Comments on: Scott Weiland: Doing What He Wants To Do (And Finally, It’s Not Heroin)

By: Psychedelic Philosopher

Psychedelic Philosopher — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:56:48 +0000

Hey I have to agree with Becky Arock you rock. I, myself have been a weiland fan since Contraband came out, so I actually got to go back and hear all the STP and his solo debut in reverse. I have loved everything he has done I am going to get golashes today.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:17:00 +0000

Adrock, I love your response. I bought the CD a few days ago because I was intrigued after seeing Weiland on the Tonight Show. The song was pretty bizarre but I wanted to hear it again before forming an opinion. I’m starting to like it and listening through the CD to get familiar before I judge. There’s too much going on with the instrumentation and production and it first it did sound like a train wreck because there’s no distinct melody, but listen again and there may be some genius in the madness. Good for Weiland to keep on keeping on, after all of his troubles and knowing that people judge him for his addiction. I for one am glad that Weiland at least has enough work ethic to keep going and doesn’t waste away like Staley or overdose like Cobain. Someone’s got to entertain us former grunge fans nowadays.

By: AdRock

AdRock — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:36:21 +0000

All this Weiland hating need’s to take a break. For real. That was a very fair review of the album, though you should’ve waited to get your mits on the 2 Disc Deluxe Version. It does in fact have what is *IMO* a strong cover of, “Reel Around the Fountain”, and even a cover of “Some Thing’s Must Go This Way” by the now de-funct PaloAlto. The straight country crooning’s of “The Man I Didn’t Know”, where you can hear some Neil Diamond in his vocal style (I know Diamond wasn’t a country singer… just get the 2nd disc…). I’m a DIEhard Weiland fan. Have been since Sex Type Thing hit the Radio in September of ‘92. Seen him in all his “incarnations” (STP/VR/Solo ‘98, and have tix for this tour). I just don’t understand the hypocrisy I see from people on here. Phil Anselmo is so strung out on his pain med’s and mixing it with whatever else, yet he’s like the “de-facto” President of this joint. He could shoot up on camera during an interview and receive “props” from this crowd. Yet Weiland, who’s been off the needle for 7 years as of December 5, BUT does admittedly drink alcohol still, is everyone’s favorite whipping boy when it comes to the junkie thing. When he QUIT Velvet Revolver (Sorry, but Firing a guy who PUBLICLY quits two weeks earlier, doesn’t hold much weight with me…how anyone can report that split as Weiland being fired, when HE FIRED THEM onstage for all intent’s and purpose’s, is completely biased and irresponsible journalism). Anyway, Weiland is the dope fiend everyone wants to “just die already”, though he stayed off the needle while he had such wonderful friends and influences like Slash abusing Oxycontin, Rat Sorum abusing coke, HEROIN, and meth, and anything else he could get, and Duff abusing Xanax… but who get’s thrown under the bus as the junkie when they split??? The guy who hadn’t touched a drug while in the band… It’s also a popular sentiment that Layne Staley “Should’ve never had to die, while this jackass (weiland) is alive still…”. Well, as a huge Layne fan, I have to be a realist, and if your talking in terms of musical and entertainment value (which is the purpose these people play in our lives), Staley was already dead. You think he had any intentions of leaving that Condo on anything but a stretcher??? And that’s one place I have to give Weiland alot of credit. No matter what, unless he was jailed, Scott is working. He’s actively touring and making albums every couple years. He’s not “holed up” in his studio getting high til he dies, which he certainly could EASILY choose to do. (I’m sure his mothers recent bout with cancer, his brothers death from an overdose 2 years ago, and his wife leaving him for someone else DESPITE the fact he never relapsed- ALL of that probably leaves him prone to contemplating doing JUST that from time to time). None the less, He just released a classic album. A Double Album with barely a bad song. Even the song’s that were written up poorly in the review on here, and when I initially heard the album, I would’ve been in complete agreement… but after listening to them consistently for the last few weeks now, I can’t really find a single song that I skip out of the 20. His genre mixing and crossing and daliance with new wave alt radio rock…sometimes genre hopping several times in one song, AND MAKING IT WORK… So after that long rant to defend a guy who get’s unfairly whipped for his demon’s while others of the same mind are celebrated, I’ll just say that if the worse thing Weiland does is drink, then Keep on keepin’ on man. I know you shouldn’t drink if you’re an addict, but even addiction isn’t COMPLETELY black & white, and some people DO have grey area’s, and Scott seem’s to think he’s found his with the booze. Keeps him off the smack. Some people really just can’t be totally sober… not when their life goes to hell… so while you make Weiland out to be the big bad junkie, take a second to remember that he’s on the same train most of us are on, and it’s legal, so I say the man deserves a pat on the back for at the LEAST, being a bit more responsible about his getting wasted. So yeah, Weiland was HAMMERED @ the AMA’s. With a show like that, if you had to be there to announce Pink’s “Sober”, wouldn’t you have thrown a few down before you took to the podium!? Lord knows I would’ve…

By: sonjalane

sonjalane — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:15:06 +0000

Unbelievable, but Scott was WASTED on the AMAs tonight. He made an ass of himself, so it looks like he is on a train to somewhere- but for sure he is off the wagon….again.

By: Felyne

Felyne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:19:12 +0000

The radio station is badgering me with Missing Cleveland right now. Makes me wish he’d never been there, so he wouldn’t sing that song. And that video is unwatchable, the guys a complete creep and him being all over that chick is almost as gross as the toilet scene in trainspotting. I would opt for the toilet scene, if I was the actress. But, I do feel I deserve some points because I’ve got a top just like the one she’s wearing. Yay for my fashion sense. It’s the only good thing to come of this entire subject.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:36:34 +0000

Great writeup!!! Thank you :) My first CD was Core and man has he been through hell and back since!!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:57:34 +0000

Anyone heard the cover of “Reel Around The Fountain” that Wikipedia says is on the bonus disc?