THIS IS A SONG CALLED PLUSH

The lyrics were inspired, in part, by an unfortunate news story in Stone Temple Pilots’ hometown of San Diego, California about a missing young woman who was later discovered dead by local law enforcement (“And I feel, when the dogs begin to smell her…”). At a concert in Columbus, Ohio on May 17, 2008, lead…

2010 ALBUM – STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

In 2008, San Diego alt-rockers Stone Temple Pilots ended a five-year split and reunited for a massive U.S. tour, kicking off with a rockin’ extravaganza at Harry Houdini’s old Hollywood mansion. And then the magic really started to happen: the quartet began jamming during sound checks and soon had an album’s worth of demos. On…

ALIVE IN THE WINDY CITY

It was filmed in the Riviera Theatre in Chicago back in March 2010 and tied in with the release of their self-titled album. it intersperses such songs from that album as ‘Between The Lines’, ‘Huckleberry Crumble’ and ‘Hickory Dichotomy’ with some classic hits like ‘Vasoline’, ‘Big Empty’, ‘Plush’, ‘Sour Girl’ and ‘Interstate Love Song’. It…

TAKE A LOAD OFF

This is a track from Stone Temple Pilots’ last album with lead singer Scott Weiland. It was their first record in nine years, their previous release being 2001’s Shangri-La Dee Da. Guitarist Dean DeLeo told Musicradar.com about the song: “To me, there’s two types of people: there’s thinkers and there’s feelers. The thinkers are lawyers…

BETWEEN THE LINES

“Between the Lines” is the first single from the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots’s sixth studio album, Stone Temple Pilots and was released on March 22, 2010. The song set the record for largest positional gain on Billboard’s Rock Songs chart, jumping from number 40 to 2, later reaching number 1. “Between the Lines”…