Shortly after its release, Stone Temple Pilots announced that Weiland had relapsed and entered another rehab facility, thereby canceling the group's plans for a summer tour. Featuring a bold glam rock sound, the album included three hit singles, each of which went to number one on the mainstream rock chart. Released in the spring of 1996, Tiny Music.Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop entered the charts at number four. Following his completion of the program, Stone Temple Pilots recorded their third album. In the spring of 1995, he was arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine, and was sentenced to a drug rehabilitation facility. Their sole Billboard 200 chart-topper, the multi-platinum international smash was a peak in the band's career, home to their most enduring single, "Interstate Love Song."įollowing the success of Purple and its accompanying tour, the band took some time off, during which Weiland developed a heroin addiction. Riding the wave of mainstream popularity, they issued their sophomore album, Purple, in 1994.
A balanced blend of sleaze and introspection, the set was an immediate success and yielded a handful of hit singles, including the mainstream rock chart-topper "Plush." An MTV Unplugged recording was released the following year, producing another radio hit, "Big Empty" (which also appeared on the soundtrack for The Crow). They signed with Atlantic in 1992 and delivered their debut, Core, later that year. Forced to change their name for legal reasons, they latched onto the STP motor oil brand and eventually decided to flesh the initials out as Stone Temple Pilots. Gigging around San Diego, the DeLeo brothers, Weiland, and Kretz built a local audience before entering the studio with O'Brien. After a few years, the group reunited long enough to deliver a comeback album in 2010, but Weiland died of an accidental overdose in 2015, leaving the surviving members to carry on with replacement lead singers, including late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington and The X Factor competitor Jeff Gutt.įormed in the late '80s, the band was originally dubbed Mighty Joe Young. Behind the scenes, Stone Temple Pilots were plagued with personal problems, many stemming from Weiland's troubles with addiction, and the weight of these battles led to the band's breakup in 2002.
For a while, STP outpaced their contemporaries at least in terms of hit singles, racking up constant plays on MTV and rock radio with "Plush," "Creep," "Big Empty," "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Bang Baby." Each of their signature hits boasted a canny blend of crunching classic rock riffs, psychedelic flair, and candied pop melodies, a combination that helped the songs endure beyond the band's '90s heyday. The quartet of Scott Weiland, Dean and Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz had a foot planted in two seemingly opposed camps, cutting their teeth on the Southern California hard rock circuit of the late '80s yet working steadily with Brendan O'Brien, who also produced albums by Pearl Jam, one of the biggest bands to hail from Seattle, the birthplace of grunge. Stone Temple Pilots complicated this narrative considerably. The alternative rock explosion of the 1990s was framed as a triumph of authenticity: grunge wiped out the sleazy hair metal of the '80s and ushered in an era of real, dangerous rock. For a while, STP outpaced their contemporaries at least in terms of hit singles, racking up constant plays on MTV and rock radio with "Plush," "Creep," "Big Empty," "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Bang Baby." Each of their signature.
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