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Authors: Scott Weiland
Not Dead & Not For Sale
ALSO
by
DAVID RITZ
BIOGRAPHIES:
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:
Ray Charles:
Brother Ray
Smokey Robinson:
Inside My Life
B.B. King:
Blues All Around Me
Etta James:
Rage to Survive
The Neville Brothers:
The Brothers
Jerry Wexler:
Rhythm & the Blues
Aretha Franklin:
From These Roots
Walter Yetnikoff:
Howling at the Moon
Robert Guillaume:
Guillaume: A Life
Laila Ali:
Reach
Gary Sheffield:
Inside Power
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson:
Grace After Midnight
Lang Lang:
Journey of a Thousand Miles
Don Rickles:
Rickles’ Book
Don Rickles:
Rickles’ Letters
Leiber and Stoller:
Hound Dog
Paul Shaffer:
We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives
Grandmaster Flash:
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
Tavis Smiley:
What I Know for Sure
Cornel West:
Brother West
Archbishop Carl Bean:
I Was Born This Way
Natalie Cole:
Love Brought Me Back
Janet Jackson:
True You
NOVELS:
Search for Happiness
The Man Who Brought the Dodgers
Back to Brooklyn
Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat
Barbells and Saxophones
Family Blood
Take It Off! Take It All Off!
Passion Flowers
Sanctified Blues
(cowritten with Mable John)
Stay Out of the Kitchen!
(cowritten with Mable John)
Love Tornado
(cowritten with Mable John)
INSPIRATIONAL:
Messengers: Portraits of African American
Ministers, Evangelists, Gospel Singers,
and Other Messengers of “the Word”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weiland, Scott.
Not dead & not for sale / Scott Weiland with David Ritz. —1st Scribner hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. Weiland, Scott, 1967– 2. Rock musicians—United States—Biography. 3. Stone Temple Pilots (Musical group). I. Ritz, David. II. Title. III.
Title: Not dead and not for sale.
ML420.W357A3 2010
782.42166092—dc22 2010025147
[B]
ISBN 978-0-7432-9716-5
ISBN 978-1-4391-9997-8 (ebook)
All photographs are courtesy of the author unless noted otherwise.
“Fall To Pieces” © 2004; “For A Brother”; “The Last Fight”; “Mary Mary” © 2007 Chrysalis Music/Ready Set Go Publishing/Dracsorum Music/Pimp Music/DTK Music. By Scott Weiland/Matt Sorum/Duff McKagan/David Kushner/Saul Hudson. All Rights Administered by Chrysalis Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. International Copyright Secured. All other lyrics by Scott Weiland used by permission, courtesy of the author; Foxy Dead Girl Music; Triple Kauf Noplate; and Bug Music, Inc.
Content
A Tale of Two Fathers
A Tale of Two States
“Trippin as I’m Thinkin’” —from “Crackerman”
Former Movie Star Ronald Reagan is President of The United States
What the Fuck Does “Soi-Disant” Mean? (We really never knew. Fuck art, let’s fart.)
The Tale of the Pork Chop
New Kid in Town
Art School Girl
High as the Sun
Summer of Mary
Summer of Music
“I See the These are Lies to Come” —from “Plush”
Winter of our Discontent
Summer Kiss
Purple Wounds They Ease The Pain
“What’s Real What’s for Sale?” —from “Vasoline”
Breathing is The Hardest Thing—from “Interstate Love Song”
“Confusion Is My Illusion” —from “Unglued”
“I’m a Selfish Piece of Shit —from “Barbarella”
“Wanna Make a Rock Record?”
“The Painted Clown” —from “Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down”
“Falling Further with a Flaming Hand” —from “Pruno”
Positive Soul Regeneration
Noah
The Devil’s in the Sun
Lucy
I Was Back There
Wind and Rock
“Journal of Memories, Feeling Lonely Can’t; Breathe” —from “Fall to Pieces”
Tenacity
“I Wanna Know Why You Have to Go”
The Day We Lost Our Lives
The Smoking Gun
Parisian Nightmare
Shoes of a Dark Clown
Cleaning Jimmy Choos with Holy Water
Acknowledgments
I dedicate this book to my beautiful children, Noah and Lucy
NOT DEAD & NOT FOR SALE
The Earthling Papers
As a baby, I was a dead-ringer for my son, Noah. Here I am, already interested in music and, as you can see, a believer that one should own one’s own albums.
