This popular grunge band has gotten a lot of flack over the years about sounding too derivative of other grunge bands like Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains. I'm not much into grunge in general, but I must say the band has a number of undeniable classics, so they deserve more respect.
The band had a rocky history, in large part due to their lead singer Scott Weiland, who suffered off and on with drug addiction. In the 1990s, the band sold about 40 million albums worldwide. But in 1999, Weiland spent five months in jail for drug possession. At the time of this concert, the band hadn't released an album since before Weiland's jail time, with the album "No. 4" in 1999. This was the band's first "real" concert since the jail time, with only some unannounced warm-up shows before it.
In 2001, the band would release their fifth album, "Shangri-La Dee Da." But they would break up a year after that. There would be later reunions, but Weiland would die of a drug overdose in 2015.
Here's the Wikipedia page if you want to know more:
Stone Temple Pilots - Wikipedia
This is one of the rare cases where the entire "Storytellers" concert appeared as a bootleg, not just the 45 or so minutes of the TV broadcast. That allowed me to add in two extra songs, "Creep" and "Down," that weren't included in the TV show. Plus, as usual, the show only started with the last part of one song. In this case, that song was "Big Empty." But I was able to include the full version instead. I also added in a bunch of banter that wasn't on the show. Unfortunately though, most of the rest of the bootleg material were second or even third takes of songs. I didn't include any of those, since they had only minor differences.
This album is an hour and one minute long.
01 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
02 Big Empty (Stone Temple Pilots)
03 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
04 Creep (Stone Temple Pilots)
05 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
06 Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots)
07 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
08 Sour Girl (Stone Temple Pilots)
09 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
10 Kitchenware and Candybars (Stone Temple Pilots)
11 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
12 Atlanta (Stone Temple Pilots)
13 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
14 Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
15 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
16 Vasoline (Stone Temple Pilots)
17 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
18 Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots)
19 talk (Stone Temple Pilots)
20 Down (Stone Temple Pilots)
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The cover photo shows the band's lead singer Scott Weiland performing with the band on the "Late Night with Jay Leno" TV show in May 2000.
Thanks! I seem to recall seeing the broadcast of this on TV back in the day
ReplyDeletethank you, G.
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