You know how I reported that Scott Weiland hinted at a STP reunion while playing power bottom at an A-Rod gay sex for charity event in Miami? I may be remembering certain details of that story wrong, but I know the STP part is at least accurate. Turns out there may be something to that rumor, based on the way Duff McKagan is acting. As we all know, Scott plays front man to the everyone-but-Axl Guns and Roses reunion band, Velvet Revolver. They’ve put out a couple of records and are still touring the second and based on the not-so-hidden hostility in Duff’s comments about a recent gig at Sundance, things aren’t going well. Velvet Revolver was all set to play and Scott simply didn’t show, for whatever reason. The band took the stage like they were expecting Scott to roll in any second. They even tried to pull a Cab Callaway in the Blues Brothers and fill time by playing stuff they didn’t need Scott for, but ultimately he never showed, and based on what Duff has to say about it, I’m going to guess that he and his band mates weren’t buying the excuse. He says, "I sang 'It's So Easy' and 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and then we were panicking a bit over what to play so Matt Sorum got up and sang 'Patience', Matt's a great singer, he really is. Why wasn't Scott there? Scott missed his plane. Yeah, let's say that, Scott missed his plane…"

 

As far as STP reuniting, Duff says, "That’s the rumor that I've heard too. Good for him. You can't plan ahead in this thing and if you do, you're going to be disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I love playing live and we love this band, but I don't have expectations any more. This is a great band and I'm proud to be a part of it, but it doesn't define me anymore."

 

 

 

 

Cloverfield was a decent monster movie that did a fair bit of business in the theaters last weekend, setting the January box office record. Plenty of people have gripes about the movie, which I readily admit isn’t perfect, none has yet swayed me to the point of changing my opinion and joining the hate parade, possibly until now. I can look past the vapid, GAP models that serve as the movie’s protagonists, I can invent a scenario that allows said mindless pretty people to defeat the mini monsters with a mop handle where a platoon of heavily armed Marines is wiped out and I can even accept Hud’s utter lack of self preservation instinct every time he runs back to get the video camera that the rest of us would have thrown in the East River the first time the monster’s tail makes an appearance. But what I can’t accept is Fall Out Boy.

 

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz blogged recently that his band’s latest album served as inspiratu for Cloverfield. He claims that Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield, told him that he wrote most of movie based around Fall Out Boy’s latest album, Infinity on High. He goes on to say that a reference in the movie to “the takeover” is in fact a reference to the Fall Out Boy song “The Take Over, the Break’s Over.”