Scott Weiland to do eight days in jail

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland will spend eight days in jail after pleading no contest Monday (April 28th) to misdemeanor driving under the influence, E! Online reports. The charge stems from a November arrest after a minor fender-bender on a Los Angeles freeway. Weiland must serve his time by May 28th but is expect to turn himself much sooner than that, as Stone Temple Pilots is scheduled to kick off a reunion tour May 17th at the Rock on the Range Festival in Columbus, Ohio.

The singer also received four years' probation, was fined $2,000, and was ordered to take part in an 18-month alcohol program. He was potentially looking at a year behind bars for DUI with a prior conviction. At the time of his November arrest, Weiland had just finished a previous three-year-probation for a 2004 DUI arrested. He declined to take a chemical test after the November incident. He was booked and released after posting $40,000 bail, subsequently checking into a rehab facility in February.

The upcoming Stone Temple Pilot shows will be the band's first since 2002. Weiland has spent the past few years fronting Velvet Revolver, but split from the group earlier this month. The band claimed it dumped him for "his increasingly erratic onstage behavior and personal problems."

For his part, Weiland says that his former bandmates, former Guns N' Roses members bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum, and guitarist Slash, should reunite with Axl Rose and bring back the original Guns N' Roses lineup -- and says a reunion was closer than people knew.

In a new interview with Classic Rock Magazine, Weiland said, "I think they should get Guns N' Roses back together, to tell you the truth. I think that would be the greatest thing that they could do. I think the world would be very happy. If they could stop talking trash about Axl in the press. It almost happened. The pens were ready to sign. With the Greatest Hits, there was a possibility, but there was too much stuff being said. But it was a close call. I would love to see that happen, as a Guns N' Roses fan. I'd pay to see it."

In the same article however, McKagan denied Weiland's claim that a reunion was just a signature away. McKagan said of Weiland, "He got wind that our manager (had) been talking to Axl about bringing Axl over to what was our management company back then. And Scott freaked out that we were getting GNR back together and we weren't going to make the second (Velvet Revolver) record. I don't know where it came from -- there was no contract on the table or pens ready to sign. Maybe now he's convinced himself that's what happened."

Velvet Revolver is currently auditioning singers online to take over Weiland's spot in the band.
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