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Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) was the popular rock group, formed within 1990, after Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California, after discovering they were dating a equivalent woman. It had to understand both more, like than fight all over a woman, world health organization at length fled to Texas; the two come in her old flat & began swimming together. Robert had his brother Dean DeLeo to join their jamming sessions and too obtained Eric Kretz, who was so sustaining a second band, to clean drums.
Within 1990, going per title Mighty Joe Young, they played at Whisky inside Los Angeles, California. Within 1992, Don Mullen, a booker for Triad Creative person, saw the two perform & led the children to Atlantic Records. In April 1, 1992, they signed the contract & began recording tracks by owning Brendan O'Brien. In a period of the recording, STP's attorney known as & told the two there was the blues musician who experienced already claimed a title Mighty Joe Young. It changed a band's title to Shirley Temple's Pussy, but ended higher changing it because of pressure from either a record label. Wanting to keep a band's initials, it come higher using Stone Temple Pilots, when seeing a STP Motor Oil Company logo. Inside September 1992, they freed their foremost album, Core, including the hit songs "Plush", "Creep", "Wicked Garden", & "Sex Type Thing". A critics at a start disregarded the class action, labelling the children soundalikes of grunge bands such as Pearl Jam.
Around 1994, STP released their 2nd album, Purple, which debuted at No. Unity & stayed there for threesome weeks. 1995 saw the band take a turn in the wrongly counsel, whenever Scott Weiland got involved by using the side music task, Magnificent Bastards, and by owning heroin. Inside Can 1995, Weil& was arrested for possession of rock cocaine and diacetylmorphine. Weiland tend of these season's probation & in a period of this period the class action recorded their next album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop. Although this Video had better reviews than their former albums, it failed to generate when numerous sales. However non with kicked his drug habit, Weiland was ordered by the judge to last into the drug rehabilitation program. Weiland got left a program at Impact Home, forgoing notice, however returned a next day. Around October of that year, suggestive pictures of Weil& and Courtney Love surfaced and, fortunately for Weiland, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt refused to publish the pictures. In November 4th of that year, Weil& was freed from either a rehab program and STP began touring once agaaround in Los Angeles, but agawithin, Weiland went back in rehab, starting hearsay that a band was breaking higher, which turned intent on become untrue.
Within September 1997, while STP get on hiatus, Weiland freed the solo album, Twelve Bar Blues, while a unexpended members of STP formed a 1-former band Talk Show, with previous Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts. Neither release did easily commercially.
STP presently reunited, releasing No. 4 in 1999. Shortly when its completion, Weiland was sentenced to the year within a Los Angeles county jailhouse for violating probation.
In a period of the summertime of 2001, STP released Shangri-La Dee Da.
In November 11, 2003, STP released the CD/DVD entitled Thank You, a greatest hits album.
Meanwhile, since that month, Scott Weiland has performed with members of Guns 'N Roses, plus Dave Kushner, with the band Velvet Revolver.
B& members (and brothers) Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo recently announced the formation of the newly band "Army Of Anyone" led by Filter frontman Richard Patrick.
Eric Kretz presently plays drums in the band Spiralarms.
Discography
Core (1992, Atlantic)
Purple (1994, East West)
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996, Atlantic)
No. 4 (1999, Atlantic)
Shangri-La Dee Da (2001, Atlantic)
Thank You (2003, Atlantic)
Awards/Nomintions
Won:1993|MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
Nominative:1993|MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (Plush)
Won:1994|American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Recently Artist
Nominative:1994|MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing (Vasoline)
Nominative:1995|American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group
Nominative:1995|American Music Award for Favorite Heavily Metal/Hard Rock Artist
Nominative:1995|MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video
Nominative:1995|MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video (Interstate Love Song)
Nominative:1995|MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (Interstate Love Song)
Nominative:1995|MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography (Interstate Love Song)
Nominative:1997|American Music Award for Favorite Guide Artist
Nominative:1997|American Music Award for Favorite Heavily Metal/Hard Rock Artist
Nominative:1997|Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance (''Trippin' On The Hole Around The Paper Heart)
Nominative:2000|MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography (music video Sour Girl)
Nominative:2000|Billboard Music Video Award for Best Modern Rock Clip of the Year (music video Sour Girl'')
Nominative:2001|Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Down")
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