming, it was him, Duff, Slash, and Matt, and Izzy was down...as long as they didn't get a ****ing lead singer. Izzy just wanted to tour clubs with him and Duff singing... maybe they could still get that together. WAY more likely than the original Guns ever getting back together.
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Axl...destroyed that band. I know that drugs and egos were out of hand, etc. but Axl was (supposedly) relatively sober, and could've kept that ship together if he had wanted to. Instead, he wanted to turn the baddest boozy bluesy rock band this side of guys not named Stones or Crowes into Elton Queen Inch Nails. A damn shame...
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I seriously couldnt agree more that a given players "feel" can totally change the dynamics of a song, Steven Adler? LOVED his style and no one has even come close to it yet in GNR, what he may have lacked in technical virtuosity he made up for with sheer instinct and muscle, i'd take him ANY day over Sorum, he was just too robotic or something in many ways... he was kinda the Bruce Kulick of GNR drummers. Whoever was playing in london was ok, i guess. Gotta say though, that i REALLY enjoyed what the new lead guitarist brought to each song... nobody will ever replace Slash, but his style was more than enjoyable, to quickly try to categorize him i'd say he's more technical and futuristic... kinda Muse on steroids, if that makes any sense. But yep, no replacement players will ever have quite the same magic as the original lineup in ANY band, its literally like chemistry imo, some people just belong together. |
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If you go see GnR and drink enough beer, you won't give a shit who's in the band. They sounded great in KC.
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I always enjoyed them... but, those guys couldnt sniff GNR's coke and heroin soaked jock. |
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Matt's a great drummer and he was very good on The Cult's Beyond Good & Evil record and good in VR. It's just that you have to create music with Matt for it to work because his timing is just so dead on. You can get the music to swing but you have to swing to him, not the other way around. Adler was (and still is, somewhat) a wreck but there's no denying his groove and feel. That band was magic and it's too bad it didn't last. |
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Just checking back in... how the **** has this thread gone over 100 posts? Oh, Dane.
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Its funny you mention Joe Leste, Dane... Bang Tango was one of the most underrated bands of the 80's.
Here are my two faves from those guys, some of the best stuff from that era imo... |
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Slash didn't like any of them because he wanted to move forward and sound modern. He didn't want to sound "80's" in any way. So they hired Weiland. |
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Joe, seriously, is one of the nicest guys ever. Just seriously down to earth, normal, not wealthy or even rich, normal dude. He's fun to hang out with as well.
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