It’s like any relationship – you get burned and you’re hesitant to trust again.īennington: Part of the appeal of doing this, and part of the vibe that I bring, I’m just coming in here and doing the same things I would do normally, only I’m writing different music with different guys. I remember I was producing a record over at Conway Studios and I saw Slash there, and I remember shaking his hand when I first found out about Velvet Revolver and I said, “Good luck with that.” I don’t think there was any other choice or options to make the band work. What were your thoughts on bringing Chester in?ĭeLeo: I welcomed it because we’ve known each other for quite some time. I recall Slash and Duff McKagan admitting that after their experiences with Axl Rose and Scott, Velvet Revolver was a little gun-shy about bringing in a new singer. Robert DeLeo: We’re all complementing each other very nicely. ![]() Writing songs with these guys, that’s something I can check off my list of shit to do. At the same time I have the chance to write songs with two of my favorite songwriters that have ever written, Robert and Dean. And the fact that we all get along so well, we enjoy each other’s company, we have the same work ethic and we’re all enjoying what we’re doing, it’s a trip in a lot of ways. For us the transition has been about as smooth creatively as a band as possible. From an outsider, this is something I expected was going to happen. There is a freedom of collaborating in this day and age, and I’m sure that ties nicely into you guys being able to try something new.Ĭhester Bennington: I think that this is happening at the right time. “We’ve always looked out for Scott’s best interests and tried to be a great friend to someone who really didn’t care to be friends with us.” That eventually led, he said, to “a very difficult decision.” ![]() “Dean (DeLeo), Eric (Kretz) and I have been saddled by someone for a long time,” he said at one point. With legal battles with Scott Weiland ongoing, DeLeo didn’t want to say too much about the band’s former singer, yet a lot emerged over the course of the interview. Scott Weiland on STP: ‘They’ll Have to Buy Me Out of the Company’įeaturing five songs, the EP ranges from the straight-ahead hard rock of the lead single “Out of Time” and the planned second single, “Black Heart,” to “Cry, Cry,” a song written by Bennington, which segues nicely into the EP’s closer, the atmospheric long player “Tomorrow.” Before a revealing hour-long interview, DeLeo brought a reporter his laptop and a pair of headphones to hear the band’s forthcoming EP, High Rise. Fellow Stone Temple Pilots Robert DeLeo and Chester Bennington, now pulling double duty as frontman for both Linkin Park and STP, sat down with Rolling Stone recently in North Hollywood.
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