Stone Temple Pilots reunion?

[Orsulak4Prez]

http://boards.atlanticrecords.com/artists/stonetemplepilots/forums

Check out the STP message boards. There are rumors of a new studio album and tour. :)

[Pedro Cerrano]

I wonder if Weiland's off the dope.

Either way, I'd go see them live again (saw them at HFStival some years ago) and would definitely buy the new album. STP is one of my favorite bands from the 90s.

[MikeAD]

I wonder if Weiland's off the dope.

Either way, I'd go see them live again (saw them at HFStival some years ago) and would definitely buy the new album. STP is one of my favorite bands from the 90s.

He's seemed to have done pretty well with Velvet Revolver.

I wonder if a STP comeback would mean no third album for Velvet Revolver.

[beaner]

I liked STP better the first time I heard them. When they were called Pearl Jam.

[mweb]

I liked STP better the first time I heard them. When they were called Pearl Jam.

Except they aren't even that similiar, and their first album came out only a year after PJ's, but ok.

[AgentOrange]

I liked STP better the first time I heard them. When they were called Pearl Jam.


Beanman, why all the STP hate?

BOOOOOOO!!!!!

[clapdiddy]

I've heard the argument from others that STP is playing the "same" music as Pearl Jam. I just don't get it.

I like both bands, but I prefer STP to PJ.

[mweb]

The grunge bands all get lumped into the same group because they came up about the same time, destroyed the hair band era, and dominated rock radio, but they're not as similiar as some suggest. These were the main bands of that era: Nirvana, PJ, STP, Smashing Pumpkins, Sound Garden, and Alice In Chains. I really don't see how anyone who listened to a lot of these bands music can say they're all just about the same.

[The Wedge]

I love when Alice in Chains gets in to the argument. They got great national exposure before Nirvana broke "grunge." They opened up on that massive Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax tour.

Not that I'm saying you were saying it or anything, but I've heard people try to cite AiC, and it's like...just stop right there.

[Pedro Cerrano]

The grunge bands all get lumped into the same group because they came up about the same time, destroyed the hair band era, and dominated rock radio, but they're not as similiar as some suggest. These were the main bands of that era: Nirvana, PJ, STP, Smashing Pumpkins, Sound Garden, and Alice In Chains. I really don't see how anyone who listened to a lot of these bands music can say they're all just about the same.

While a lot of those bands certainly have similar sounds in certain respects, I don't see how anyone can get them confused or think one was ripping off the other.

[beaner]

"Plush" sounded just like Pearl Jam, I don't think anyone can deny that. Other than that, I agree that they weren't that similar. I have nothing against STP really, they weren't breaking any new ground, but were decent enough. Compared to the music of today, they were terrific.

[The Wedge]

"Plush" sounded just like Pearl Jam, I don't think anyone can deny that. Other than that, I agree that they weren't that similar. I have nothing against STP really, they weren't breaking any new ground, but were decent enough. Compared to the music of today, they were terrific.

I'll deny it. Guitar sounds pretty different to me.

[beaner]

I'll deny it. Guitar sounds pretty different to me.

The voice sounds pretty similar. I remember it was "news" when it was out how similar it sounded. They always were fodder for the critics, who never showed them any love. I certainly didn't mean my little joke to cause any strife.

[mweb]

I love when Alice in Chains gets in to the argument. They got great national exposure before Nirvana broke "grunge." They opened up on that massive Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax tour.

Not that I'm saying you were saying it or anything, but I've heard people try to cite AiC, and it's like...just stop right there.

That was part of my point. The same can pretty much be said about Soundgarden.

[SurhoffRules]

That was part of my point. The same can pretty much be said about Soundgarden.

Thank you MWeb and Wedge. I find that most people have a very inconsistent history of "grunge" music. Soungarden released Screaming Life in 1987 and formed in 1984. Alice in Chains released Facelift in 1990. Pearl Jam only formed because Mother Love Bone's frontman, Andy Wood, died of a heroin overdose in 1990 and Matt Cameron and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden teamed up with the remaining members of MLB and released Temple of the Dog. The only reason Eddie Vedder has a career is because he was a friend of those two bands and appeared on Hunger Strike, that duet with Cornell on the TOD album.

Pearl Jam and STP have often been compared to each other but the fact of the matter in Pearl Jam(no matter how much I hate them) released Ten in 1991 and STP release Core in 1992. There was no time for STP to copy Pearl Jam. Just because Eddie has a voice that sounded a little like Scott (on one sond, Wylend's voice changes on nearly all of his songs), doesn't mean that they were biting off Pearl Jam.

All that said, I wouldn't mind an STP reunion. They aren't my favorite band (granted Velvet Revolver is good), but they had some good songs and wouldn't mind them putting out a few more....especially since most of my favorite bands can get back together because at least one member is dead via drug overdose.

[SurhoffRules]

While a lot of those bands certainly have similar sounds in certain respects, I don't see how anyone can get them confused or think one was ripping off the other.

To anyone who is obsessed with that era, they did not have similar sounds. Pearl Jam sucked, but they had a pretty much classic rock, blues based sound. Think Zeppelin's singles. So did the Screaming Trees.

Alice in Chains was pretty off the wall. They had a lot of metal influence. You can hear a ton of Diamond Lie, Metallica, and Megadeth in their sound. They had a very minor key to them.

Soundgarden was just insane. The most musically talented band of the era. They constantly wrote music in crazy ass time signatures...but none of it sounded force...al la Tool. Chris Cornell is, in my opinion, the greatest voice of hard rock, ever. These guys were definitely influenced by Zeppelin's less popular tune, Black Sabbath and maybe even some Prog Rock like King Crimson.

Nirvana and Mudhoney (granted you didn't mention either of those bands, I'm just kinda typing now) were punk bands.

STP and Smashing Pumpkins were not part of the Seattle sound although they all had a very dirty sound. There were actually a few bands out of Southern California that had that type of sound that constantly get mixed up with the grunge bands from Seattle.

[The Wedge]

The opening riff of Soundgarden's Rusty Nail is one of the most underrated in the history of rock. It's incredibly distinctive, and incredibly bad ass.