Doctors have started removing monitoring equipment from comatose Deftones star Chi Cheng's hospital room, convinced the bass player will recover from his November 3 car crash once he regains consciousness.The rocker's mother Jeanne has been blogging about her son's condition online, and she's happy with his slow but sure progress.

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has hinted he plans to give up touring after telling a Los Angeles publication he hates spending time away from his kids. The rocker, who was sacked as Velvet Revolver's singer in April, admits it upsets him when he misses a month of his kids' lives due to concert commitments.He tells L.A. Weekly, "It pains me when I am gone for a month, even, and I come back and there's differences - big positive amazing differences, beautiful differences - that I haven't been a part of because I've been working."