stone temple pilots

[dpduke5173]

Saw STP in Charlotte back in 2010 and they put on a fantastic rock show. Feel lucky to have caught Scott on a good night. Very sad news but not shocking.

[ricky towel]

In my mind, Purple might be the best album out of those early 90's era rock albums.

[smokew11]

this wasnt really a shock but it does suck. addiction is such a stupid and terrible thing. Absolutely loved STP back in the day, one of the best bands of the 90s

[Climb2safety]

I have vivid memories of swinging around the cast on my left wrist dancing to Creep at a bar during Mardi Gras 1993. Takes time with a wounded hand...one of the best nights of my life.

Plush might be the best song of the 90s.

[Roose13]

Holy shit

[Climb2safety]

Posted by the good people of panic stream in memory.

http://www.panicstream.net/vault/sto...e-netherlands/

[DMBstandUP1984]

sad to say I've only seen STP live with Chester as the lead singer.


One of my top 5 90s bands though. They played his last radio interview (with some canada station) on Opie and Jimmy this morning, he sounded like typical Scott.

[DMBzilla]

Saw STP twice - Tiny Music and No. 4 tours. Weiland was a total fucking rockstar and owned the stage both nights. Very sad news that his demons finally won (presumably).

Interesting side note - leaving DMB in Vegas in '01 we were getting a limo back to the hotel and one of the drivers in the limo line was holding a sign for "S. Weiland." I asked if it was who I thought and he said yes. Pretty cool. Couldn't even imagine what a night in Vegas with him would've been like.

[bigbeartilidie]

STP was one of the first bands that got me interested in my own generation's music.

Hope you finally found your peace, Scott.

[dobyblue]

Wicked Garden from Letterman '93 was pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKJHH2MJ3w

[Spell On Me]

R.I.P. Some of the most iconic songs of the 90s. He will be missed.

[ricky towel]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Wicked Garden from Letterman '93 was pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKJHH2MJ3w

They had great performances on Letterman.

This Unglued is good, I especially like his James Brown moves after the first verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUkRgzCL44

[ricky towel]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Wicked Garden from Letterman '93 was pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKJHH2MJ3w

the one you posted makes me sadder though, just looking at him, his arms and shit, you can tell it's before the heroin addiction really took hold. I don't think he was ever that heavy again.

[matthewdaves187]

Sad news indeed and I'll second the previously praised Plush, played that powerful song a lot. Scott will be missed.

[ricky towel]

Billy Corgan:

Corgan went on to include Weiland in the same ranks as the late Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain. “If you asked me who I truly believed were the great voices of our generation, I’d say it were he, Layne, and Kurt,” he writes. “So it goes beyond tragedy to say it is we who lost them, and not the other way around.”

http://diffuser.fm/billy-corgan-call...oving-tribute/

[pearljammer]

Originally Posted by ricky towel

Billy Corgan:



http://diffuser.fm/billy-corgan-call...oving-tribute/

So to qualify for this, you must be dead.

[meatball41]

Originally Posted by pearljammer

So to qualify for this, you must be dead.

Guess so because Eddie definitely belongs in the same breath as those other 3.

[ricky towel]

or that's simply Corgan's opinion.

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by meatball41

Guess so because Eddie definitely belongs in the same breath as those other 3.

Eddie didn't really have that kind of notariety until much later though. Pearl Jam didn't blow up as we know them today until after Kurt died. Not saying it's right but they definitely lived in Nirvana's shadow for a while, and both STP and AiC enjoyed more mainstream success during that period.

[meatball41]

Originally Posted by DMBzilla

Eddie didn't really have that kind of notariety until much later though. Pearl Jam didn't blow up as we know them today until after Kurt died. Not saying it's right but they definitely lived in Nirvana's shadow for a while, and both STP and AiC enjoyed more mainstream success during that period.

Is this for real? Both Ten and Nevermind came out in '91. Back then with the success of Ten one could argue that Pearl Jam and Eddie were never more famous. Especially that following year when they went out on the Lollapolooza tour, Ed's fame and influence and being thought of as the "voice of a generation" couldn't have been anymore hightened. So I don't understand why you think Ed didn't have that kind of notoriety back then? If anything, once Kurt took his life it was then that he was thought of in that iconic type of air that he's thought of in today.

