Salon.com > stone temple pilots http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 19:07:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stone Temple Pilots fire Scott Weiland http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/stone_temple_pilots_fire_scott_weiland/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/stone_temple_pilots_fire_scott_weiland/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13214015 NEW YORK (AP) -- Singer Scott Weiland said he learned that he'd been fired by the Stone Temple Pilots when the band released a one-sentence statement to the media Wednesday.

"I learned of my supposed `termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press," he wrote in a statement. "Not sure how I can be `terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out."

The statement by the band said: "Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have officially terminated Scott Weiland." No other information was provided.

Weiland said he's focusing on his solo tour, which kicks off Friday in Flint, Mich.

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