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Stone Temple Pilots Announce 65-City Tour
On Monday, Singer Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz revealed the details of their 65-city tour, set to begin May 17 the Rock on the Range Festival in Columbus, Ohio.
Other stops on the schedule so far include Charter One Pavilion in Indianapolis (May 23), Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Mass. (June 1), Roy Wilkens Auditorium in St. Paul, Minn. (June 6), Pearl Concert Theater at The Palms Casino in Las Vegas (June 12 and 14), Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (June 24), Cyntha Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas (June 28), Summerfest at Marcus Amphitheatre in Milwaukee (July 4), Constellation Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua, N.Y. (July 15), The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. (July 25), Muzikfest in Bethlehem, Pa. (August 8), Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Charlotte, S.C. (August 17), and GM Place in Vancouver (August 30).
Dates and venues for the second half of the tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
Info on onsale dates, ticket packages and a new fan club program that will give members access to presale tickets is available at StoneTemplePilots.com.
“The story’s not finished,” Weiland told The Associated Press. “There’s more to be revealed and more to be told.”
DeLeo said the band plans to record a new album after the tour, which is set to wrap in November.
Formed in 1992, the band has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
The Grammy-winning rockers celebrated their announcement with a private show in the Hollywood Hills.
They’re scheduled to make their first national television appearance May 1 on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Weiland, 40, has been dogged by drug problems since the band’s early days. His arrests for drug possession and stints in rehab led the group to cancel tour dates and contributed to their breakup. Weiland pleaded not guilty last month to charges of driving under the influence of drugs stemming from a November car crash.
After Stone Temple Pilots’ split, Weiland formed the rock group Velvet Revolver. On April 1, his bandmates — Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner — announced that Weiland was no longer part of the group.
“Among other things, his increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on,” Slash said in a statement.
Two days later, Stone Temple Pilots announced their reunion. –