Stone Temple Pilots

lol 90s

"Hickory Dichotomy"! song title of the year.

http://www.jocknroll.co.uk/images/souphotwired.jpg

i quite like the single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS590AkE6c

A few edits away from a great Onion article.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stone-temple-pilots-fire-scott-weiland-20130227

it would be really fun to throw rocks at Scott Weiland.

loooool their new singer is Chester Bennington: http://downloads.radio.com/stone-temple-pilots/

yessss i love when microgenerational distinctions are blurred in the name of classic rock

thanks to the field behind them it also looks like a photo for an 4-piece REM "plays Out of Time" reunion

with bennington gradually revealing him as another hard rock putz I finally got around to seeing how he joined a group of diverse weirdos like linkin park, and yup, he got an audition with them through a VP at Zomba

revealing himself, and i found that on wikipedia, didnt mean to make it sound like i was investigating deeply

haha. yeah the fact that Angry Timberlake was added to the lineup not long before they blew up fueled a lot of 'nu metal boy band' type accusations in the early days.

rob delaney ‏@robdelaney 3m
Which is worse? Your wife walking in on you fucking a meatloaf with a picture of her sister’s face taped to it, or the Stone Temple Pilots?

St(arts With) One Temple Pilots

Bring back Dave Coutts

Scott Weiland's totally gonna release a solo album as 'Talk Show' isn't he

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TS: Sublime with Rome vs. Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington

Jesus, the new song's ghastly.

http://i.imgur.com/zcjgEze.png

aw that's sad. first stp album was a big deal to me when i was like 13

pour one out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UOC0C0x8Q

no fucking way. damn, that's pretty sad.

i think the first concert i ever went to without my parents might have been an STP show (on a bill put together by a local radio station, with asphalt ballet and electric love hogs)

heheheh this was the logo of the radio station that championed these guys

http://www.lchr.org/a/24/6r/kioz1021.jpg

I saw them once with Butthole Surfers and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy opening. After Gibby takes the stage, Weiland's skinny-ass shimmying seems a little quaint. They were fun, though.

this was sort of the band I got into because my alt rock radio whore friend forced his tastes on me and I acted like his lapdog. but then truly grew to appreciate their stuff.

sad...no deets yet on how but also not incredibly surprised it happened before his 50s.

RIP

Fantastic Singles Band. Surprising he lasted this long. There was a video circulating of him and his solo band from about a year ago doing a club gig down in Victoria or Corpus Christi Tx, where they're attempting to perform "Wicked Garden" (iirc) for the first time on stage, and it even comes off like it's Weiland's first time doing it too--misses notes, lyrics, just fumbles his way through it, earning requisite boos--and it's like, wow, if doing a club gig in a moderate-sized Gulf Coast city wasn't bad enough...RIP

Aw man super sad, dude struggled for so long. RIP

Purple is one of my all time favorite albums.

"If you should die before me
ask if you can bring a friend
pick a flower, hold your breath
and drift away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L35vA9-DZl4

Sad :c

this sucks a lot

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-me-scott-weiland-dies-20151203-story.html

He put up a good fight, longer than many have.

Wow -- 48 is shockingly young, which makes it all the more sad to think about all the young musicians from the early '90s who we've been without for the past 20 years.

STP had some great songs. Like them or not, they were part of that whole thing. RIP.

yeah, i was gonna revive this thread -- i'm glad i'm not the only one that felt something about this.

STP were at their peak when i was about 11-years-old. i always liked them. i have fond memories of them.

i'm definitely willing to argue that the guy contributed something to the world; as a 90s kid, his catchy grunge pop/rock songs/singles are irresistible to me, then and now.

he was only 48. damn.

RIP

it's really cool that he used to wear dresses on stage, in the 90s.

I've been playing my '90s alt playlist on shuffle this morning and STP's "Creep" had literally just played before I read this news. "Interstate Love Song" is one of the best singles of the '90s, Purple is honestly a great rock album, and the debut and Tiny Music have their moments. RIP.

did he ever clean up? i mean this news would suggest not, but i hadn't heard any arrest/OD type stories in years

there was that performance just earlier this year -- April -- where he was visibly high and it went semi-viral and his camp tried to spin it as "he couldn't hear the monitors." I had a friend who was really bummed about how people were laughing at the footage whose clear import was "this guy is so far gone and no-one around him is able to stop him or brave enough to say 'I won't be party to this'"

I guess he at least went out still performing and doing what he loved. The comparisons to Layne Staley in the RIP thread reminded me of the awful stories of Staley basically withering away in isolation during his final days.

I interviewed him eleven years ago, when he was with Velvet Revolver, I think he was clean then, and talked a lot about how much he loved his family and would stay clean for them. But I have interviewed a lot of dudes with substance issues and never met anyone so clearly locked in on destroying himself as Weiland. I'm really sad about this news, but not surprised.

sad stuff. Purple and Tiny Music have so many great songs.

he cleaned up briefly around shangri la dee da which is largely what that record is about. some of the songs about addiction ("transmissions from a lonely room," "bi-polar bear") are incredibly harrowing

i saw him a few years ago just after he got kicked out of stp and was putting out a christmas album. it was a v weird show. his voice and body were audibly and visibly calcified from years of addiction, but he was also super psyched to be there, performing jazzy versions of stone temple pilots singles.

Tiny Music holds up, for me at least, in ways the other STP albums don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWi4qWpS3GA

I used to love this song, so much, when I was 10-years-old. It used to make me feel funny.

i mean i know i'll never convince anyone to listen to an album called shangri la dee da but I was obsessed with that record in high school and think it's maybe their best. but spent so much time with it in a really formative year of my life that i don't even trust my own opinion there lol

Even as a 12- and 13-year-old, I knew that STP weren't as important as Nirvana/Pearl Jam/the Pumpkins in that whole "alternative" world, but damn those first two records were a great addition to it.

I always had the feeling they were interlopers who wandered in from the wrong scene (and I still kind of believe that), but they for damned sure could make a super solid greatest hits album.

their first record has 5 songs that I know purely from radio osmosis, that's quite the successful debut in a genre that had a ton of records that were only 1 or 2 songs deep