STP Tour Marred With Late Starts, Incoherent Stage Banter

For a while on Saturday Night, it seemed as if the Stone Temple Pilots' performance at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ wasn't going to happen. But when the band finally took the stage at 10:30 -- more than an hour late -- fans had to continue wondering what the hell is up with Scott Weiland?

Headlining K-ROCK's 'Return of the Rock' gig alongside Filter and Ashes Divide, disapproving boos let the troubled singer know they didn't appreciate the holdup while Weiland was on lockdown in his trailer. "Sometimes you make crazy choices," the ousted Velvet Revolver frontman said once he hit the stage, adding, "I apologize for..."

"Apology accepted, brother," STP's Robert DeLeo interjected, as the show carried forth with the same incoherent stage banter and lyrical misfires have been the norm for the singer during the reunion tour's past two weeks. Although the band had a similar delayed start during its Mohegan Sun Casino show last week in Connecticut, the group was just ten minutes late when it rocked Boston's Tweeter Center Sunday night.