According to the Toronto Sun, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland has admitted his heart was never in supergroup VELVET REVOLVER, insisting money was his real motivation for joining the band.

Weiland was invited to join ex-GUNS N' ROSES members Slash and Duff McKagan as the frontman of their new group in 2003, but initially had reservations after he was left unimpressed by the sample tracks he was sent.

But in his new tell-all book, Not Dead And Not For Sale: A Memoir, Weiland reveals it was McKagan’s talk of lucrative pay cheques which tempted him to join.

He writes, “They put some songs on a CD and my wife said, ’They think you’ll like what they’re doing.’ I didn’t it sounded like BAD COMPANY and I never liked Bad Company. A week or so later another CD arrived with songs custom-designed for me.

“I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to hook up with these guys. Duff said, ’There’s soundtrack stuff we’ve been asked to do, and the money’s great.’ The money attracted me.

“I can’t call it the music of my soul. There was a certain commercial calculation behind it.”

Velvet Revolver is still on hiatus after Weiland was fired from the group in 2009.

Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir, is being released today (May 17th) via publisher Scribner.

Scott Weiland will be signing copies of the book today at Barnes & Noble - Union Square in New York City, NY at 7:00 PM.

A description of Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir reads as follows:

In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots-not U2, not NIRVANA, not PEARL JAM - was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such mega-bands as AEROSMITH and GUNS N' ROSES on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant.

Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab. Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work, and, most recently, reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He still struggles with the bottle, but he has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty.

These earthling papers explore Weiland’s early years as an altar boy right along with his first experiences with sex and drugs. Weiland discusses his complex relationships with his parents, stepfather, siblings, and the love of his life, Mary Forsberg Weiland. Readers learn the fascinating stories behind his most well-known songs and what it was like to be there at the beginning of the grunge phenomenon, as Rolling Stone proclaimed on its cover: “the year punk broke.” Not Dead & Not for Sale is a hard rock memoir to be reckoned with—a passionate, insightful, and at times humorous book that reads with extraordinary narrative force.

The memoir, co-written with David Ritz, will be released in a 224-page hardcover edition, as well as an eBook. Ritz is the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award. He has collaborated with RAY CHARLES, MARVIN GAYE, B.B. KING, ARETHA FRANKLIN, ETTA JAMES, SMOKEY ROBINSON, and DON RICKLES. He also co-wrote, with Gaye, the song 'Sexual Healing'.

Check out a book excerpt at RollingStone.com.

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