![]() ![]() Part way into opener “The Big Empty,” Dean DeLeo’s guitar rig abruptly cut out, bringing the song to a grinding halt. In front of a capacity crowd, things got off to an auspicious start. A 70-date tour landed them at Charter One Pavilion on an unseasonably cold evening adjacent to Chicago’s majestic lakefront. So more than half a decade after their disintegration, STP have reconvened for what certainly felt like one last trip to the nostalgia ATM. Never a critics’ darling, the quartet settled for the success-is-the-best-revenge route, selling tens of millions of records before an acrimonious split - fueled, for the most part, by singer Scott Weiland’s extensive rap sheet (addiction, rehab, relapse in fact he recently spent a 14-minute stretch in jail) - ended their run after the release of their fifth record. ![]() Ultimately, they touched down somewhere in the middle. But they also craved stardom and all its trappings, something their contemporaries claimed to vehemently despise. Instead, they got blamed for birthing Bush (the band, not the president). In the halcyon days of Seattle grunge, they yearned for the credibility of torchbearers like Nirvana, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden. Stone Temple Pilots always wanted it both ways. ![]()
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