SCOTT WEILAND GETS PRISON TIME FOR DUI, STP UNAFFECTED?

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland was arrested for DUI, eerily coinciding with STP’s reformation.

Scott Weiland will spend the equivalent of eight days behind bars for driving under the influence of alcohol. The DUI sentence was handed down by a Los Angeles Judge, and it requires him to serve the time before May 26. The singer already has commitments booked with Stone Temple Pilots and may have to break up the 190 plus hours of time in the can.

Weiland recently parted ways with Velvet Revolver, who said they’d be carrying on without him. In an interview several years ago, before the band’s breakthrough debut album Contraband, bassist Duff McKagan was asked if coming off of Guns N’ Roses they’ve mastered the art of keeping a band together.

“Well I think if nothing else we learned how to keep a band together. An analogy: somebody makes a move for you and your first reaction is to jerk. Now you turn towards him and you look and see what he’s doing. That’s how we do it with the band. If somebody pisses you off or does something, you ask, ‘Did he mean that towards me?’ You don’t react and scream back and yell, and all that stuff. And usually it turns out nobody meant anything towards you, and a lot of things like that. We learn to deal with stuff. We don’t knee jerk.”

These comments seem prophetic considering Slash’s admission that they turned their back on Weiland and didn’t communicate with him during their last tour. To some it seems that Weiland had a calm period after joining Velvet Revolver straight out of his rehab stint for drug addiction. Weiland had been troubled throughout his days with STP, being in and out of prison and rehab, and now with his latest incarceration, appearances are that the STP-trouble correlation is continuing. However Weiland was arrested for the DUI late last year when he was still a member of Velvet Revolver.