 With Scott Weiland's recent no show at the Sundance Film Festival, Classic Rock just tracked down Duff McKagan, Velvet Revolver
bassist, and quizzed him about the Velvet Revolver frontmans recent
'antics'.
On the Sundance Festival, he commented “I sang It’s So Easy and I Wanna Be Your Dog and then we were panicking
a bit over what to play so Matt [Sorum] got up and sang Patience,
Matt’s a great singer, he really is. Why wasn’t Scott there? Scott
missed his plane, yeah, let’s say that, Scott missed his plane…”
And concerning the rumour that the Stone Temple Pilots are set to re-form
“That’s the rumour that I’ve heard too, good for him. You can’t plan
ahead in this thing and if you do you’re going to be disappointed.
Don’t get me wrong, I love playing live and we love this band, but I
don’t have expectations any more. This is a great band and I’m proud to
be a part of it, but it doesn’t define me any more.”
As previously reported Scott Weiland confirmed rumours that he was absent
because of problems with his private jet that was set to fly him from
Miami to the Festival in Utah.
Comments Weiland "I truly apologize on behalf of the band for our inability to perform
at the scheduled party during the Sundance Film Festival. I performed
the previous night in Miami in support of the A-Rod Family Foundation,
and afterwards a jet was arranged to fly myself and a couple of the
crew members to the festival, where I was looking forward to
performing.
"Not only was I hoping to ROCK, but I also wanted to
snowboard AND have some well...good and clean fun! Seriously, though, I
even already had my 'one-piece' long johns on (no shit!!). Now, the
problem was that the pilot of the private jet would not - I mean,
absolutely would NOT - fly us to Park City due to the low visibility
and poor weather conditions. We did everything in our power to make it
happen.
"At last minute, Matt (Sorum/drums) tried to hook up a flight
from L.A. to Park City, but the owner of the plane could not find a
crew in time.
"I'm sorry. We all are. Who knows, maybe this happened for a reason."
The band performed without Weiland on the night, and footage of drummer
Matt Sorum singing the Guns N' Roses track 'Patience' can be viewed
below.
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