Stone Temple Pilots is a Grammy Award-winning American rock band consisting of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion).
Stone Temple Pilots can trace its beginnings to a Black Flag concert in Long Beach in 1986, where Scott Weiland met Robert DeLeo. They both dated the same woman, and bonded through the situation. When the girl left town, Weiland and DeLeo moved into her vacated apartment. Immediately, Weiland and DeLeo formed a band with two of Scott’s friends from Edison High School, Corey Hicock (guitar) and David Allen (drums). After Allen’s departure, drummer Eric Kretz joined the band. Soon after, Robert DeLeo’s brother, Dean DeLeo, decided to play guitar in the band replacing Hicock, completing the quartet. They then named their band Mighty Joe Young. The band recorded a demo tape that was completed around 1990.
The group then began to work on their debut album with Brendan O’Brien. During the recording, they received a call from their lawyer who informed them that there was a blues man who had already claimed the name Mighty Joe Young. They changed the band’s name to Shirley Temple’s Pussy and performed under this name for a short time, but then changed the name again due to record label pressure They liked the initials STP and eventually settled on the name Stone Temple Pilots in 1992, towards the end of the Core sessions
Vasoline
http://djallyn.org/media/STP_vasoline.flvOne time a thing occurred to me
What’s real, and what’s for sale?
Blew a kiss and tried to take it home
It isn’t you, isn’t me
Search for things you can’t see
Going blind, out of reach
Somewhere in the vasolineTwo times and it has rendered me
Punch drunk and without bail
Think I’d be safer all alone
Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the timeYou’ll see the look and you’ll see the lies
You’ll eat the lies, and you will.It isn’t you, isn’t me
Search for things you can’t see
Going blind, out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline
Audio off of the 1994 Purple album:
Break