Stone Temple Pilots
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Interview by Pete Makowski, Rock's Backpages audio, March 2008
The late singer recalls childhood friends Stone Temple Pilots disintegrating through success and drugs; talks about leaving STP and joining Velvet Revolver, about the latter band also falling apart, about the overdose death of his brother and about rejoining STP... and at length about his own addictions and attempts at rehab.
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Stone Temple Pilots: Core (Atlantic)
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, January 1993
IT LOOKS like Stone Temple Pilots are the first of what will be a long line of post-Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Nirvana major-label grunge contenders. So, let's give ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Underworld, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 15 March 1993
Already on the runway ...
Stone Temple Pilots/Butthole Surfers/Flaming Lips: Polish-American Beach Club, Gardner, MA.
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 2 August 1993
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland had warned the young, aggressively moshing, object-throwing crowd Saturday on the grounds of the Polish-American Beach Club. "We want ...
Moshing Mayhem: STP fan says band beat him in Gardner
Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 August 1993
ROCK 'N' ROLL can be a rough-and-tumble game, increasingly so in these days of moshing, a highly aggressive dance-cum-contact sport that often takes place in ...
Community service ordered for Stone Temple Pilots
Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 22 April 1994
IT LOOKS LIKE the Stone Temple Pilots, or at least two members of the popular alternative-rock quartet from San Diego, will be rocking Gardner High ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Band members sued after concert violence
Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 26 May 1994
A LEOMINSTER MAN who was assaulted last July at an outdoor concert in Gardner by two members of the Stone Temple Pilots rock band has ...
Interview by William Shaw, Details, July 1994
Let he who is without grunge cast the first Stone Temple Pilot. William Shaw breaks bread and beer bottles with future heavyweight contender Scott Weiland. ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (Atlantic)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 4 August 1994
AFTER ONE of my brother-in-law's Thursday-night poker games, the 20-somethings there played Pearl Jam's first album repeatedly until people got tired of it. So they ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Peace, Love and Understanding
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Spin, August 1995
AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR ON THE CHARTS WITH THE TRIPLE-PLATINUM ALBUM PURPLE, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' SCOTT WEILAND LEARNS TO LIVE WITH HIS MONSTROUS SUCCESS ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Universal Amphitheater, California
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 12 December 1996
SCOTT WEILAND seemed the picture of health at the opening night of Stone Temple Pilots' current six-week tour, confounding the expectations of some cynics who ...
Talk Show Is No Band Side Project
Report and Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, 7 July 1997
Although he wouldn't go so far as to say Stone Temple Pilots are officially done with, bassist Robert DeLeo told ATN that every member of ...
Scott Weiland: No More Mr Vice Guy
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Vox, June 1998
As leader of the Stone Temple Pilots, he took lots of drugs, sold lots of records and was hated by the critics. Now he's off ...
The Soul in the Machine: Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, What'd I Say, 2001
"UNFORTUNATELY, we’re running a big business here now," Ahmet Ertegun confessed to author Gerri Hirshey in 1982. "And it sort of ... well, it drives ...
see also Talk Show
see also Scott Weiland
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