Robert Deleo added, "We've talked about doing this kind of tour for years, and now it's finally happening. What will be really interesting are the unexpected choices, where we reimagine a familiar song and present in a totally different light."ĭrummer Eric Kretz shared his excitement about going acoustic, "We'll finally get a chance to play songs from our catalog that we've never played live, or in some cases, haven't played live in more than 20 years." The North American unplugged tour on February 5th in Vancouver, BC at the Commodore Ballroom and will conclude the trek on Marchĭean Deleo had this to say about what fans can expect from the tour, "Some songs are obvious candidates for an acoustic performance. The band shared the new track "Fare Thee Well", which is the lead song from their forthcoming album "Perdida" that is set to hit stores on February 7th. They have also revealed the first song from the effort.
“The moment you hear those first slide notes, it’s like that old show Name That Tune.Stone Temple Pilots have announced their very first acoustic album and will be launching an unplugged tour to support it. “It’s like, ‘What’s the most hair-raising thing we can open a show with?’” I just thought it would be cool to start out with some restraint. “Everybody always wants to come out guns a-blazing,” he says. Through the years, the song has been a fixture in the STP setlist, and interestingly, during their 2008 reunion tour, they used it as their show opener. “We never really thought a song might be a hit,” he says. While it could be surmised that the band knew they were sitting on a hit, DeLeo says they never talked about the song’s commercial prospects and were pleasantly surprised when it reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts. Months before it was released, STP previewed “Big Empty” on MTV Unplugged. Stone Temple Pilots, 2001 (Image credit: Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty) He said, ‘We got it, man.’ That kind of thing happens all the time.” “I wanted to redo it, and I said, ‘I know I can beat that,’” he says. The stirring slide lines were played (in an open G tuning) on a rented Dobro, which the guitarist remembers was “painted yellow and beat to shit, but gosh, it sounded so damn good.” DeLeo’s only qualm at the time was after he played the opening lead line. Later, he overdubbed a Telecaster through a Fender Princeton. For the basic tracks, DeLeo played a rented Gibson ES-335 (“I didn’t own a hollow-body at the time”) through a VHT Classic power amp and a Marshall 4x12. “Each guy knew what the other was going to do.”Īfter cutting “Dancing Days,” the band recorded three takes of “Big Empty” in relatively short order. “Things happened very quickly,” DeLeo says. The band booked time at the Record Plant in Los Angeles with their producer, Brendan O’Brien, to cut two songs in one weekend: a version of “Dancing Days” for the Led Zeppelin tribute album, Ecomium, and “Big Empty” for The Crow soundtrack.ĭeLeo, his bassist brother, Robert, and drummer Eric Kretz ran through it several times as Weiland tried out different vocal melody ideas while writing lyrics.
Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo at the 21st Annual American Music Awards, 1994 (Image credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
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