New LEAKS today. It has been a real surprise lately with lots of unexpected music popping up. One of the latest today is from STP and X Velvet Revolver front man Scott Weiland. I have always been a huge STP fan and feel like they never got as much cred as they deserved. I know this current tour is a money maker but I am hoping for a new album. Recently there has been a lot of talk and I am starting to feel a little more optimistic. Here is some of whats been on the below empty forum boards.... "After the show I ...
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MUSIC NEWS - News from the tour bus; STONE TEMPLE PILOTS & ex- VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland recently posted the first in a series of video blogs from his current solo tour for his new release, Happy Galoshes . The short clip is below, thanks to the SDR street team. His business partner and touring guitarist/keyboardist, LA producer, Doug Grean recently posted an update online in which he asked fans coming to see Weiland to stop yelling out for STONE TEMPLE PILOTS songs during the solo tour show. Grean wrote, "People having been yelling for us to play STP songs at every show ...
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In a recent interview with The Pulse of Radio, Duff McKagen hinted at some progress in the great Velvet Revolver Frontman Sweepstakes Quest. "In the last, I would say, about eight weeks, we got three guys in that were all really good — like, far and above, more fitting than the rest. So I can say this much: we're headed in a very positive direction, and you might be hearing something soon." Yeah...that doesn't sound like the same line they feed us every three months. "Yup, we might have the guy, the search is almost over, we're working on a ton of new material." ...
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The estranged wife of Stone Temple Pilot's Scott Weiland has penned a tell-all memoir, offering a little insight into what it was like to be a top supermodel and wife of one of rocks most tempermental characters. Mary Weiland's book, Fall To Pieces (Likely named after the song Scott wrote in Velvet Revolver ), is being described as a "visceral, rollercoaster ride inside bipolar disorder, rock 'n' roll, celebrity culture, and the competitive world of modeling from a rock star wife and recovering drug addict." "On the surface, Mary Weiland had a fairy-tale life. She was a highly paid fashion model married to successful ...
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MUSIC NEWS- With the the long-awaited release of Axl Rose's version of Gun N' Roses' Chinese Democracy upon us (and internet leaks already), seems that Velvet Revolver has been dropped by their record label, RCA. VR features ex- GnR members Slash (at left) , Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, along with guitarist Dave Kushner. The band released two albums via RCA/Sony BMG; Contraband (2004), and its follow-up, Libertad (200&). The band has continue to tour until April of this year, when they dumped singer Scott Weiland for weird behavior and drug use. Weiland has since returned to his old band, Stone Temple Pilots . Since ...
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