SCOTT WEILAND Covers DEPECHE MODE; Jimmy Kimmel Live! Performance Online

May 21, 2011, 13 years ago

news rock hard scott weiland depeche mode

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland covered version DEPECHE MODE's classic song, 'But Not Tonight', on Friday night's (May 20th) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Watch the performance below:

SPIN.com has posted five excerpts from Weiland's new book, Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir. Check out some of the material below:

On Being Raped:

When Weiland was 12 years old and living in Ohio, he says a "big muscular guy, a high school senior... [who] rode the bus with me every day to school... invited me to his house. The dude raped me. It was quick, not pleasant. I was too scared to tell anyone. 'Tell anyone,' he warned, 'and you'll never have another friend in this school. I'll ruin your fuckin' reputation.' Adds Weiland, "This is a memory I suppressed until only a few years ago when, in rehab, it came flooding back. Therapy will do that to you."

On Velvet Revolver's Breakup:

"I was running wild during the second Velvet Revolver tour [in 2007]," writes Weiland. "At the beginning of the tour, I was okay, but then a single line of coke in England did the trick. I snorted it. And soon the demons were back. Thus began another decline... I was out there again, going to dangerous places to buy substances. All this was done in secret; the guys in Velvet Revolver didn't know I was using. When I told the guys that we'd have to miss a couple of gigs because I needed treatment, their reaction shocked me. They told me I'd have to pay them for those cancellations -- in full. I reminded them that when they had relapsed and needed rehab, I had supported them completely. It made no difference to them.... It didn't matter that Velvet Revolver had sold some five or six million records. I was out."

Click here for more.

Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir, was released on May 17th via publisher Scribner. A description 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.


Latest Reviews