Weiland’s battle with the band

There’s nothing approaching an interband love song in the acrimonious missives shooting back and forth between Scott Weiland’s current and former bands.

After the singer’s announcement this week that he plans to revive Stone Temple Pilots for the group’s first tour in seven years, the other members of Velvet Revolver, the band he’s been fronting in recent years, declared their intention to keep going without him.

In turn, Weiland has dissed his Revolver cohorts as “a handful of discontents who at one time used to call themselves a gang,” according to Billboard. Velvet Revolver played its final show with Weiland on Tuesday in Amsterdam.

Weiland was responding to a statement from Velvet Revolver members Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner that said, “This band is all about its fans and its music and Scott Weiland isn’t 100% committed to either.”

STP’s North American tour is scheduled to open mid-May with a performance at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, part of a string of more than 60 shows running into November. Details are expected to be announced on Tuesday, a day after the band launches its new website.