Here Today... Gone To Hell!

According to NBC.com, VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland (ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS) will be a featured guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Monday, December 18. The show airs nationally on NBC from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. ET/PT. Other guests scheduled to appear on the program are Samuel L. Jackson and Nick Thune.

Weiland recently spoken to MTV.com about the band's second album, for which recording is finally getting underway after months of false starts. Although Weiland had said in several earlier interviews that the project would be a concept record, he now says he has scrapped that idea because "there's been a hurricane of concept albums that have come out this year, and I really didn't want to make the concept album that made the levee break." VELVET REVOLVER wrote more than 18 tracks for the disc, including "Pills, Demons, Etc.", "Just 16", "Get Out the Door", and "Queen for a Day", and started tracking December 4.

VELVET REVOLVER is working on the CD with producer Brendan O'Brien after an initial stint with Rick Rubin "did not work out," according to Weiland. "Obviously, Rick makes things happen with people, and that chemistry creates a certain 'spiritual combustion' in some way," the singer said. "But with us, that didn't happen. I worked with Brendan on every STP record, and we needed somebody who was more in the trenches with us. When Brendan works with a band, he becomes the fifth or sixth bandmember. He gets in there with you, and he's in the thick of it. Every song that we were working on previously had a different feel, and songs that I was completely uninspired by, within a short period of time, became inspiring. Songs that I had no ideas for, I suddenly had a lot of ideas for, and took to completely different places than I think I would have taken them."

weird, i wonder what he will have to say.

I wonder if there will be a performance of one of his solo songs.

Cool wish more musicians did stuff like this. Maybe he will start a trend. Sure beats isolationism. 

SCOTT WEILAND To Perform 'Jazzy' Version Of Christmas Classic On 'Tonight Show With Jay Leno' - Dec. 17, 2006 
 
VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland (ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS) will perform a jazzy version of the classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with a stand-up bass, some violinists and a grand piano during his scheduled appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Monday, December 18. Weiland is currently in the studio laying down tracks for an upcoming release of the song. The show airs nationally on NBC from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. ET/PT. Other guests scheduled to appear on the program are Samuel L. Jackson and Nick Thune.

Weiland recently spoke to MTV.com about the band's second album, for which recording is finally getting underway after months of false starts. Although Weiland had said in several earlier interviews that the project would be a concept record, he now says he has scrapped that idea because "there's been a hurricane of concept albums that have come out this year, and I really didn't want to make the concept album that made the levee break." VELVET REVOLVER wrote more than 18 tracks for the disc, including "Pills, Demons, Etc.", "Just 16", "Get Out the Door", and "Queen for a Day", and started tracking December 4.

VELVET REVOLVER is working on the CD with producer Brendan O'Brien after an initial stint with Rick Rubin "did not work out," according to Weiland. "Obviously, Rick makes things happen with people, and that chemistry creates a certain 'spiritual combustion' in some way," the singer said. "But with us, that didn't happen. I worked with Brendan on every STP record, and we needed somebody who was more in the trenches with us. When Brendan works with a band, he becomes the fifth or sixth bandmember. He gets in there with you, and he's in the thick of it. Every song that we were working on previously had a different feel, and songs that I was completely uninspired by, within a short period of time, became inspiring. Songs that I had no ideas for, I suddenly had a lot of ideas for, and took to completely different places than I think I would have taken them." 
 

They played clips of this performance on the Howard Stern Show today.  Although Howard is a big fan of Scott's and Stone Temple Pilots, he didn't like him singing Christmas songs.  Robin and Artie also said it was not good and they could've gotten many other people who could've sung better.  Overall, they didn't see the reasoning behind the whole thing.  And I've got to agree with them.

Yeah, I saw Scott on the Tonight Show, and wouldn't characterize myself as particularly impressed by the performance.

Fairly off the topic, but Twisted Sister was pretty good that week rockin' out their version of "Oh Come All Ye' Faithful."