I'd venture to guess that if you took a poll and asked people to name the first person to come to mind when you mention the grunge era in the 90's half would say Kurt, half would say Eddie. Very few would mention Layne Staley or Scott Weiland first. Kurt died in early '94 which was like 6 mos after Pearl Jam had released Vs. and Pearl Jam was insanely popular at that time so to say that Ed doesn't belong in the same breath as those other 3 and that they didn't blow up until after Kurt died sounds foolish to me.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by meatball41

Is this for real? Both Ten and Nevermind came out in '91. Back then with the success of Ten one could argue that Pearl Jam and Eddie were never more famous. Especially that following year when they went out on the Lollapolooza tour, Ed's fame and influence and being thought of as the "voice of a generation" couldn't have been anymore heightened.

This is my recollection of it too, Pearl Jam exploded several months AFTER Ten was released, beginning in late '91 around the time Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was owning all charts and the Seattle scene exploded, their huge Unplugged performance coming in March '91...two+ years before Cobain's death.

[AJF_41]

Originally Posted by meatball41

Is this for real? Both Ten and Nevermind came out in '91. Back then with the success of Ten one could argue that Pearl Jam and Eddie were never more famous. Especially that following year when they went out on the Lollapolooza tour, Ed's fame and influence and being thought of as the "voice of a generation" couldn't have been anymore hightened. So I don't understand why you think Ed didn't have that kind of notoriety back then? If anything, once Kurt took his life it was then that he was thought of in that iconic type of air that he's thought of in today.

I'd venture to guess that if you took a poll and asked people to name the first person to come to mind when you mention the grunge era in the 90's half would say Kurt, half would say Eddie. Very few would mention Layne Staley or Scott Weiland first. Kurt died in early '94 which was like 6 mos after Pearl Jam had released Vs. and Pearl Jam was insanely popular at that time so to say that Ed doesn't belong in the same breath as those other 3 and that they didn't blow up until after Kurt died sounds foolish to me.

[drop2d]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

This is my recollection of it too, Pearl Jam exploded several months AFTER Ten was released, beginning in late '91 around the time Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was owning all charts and the Seattle scene exploded, their huge Unplugged performance coming in March '91...two+ years before Cobain's death.

Yeah, Seattle/grunge sort of just blew up all at once. Was an amazing thing to witness really... it was like a switch. One day everyone is listening to Warrant/Skid Row and the next it's Nirvana/AIC... anyone left behind was looked at as a foreigner.

[jmkratt]

Originally Posted by DMBzilla

Eddie didn't really have that kind of notariety until much later though. Pearl Jam didn't blow up as we know them today until after Kurt died. Not saying it's right but they definitely lived in Nirvana's shadow for a while, and both STP and AiC enjoyed more mainstream success during that period.

Meh, I respectfully completely disagree with everything you say here.

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by meatball41

Is this for real? Both Ten and Nevermind came out in '91. Back then with the success of Ten one could argue that Pearl Jam and Eddie were never more famous. Especially that following year when they went out on the Lollapolooza tour, Ed's fame and influence and being thought of as the "voice of a generation" couldn't have been anymore hightened. So I don't understand why you think Ed didn't have that kind of notoriety back then? If anything, once Kurt took his life it was then that he was thought of in that iconic type of air that he's thought of in today.

I'd venture to guess that if you took a poll and asked people to name the first person to come to mind when you mention the grunge era in the 90's half would say Kurt, half would say Eddie. Very few would mention Layne Staley or Scott Weiland first. Kurt died in early '94 which was like 6 mos after Pearl Jam had released Vs. and Pearl Jam was insanely popular at that time so to say that Ed doesn't belong in the same breath as those other 3 and that they didn't blow up until after Kurt died sounds foolish to me.

Relax. I'm not saying that Eddie isn't in the same breath, but that he didn't quite reach his icon status until after Kurt's death. I like PJ a ton more than STP but distinctly remember STP having more mainstream popularity at that time.

[sbuzzz]

Originally Posted by DMBzilla

Relax. I'm not saying that Eddie isn't in the same breath, but that he didn't quite reach his icon status until after Kurt's death. I like PJ a ton more than STP but distinctly remember STP having more mainstream popularity at that time.

Must have been where you were, because PJ and Eddie were every bit as big, if not bigger, than both STP and Nirvana where I was.

[WidespreadMule3]

Jamming Purple this afternoon. Never really gave this album a chance. Listened to it once about 3 years ago and haven't since. A very big fan of Core but wanna give Purple another go.

[Climb2safety]

Cobain himself did not reach his own status until after he himself died.

[YouNeverKnow25]

eddie wrote entire albums about trying to escape icon status. then, he intentionally wrote albums he thought were bad in order to make himself not an icon anymore, and those just further cemented his icon status.

pearl jam had three albums appear on the end of decade sales list before stp's first entry, and AiC doesn't have any at all.

pearl jam always, always, always had mainstream success.

[ricky towel]

Written by his first wife:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...agedy-20151207