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Stone Temple Pilots to go on without Scott Weiland

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:55 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The remaining members of Stone Temple Pilots will not disband despite former singer Scott Weiland asking a court to force them to do so, and it was their legal right to kick him out because of his "destructive behavior," their lawyer said on Tuesday.

"He's out of the band," Skip Miller, the attorney for the 1990s alternative rock band told Reuters, citing the quartet's 1996 legal partnership agreement that allows a majority of band members to vote out an existing member.

The agreement also allowed the majority to retain the intellectual property rights to the band's name.

"The three of them voted (Weiland) out for a lot of reasons," Miller said. "They don't want to play with him anymore. He was showing up hours late and had crazy, destructive behavior."

Weiland, whose growling vocals and dyed red hair became a symbol of the early 1990s grunge era, was fired from the band in February. The three remaining group members sued him last month for using the band's name to promote his solo concerts.

Weiland, 45, counter sued last week alleging that the group's three other members - Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz - secretly and wrongfully conspired to kick him out of the band.

The singer, who promoted a solo concert in Los Angeles last week featuring music from the group's 1992 album Core and 1994 album Purple, has also asked the court for US$5 million in damages as well as legally dissolving the partnership agreement.

"How do you expel a man from a band that he started, named, sang lead on every song, wrote the lyrics, and was the face of for 20 years, and then try to grab the name and goodwill for yourselves?" Weiland's lawsuit said.

"Knowing the value and goodwill associated with the Stone Temple Pilots name and that they would be unlikely to achieve any commercial success without it, the other members secretly met on numerous occasions ... to wrongfully expel Weiland from the band and seize for themselves the valuable Stone Temple Pilots name and associated goodwill," the suit added.

The singer had no additional comment, his spokesman said.

The remaining members of the band have played recent concerts under the Stone Temple Pilots name with new singer Chester Bennington, who is also the frontman of rock group Linkin Park.

The Stone Temple Pilots scored hits with guitar-heavy songs like Plush in 1993 and Interstate Love Song the following year. They disbanded in 2003 and reformed in 2008.

LeAnn Rimes bares 'emotional truth' on new album

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:41 PM PDT

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - No subject is taboo for country singer LeAnn Rimes as she digs deep into her soul on her new album Spitfire.

The 30-year-old Grammy Award winner and former child star who had a hit song at age 13, said she wrote the deepest lyrics she has ever written on the album.

Some of the songs are about her relationship with husband, actor Eddie Cibrian. Their affair, which began more than four years ago while they were both married to other people, caused a scandal that was played out in tabloid magazines.

Other songs are about dealing with difficult times.

"There is every emotion a human being could experience on this record. I'm most proud that I can evoke these emotions in everyone," Rimes (pic) told Reuters.

"After 20 years of making music, it's a completely different place to be singing and writing from," she said. "These songs are my emotional truth."

In the title track, Rimes suggests if she could "untie" her tongue she would "use it like a whip, and watch you run," and refuses to get stuck in the "muck and mire" of "a dirty little liar." she writes: "You make me want to spit fire."

In What Have I Done, with harmonies provided by bluegrass great Alison Krauss, a woman wonders what she has done and asks for understanding from her "first love, but not her last."

"I wrote What Have I Done about five years ago, before everything happened," Rimes said, in a reference to Cibrian, who starred in TV series CSI: Miami.

"I wrote it about a friend and her relationship, but I think I was really writing it about myself. Another song, Borrowed, was really the anchor for how the rest of the album unfolded."

Borrowed is written from the perspective of a woman who begs her lover to hold her tight because she knows he is only borrowed for the brief moments they have together.

WEATHERING HARD TIMES

Rimes said because Cibrian is also in the entertainment business he understands where she is coming from and is very supportive of her endeavors.

"It's amazing to have that support and understanding of what it is to tell a story and be an artist, and he's never said, 'You can't say that," she said.

The singer, who is stepmother to Cibrian's sons, Mason, 10, and Jake, 6, admits it takes effort to make it all work. The boys spend half their time with their mother, Brandi Glanville, who stars in the TV show The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.

"It's not easy to go back and forth between two homes," she explained. "The way our relationship has unfolded has been really beautiful. We go through definite moments of ups and downs, as any blended family would, but they are very loving kids."

While performing the songs in concert, Rimes, who sought treatment for anxiety and stress last year, said she has found kindred spirits and fans who have thanked her for having the courage to write about things they have gone through themselves.

"I realized that just because I'm in the public eye and people are writing about it all the time as though I'm the only one, I'm not," Rimes said. "I'm human, like everybody else."

She has no regrets about writing such personal songs, she said.

"For the last four-and-a-half years people have written whatever they wanted to in order to sell magazines. It was completely the opposite of what I was really living. My life in the tabloids was far worse than anything I've ever lived," she explained.

Listening to the new album is "almost like being a fly on the wall for this conversation I'm having with myself," Rimes said. She expressed hope that fans will understand she is human and a woman who had a moment of confusion on so many different levels, and went on to write about it.

"On the other side of it I'm happy, still confused at times, but I am real. I hope now people can see the reality in my music and the humanity that's there, very much in the forefront on this record. I hope to always write from this place," she said.

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Rabu, 5 Jun 2013

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