STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Guitarist Says ATLANTIC Didn't Want Band To Self-Produce Latest Album

August 18, 2010

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS guitarist Dean DeLeo tells Consequence Of Sound that the band initially received resistance from its record company when the group made the choice to self-produce its latest album. "Our label [Atlantic Records] refused to let us produce it," DeLeo says, adding Atlantic told STP, "'We want a big-name producer.' You know what we told them? Fuck off."

Atlantic Records filed a lawsuit in June 2008 claiming that STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz had threatened to stop performing and wanted to terminate their contract with the label unless it was changed. DeLeo tells Consequence Of Sound of the band's relationship with Atlantic, "It just seemed funny that every label but our own contacted us to write songs for other artists. Our own fucking label didn't even know what they had in their back pocket for the last decade." Furthermore, according to DeLeo, the band won't be working with Atlantic much longer. "Their loss. They have us for one more record," he says. "I think it's only because we managed to sell a lot of records that we've had a pretty good relationship with them."

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