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Scott Weiland says Stone Temple Pilots can't kick him out, calls his firing a publicity stunt

by Tyler Munro

Scott Weiland seemed pretty surprised when he read he’d been kicked out of Stone Temple Pilots, ignoring their obvious reasons for doing so to proclaim that they couldn’t kick him out of his own band.

Yesterday, the denial got stronger. TMZ caught up with Weiland in an airport while he was on his way to start his bizarre Purple at the Core tour (throughout which he’ll play, and likely butcher, a cadre of early Stone Temple Pilot songs), where the former/current frontman says the entire thing is a publicity stunt.

“It’s a whole thing to just try to boost ticket sales,” he said, adding that they’re working on a tour without him.

Still, he swears he hasn’t been kicked out, referencing a clause in the band’s contract that forbids them from performing without him. As to whether that’s true we can’t say, but even if this is just the ongoing machinations of a crazy person, we can at least tell that Weiland believes it. That’s a start.