Stone Temple Pilots announced 65 date tour

Rock band Stone Temple Pilots, whose reunion has been overshadowed by singer Scott Weiland’s latest contretemps, will launch a 65-date tour of North American amphitheaters next month, the group’s representatives said on Thursday.

The announcement came two days after Weiland was ousted from Velvet Revolver, the all-star band he ditched Stone Temple Pilots for in 2003.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Velvet Revolver cited his “increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems.” Weiland angrily countered the next day that his bandmates were “discontents” engaged in a “a blatant and tired excuse to cover up the truth,” which was that the band had not been getting along for some time.