Photo: Tim MosenfelderScott Weiland has spoken. Nearly a week after his bandmates in Stone Temple Pilots took the stage for a surprise appearance at KROQ's 21st Annual Wennie Roast with a surprise new singer — Linkin Parks' Chester Bennington — the band's apparent former frontman has issued a statement.

"Like everybody else out there, I read about my band, Stone Temple Pilots, and their recent performance this past weekend with a new singer. To tell you the truth, it took me by surprise. And it hurt," Weiland writes. "But the band that played last weekend was not Stone Temple Pilots and it was wrong of them to present themselves as that."