I heard later on that Dean had his issues with addiction as well.īefore the show the band had a meet and great and afterwards I got them to sign the CD cover of my copy of Purple and then Jaime and I took a picture with the band that is awkward in its own right. He seemed pretty messed up and hungover when he showed up too. So hilarious! I didn’t really have any interaction with the guitar player, Dean DeLeo who basically didn’t leave his hotel room to come to the venue until like 20 minutes before their sound-check. After that exchange DeLeo kind of just laughed and walked off. Jaime and I got into a really random and awkward conversation with the bass player Robert DeLeo, where Jaime talked about accidentally huffing paint fumes while painting some dudes living room and then seeing a flying hot-dog. Their drummer Eric Kretz was quite and polite. My interaction with the rest of Stone Temple Pilots was pretty great as well. He ran around for a bit pretending to fly then disappeared into the bathroom for like 40 mins, came out and started flying around again. Weiland was wearing a fur hat, black aviator glasses, long-johns, big floppy boots, and a red super-hero cape. He ran into the dressing room where we were hanging red velvet curtains (so the dressing room that doubled as a hockey locker room would look like some weird swanky lounge). The first person I met from the band was Weiland and it was early in the morning and he seemed super messed up. My job all day during the show was to be a dressing room assistant. Obviously I bailed on my ticket and said “yes.” Stone Temple Pilots was the first show I ever worked in what turned out to be an eight year adventure as runner for a concert production company ( this is how Isaac and I met and without that this site wouldn’t exist). Then my very good friend and drummer in my band Jaime Horton who is the production manager for United Concerts called me and asked if I wanted to work as an assistant for Stone Temple Pilots’ during the SLC. I hadn’t had a chance to see them in concert yet. A little bit after the release I learned that band was coming to Salt Lake City and I was stoked. 4 and the rest was kind of traditional Stone Temple Pilots. I would soon realize that there were only a few heavy tracks on No. I was super surprised when the first track “Down” kicked in at how heavy STP was now. Obviously I purchased it and immediately put into my car stereo. In 1999 I remember going CD shopping and seeing a weird looking black album with a cut-out shape of a white star and reading the name Stone Temple Pilots above it and being shocked. After the Talk Show album I came to terms with the fact that STP was done and while I was still really digging their first three albums I kind of moved on in my musical journey. I bought their album hoping for another killer Stone Temple Pilots album and although the album was pretty good it just wasn’t the same without Weiland’s vocals ( Talk Show has since grown on me and now actually serves a pretty cool little bridge between Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop and No.

In 1997 the remaining members of STP formed a new band with a new singer called Talk Show. Towards the end of 1996 Stone Temple Pilots kicked Weiland out and I was super bummed, this was the first time one of my favorite bands had broken up / kicked out members and being 13 at the time I probably took it a little too hard. I was honestly kind of surprised to read it because I didn’t really have any idea at the time. I randomly snagged a copy of Rolling Stone with Weiland on the cover and read the feature story about all his run ins with the law. Being a little kid, and not having a ton of access to music press, I had no idea that Weiland was struggling with drugs and what not.

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