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Stone Temple Pilots won a MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1993 and have won a grammy award. Their debut album, "Core" is now 8x platnum and their 2nd album, "Purple" is now 6x platnum. Stone Temple Pilots came in at # 40 on VH1: 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists, this band is well known all around the world and are very popular in the USA.
Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) were a popular hard rock band formed in 1990, after Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California and discovered that they were dating the same woman. They go ...read more
Stone Temple Pilots won a MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1993 and have won a grammy award. Their debut album, "Core" is now 8x platnum and their 2nd album, "Purple" is now 6x platnum. Stone Temple Pilots came in at # 40 on VH1: 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists, this band is well known all around the world and are very popular in the USA.
Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) were a popular hard rock band formed in 1990, after Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California and discovered that they were dating the same woman. They got to know each other, rather than fight over the woman, who eventually fled to Texas; the two moved into her old San Diego apartment and started playing together. Robert got his brother Dean DeLeo to join their jamming sessions and also found Eric Kretz, who was then with another band, to play drums.
In 1990, going by the name Mighty Joe Young, they played at Whisky in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Don Mullen, a booking agent for Triad Artists, saw them perform and led them to Atlantic Records. On April 1, 1992, they signed a contract and began recording tracks with Brendan O'Brien. During the recording, STP's lawyer called and told them there was a blues musician who had already claimed the name Mighty Joe Young. They changed the band's name to Shirley Temple's Pussy after seeing the STP Motor Oil Company logo, but ended up changing it because of pressure from the record label. Wanting to keep the band's initials, they came up with Stone Temple Pilots. In September 1992, they released their first album, Core, including the hit songs "Plush", "Creep", "Wicked Garden", and "Sex Type Thing". The critics initially disregarded the group, writing them off as a derivative of grunge bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. After the "Plush" video appeared on MTV, showing the band through a distorted lens, many supposed Scott Weiland and Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder were the same person. The still long-haired Vedder reported receiving messages complimenting him on his new short, red hairdo.
In 1994, STP released their second album, Purple, which debuted at No. 1 and stayed there for three weeks. 1995 saw the band take a turn in the wrong direction, when Scott Weiland got involved with a side music project, Magnificent Bastards, and with heroin. In May 1995, Weiland was arrested for possession of rock cocaine and heroin. Weiland was given one year's probation and during this time the group recorded their next album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop. Although this CD got better reviews than their previous albums, it failed to generate as many sales. Still not having kicked his drug habit, Weiland was ordered by a judge to go into a drug rehabilitation program. Weiland had left the program at Impact House, without notice, but returned the next day. In October of that year, suggestive pictures of Weiland and Courtney Love surfaced and, luckily for Weiland, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt refused to publish the pictures. On November 4th of that year, Weiland was released from the rehab program and STP began touring again in Los Angeles, but again, Weiland went back in rehab, starting rumours that the band was breaking up, which turned out to be untrue.
The Pilots released No. 4 in 1999. Shortly after its completion, Weiland was sentenced to a year in a Los Angeles county jail for violating probation.
Meanwhile, since that year, Scott Weiland has formed the band Velvet Revolver with former members of Guns N' Roses, plus Dave Kushner.
Band members (and brothers) Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo recently announced the formation of a new band "Army Of Anyone" led by Filter frontman Richard Patrick.
Grunge was brought to life in the eyes of an American music-lover by NIrvana.
The Pilots Perfected it.
"Trippin? as I?m thinkin? ?bout a boy, his name was sue. He?s a man, he?s man, Crackerman, crackerman, he?s a woman too." « hide |
Similar Bands: Bush, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins
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