SCOTT WEILAND GOES SOLO

Scott Weiland is working on his first solo album since 12 Bar Blues was released in the late ’90s. Weiland also fronts Velvet Revolver, but from what he comm…

Scott Weiland is working on his first solo album since 12 Bar Blues was released in the late ’90s. Weiland also fronts Velvet Revolver, but from what he communicated to us, his stuff is more developed than that of his band.

Weiland said that his last album was a “narcotic adventure.”

“My last solo album, it was definitely a narcotic adventure. Not to say that’s necessarily a bad thing, it was just… that’s where I was at in my… where I was negotiating my way through my life at that time. I think that record, 12 Bar Blues, was a beautiful album, but it was sort of an artistic experiment in a sense.”

Weiland said that his forthcoming effort is a more focused effort.

“This record is a much more focused piece of work. It has pieces of country music which is my… Country was the first genre of music that I fell in love with. My father was a huge country music fan and he was really the first person who taught me how to sing. So, there’s a huge part of me that’s definitely country, and there’s bossanova because I’m a big bossanova fan. I worked with Pharell on this record to a certain extent, with a song. I’m exploring new territory and I’m but it’s not to the extent that the last record did.”

Scott Weiland’s last solo album was written in the midst of a long battle with drug addiction, a condition that plagued the singer until he met his Velvet Revolver bandmates. Many of the members of the band went through simliar troubles as members of Guns N’ Roses in the ’80s and early ’90s.