He ain't gonna is right. Less people are gonna shell out for Happy in Galoshes than did for 12 Bar Blues, a decent album with virtually no sales. Weiland's a hasbeen now. VR was his last shot and he blew it. STP can play as many half-filled theaters and casinos as they want, but the interest outside of their hardcore fanbase just isn't there. His solo output has always and will continue to translate into even less interest. If he pushed back his album's release date, consider it more a marketing gimmick than any sort of actual strategy. Maybe he'd buy himself some press, igniting another imaginary feud with one of rock's most notorious (and greatest) frontmen on the eve of that guy's own make-or-break, mythic release. Too many people are in rehab now for it to actually get another single of his off the ground this time. Maybe he should just go sip some more orange juice instead.

Saikin wrote:

A List does not equal 'amazing'.

Timbaland is considered an "A list" producer, and his latest production, Chris Cornell's Scream, is a huge pile of shit. 

Your argument doesn't hold water.

Well, to be fair, while his work with OneRepublic and a couple of others I can't remember right now (v. v. late here) was good, Beltrami is higher rated and more experienced than Timberland.  Plus they are two different kinds of producers.  Beltrami specialises in movies, for instance, and not so much music - as evident in (the 'Ask yourself...' section of) 'Prostitute', and why this is more an 'out the ordinary' (although sessions with GN'R would be out the ordinary for most people, even music veterans, LOL!) step for him, IIRC.  Plus, Marco Beltrami has/had come in to do a few select tracks, not an entire album by a (this is of Cornell>) good but, to be honest, less epic (in name), well-known (certainly outside NA), revered, and mythical (though he is of course in his own name but again not really outside NA to my knowledge) artist.