Stone Temple Pilots' Jeff Gutt Names One Song That He Won't Sing With STP

No one who's really thinking critically would diminish the mammoth task Stone Temple Pilots' frontman Jeff Gutt took on by succeeding Scott Weiland in the band. 

It's a position even STP bassist Robert DeLeo said he wouldn't want to be in due to the line Gutt must tow each and every night between respecting the band's legacy with Weiland and moving forward as its new frontman. 

Gutt was asked a recent radio interview whether anything from the band's catalog was "off limits." He replied that his new bandmates have been encouraging at every term, but there's one song that he doesn't think he has any business singing. 

"...I have a particular thing with 'Sour Girl,'" he said, "just because I feel it's written… it's a personal message, so I don't know… To me, that one's a little off limits. But other than that, I'm game."

"Sour Girl" was a rock radio hit for STP in 1999. Weiland wrote in his autobiography that the song was about his marriage to and divorce from his first wife, Janina Castaneda. 

Last November, Gutt was formally introduced as STP's new lead singer. In March, the band released its first new studio album in eight years, Stone Temple Pilots.   

"All those things led me down this path," Gutt told Talk Is Jericho in March of his many let-downs before getting the STP job. "It was like my life was tailor-made for this moment."

Gutt's bandmates have been effusive in their praise of their new frontman's grace and professionalism.

"Jeff just handled that the best out of everyone we met with," DeLeo added. "He knew where this was going...You've got to be on the same page as someone. We just finished up a record that we're all really proud of." 

STP is on tour now. Get all the dates here.  

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