Few bands had such a rollercoaster career as Stone Temple Pilots, much of it due to the erractic behaviour of mercurial frontman Scott Weiland, who died in 2015. In 2013, following yet another split with Weiland, the band enlisted a surprise replacement: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who appeared on that year’s High Rise EP. On the eve of the EP’s release, Classic Rock talked to the band and Bennington – who passed away in 2017 - about rebooting one of alternative rock’s biggest bands.
