Slash Confirms Stone Temple Pilots Reunion
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 01.28.2008
Velvet Revolver guitarist says Weiland and the boys will tour this summer...
According to guitarist Slash, after Velvet Revolver wraps a spring tour in support of Libertad, frontman Scott Weiland will rejoin his former bandmates in Stone Temple Pilots for a handful of summer reunion shows. STP broke up in late 2002.
Current Velvet Revolver dates run through early April. There's also the hope that recording for album number three could begin in the spring.
According to Slash, "I don't think anybody knew the second one came out. We didn't promote it, for one. The first record I remember going out for three weeks on the road and just promoting, with Duff and myself going to Europe, Japan and the States. This time around we actually went on the road way before the album came out. It's just a different kind of promotion. People are just going to a concert, and you're not necessarily drilling into their head about the new album. So I think that had a lot to do with it. All things considered, it doesn't matter to me. It's still just a really good record."
On the current tour, Velvet Revolver has added additional Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots covers it hadn't performed previously.
Slash continues, "There was a point there where I thought that we felt like we were sort of obligated to do them, like people really, really were expecting that. And once we got a bigger catalog by putting out another record, there was a feeling like we don't necessarily have to do any Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots songs. It was more like Pete Townshend feeling like he didn't have to smash his amps every night. So for a second there, that was the plan, but then we personally started missing it. They were like the easiest cover songs for us to cover because we wrote them, so we just sort of got over that."
