Stone Temple Pilots will be taking to the road for the first time with their new singer Jeff Gutt (ex-Dry Cell) starting in March. The group spoke to Billboard.com of their forthcoming new album, their plans for touring and more. Speaking of the upcoming full-length, guitarist Dean DeLeo commented:
“If there wasn’t new music I don’t know that we’d really have a leg to stand on, but we’re sitting on 14 new songs right now. We wanted to have that ability to create new music and to go on and make more records and more music that we can just pile into the STP canon.”
He added that the new album: “is very STP. It goes from acoustic-based, beautiful things to really hard-hitting, heavy moments. We just have that ability to not be in one place, musically. So this record is just like any other STP record in that regard.”
Speaking later of the band’s well documented struggles with late former frontman singer Scott Weiland, DeLeo stated:
“I felt like I was slighted with Scott. As great as he was, my entire life was two steps forward and three steps back. So I’ll tell you, it was a real pleasure to be able to write and record a record under these circumstances [with Gutt.] It’s something I haven’t experienced in decades, so this feels great.”
Tickets purchased for the below dates (sans festival appearances) will include a digital copy of the band’s new full-length, though a title and release date for it have yet to be unveiled.
03/02 Santa Clarita, CA – The Canyon
03/04 San Diego, CA – Observatory
03/08 Pasadena, CA – The Rose
03/09 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
03/10 Phoenix, AZ – Marquee
03/12 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore
03/13 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
03/15 Portland, OR – Roseland
03/16 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
03/17 Billings, MT – Pub Station Ballroom
04/28 Jacksonville, FL – Welcome To Rockville
04/29 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Fort Rock Festival
05/20 Columbus, OH – Rock On The Range
