Despite reports that the band had begun work on a sixth studio album in 2002, the band went quiet by the end of that year after reports of an altercation between Dean DeLeo and Weiland after the last show of Stone Temple Pilots’ fall 2002 tour. As a capstone to the band’s career, Atlantic Records released a greatest hits album, Thank You , with a bonus DVD of archive material and music videos, in 2003. Five days after Thank You was released, the DeLeo brothers revealed in an interview with Guitar One that the band was officially done. Following the band’s dissolution, Weiland was recruited to join Velvet Revolver —a successful supergroup —where they released two albums, Contraband in 2004 and Libertad in 2007 before breaking up in 2008. Likewise, the DeLeo brothers formed the supergroup Army of Anyone with vocalist Richard Patrick of the industrial rock band Filter and session drummer Ray Luzier . The band released its self-titled album in 2006 before going on “indefinite hiatus” in 2007. Eric Kretz kept a lower profile during this time, operating his own studio, Bomb Shelter Studios, and drumming for the band Spiralarms.
Altercation between Dean and Weiland
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