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“We exhausted ourselves trying to help Scott and be a friend. He wanted no part of that”: the story behind Stone Temple Pilots’ ill-fated sixth record, as told by the band themselves

What was meant to be a fresh start for the grunge giants ended up being the beginning of the end for their classic line-up

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"There was so much I wanted to tell him, like how much has changed on Earth without him": Scott Weiland's son Noah covers Stone Temple Pilots' classic Sex Type Thing

Sex Type Thing was originally released as the debut Stone Temple Pilots' single in 1993

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"The management have threatened to arrest me!": Scott Weiland on his furious final days with Velvet Revolver

In 2008, just days before he was sacked by Velvet Revolver, Scott Weiland told the uncensored story of his deteriorating relationship with the band

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“After years of taking heroin, it becomes this black ooze that covers your heart and you can’t feel the music any more": How Stone Temple Pilots and Scott Weiland gave it one last chance with their self-titled sixth album

The story of Scott Weiland’s final Stone Temple Pilots album

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“Tom Morello ended up flying to Seattle and doing the vocals with Layne Staley. Tom came back and was like, ‘He’s in really bad shape. It’s scary’”: Martyn LeNoble on a career spent working with alt rock icons – and the kindness of John Entwistle

Long before perfect stranger John Entwistle lent him a Trace Elliott, the Porno For Pyros founder started out with a P-Bass knockoff and a homemade amp. Now he’s all about paying tribute to late friend Mark Lanegan

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"Rock ain’t dead. To who?!" Duff McKagan talks Guns N' Roses, punk rock and how Velvet Revolver proved the haters wrong

From Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to his solo work, Duff McKagan is still a punk kid at heart - with big ambitions

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"I did a Mountain Dew commercial": Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner on making a living as a musician away from the limelight

"You have to be resourceful"

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"I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince

Duff has some serious regrets about meeting the iconic Prince, but it seems he actually made a solid impression

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“Had he recorded nothing but the 10-minute Maggot Brain solo, Eddie Hazel’s place in guitar history would be complete”: The 30 best guitarists from New Jersey – from Al Di Meola and Richie Sambora to Gibson's best-selling signature artist

We gone and made a list of our favorite Garden State guitar heroes... Do write in for which state you'd like to read about next. One way or another, it won't have better pizza

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Scott Weiland's widow Jamie says late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman doesn't get accolades, respect and recognition he deserves

Jamie Weiland insists Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer didn't die of overdose

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"A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy":Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

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“If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

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“Nobody who ‘represents’ my dad actually cares to give the fans new unheard music, let alone keep his name alive.” Scott Weiland's son releases song featuring his father's vocals following extortion threat

Noah Weiland says that he has released Time Will Tell, initially recorded by his father post-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver, after blackmail threats from persons unknown

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“I lived with this false hope that Weiland was one day gonna get it together. I kick myself because we let it go on for so long”: how Chester Bennington helped rebuild grunge icons Stone Temple Pilots

The story of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s brief but memorable stint with grunge legends Stone Temple Pilots

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"I’ve been using Vigier guitars since 1997. One of their reps had me try them, but I didn’t want to – I’d been playing my own awful, homemade, Swiss cheese guitars!" Failed luthier Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal is busier than ever, but success isn't on his mind

The former Guns N’ Roses man discusses giving up constructing his own instruments, learning how to sing like a bassist while playing like a guitarist for Asia, and the upcoming Art of Anarchy record

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“Diamonds are made under pressure!”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the band's songwriting dynamic when they made Purple

The grunge-rockers’ classic second record turns 30 next year

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10 terrible grunge albums with one classic song

Grunge brought us some classic albums, but a lot of stinkers, too. Luckily, these poor efforts were all saved by one brilliant song

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How Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple album captured a band at their peak, before everything started to go wrong

Stone Temple Pilot’s triumphant second album, Purple, is a grunge-era classic and the sound of a band silencing their critics

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"The prospect of rockers descending on Earls Court is too awful to contemplate.” How angry locals, a Tory councillor and a jailed Scott Weiland killed Ozzfest UK '99

Ozzfest UK 1999 was set to be one of the best metal weekenders ever. Then a combination of political interference and bad luck ruined everything

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Disturbed's David Draiman admits that he "almost joined" Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland this year while fighting addiction and depression

David Draiman: "Addiction and depression can happen to anyone ladies and gentlemen. No one is immune from it no matter how beautiful their life may look from the outside"

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