Drinking and drugging with crazy bitches sounds like more fun than the law will allow, but playing in a red-hot rock band is not always an all-you-can eat orgy.
"I think people realize there's a lot more to this band than just fucking and partying," says Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson.
That revelation, surrendered by a man whose hits include the cocaine anthem, "Lit Up," and the self-explanatory, "Too Drunk," is due in no small part to Buckcherry's ubiquitous 2007 power apology, "Sorry."
Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Empty," from MTV Unplugged
You never know what you'll get with Scott Weiland. The former lead singer of Velvet Revolver, sometime Stone Temple Pilot frontman and full-time enigma has continuously cheated death and career calamity for almost two decades. Some days, like on his solo efforts, you get the sullen and wistful troubadour. Maybe you get STP's strung-out, feral grunge-era icon. Or the haughty mouthpiece in front of three-quarters of Guns n' Roses belting out
Photos by Mark C. Austin
There has to be an unspoken rule from now on that solo albums from the lead singers of big rock bands should be studio-only affairs. These are meant to fulfill record-company contracts, and should never be passed off as an extra insight into the artistic machinations of an otherwise powerful and enigmatic frontman or sideman.
Scott Weiland falls into the category from now on. Saturday was three strikes, Mr. Weiland. Didn't you learn anything from Sixx A.M or even t
What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much.
I mean, it's a radio station, which in an age when people stream Pandora on their iPhones - to say nothing of car stereos with iPod plug-in ports - makes it almost as big a media dinosaur as the printed page. T
