Noah Weiland, the son of late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, has paid tribute to his father with a canopy of 1993’s “Intercourse Sort Factor.”
Launched on Thursday (Feb. 20), the haunting rendition of the monitor sees Noah providing up a devoted tackle the unique, albeit with out the indignant vocals that Scott included over 30 years in the past. That includes manufacturing and extra guitar from Spencer Carr Reed, the quilt additionally comes accompanied by a video which sees Noah making his means all through Sherman Oaks, CA alongside a Chucky doll which represents the elder Weiland.
The video options subtitles which see Noah reflecting on the lack of his father. “There was a lot I needed to inform him, like how a lot has modified on Earth with out him,” one caption reads, whereas a remaining caption provides, “I want I might dream about you eternally. However it’s okay…as a result of for now I’ll carry in 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 exhausting for me to remain within the second typically, however I attempt.”
Scott Weiland handed away in December 2015 on the age of 48, with an post-mortem later declaring his reason behind loss of life as an unintentional overdose of cocaine, ethanol and methylenedioxyamphetamine. Scott first rose to fame within the ’90s because the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots, who formally fashioned in 1989 as Mighty Joe Younger.
The band’s debut album, Core, was launched in September 1992, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. “Intercourse Sort Factor” was issued as its lead single in early 1993, and would peak at No. 23 on the Album Rock Tracks (now known as the Mainstream Rock) chart. Second single “Plush” would additionally win them a Grammy Award for finest exhausting rock efficiency.
Stone Temple Pilots would break up in 2003 after releasing 5 albums (together with 1994’s chart-topping Purple), although would reunite in 2008 and launch a self-titled document 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 launched a seek for a brand new vocalist, finally asserting 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 was revealed that Noah Weiland, together with the sons of Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, had fashioned a band known as Suspect208, although the group would solely final for a 12 months earlier than splitting.
In April 2024, Noah revealed he was being “blackmailed” by 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 determined to complete the tune with Reed, telling Rolling Stone the concept was to current the monitor as a familial collaboration.
“As a result of the truth that no one who ‘represents’ my dad really cares to offer the followers new unheard music, not to mention maintain his identify alive within the first place, my buddy Spencer Carr Reed and I made a decision to show it right into a extra trendy sounding tune as if he was nonetheless alive and simply determined to hop on one in every of my songs,” Noah defined on the time. “That was the idea behind it.”
