SCOTT WEILAND: Audio Of New Year's Eve Jam Available For Streaming

January 12, 2009

A high-quality recording of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland's 10-minute jam in Las Vegas from this past New Year's Eve is available for streaming on the web site of Los Angeles-based producer/engineer/guitarist Doug Grean, who is a guitarist, keyboardist and musical director for Weiland's live solo band. (Note: Click the hopping squirrel on the right to launch audio.)

Commented Grean: "Last week we taped a few songs for Fox to air on New Year's Eve. Whenever we do some TV like this, it's always a very uptight scene. You know, with all the cameras and producers and what-not. Not to mention the fact that they staged the gig in a very fancy dance club/disco. Basically, full of club kids that were not really Scott fans but just there for the 'scene.' So the script was for us to go on and play three songs and then play the last song twice. The last song was 'Missing Cleveland', the song that was for broadcast. Well, what happened was we got out there on the stage in this crazy disco and Scott turned to me and said, 'Hey, let's set the vibe,' and by that he meant, 'Fuck it, let's just jam for a while until we start feeling and then we'll do what the want us to do,' and we are all really into improvjaming these days so.... We launched into a nine-minute barn-burning super jam. Well, about five minutes into this thing, the directors and managers start freaking out because we'd gone off the plan. They started coming up to the stage and making the cut motions. But being rebelious rockers, and also just being into it, we just kept rocking. Until eventually they pulled the plug on us. They did get the version of 'Cleveland' that we promised and a really long rock jam they probably didn't know what to do with. And it turns out that somebody in the club taped it and we just found out today that the recording is out there floating around the Internet. The quality is not very good, but since it's already out, we've decided to mix down a better version of it and post it around the Softdrive site as a special present from us to you. I think you'll dig it."

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