Jimmy Kimmel Live

Scott Weiland Gets Emotional, Hints At Retiring From Touring

Thu, Nov 20

November 20, 2008

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland spoke emotionally in a video interview on Tuesday (November 18th) about his desire to spend more time at home with his young children instead of on the road. Weiland said, “It pains me when I am gone for a month, even, and I come back and there’s differences — big positive amazing differences, beautiful differences — that I haven’t been a part of because I’ve been working…to make the money, out there on the road.”

Weiland told us something similar as he neared the end of his recent six-month reunion tour with the STP: “I kind of want to stop that phase of my life, being on the road nonstop. It’s always tempting to make a lot of money, but there just comes a certain point where spending more time with your kids and also creating the kind of music you want to create outweighs those other things.”

Weiland issues his second solo album, Happy in Galoshes, on November 25th. It follows up 1998’s 12 Bar Blues.

The singer said that much of the album was inspired by his personal turmoil during the last year. His brother died in 2007, his mother recently battled cancer, he split with wife Mary Forsberg and he was dismissed by his previous group, Velvet Revolver.

Weiland will perform on the November 21st edition of NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the November 26th episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. He’ll also play some scattered radio festivals in December before kicking off a U.S. tour in January. November 20, 2008 Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland spoke emotionally in a video interview on Tuesday (November 18th) about his desire to spend more time at home with his young children instead of on the road. Weiland said, “It pains me when I am gone for a month, even, and I come back and [...]