Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots

In 1990, going by the name Mighty Joe Young, they played at Whiskey in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Don Mullen, a booking agent for Triad Artists, saw them perform and lead 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 already a blues man had already claimed the name Mighty Joe Young. They changed the band's name to Shirley Temple's Pussy, 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, after seeing the STP Motor Oil Company logo. In September 1992, they released their first album, Core, including the hit songs "Sex Type Thing" and "Plush". The critics initially blasted them for being a clone of rock and roll band Pearl Jam.

In 1994, STP released their second album, Purple, which debuted at No. 1 and stayed there for three weeeks. 1995 saw the band take a turn in the wrong direction, when Scott Weiland got involved with a side music project, Magnificent Bastards, and in heroin. In May 1995, Weiland was arrested for possession of rock cocaine and heroin. Weiland was given one years probation and during this time the group recorded their next album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Giftshop. Ironically, this CD got the best reviews compared to their previous projects. Still not having kicked his drug habit, Weiland was ordered by a judge to go into a drug rehabilitation programme. Weiland had left the programme 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 programme and STP began touring again in Los Angeles, but again, Weiland was back in rehab, starting rumours that the band was breaking up, which turned out untrue.

In September 1997, while STP was on hiatus with Weiland in rehab, the remaining members of STP formed, with former Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts, the one-time band Talkshow.

On November 11, 2003, STP released a CD/DVD entitled Thank You.

• Core (1992)
• Purple (1994)
• Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Giftshop (1996)
• No. 4 (1999)
• Shangri -- La Dee Da (2001)
• Thank You (2003)

External links

• Official Website
• Stone Temple Pilots at UBL.com

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