Source: Livedaily.com
Reunited rockers Stone Temple Pilots will perform a handful of headlining gigs sprinkled throughout North America this summer.
The trek, which currently covers eight cites, begins July 1 in Los Angeles and heads east, visiting pavilions and amphitheaters through a July 18 performance in Atlantic City. A trio of festivals – Lansing, MI’s Common Ground Music Festival (7/7); Sarnia, Ontario’s Rogers Bayfest (7/13); and Ottawa, Ontario’s Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest (7/13)-is also on the books.
The Grammy-winning group will wrap up a West Coast run this weekend with two final shows slated for Saturday (5/23) in Anaheim and Sunday (5/24) in Ventura.
The grunge-rock outfit – frontman Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert De Leo and drummer Eric Kreutz – formed in 1992, recording five studio albums and selling more than 35 million copies worldwide over the course of the band’s career. The group disbanded shortly after finishing up the tour behind its most recent release, 2001′s “Shangri-La Dee Da,” but reunited last spring.
STP has written new material for a sixth studio album, but a legal battle between Weiland, Kretz and Atlantic Records has the new effort on hold, according to an interview with Spin.
“I know [the STP] guys have been writing, and there’s been some really cool stuff that’s come from that,” Weiland told the publication. “But I have no interest in making a record for a major label. If we were going to make a record, I would want to do it in a way that was much more original and in a more creative fashion.”
Weiland, who has publicly battled addiction for years, fronted Velvet Revolver alongside former Guns N’ Roses members Duff McKagan, Slash and Matt Sorum, as well as Dave Kushner, after STP’s collapse. Weiland parted ways with Revolver early last year.
The STP frontman released his sophomore solo album, “Happy In Galoshes,” last November. The effort followed his 1998 solo debut, “12 Bar Blues.”
