In 1992, the formation signs with Atlantic Records. In 1990, the group definitively adopted the name Stone Temple Pilots.

The group wants to keep the initials 'STP', which allows them to use a logo parodying the company STP Motor Oil Company. They first opt for Shirley Temple Pussy, but the pressures of their record company make them change to Stereo Temple Pirates instead. Following a notice from Mighty bluesman Joe Young, the quartet must change its name. They form a band called Mighty Joe Young, with Robert DeLeo on bass, his brother Dean DeLeo on guitar, and Eric Kretz on drums. Scott Weiland met Robert DeLeo in 1987 at a Black Flag punk band concert in Long Beach, California. The group formalizes in November 2017 the arrival of Jeff Gutt singing. In 2013, singer Scott Weiland is replaced by Chester Bennington of the Linkin Park group. Stone Temple Pilots is being reformed in 2008. The band split in 2002 and Scott Weiland joined the group Velvet Revolver, with whom he recorded two albums. Stone Temple Pilots has nearly 35 million copies sold, and a Grammy Award in 1994 for its title Plush, from his debut album Core (one of the best selling records of the 1990s). The group's career is marked by important commercial successes, but also by the drug problems of its singer, Scott Weiland. At the beginning, the formation is associated with the grunge movement, before evolving towards a more hard rock style. Not much more was said, or done, by Weiland.Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band, originally from San Diego, California. Not much effort was made to interact with the crowd, other than when Weiland repeated 'Parachute, pair of shoes,' over and over while introducing the song 'Parachute.' He made an odd reference or two to there being a lot of people out there in the crowd, which was pretty solid but still not comparable to the crowds STP saw at the height of their success. Weiland simply mumbled the lyrics into the mike tiredly, at times adding the use of a megaphone, which only seemed to amplify the volume of the disconnect. The newer, slighter version of Weiland, complete with a black leather jacket to bulk up his frame, did not slink or claw. starting the show off with a well-known Stone Temple Pilots song should have started the show off with some fire.īut as Weiland threw himself into the song, sans introduction, and slowly swung the mike while he stumbling in a circle around the center of the stage, it was apparent the prime - and the magnetic trouble of this once-gloried front man - is long gone. Given the man's entire career has been built from the ashes STP, now resurrected and inexplicably featuring Chester Bennington. the singer recently vowed to stop arriving fashionably late, and it appears he's sticking to it - Weiland and company opened with 'Crackerman,' an old, solid STP tune. The show behind Weiland's brilliant vocals - showmanship, for lack of a better term - worked to amplify his deep connection to his music.īut as of last night, trouble has definitely become a vortex for Weiland, and he appears to have crashed and burned. He would claw his way into the music, slinking and scratching like a feral, talented cat as he pumped out the lyrics. And last night's performance at Warehouse Live with his latest band, the Wildabouts, was proof.Īt the height of his career, catching Weiland onstage was a sight to behold.

The trouble with trouble is that while it's nearly a requirement of any good front man, ultimately, if it's not reigned in, such a thing will lead nowhere good.įor Weiland, whose rocker-Pied Piper appeal helped skyrocket Stone Temple Pilots to superstardom on albums like Crush and Purple, trouble has most certainly been been the latter for quite some time.

Not that trouble was a bad thing, at least initially. When Stone Temple Pilots first took over the alt-rock airwaves - and MTV Unplugged - in the '90s, it was apparent that front man Scott Weiland was trouble with a capital T. Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts Warehouse Live April 29, 2015

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