that really is bollocks of the highest order, isn't it.

...one note or one word of his music. Wouldn't recognise him if he passed me in the street. Agree with Patrick: utter nonsense...

..when you consider that they started life as Shirley Temple's Pussy, but changed it when they realised it might affect record sales.

.double post.

in their use of quotes. I suspect the original RS quote said;

"On the evidence of this book, Weiland seems to believe he is the voice of a generation and one of the towering figures in the history of rock. This, of course, is bollocks of the highest order"

just after Christmas where they will claim Back to the Planet or Ultrasound are the best new band in Britain...

All this proves is that Rolling Stone is crap. The magazine has an amazing political writer but its music coverage is abysmal and incredibly superficial and has been for years.

I was just at the book store picking up copies of Word and Q Magazine. Of course both issues were at least a month or two old because that's how long it takes them to arrive in the states. I could also have bought Mojo and Uncut (also a month or two old). I would take any of those four magazines before I'd waste my money on Rolling Stone -- the People magazine of the American music business. I hope you folks realize how lucky you are to have so many good-to-great choices when it comes to music writing.

...looks like he wants to look like Joe Ramone seems to wind up pontificating in lots of music documentaries. Not everyone seems yet to have spotted that the emperor has long been bereft of clothing.

Junkie of a generation, more like.

They love their slacker rock icons in America, but I suppose it's not much different to us having a sneaking admiration for the antics of Peter Doherty

I remember liking - Purple - the Stone Temple Pilots' second album. It was a commercialisation of grunge, released around the time that interest in the genre was starting to wane, but it was a good record that sold in large quantities, probably more-so in the States than in the UK.

Weiland struck me as a man born in the right place at the right time, whose great success was somewhat out of scale with his medium-size talent. He's made some good music which I'm sure meant a lot to some people. To call him "The voice of a generation and one of the towering figures in the history of rock" is so absurd that it's tempting to view it as snide 'f**k you' by the editorial staff at Rolling Stone in payment for some past transgression by the singer.

Taken at face value it smacks of desperation from the publication itself and also from Weiland, whose next savvy career-extending move should surely be to secure a residency in Las Vegas, possibly in a song-based confessional show about his life.

"The ropiest voice of his generation and a peripheral figure in the history of grunge" - Spartacus Mills

This is still really good though:

(Clip is Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots)