The Stone Temple Pilots will be back in the studio next week with Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington at the helm. Bennington recently told Rollingstone.com:
“When you get together and put a new piece in, there’s a whole different energy. For us the creative juices have just been flowing – we’ve been writing, we have tons of great ideas. Next week we’re going back in the studio and hammering out some more music.”
He went on to say:
“We don’t have a label. Everything we’re doing is on our own, so we’re just taking it one track at a time. We would love to sit down and hammer out a record, but the reality is we’re gonna make music, we’re gonna make a lot of it, and we’re gonna be in a position to release a single at a time, go out and really give people music the way they want to get it. It is a good position to be in, and for us, all we care about is going out, making the legacy as great as it needs to be, as great as people expect it to be, and coming out with new music that lives up to that standard.”
The group performed their second set together this past Thursday as part of a MusiCares benefit that saw Bennginton honored for his work. That show saw the group joined by Slash and Duff McKagan for a cover of Mott The Hoople‘s “All The Young Dudes“, fan-filmed footage of which can be seen below:
The Stone Temple Pilots are currently involved in a legal battle with their ex-frontman Scott Weiland, whom they fired this past February.
