I still remember a local radio DJ here in Boston doing a quick joke back in ‘96-97 when Scott was in rehab and moved out to the suburbs:

Your last statement confirmed. Think about trying to replace the rush of playing for tens of thousands of people with something that wants to kill you. No bueno. Rest easy Scott.

I posted elsewhere that I heard the name became Stone Temple Pilot because STP is brand name.

He had a handful of shows in the NYC area last week and I had heard that he sounded decent at (I had been at one terrible wildabouts show a few years back). I’m guessing after so many years of abuse, the body can only take so much...

He was supposed to play a 400 person bar here in Fresno this month and I was legitimately going to go. I was pretty bummed.

Corgan’s anger is because he believes himself to be both a genius and an unassailable god when everyone knows he’s just a preening twat with a good amount of technical ability who can occasionally write a decent song.

The thing about being a rock star in the ’90s is you had to act like you hated being a rock star.

I remember talking to a friend who was backstage for their tour with Red Hot Chilli Peppers in 2000. He said Weiland had a guy he paid to follow him around 24/7 to make sure he stayed clean. It’s unfortunate that you can realize your addiction is that serious and yet can’t manage to stop it. I can’t even imagine how…

I’m sure every music publication has been sitting on a pre-written Scott Weiland obit for so long that they had to proofread it this morning to make sure the references were still current.

Props to Weiland for not getting his pants twisted over Range Life.

I’d also venture Marathe is a scapegoat and this is a big thing. He and York we’re tight and many believed Marathe served as the front office’s mouth piece for these leaks.

If there is anyone who can fix leaks with a handful of spare parts, it’s Tomsula.

He didn’t think it was an intruder. He just wants us to believe that.

Under the current circumstances, it is the best option, hands down.

Not the worst one either. As blasphemous as it is to say on Jalopnik, I’d be cool with shifting the world away from oil dependency as fast as possible and letting the oil economies of the Middle East die on the vine.

I recently went to see a standup show where Trevor Noah was a surprise performer. His whole set was a joke about Oscar Pistorius and the punch line was that his fiancée had annoyed him so badly when he woke her up in the middle of he night that he shot her.

Emmitt Smith didn’t see a problem with the original diagnosis.

According to Ben, his full diagnosis is a “Traumatic Ocular Migraine Lessened by Intravascular Neuropathy”. It took him the entire 5-hour flight home from Seattle to memorize just the acronym.

Ben needs to be careful and make sure he protects his gray matter. He also should take care of his brain.

No means no Ben, you’re not playing.