STONE TEMPLE PILOTS POSTPONE TEXAS SHOWS
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have scrapped a trio of Texas shows, sparking rumours of trouble on tour.
A show in El Paso on Tuesday night (21Sep10), as well as Lubbock and Co rpus Christi gigs, have been postponed without reason.
The news, announced by the El Paso Times newspaper on Tuesday, comes le ss than two days after the rockers hit the stage in Houston, Texas an hou r late and frontman Scott Weiland rambled on about his drug addiction and marriage breakdown.
The singer, who has struggled with substance abuse over the last few ye ars and battled heroin addiction before finally getting sober, told fans at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion how he had been affected by his pa st problems.
He told the crowd, "I believe in music, I believe in rock ‘n’ roll, I b elieve in friendship and family. But you know what, on the 8th December w ill be time (sic) when I stopped doing dope… I started drinking again. I got divorced, my wife… And my whole world basically spun around and s o you know what, I’m gonna take care of myself (now) because that’s what I need to take care of… Instead of just having a few shows, I wanna hav e a whole hell of a lot of shows." A reviewer for HoustonPress.com wrote, "He seemed off mentally, a littl e too meandering and talkative, bringing up his own past drug and alcohol abuse… Weiland’s banter in between songs was odd and confusing. He tou ched on using inner-ear monitors, the band’s first gigs… what grunge me ans to him and why bands don’t destroy gear anymore."
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