Stone Temple Pilots to Tour in 2018 With New Singer

Photo courtesy of Michelle Shiers

Stone Temple Pilots have been pretty quiet for a while, as they have been without a singer for some time now and their original singer Scott Weiland passed back in 2015. Now however, it seems they are gearing up to make a big comeback by going on tour next year with a brand new singer.

The singer is Jeff Gutt, who has been the front man for Dry Cell and also appeared on two seasons of the American reality TV series The X Factor as a contestant. The band so far has planned to appear at the annual Rock on the Range festival this May in Columbus, OH and have also just announced the first dates of a US tour that they will be embarking on early next year. Dates can be found below.

I decided to do some digging around on YouTube for any videos of Gutt. I found one of him playing the STP classic Plush unplugged (which I will link below). He DEFINITELY has the right voice to do these old songs. The problem I have though is that his voice is TOO right for those songs. What I mean is that he sounds pretty close to if not almost exactly like his predecessor. He still has qualities to his voice that are still his own, but the similarities are haunting.

Stone Temple Pilots 2018 U.S. Tour Dates:

March 2 – Santa Clarita, CA @ The Canyon
March 4 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory
March 8 – Pasadena, CA @ The Rose
March 9 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
March 10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee
March 12 – San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
March 13 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
March 15 – Portland, OR @ Roseland
March 16 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
March 17 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station Ballroom
April 28 – Jacksonville, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
April 29 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Fort Rock Festival
May 20 – Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range