Stone Temple Pilots Band Chronology

1987 - Bassist Robert DeLeo meets Scott Weiland at a Black Flag show in Long Beach. They decide to form a band, Swing, back at home in San Diego. Swing also includes drummer Eric Kretz and guitarist Corey Hicock. They later replace Hicock with Robert's brother Dean on guitar. They change the band name to Mighty Joe Young. Dean DeLeo has been quoted saying "I refused to be in a band called 'Swing'."

1990 - The band plays as many live shows as they can, building their reputation and recording various demo songs.

1992 - The band is signed to Atlantic Records on the strength of its demos and live reputation. When their debut record and artwork were already done, they find out there is another artist with the same name and they have to come up with a new band name. They eventually settle on "Stone Temple Pilots". Come September they release their debut, "Core," featuring the smash hit "Plush." Soon they are opening for Rage Against the Machine and Megadeth.

1994 - STP is voted both best new band (by readers) and worst band (by critics) in the annual Rolling Stone music awards issue. Meanwhile, they pick up their first American Music Award and first Grammy nomination. Their second album, "Purple," debuts at No. 1. They open for the Rolling Stones. Weiland marries Jannina Castenada. The future is blindingly bright.

1995 - And then the fall begins. In May, Weiland is arrested for heroin and cocaine possession outside a Pasadena motel. The band starts to splinter, as Weiland takes up with a side project, the Magnificent Bastards, who contribute cuts to a John Lennon tribute and the "Tank Girl" soundtrack. Aimless after a stint in rehab, he regroups with STP at year's end for a new album.

1996 - Days after "Tiny Music: Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop" is released in March, free shows in New York, Chicago and L.A. are scrubbed, as Weiland is, according to a band statement, "unable to rehearse or appear ... due to his dependency on drugs." STP also loses its spot as opening act for Kiss' summer tour. At the end of the year, Weiland is ordered to spend a week in jail and six months in a drug rehab center under around-the-clock supervision.

1998 - With STP seemingly dead, Weiland records a critically lambasted solo album, "12 Bar Blues," while Kretz and the DeLeos hire a new vocalist and form Talk Show. Both efforts do not last long. During the summer, as Scott has just begun a solo tour, he is busted twice for heroin - first in Pasadena, then in New York. He goes on the lam and has a $250,000 warrant issued for his arrest. He misses his court dates but avoids two years in prison by checking into rehab.

1999 - Surprisingly at the time - though not so surprisingly in retrospect - STP reunites and creates the solid return "No. 4," only to see Weiland stumble again. He spends five days in jail at the start of the year for violating probation, then goes to Impact, a rehab clinic. But in April, he is discharged for failing to comply with the program. In July, he is hospitalized for a heroin overdose. And then the back-and-forth pattern is halted: This time he gets a year in prison health wards for probation violation.

2000 - Weiland is released five months early - and the comeback begins. The band tapes an episode of "Storytellers." In May, having divorced Castenada, a clean and sober Weiland marries model Mary Forsberg. Sleeper single "Sour Girl" clicks with both MTV and VH1 crowds. They kill at KROQ's Weenie Roast extravaganza at Edison International Field of Anaheim. A summer tour in which they upstage the Red Hot Chili Peppers proves that was no fluke. The Return of the Rock Tour, also featuring Godsmack and Disturbed, follows. Nov. 19: Noah Mercer Weiland is born.

2001 - Refueled, STP releases their fifth album, "Shangri-La-Dee-Da," and embarks on the Family Values Tour with Staind and Linkin Park.

2002 - STP keep touring in support of "Shangri-La-Dee-Da until the fall. Without promotional backup from their label, who want the band to release a Greatest Hits album, the band does not make any plans for new releases. They record several songs in the springtime, among which a track called "All In The Suit That You Wear". It is rumoured to be on the Spiderman soundtrack, but only under the condition that it will be the lead single. When it became clear that this would not be the case, the song was pulled from the OST entirely. The year ends somewhat unclear. The band's tour comes to an end on October 30 in the Woodlands, TX and Scott has a solo appearance for MAP on November 7. After that there's no news on STP, and no events scheduled.

2003 - In May 2003 rumours are going around about Scott working with former Guns N' Roses-members Slash, Duff and Matt Sorum. Eventually he appears on the 'Italian Job' and 'Hulk' soundtracks with them and guitarist Dave Kushner. Not much later, the newly-formed band announce that Scott has officially joined their lineup. They change their name from 'Reloaded' to 'Velvet Revolver' in June, and play their first show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles two weeks later.

Robert and Dean DeLeo produce Alien Ant Farm's album 'Truant' later that year, while Velvet Revolver are headed into the studio as well, to record their debut album, 'Contraband'. Eric Kretz is working on his L.A. studio: Bomb Shelter Studios.

2004 - Velvet Revolver start touring in support of 'Contraband', which was released in June 2004. They tour the US and Europe extensively. There's no news to report on the DeLeo brothers or Eric Kretz, who is producing the bands Manmade God and Spiralarms in his studio.

2005 - Eric Kretz joins the band Spiralarms, which he had been recording and producing, as a full-time member. Velvet Revolver tour the UK, then Australia, Japan, the US and Europe again. Strong rumours are going around that Robert and Dean DeLeo have joined Filter frontman Richard Patrick and drummer Ray Luzier in the studio, and on September 28 they announce their band name 'Army Of Anyone'.

2006 - Army Of Anyone release their self-titled debut and tour in support of it. Meanwhile, Scott tours with Velvet Revolver and prepares to write an autobiography. He also works steadily on a new solo album.

2007 - Scott releases a new album with Velvet Revolver, called 'Libertad'. They tour the world in support of it, while Army Of Anyone go on hiatus fairly quickly after their first tour, with frontman Richard Patrick announcing that he's working on new Filter material.

2008 - Stone Temple Pilots announce and play a 65+ date tour for the summer after Scott Weiland announces his departure from Velvet Revolver in March. STP play their first show in 5,5 years at the Harry Houdini Mansion in Los Angeles on April 7th. Scott Weiland plans to release his second solo album "Happy In Galoshes" on November 25.

Additional sources: 'The Encyclopedia of Rock Stars,' Allstar news reports, Orange County Register.