Stone Temple Pilots and Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington Firing it UP in the studio while Scott Weiland is on … well, he’s gone.  Yes, it’s been a while since you’ve seen a post on soddermusic.com reporting on that which dwells outside the realm of Sodder-dom, but every once in a while I still get the itch that begs for a good scratching.

According to LoudWire.com Bennington took the stage at KROQ’s 2013 Weenie Roast alongside the 3 Bad-Ass STP members as they proceeded to rein rock down from the heavens upon a delighted and unexpected crowd.  I personally think it ranks high on the awesometer (ah-s-om-eter : an instrument devised to measure the overall awesomeness of a particular area or event) to have Bennington rock alongside that of STP and I’m not alone.  Dean DeLeo (STP Guitarist) was quoted as follows: “Chester has a one-of-a-kind voice that we’ve admired for a long time. We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together. We managed to find the time to record a song and we’re all really happy with the result.” (LoudWire.com).

It’s also been a life long dream of Chester’s to step into the position with STP as he admitted, “I’ve loved STP since I was 13 years old and they’ve had a huge influence on me. When the opportunity came up to do something creative with them, I jumped at the chance. The guys in Linkin Park have been incredibly supportive of me undertaking this project while I’ve continued to work on new music with LP.” (LoudWire.com)

Go ahead and take a gander at the video below to see Bennington and STP in the studio, which is where Sodder will be coming July 8th (had to trhough that in):