“And I think he did all six songs that first day. “The first time, we went to Robert’s house and we brought Jeff down and he was just singing these melodies,” Dean recalls. To use a baseball analogy, we kept throwing fastballs at him and he just kept hitting ’em. “And Jeff was taking the new songs and coming up with stuff right away. “Most of the time we’ve spent together has been in writing new material,” Kretz says. The band will be more than just a nostalgia act. I still feel a little Mark Wahlberg–ish.” I mean, you have dreams about things like this. So walking in on that first day, it was crazy. I was really studying singers at the time and Scott was at the top of the list. “I was probably 16 or 17 when Core came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. Gutt shared his thoughts about the band with Rolling Stone: And the songs we gave people had a really big range, from something like ‘Interstate Love Song,’ which is not a hard-hitting one to sing, to things like ‘Dead & Bloated.'” “Three people a day, seven songs with each guy. “We did a week of auditions over at Studio 606 in the Valley,” Kretz says. After paring down the initial 15,000 or so submissions to under 50 hopefuls, the band set up shop at a recording and rehearsal studio and brought in each candidate to jam on some STP tunes. But first, there was the audition process. Just a few months later, Gutt was the new singer of Stone Temple Pilots. He’s a local guy.’ And Robert called me the next morning and was like, ‘Hey, man …'” But Robert happened to be playing a gig with the Hollywood Vampires in Michigan and somebody came backstage after the show and approached him and said, ‘You should check this guy out. He continues, “Jeff wasn’t even part of the singer submissions. And that was just over a year ago – September of 2016.” “He was one of the last guys we saw, in the last two days of auditions. Dean DeLeo explains how the band found Gutt:
And that’s really kind of out of line.Ī bit of misdirection ahead of the big announcement? Who knows. All rubbish.ĭean DeLeo: There’s been a lot of, it’s been an opportunity for some people to really do some inappropriate self-promotion, is what I should say. Robert DeLeo: Rubbish, rubbish, all rubbish. Were you guys aware of all those rumors that were swirling? Kim: There were tons of rumors about STP’s new lead singer, like some guy who was on American Idol or something, a Pilipino kid.
“They haven’t made a decision yet.”Īnd curiously, just a few weeks ago, band members and brothers Dean and Robert Deleo declared the rumors regarding hiring a singing show alum as their lead singer “rubbish.” Via “The band has been rehearsing with several singers over the past few weeks,” STP’s rep said in a statement. Just as soon as the rumors broke last year, reps for the band batted them down. Scott’s replacement, Linkin’ Park’s Chester Bennington died earlier this year. That news came nearly a year after the death of former Stone Temple Pilots frontman, Scott Weiland. Nearly a year ago, Entertainment Tonight reported a rumor that Gutt was joining the band. He was cut during the bootcamp round of that competition, but returned the following year. Jeff was mentored by Kelly Rowland during his X Factor USA run in 2013, though he continuously impressed judges Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato and Paulina Rubio with his covers of songs like “Creep,” “Dream On,” and “Hallelujah.” The latter, he also performed one year earlier in a season two audition. Gutt competed on two season of the X Factor US. For fans of competition reality shows, that name should ring a bell.
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