I've been in total shock over this. When I saw it that next morning I thought it had to be a fucking joke. There's no way Chris would kill himself after all he'd been through and having seemingly made it through.

I've been listening to all of his work since it happened. One lyric in particular has stood out to me from Worried Moon. "If it all goes wrong, and I'm a heart without a home, maybe you can talk me down, from doing myself in." It seemed so much more innocent to me the other times I heard it. But ever since I have really heard the darkness underlying 90% of his stuff.

"I've got a long way to go, I'll be off in the morning, I hope but I don't know."

RIP.

Couldn't resist coming back here to post again....

I really can't believe this is happening. At least 3 members are confirmed now. I think we'd all like to know why Axl backed out of the Kimmel appearance. But it doesn't appear the reunion is off. I think there's quite a few out there that won't believe it until they walk on stage together.

Agreed.  To me it sounded bland.  It's not an album that I want to go back and re-listen to.  City of Evil seemed to be their peak.  Self-titled was pretty good, Nightmare had a couple good tracks on it.  But they've seemed to go downhill.

They still put on one hell of a live show however.

When he's focused and sober he is a great singer.  If only he could be like that every time on stage.

From hearing the details of both sides, it seems like he does have good grounds for a lawsuit as well.  They should have gone with a different name like they've done in the past.  Instead they get greedy and keep the STP name because it's a bigger draw.  But AoA and Talk Show were the band from STP with a different singer, each failed.  So who is the biggest draw in the band? Scott solo seems to do better than what TS or AoA did.

THANK YOU!  Someone around here has some sense.

Out of Time is not an STP song, period.  It sounds more like Talk Show or Army of Anyone (both sub-par bands in comparison to STP).  It sounds bland and uninspired compared to their other stuff. 

Like it or not, Scott was a huge part of STP.  He wrote the melodies and lyrics to (if I'm not mistaken) every song they ever released.  He was a huge part of their music.  He's also the most well known and recognizable person in the band. 

Had they chose to change their name and form a band with Chester, I would have supported it even though I don't like the singer, like I did with Army of Anyone.  But to call themselves STP, it's a disgrace to their fans. 

A lot of people are bringing up the GNR thing and calling anyone a hypocrite who can't support them getting a new singer and calling themselves STP.  But these people are missing one very important detail.  So it's worked for Van Halen, and Black Sabbath, and for GNR and a lot of people are fine with those bands now.  But NONE of those bands spent 20 years solidifying their legacy with the same 4 people in the band, only to turn around and fire the most well known person in the band and hire another singer and try to call themselves the same thing.  Every other band did a shakeup like that much earlier in their career.  That is a very important distinction. 

And for them to now sue him and say that he can't call himself a former member of STP or play any of their songs live?  Fuck them.  They didn't pull this shit any other time that he or even VR played STP songs live, but now suddenly they get money hungry and want to carry on with someone else, NOW it's not okay for him to play songs he helped write live.  I will not be supporting this band.