I have been reading the book since yesterday and have actually read it about three times. To be 100% honest about it, there is a large lack of information. All through my teen years I collected magazine articles, ordered imported STP books (they are out there) interview audios, and anything I could get my hands on that would tell me more about who STP are as people. The book was less informative than an old book I have on them released in about 93/94. While I wanted to know how the recording sessions went for Core and Purple, etc, I always wanted to know Scott and STP as people. I was hoping Scott in this book would tell me who he is as a man. Is he now what he always wanted to be? What are his favorite songs on his own albums? Does he miss VR at all? Pretty much I wanted to know the inner information that an interviewer wouldn't ask.
While the book does just fine for people that are just getting into him or the people who still remember the band who wrote "Plush", I feel like Scott really could have given me more. I felt like he was trying to teach me about life and love throughout the book, which was really annoying. It turned into a textbook for me about psychology and human emotions. With ALL of the recent STP and Weiland releases I feel they just merely scratch the surface of true potential. I remember this, Scott did an interview in 96 and said he was releasing a "coffee table book." After buying this I ran thorugh it fast and was amazed and how much space is not used and rather how much nonsense is in there. Lyrics to songs, extremely large pictures and 1/2 pages being used. Something that is also annoying is how he will randomly talk about his dad, then talk about a dream, then a poem, back to his dad and then drugs, then his brother, then more poetry and end on his dad again. There are really no clear chapters or ideas. Does this fit Scott's personality? Of course. But it's an akward read.
If you are an STP/Weiland fan like me youre probably thinking the same thing I am which is, "Keep your mouth shut. We're lucky to get anything at all." However, for a book about 10 years in the making do me a favor and fill the pages you put in there. The book is not 298 pages of text. It's more like 90 when you get done with the spacing, photos and large text in the middle of the pages. Sorry Scott, but I am dissapointed.