In a recent interview, the Stone Temple Pilots talk about keeping the band name despite the recent death of original frontman, Scott Weiland. The conversation stemmed from a fan who said that brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo should not be using the name Stone Temple Pilots because it belongs to Scott Weiland. The two talked about their decision to keep the band name in an interview with 105.7's The Point.
“I kind of look at this way,” Robert DeLeo said to 105.7 The Point according to Alternative Nation. “There were 3/4 of us that were responsible with Scott, making STP. For instance, you have a company like Coca Cola, and you have someone running Coca Cola. If they’re not there any more, do you change the name of Coca Cola?”
Dean said on the matter of changing the band’s name, “I see the point there on both comments, I do, I see the point. It’s interesting, because there’s people that say, ‘That was Scott’s band.’ Well I’m going to tell you something, if this was Scott’s band, it would have been run into the ground by 1998. It would have been over. That’s the way he lived his life.
He further said, “We’re talking about a guy that killed himself, unfortunately, the tragedy of that. Robert, Eric, and I were the guys who managed through thick and thin to keep him together, he relied upon us, we relied upon him. He got farther, and farther away from this world, and there was no coming back man.”
The music industry severely mourned the tragic death of Scott Weiland. In an episode of Saturday Night Live, a 37-minute video of original rehearsal footage from 1993 was released. The footage aired on the Season 19, episode 7 and was hosted by Nicole Kidman.
According to Consequence Of Sound, in the original performance, the band ended up playing “Naked Sunday” and “Creep” off of their album, Core. In the rehearsal footage, the band did an early rendition of “Hollywood B*tch.” The version performed wasn’t officially released until Shangri-LA Dee Da was released in 2001.
