Riding high on the phenomenal success of their first two albums, STP again locked themselves away in a mansion, and set about deconstructing their sound. Scott Weiland’s reputation-cementing albums Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music… Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (Atlantic 1996) The band themselves demonstrated their growing ambition on the country-tinged Interstate Love Song and the muscular pop-metal of Silvergun Superman, both of which deviated from the grunge blueprint – although Meat Plow and Vasoline kept a boot in that camp. Apparently the drugs did work at this point, giving the singer the confidence to experiment with left-field rhythms and acoustic material. Weiland’s substance abuse problems began to surface on STP’s second album, right down to the fact that they recorded it at a mansion in Atlanta in homage to the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St.
The critics hated it and came down on the band like a ton of bricks, but that didn’t prevent it from selling millions of copies.īuy on Amazon Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (Atlantic, 1994) Sex Type Thing and Crackerman may have echoed what was happening in Seattle, but the likes of Plush, Creep and the jazzish Naked made it clear that here was a band who weren’t planning on spending the rest of their days playing minor chords at maximum volume. Released a year after Nirvana’s Nevermind kicked open the door for grunge to pour through, STP’s debut distilled everything that was innovative and exciting about this new musical movement into a more commercial, instantly digestible format. Scott Weiland’s classic albums Stone Temple Pilots - Core (Atlantic, 1992) His excesses contributed to the dissolution of STP in 2002. But Weiland also developed a parallel career as a hopeless drug addict, which saw several albums and tours plagued by assorted drug busts and incarceration. Their multi-textured, occasionally psychedelic anthems showcased an arena-sized ambition that none of their peers had, resulting in a string of huge-selling albums. Initially written off as bandwagon jumpers, STP evolved into one of the great rock bands of the era. A year later they changed their name to Stone Temple Pilots. In 1990 Mighty Joe Young signed to Atlantic. The pair formed Mighty Joe Young, bringing in DeLeo’s guitarist brother Dean and drummer Eric Kretz. Shortly afterwards he met bassist and kindred spirit Robert DeLeo. It was as a teenager in San Diego that he channelled his obsession with British new wave music into his first band, Soi-Disant, before an epiphany at a Black Flag concert in 1986 turned him on to US punk. Born in San Jose in 1967, as a child Weiland bounced between California and Ohio.
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