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"{{tmz_video_0}}&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"022813_weiland_npg\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/02/28/022813-weiland-npg-1.jpg\" style=\"display: none;\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stone Temple Pilots&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160;LIED about firing singer &lt;strong&gt;Scott Weiland&lt;/strong&gt; as a publicity stunt ... in order to hype an upcoming concert tour ... so says Weiland, who insists the band is still 100% together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weiland said, \"STP is not broken up. It's a whole thing to try to boost ticket sales.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the way Weiland explains it sounds like he and the rest of STP don't really communicate ... and they used the Weiland \"firing\" to boost ticket sales for a tour they were organizing WITHOUT him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which begs the question ... why is Scott so sure he's not out of the band? He says it's because there's a clause in the band's contract that forbids the members from using the name STP on another group.&amp;#160;In other words, if Scott's out ... STP ceases to exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, Weiland says he has no idea what the other guys were thinking -- but when asked if he's still leading the band, he replied smugly, \"I started it.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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