How are you dealing with is death?ĭeLeo: It’s sad, really sad. You did that, briefly, with Chester Bennington, of course. There are a lot of things to look at to really, really choose someone to move forward with. You can pretty much tell right off the bat that’s not happening with certain people. Then they get into a room with a band that’s turned up to 10 and expect to lead the band. There’s been some colorful people, I should say … Some of these people, they sing in their bedroom and their mom and dad tell ’em they’re great. You get some interesting scenarios with people. What’s that process been like?ĭeLeo: It’s been very interesting.
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This is a series of getting together with someone and really figuring out what they are all about and if that’s right for us. It’ll feel right and we’ll proceed forward. When do you think STP will be back up and running again?ĭeLeo: When it all comes together it’ll come together.
I think there’s a lot of music to be made, still, and I think we all feel we want to continue - not only that, but also playing songs that we wrote 25, 30 years ago that mean a lot to me, and I think there’s people out there who want to hear those songs, too. Hopefully we will find a singer who will be that guy, and represent what we want to do moving forward. It’s all about there in my garage, and it’s going to be interesting going through that.ĭeLeo: Dean and I are always writing music, whether it’s for STP or not. I’ve got so much stuff that I saved, and I think it’s gonna be fun going through one of the best musical parts of my life, that decade. There’s so many demos, and the bare bones of how some of these songs came together musically. No one prepares you for that.Īre you planning to do anniversary packages like this for STP’s other albums?ĭeLeo: Absolutely. It was part of growing as a musician in front of a large audience. I remember getting to “Creep,” and I have a little vocal part in there where I answer Scott, and looking back at the video you see my hands were shaking, I was so nervous. There’s something about volume and turning things up so loud that allows you to hide behind the wall of sound, and there we were doing something we’d only done together when we were alone in a room, just us. What was doing that show like for you?ĭeLeo: Oh, that was nerve-wracking. You’ve included your 1993 MTV Unplugged performance in the package.
And it seemed like a lot of people related to that. All we really knew is we sincerely believed in what we were doing, and really what mattered is we finally had the chance to express what we were going through in life at the time. The business part of it and where it went and how many people related to it, you have no control over that, especially as a first record. I think from a musical standpoint we felt like we were sitting on a bomb. While you were making Core did you at all feel like it had the potential to be as huge as it was?ĭeLeo: Well, I don’t think we would’ve done what we were doing if we didn’t feel it was impactful. I don’t go back and listen to it much, but I can certainly relate to it, still. There’s a lot of frustration and anger and sadness all wrapped into one. I think all of that wrapped up shows on that record.
I look back and think about that frustrated, highly motivated group of guys, searching for I don’t know what and trying to soothe it with the music we were making. I kind of look back at in in lifetimes, and that was definitely a different lifetime for all of us. Bassist and co-founder Robert DeLeo took a break from that to talk about his Core memories…ĭoes it feel like 25 years of Core? Or 25 minutes? Or 250 years?ĭeLeo: Y’know, I don’t like looking back at life in years. STP is now reeling from the loss of another singer - Linkin Park‘s Chester Bennington, who did double-duty with STP from 2013-15 - but is also moving forward in a search for a new singer to usher in another era. Stone Temple Pilots' 'Core' 25th Anniversary Reissue Has Vinyl, DVD
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