Posted by Rebecca Tremblay
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Speaking about his legal battle with his former bandmates over the use of the STONE TEMPLE PILOTS name, Weiland said: “We’re in litigation. There’s a band agreement, a band contract agreement. They didn’t follow the rules that were set down as to… for any member, if you were to… There has to be a reason for letting go a member, you have to give them a certain period of time to deal with it whatever different ways you want them to do. But it’s just ridiculous, ’cause they can’t use the name with me not being in the band without us coming to an agreement. So I just don’t really see that… They’ll have buy me out of the company, because I have major value in the company and in the brand. So that’s where we’re at. The lawyers will deal with it.”
STP fired Weiland earlier this year and recruited LINKIN PARK’s Chester Bennington to take over.
The group sued Weiland in May, accusing him of using the band’s name to advance his solo career, while claiming that his poor performances, late arrivals, and addiction struggles harmed the band’s career.
Weiland has countersued, claiming that the band cannot use the STONE TEMPLE PILOTS name without him.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, featuring Chester Bennington, will release an EP this fall, in conjunction with a North American tour that kicks off on September 4 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and winds down on September 27 in Las Vegas.
Weiland said that he and Bennington were good friends before this, but he doesn’t see Bennington’s move as a betrayal. “Yeah, I mean, I’ve known Chester for a long time,” he said. “I got to be pretty close with him on the Family Values tour. I don’t think Chester did it in a spiteful way. The brothers DeLeo [Dean, guitar and Robert, bass], they can be pretty persuasive.”
Weiland recently embarked on a new run of solo tour dates beginning on August 2 in Los Angeles. As with his other shows earlier in the year, Weiland is playing material from STP’s first two albums, “Core” and “Purple”, as well as a smattering of covers, solo tunes and other STP tracks.
Weiland’s use of STP songs in his solo shows was reportedly one of the reasons why the band sacked and then sued him. The band members claim that this, along with his erratic behavior and substance abuse issues, damaged their career.
