Seems like the DeLeos and (to a lesser extent) Kretz are incredibly lazy people who want success to just fall into their laps like it did when their debut album, Core, just so happened to sell over 8 million copies and put them on top of the world....
The main songwriters in this wack math problem, they've released, what, 2 albums and an EP outside of the STP catalog? And those bands stayed together for how long after their first attempts at making music with a new and different singer were commercial flops? I guess Robert is +1 since he has that Def Leppard guy side proect, but that obviously doesn't have any sort of long term staying power. I won't discount their few sporadic guest appearances and a fucking wretched (I'm being polite here) attempt at producing an Alien Ant Farm album.... So what do we have here?
Some guys whose last real success was the 1999 No. 4 album which didn't do nearly as well commercially as their earlier work.....
And then we have this unreliable drug addict guy they sued for costing them millions of dollars in income or whatever asinine BS they sued Scott for. And this unreliable druggie has released 2 solo albums, 2 Velvet Revolver albums, a Wildabouts album, an Art Of Anarchy album, a Christmas album, an album of cover songs, a (currently unreleased) Wondergirls album, along with various songwriting and vocal appearances with different artists, plus an autobiography, in addition to the 6 Stone Temple Pilots albums.
Almost seems like certain people in this equation are looking for an easy ride, and when their golden goose just lays regular eggs instead of those solid gold ones that are so sought after, they fade back into the woodwork until Dean calls Scott and asks him if he wants to make a million bucks.......
I hope the golden goose tells those money hungrys to fuck themselves when they come crawling back when Chester continues to be a slave to the record labels like he always has been. It's very sad and obvious which members of Stone Temple Pilots are desperate to to cling to former successes, and who is willing to grow and change as an artist, regardless of their personal problems....
As talented as they are, I hope Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz are able to grow beyond their glory days, To write music they feel stands up on its own without having to be called Stone Temple Pilots to have even a little commercial success....