Since the early 1990s, Scott Weiland has juggled his work with the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver with his intermittent work as a solo artist. His singing career repeatedly has been interrupted by issues with substance abuse, arrests, probation and jail time. With Velvet Revolver on hiatus and the Pilots firing him early this year, Weiland has taken to the road on his own.
His performance at Irving Plaza concert tonight proved he was better off with either of his previous groups. Although a fair amount of his repertoire was familiar from his past successes, his solo performance was flamboyant yet lame. When he crooned, as on David Bowie's "Jean Genie," he just did not have the voice for it live. When the band peformed some of Weiland's earlier grunge songs, they lacked the aggressive edge of that era. While the crowd enjoyed seeing him perform many of his radio staples, overall the evening was more like him singing karaoke than a restart of his career with a new band. The sole standout was his first encore, a strong reworking of the Doors' "Roadhouse Blues."
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