Noah Weiland Honors Past due Father Scott With Stone Temple Pilots Duvet

Noah Weiland, the son of overdue Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, has paid tribute to his father with a canopy of 1993’s “Intercourse Kind Factor.”

Launched on Thursday (Feb. 20), the haunting rendition of the monitor sees Noah providing up a devoted take at the unique, albeit with out the offended vocals that Scott incorporated over 30 years in the past. That includes manufacturing and extra guitar from Spencer Carr Reed, the quilt additionally comes accompanied through a video which sees Noah making his method all over Sherman Oaks, CA along a Chucky doll which represents the elder Weiland.

The video options subtitles which see Noah reflecting at the lack of his father. “There used to be such a lot I sought after to inform him, like how a lot has modified on Earth with out him,” one caption reads, whilst a last caption provides, “I want I may just dream about you endlessly. However it’s adequate…as a result of for now I can lift for your legacy.”

“Filmed this a couple of dream I had way back about seeing my father once more,” Noah wrote in regards to the monitor on social media. “It’s onerous for me to stick within the second every so often, however I check out.”

Scott Weiland passed on to the great beyond in December 2015 on the age of 48, with an post-mortem later stating his reason behind demise as an unintended overdose of cocaine, ethanol and methylenedioxyamphetamine. Scott first rose to popularity within the ’90s because the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots, who formally shaped in 1989 as Mighty Joe Younger.

The band’s debut album, Core, used to be launched in September 1992, peaking at No. 3 at the Billboard 200. “Intercourse Kind Factor” used to be issued as its lead unmarried in early 1993, and would height at No. 23 at the Album Rock Tracks (now referred to as the Mainstream Rock) chart. 2d unmarried “Plush” would additionally win them a Grammy Award for easiest onerous rock efficiency.

Stone Temple Pilots would break up in 2003 after liberating 5 albums (together with 1994’s chart-topping Crimson), even though would reunite in 2008 and unlock a self-titled file in 2010. Scott Weiland could be fired from the band in 2013, with Linkin Park‘s Chester Bennington taking up as lead vocalist till 2015.

In 2016, the band introduced a seek for a brand new vocalist, in the end saying Jeff Gutt as their new singer in November 2017. The band have since launched two studio albums with Gutt, with their most up-to-date being 2020’s Perdida.

That very same 12 months, it used to be printed that Noah Weiland, along side the sons of Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, had shaped a band referred to as Suspect208, even though the crowd would most effective remaining for a 12 months ahead of splitting.

In April 2024, Noah printed he used to be being “blackmailed” through an unnamed particular person who demanded $2,000 to chorus from leaking a demo titled “Time Will Inform”, which featured previously-unreleased vocals from Scott. Noah as an alternative made up our minds to complete the music with Reed, telling Rolling Stone the theory used to be to offer the monitor as a familial collaboration.

“Because of the truth that no one who ‘represents’ my dad if truth be told cares to offer the enthusiasts new unheard tune, let by myself stay his identify alive within the first position, my pal Spencer Carr Reed and I made up our minds to show it right into a extra fashionable sounding music as though he used to be nonetheless alive and simply made up our minds to hop on one in all my songs,” Noah defined on the time. “That used to be the concept that in the back of it.”