Former STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland was harshly criticized following several performances on his current tour with his new band THE WILDABOUTS, with one review calling his performance "sluggish" and another stating flat-out that the vocalist "appears to have crashed and burned. Badly."Not helping matters was a fan-filmed video of THE WILDABOUTS performing the STP classic "Vasoline" in Corpus Christi, Texas on April 28, with Weiland introducing it as a "new song" before launching into a painfully out of tune and apathetic vocal performance as the band plays quite solidly behind him.Prior to his May 3 appearance at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Weiland was asked by the WXMX-FM 98.1 The Max radio station if there was anything he wanted to say regarding the Corpus Christi concert."Well, basically, I guess the only thing I want people to know is that that show in Corpus Christi that got put up on TMZ, I didn't have in-ears that were working, so my in-ear monitors were completely out, so I had no way of hearing himself," he responded (hear audio below). "So that was the reason why it wasn't a good show for me; my equipment wasn't working."Weiland added: "The crew is very important, and there's a lot of pieces of equipment that can have problems from time to time, and it was my turn to experience that at that show."A Houston Press review of the band's April 29 gig there stated, "Trouble has definitely become a vortex for Weiland, and he appears to have crashed and burned. Badly. To be fair, as sluggish as Weiland appears now onstage, he does appear to be trying, at least in part."Asked recently about whether a reunion with Weiland was ever possible, STP guitarist Dean DeLeo said, "Why the fuck would we want that? That fucking mess?" The band's current singer is LINKIN PARK's Chester Bennington.STP dismissed Weiland in February 2013, claiming that his erratic behavior held back the band's career. The two parties exchanged lawsuits which have since been settled.STP recruited Bennington that spring and have so far cut one EP, "High Rise", with him. A new album is due out later this year.Weiland and THE WILDABOUTS are on the road promoting his new album, "Blaster", which came out on March 31.
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