Meanwhile, “Wicked Garden” ruminates on lost innocence over a relentlessly brutal chug of guitars, “Creep” slows things down with its introspective angst, and “Plush” tells the haunting story of a woman found dead via one of the decade’s catchiest riffs. “Sex Type Thing” thumps and thrashes as Weiland mocks machismo, his sinister sneer so convincing critics thought he was singing in first person. He wasn’t afraid to be the mercurial rock star either, a point he’d prove immediately, hollering maniacally through a bullhorn on opener “Dead & Bloated,” before drummer Eric Kretz and bassist Robert DeLeo lock into a frantic rhythm and guitarist Dean DeLeo piles on the dense metallic crunch.īut it’s the album’s biggest hits that would seal the band’s rock-god fate. Of course, frontman Scott Weiland was the main source of that sizzling-hot magnetism, his effortless swagger and jagged rasp lifting STP’s hard, heavy approach out of the sludge and straight into the Gen-X consciousness. And so the band was hastily thrown under Seattle’s grunge umbrella, even though they hailed from sunny Southern California and sounded slinkier and sexier than anything else playing on alternative radio. That song is included in my “gym playlist”.When Stone Temple Pilots debuted with Core in 1992, the music press and burgeoning alt-rock scene didn’t quite know what to think of them. Nevertheless, I’m glad to hear my favorite song, “Hickory Dichotomy”, from their current album. It would have been awesome if they had an acoustic set as well.

Some of these songs are: Sour Girl, Creep, Lady Picture Show and Pretty Penny. There are some songs that I would have wanted to hear live though. They did a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Dancing Days (they do this most of the time). They played some old hits and some new songs. Stone Temple Pilots opened with Crackerman which made the crowd stand up and sing with STP. I like Sino Sikat but their music is very different from that of Stone Temple Pilots. We where seated at Upper Box B then.Īnyway, I was disappointed with the choice of Sino Sikat as the front act of Stone Temple Pilots. The last time we watched a concert in Araneta Coliseum was the Gin Blossoms concert. We got the Upper Box A tickets via TicketNet. We ended up choosing Stone Temple Pilots because we like them more and of course, we both love the concert venue (Araneta Coliseum). We’re supposed to watch it but the concert dates of Deftones and Stone Temple Pilots are quite near.

Last month, Deftones had a concert in Manila.

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