Dean Talks New Singer Search in Interview with Rolling Stone

[FuzzyDunlop]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stone-temple-pilots-dean-deleo-talks-singer-search-were-up-for-it-20160205

[nat]

Interesting that Dean says the rest of STP had basically decided to never work with Scott again. Didn't someone in Scott's camp say he was talking about getting back with them in a year or two?

[StoneTempleBrett]

Interesting that Dean says the rest of STP had basically decided to never work with Scott again. Didn't someone in Scott's camp say he was talking about getting back with them in a year or two?

Scott would have needed to have been clean and sober, which he wasn't, and I'm figuring the STP guys thought he'd never get sober.

[Blue]

Interesting that Dean says the rest of STP had basically decided to never work with Scott again. Didn't someone in Scott's camp say he was talking about getting back with them in a year or two?

Scott "Velvet Revolver is getting back together" Weiland told Nick Maybury he was going to reunite with STP in a year or two. That doesn't mean Scott actually talked to their camp, just that he was so far into denial and delusion that he thought they'd actually want him back after all the shit he pulled.

[StoneTempleBrett]

Interesting that Dean says the rest of STP had basically decided to never work with Scott again. Didn't someone in Scott's camp say he was talking about getting back with them in a year or two?

Scott "Velvet Revolver is getting back together" Weiland told Nick Maybury he was going to reunite with STP in a year or two. That doesn't mean Scott actually talked to their camp, just that he was so far into denial and delusion that he thought they'd actually want him back after all the shit he pulled.

I talked to the guy myself about it, trying to get him to actually talk about WHY they didn't want to play with him and what it'd actually take to reunite, and he was just in total denial.  Scott's attitude seemed to be that he wanted to do anything that would pay him well, but nobody who'd pay him well wanted to work with him because he was abusing drugs and alcohol.

[seattlesound]

The one thing that stood out to me was Dean talking about the "tall" task someone has of stepping into the band. I mean that is great to hear him say, they obviously want the best out there... but the way I took it was someone needs to honestly have a good bit of experience in band settings, recording, and possibly some good road experience when they walk into the room.

I hope they find someone, but it almost sounds like even by their expectations, the background a person needs to have, needs to already be in the business similar to where they've been for 20+ years.

They would even get a little more attention out of the matter if they did go with someone who has already been played on the radio a little bit and might have a decent fan base out there.

[Sklashboombash]

Clearly, they are going forward with this difficult task. Not my first choice but it's not up to me, or anyone else for that matter. I understand that some bands have been successful in replacing the voice, but for every one that did, there are probably 10 that failed.

Anyway...I recently watched a Quiet Riot documentary. Not a fan but the story was intriguing.
They've had numerous guys thru the years, that just didnt cut it for one reason or another. And their crowds diminished to an extremely small number. We saw that happen to Scott solo. I just hope they don't end up like that.

[CoconutBackwards]

Clearly, they are going forward with this difficult task. Not my first choice but it's not up to me, or anyone else for that matter. I understand that some bands have been successful in replacing the voice, but for every one that did, there are probably 10 that failed.

Anyway...I recently watched a Quiet Riot documentary. Not a fan but the story was intriguing.
They've had numerous guys thru the years, that just didnt cut it for one reason or another. And their crowds diminished to an extremely small number. We saw that happen to Scott solo. I just hope they don't end up like that.

This reminds me of that Quiet Riot documentary also.


I didn't come out of it much of a Frankie Banali fan.  I hope it's not the same with STP, because it really seems like what's left of Quiet Riot are forcing something that just isn't working.