Scott Weiland gets on the 'Happy' trail
After a delay, Scott Weiland 's sophomore solo album, "Happy in Galoshes," finally hit the streets last week, and the rocker is showcasing the new material on the road.
The Stone Temple Pilots frontman will spend the majority of this month playing radio-sponsored holiday shows across the US. In mid-January, he'll continue with a three-week run of club/theater gigs set to roll through markets including Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The full itinerary is listed below.
"Happy in Galoshes," released on Weiland's own Softdrive Records label, is his first solo album since 1998's "12 Bar Blues." The set, produced by the singer and Doug Grean (Velvet Revolver, Sheryl Crow), features guest performers including No Doubt members Adrian Young, Tony Kanal and Tom Dumont. The lead single, "Missing in Cleveland," just debuted in the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the song is streaming at Weiland's MySpace page.
The performer returns to the road after wrapping Stone Temple Pilots' mammoth comeback tour at the end of October. Weiland reunited with the band after a six-year hiatus that was followed by his bitter split with supergroup Velvet Revolver.
STP has been working on material for a new studio album, but those plans are up in the air since the band's old record label, Atlantic, is claiming the members are still under contract.
"Originally, I was told--and I was told for years--that we were free from Atlantic," Weiland told MTV in a recent interview. "I have no interest in making a record for a major label. If we were going to make a record, I would want to do it in a way that was much more original and in a more creative fashion."
Atlantic Records has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz, claiming the musicians tried to get out of their recording contract with the Warner Music Group prematurely. The filing says Atlantic wants STP to record a seventh album for the label, and deliver up to two more should the company decide it wants them, according to MTV.
December 2008
5 - New York, NY - The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza/K Rock Holiday Show
6 - Atlantic City, NJ - Music Box at The Borgata
7 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts/Radio 104.5 Holiday Bizarre
14 - Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheater/KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
16 - North Kansas City, MO - VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino
17 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant/105-7 The Point HOHO Show
18 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues/Q101 Twisted 15
January 2009
16 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
17 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
19 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage Theatre
23 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
24 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
25 - Boston, MA - Wilbur Theatre
28 - Detroit, MI - Saint Andrews Hall
30 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
31 - Minneapolis, MN - Pantages Theatre
February 2009
2 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
5 - San Francisco, CA - The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center
6 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
7 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre
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