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Scott Weiland and his mates in Stone Temple Pilots are on the hustle.

After leaving and/or getting kicked out of Velvet Revolver earlier this year, Weiland reunited with his first band, Stone Temple Pilots, the very next week.

Despite years of public infighting, a mere nod from Weiland seemed like all it took to get back together. What else were the DeLeo brothers really doing anyway?

The group announced a massive cash-grab tour, the band's first in almost a decade, and it stops at Casino del Sol's AVA on Wednesday.

Even in its prime, Stone Temple Pilots was never really a band overflowing with artistic integrity.

What it did have was a large selection of smash songs dating back to the debut album, 1992's "Core," including '90s standards like "Sex Type Thing," "Vasoline," "Big Empty," "Wicked Garden," "Plush" and "Interstate Love Song."

That all ended about or around the video for the 1999 song "Sour Girl," which featured Weiland doing some sort of smack-infused, writhing thai chi with giant, multicolored plush bunnies and actress Sarah Michelle Gellar.

The band always had serious internal issues — mostly because, in the '90s, Weiland became more and more interested in competing with late rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard for the most time in handcuffs.

This reunion summer tour hasn't exactly been all sunshine. Reviews have been mixed. And Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz are being sued by the group's label, Atlantic Records, for trying to get out of a record contract.

It also doesn't bode well that the night before the Tucson show, Stone Temple Pilots are playing Los Angeles: Weiland's home court for drug arrests.

We were told the band has stopped talking with the press for a while. So, scanning others' experiences, here's what you might be able to expect from the show:

A hit-filled, yet predictable set list: Reviews say the band is playing its big guns, but almost all of them have the group opening with "Big Empty."

Possible lag in stage-arrival time: At a show earlier this month in New Jersey, it took Stone Temple Pilots well over an hour to appear on stage after the act that preceded it, according to The New York Times.

Rock-star antics: According to radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony, backstage at the New Jersey show, Weiland was the cause of the show's delay, as he was holed up in his tour bus. Weiland eventually walked off the bus looking half-dead, according to Opie and Anthony, and then got into some arguments with his bandmates, who were calling him "Axl" on the way to the stage.

Bad show: "Short on basic chemistry, STP presently lacks the look and sound of a unity that's happy to be back together— let alone an act that's planning on making more music." — Chicago Tribune.

Good show: "They were dangerous, uncertain and at times very good. In those ways, little has changed for STP, and fans can take comfort knowing the Pilots are still flying their own course, unsure though it may be." — The Detroit News.