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http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts-et-spectacles/sur-scene/201407/15/01-4784174-le-changement-dimage-de-scott-weiland.phpBelow is a very rough translation provided by Google translate. I've highlighted in red some parts that I found interesting.
Change Image Scott Weiland
(Quebec) is remembered his escapades drug-related and its disastrous performance at the Quebec City Summer Festival 2008 with Stone Temple Pilots, where he appeared completely smashed to a point where he forgot the words to his songs. The flamboyant singer Scott Weiland, who will be performing at Club tonight with his new band The Wildabouts says now want to change image.
It was only after multiple discounts that Sun has finally got on the phone to a Weiland thickly that we knew all the time he was joking or if he was just in a daze.
"This is a change of image [Editor's note: Weiland used the English term rebranding ]. We no longer only parts albums Core and Purple Stone Temple Pilots, but also parts of the album Tiny Music and parts of Velvet Revolver. We also do a few times and five or six of our songs, "he explains.
The new songs should be on Blaster , the first album of the new group Weiland to be published in the autumn. "
It's going to sound like Led Zeppelin! I will try as much as possible to sound like Robert Plant! "Launches the singer about the upcoming album ...
Grammy ... or three
"We are going to finish the album. We recorded seven songs and I do not know how many more you save. One thing is certain, we will then select 12 for the album. I think it will be very good.
I think we'll win a Grammy ... or three ... "
The Weiland ensures Wildabouts, which also includes guitarist Jeremy Brown, bassist Tommy Black and drummer Danny Thompson, is now his main project and wants to devote full time.
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It will essentially as classic rock: Grandaddy, The Stones, The Beatles. My last album was electric anarchy and one will be an album of rock 'n roll, "he swears.
But through all these styles and sounds, to show what kind of fans Quebec should they expect tonight at Circle? "Powerful amplifiers, distortion, a battery that hits hard and me, well, I invent words in As ..." he dropped.
Taboos of a singer
Among the instructions left to the author of these lines by the team of Scott Weiland, it was registered it was forbidden to speak to him ... his past, lawsuits by the other three members of Stone Temple Pilots and against-the lawsuit he brought against them, the separation of Velvet Revolver and a drug addiction whatsoever. The singer had yet addressed these issues in his biography Not Dead and Not For Sale , co-written with David Ritz in 2011 So. "
Scott, do you regret having launched your biography? It covered all the topics your manager does not want to talk to you ... "
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The only thing I regret about my biography is that my wife can not read it because it is unable to read anything that talks about my ex-wife," says one who married the Last year photographer Jamie Wachtel.
"As far as drugs, I do not want to talk because they are stuff that came in the 90s and I do not mean the 90s. To Stone Temple Pilots is that we are still mediation and my lawyers forbid me to say anything because it could hurt the cause, "he summarizes briefly before turning to the Velvet Revolver record.
"Easy Money"
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But Velvet Revolver, there is no problem. I even called the guy to propose them to do some shows together in a few months. We are on good terms, but I do not want to be a member of Velvet Revolver full time. If possible, I would like to only play at festivals. You know, to make easy money ..., "he summarizes, adding that other former members of the group are either busy or they do not need as much money as he .
"Dave [Kushner, guitarist] made
music for TV. He made
the theme of the series Sons of Anarchy . Duff [McKagan, bass] is a lot of money in the stock market. As for Slash [guitar], he put aside the money he did in the days of Guns N 'Roses. Finally, Matt [Sorum, drummer] has embarked on a package of stuff. "
