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Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilot’s opening salvos reveal them to be Rock animals draped in traditional songsmith clothing.  Equally at ease with the riff driven swagger inherent in “Sex Type Thing” and “Vasoline” as they were with the shimmering elegance that inhabited “Creep” or “Sour Girl,” the bands all-encompassing approach proved that any genre-specific tags gave short shrift to the sheer scope of their collective oeuvre.  

Like a stone worn smooth by a millennia of weathering Stone Temple Pilots skipped across the mirror-plane of the 1990’s, skimming its glassine surface at habitual intervals to scoop up their latest bounty in an ongoing plethora of accolades; an 8 times Platinum debut album, 16 singles on the Billboard rock charts (six of which peaked at #1), a "Best Hard Rock Performance" Grammy in 1994 and the sale of nearly 40 million records worldwide before entering a period of suspended animation in 2001.
 
Emerging from their cocoon in 2008 the band reconvened for a tour that touched thousands upon thousands of fans thirsty to hear authentic organic music played by craftsmen at the zenith of their talents.  For their first album in almost a decade Stone Temple Pilots decided to look inwards and mine the abundant resources they themselves had acquired since their inception.  

Their first decision was the resolution to helm the new album themselves.   "Producing the album meant a lot to the band," emphasizes Dean.  "We've worked with some amazing people in the past but this was a big statement for us. 

We have high expectations we put upon ourselves and we have high expectations we put on one another.”   Subsequent was the luxury to record at their own pace realized by using the band member’s individual studios; Eric's Bomb Shelter Studios, Robert’s Homefry Studio and Scott's Lavish Studios.  States Robert, “I’m most proud of the fact that in addition to the writing and arranging we took the initiative to record and produce in our own studios. 

It felt like a graduation to me, to an area where we encompassed all aspects of making our records from start to finish.”  Explains Dean, “we didn't have a time constraint and we didn't have to appease anyone.  In our own souls it was something we wanted to accomplish."