Stone Temple Pilots featuring their new frontman Chester Bennington, will release a new EP titled 'High Rise' on October 8th.

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6.3.13: Scott Weiland Countersues Stone Temple Pilots
The ousted singer seeks damages, says band conspired against him

Scott Weiland has struck back against Stone Temple Pilots, filing a countersuit last Friday against his former band. Earlier in May, Stone Temple Pilots sued their former singer accusing him of misusing the band's name to further his solo work and requested that a judge block him from using the group's name and catalog. Weiland is seeking at least $5 million in compensatory damages, and says his former bandmates conspired against him.

"How do you expel a man from a band that he started, named, sang lead on every song, wrote the lyrics and was the face of for 20 years, and then try to grab the name and goodwill for yourselves?" Weiland's complaint reads. "You don't, but three of the instrumentalists from the band 'Stone Temple Pilots' (the 'Band') tried."

As evidence, Weiland has highlighted a partnership agreement signed by Stone Temple Pilots in 1996, and amended in 2010 – seemingly the same agreement cited by the band in their own lawsuit. Weiland argues the agreement allows each band member to perform on his own, and says the band kicked him out to continue performing as Stone Temple Pilots; under the agreement, Weiland says, they would be forced to play under a different name if separate and apart from him.

Weiland maintains he had reached out to his bandmates multiple times, but his attempts at communication were ignored. He is seeking compensatory damages "in excess" of $5 million, along with statutory damages of up to $2 million for each "willful use" of the Stone Temple Pilots name "per mark, per type of goods or services sold, offered for sale or distributed." Stone Temple Pilots performed last month with Linkin Park's Chester Bennington on vocals, which would represent one count of Weiland's sought-after statutory damages.

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In my opinion...

This forthcoming case has arbitration written all over it... Breaking Benjamin recently settled their case behind closed doors with an arbitrator (frontman Benjamin Burnley won the rights to the name and stated Breaking Benjamin was returning soon).

This case is tricky and probably won't make it to a courtroom as this will most likely be settled, privately. Part of me says the band members will be able to continue using the name, but Scott may very well see a portion of the incoming cash (POSSIBLY)... Regardless, when the dust settles, it's safe to say that all four parties involved will make a lot of cash from this.

I'm pretty confident, this will be settled in arbitration... But, that's my opinion.

Not doubting Scott's vocal range, I love the work he did on "Come On, Come In" he was all over the place. But, that was then and this is his voice now.

There's going to be a lot of people who may not like Chester's vocal range on these songs, but it kinda brings back the vibe of the old "live Weiland" we all know and miss. I definitely understand why people do not like Chester's voice, because it starts there. Chester's getting used to singing the STP songs in the current register they're in. Remember, these are not in his normal range, they're "tailored-made" for Scott obviously. But he (Chester) did all of the classics a little justice, last night.

Scott's had wildly bad nights since '08, the last STP tour is proof of it. From lack of ticket sales, to their album flopping... I could go on. Scott needs to find Scott hahaha if that makes any sense. I want to the original band back as well. I know I'm not going to get any of you to jump on board, that's not my job. But, until Scott and the band decides to grow up, I'm willing to give this a chance, having STP around making music is better than NO STP. Scott needs to treat the band that helped put him on the map, with a little more respect. Velvet Revolver isn't coming back anytime in the foreseeable future. Time to put the egos aside and get back with STP, release a real album with the true STP sound.

As much as I prefer the original Stone Temple Pilots (instead of this), the band has put up with Scott's shit for two decades-plus... A line has to be drawn somewhere. Props to the band for wanting to move forward, with or without him. Scott acts like he's the sole-owner of STP and was responsible for their success. Well, the band did their part in building STP, right along with Weiland... Whether he wants to admit it or not.

Having said that, this is only 'one song' they recorded with Chester. We don't know if the band wants to stick with him (even though the press photos are all over the site). There's no official confirmation that Chester's their frontman (no press release in print stating "he's the one"). Chester himself stated (on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChesterBe/status/335998445691219968), he'll never leave LP. Dean DeLeo even said: "We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together..." So, it remains to be seen if the band decides to stick with him and record an entire album, later down the road. It'll be an interesting couple of weeks or months... That's for sure.

Besides tonight's concert (BFD 2013). Stone Temple Pilots are performing on 5.30.13 at Club Nokia, in LA... Scott Weiland has a show at the House of Blues on 5.29.13 in West Hollywood with a day off, the next night. Scott, go check out the STP show! See what you've been missing, wake the fuck up. Please.

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