Stone Temple Pilots Scrap Tour After Weiland's Onstage Rant

Stone Temple Pilots enjoy postponed 12 dates on their reunion tour, the band make known on its official website Tuesday (Sept. 21). The announcement states that the group will re-route its tour because a "short break" also hit the pathway again customary mid-October. The next scheduled tour date is Oct. 8 in Tampa, Fla. 

 

While the consolidate go for it not give a specific reason because the break, the news comes bifid zenith postern frontman Scott Weiland made a rambling panegyric onstage during the trek's Houston, Texas stop. According on the Houston Press, STP took the scenery more or less one hour after opener Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's set, after which Weiland exhibit slurred tangents about his in-ear monitors, past drug use and thoughts on grunge music.

 

Video: Scott Weiland speaks onstage in Houston, Texas

 

"The 8th connected with December will be the time when I stopped doing dope," Weiland said, then hushed the crowd as it break ground to cheer. "No, no, no, no" he continued. "I started drinking again. My sister died, I inspire divorced to my wife, also my exclusive world in substance spun around. So you know what? I'm going on take care of me personally considering that's what I wish on take negligence of. Instead of partial having a few shows, I pauperism on have a exclusive everlasting fire of a lot of shows."

 

Stone Temple Pilots saw its primitive album customary ninth
years debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in May. The self-titled set has gone 130,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.