STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Frontman Falls Off Stage In Cincinnati (Video)

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland fell off the stage during the opening number, "Crackerman", of the band's set last night (Wednesday, August 25) at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. According to one person who attended the show, "[Scott] was fine and the show continued. As you can tell [in the fan-filmed video below] he didn't really miss a note after he fell."

The incident in question can be seen around the one-minute, 27-second mark in the first clip and one-minute, 15-second mark in the second clip below.

In a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS drummer Eric Kretz stated about how the bandmembers were able to to push the personal things aside when they got back to work for their 2008 tour and subsequent studio album, "Everything was cool. Time heals a lot of stuff. We get back together and sometimes that stuff is still there, and sometimes it's not even noticeable. We've been doing this for so long, and as far as playing music, that always remains consistent. Everyone in this band is such a good musician that playing and performing is so natural. That part of it never leaks into what was going on the week prior or the day before. We can always separate those two elements, and what goes on behind the scenes is our own situation, our own things to work out, as any business or workplace would have issues to deal with."

Regarding the songwriting process for STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' sixth album, which came out in May, Kretz said, "There's never a shortage of new material with this band. Within the first three weeks we had probably 18 new song ideas going down in demo form, and then at that point Scott was doing a solo tour, so it was a matter of getting him in there and saying 'OK, let's work on these songs.' We narrowed it down to about 13 songs and recorded those. So it was just a very natural process of touring and then jumping into the studio. Making music is very natural for us. There's never any big problems."

On the topic of the commercial succes of "Stone Temple Pilots", which debuted at No. 2 with sales just over 60,000, about a tenth of what the band sold for releases in the early '90s, Kretz said, "Yeah, about 600,000 back around 'Purple' and 'Tiny Music'. Things are different and music is more disposable than it was 10, 15 years ago. Part of that is you're just downloading to an MP3 player, your phone, whatever device you have. You listen to it for a while, and that's it. Not to be nostalgic, but there's something so great about buying a product and pulling it out and opening it up and reading and looking things over and actually holding something in your hand. I'm still a diehard purist that way. I still love vinyl and buying CDs and getting [ticked] off 'cause 'Why are these things sealed so well?' "

Weiland falls off stage around 1:27 mark in clip below:

Weiland falls off stage around 1:15 mark in clip below:

(Thanks: Brian Smith)