The Return of Stone Temple Pilots!

Two bands I thought I would never get a chance to see give me a second chance... Smashing Pumpkins and STP. Awesome

 

Ugghhh. Do we really need a revival of crappy overrated 90's bands?

 

Seriously, none of those bands could hold a candle to the super-mega powerhouse band of gods known as Creed.

 

Oops.

 

The answer is, of course, yes.

 

STP was underrated if anything. Got the reputation of being Pearl Jam/Nirvana copycats. Seriously? Their music was nothing like those bands. Their roots are clearly in Zepp/Doors type rock n roll.

 

Alice's Dog Reaching Nirvana While Chained in the Stone Temple Pearl Garden...


"Epic proportions?"

What a disappointing era of music...

 

The best band of the new millienium is releasing a new album next week.

The Raconteurs: do it our way


Paul MacInnes
Tuesday March 18, 2008
guardian.co.uk


As Radiohead sought to revolutionise the record industry with the pay-what-you-like release of In Rainbows, so the Raconteurs are hoping to change the face of music journalism by announcing the release of a new album only a week in advance.
Consolers of the Lonely is the second album from the group that brought together long-time friends Jack White and Brendan Benson in what is often described, much to the members' chagrin, as a supergroup. The album will hit shops both physical and virtual next Tuesday, March 25, after its existence was revealed today in a press release. The band's debut album Broken Boy Soldiers was released in 2006 to a blizzard of hype, something they appear keen to avoid this time around.


The Raconteurs are happy to announce that in one week's time their second album, entitled 'Consolers Of The Lonely', will be available EVERYWHERE", the statement read.
"With this release, The Raconteurs are forgoing the usual months of lead time for press and radio set up, as well as forgoing the all-important 'first week sales'. We wanted to explore the idea of releasing an album everywhere at once and THEN marketing and promoting it thereafter. The Raconteurs would rather this release not be defined by it's [sic] first weeks sales, pre-release promotion, or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it."

"March 25th became the soonest date to have it available in EVERY FORMAT AT ONCE", the statment went on in a mixture of cases. " The band have done no interviews or advertisements for this record before this announcement."

Elsewhere in the release, which you can read in full on the official Raconteurs site, the band make further suggestions as to how they wish their new product to be consumed. Included amongst the list are that the album be bought and listened to in its entirety, and that it would be best if it were bought on vinyl.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2266377,00.html#article_continue

 

I can't stand these "reunions" when all they do is just go out on tour and not even bother to release a new album. It's just a blatant cash grab.

 

OMG I just squirted.
Can't wait for Tuesday.

 

ACL 2008 anyone? That would be kewl.

 

At the time it was revolutionary. Grunge helped open the door for all kinds of music that we take for granted now. The only hard rock bands getting airplay back then were your hair bands. In the late '80s I thought I would never hear Soundgarden on the radio. It was just an impossibility. So while a lot of grunge doesn't hold up very well it still accomplished something and was a soundtrack for some good times. Those few years meant something (I think). I have a '90s playlist with a lot of the songs I really don't even like just for memory's sake. I need that grunge vibe from time to time.

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I don't care because if they released a new album and I saw them in concert, they would play all of their new crappy songs. This way you know it is going to be old good stuff.

I can see this tour ending early when Scott Weiland goes bonkers on goofy pills.

 

My favorite thing about the "grundge era" was that all the sudden it was cool to never shave and dress like a TOTAL SLOB. I had already been doing that since the mid-eighties.

 

Is the PIT soldout? Anyone have some presale codes? The only one I could locate doesn't have PIT tickets available.

Black Francis is opening!

 

I can't comment on STP's abilities as a live band, but the Smashing Pumpkins were absolutely terrible live. The only entertaining part of their show here in 1993 was Billy Corgan getting hit in the face by a shoe.

 

But of course they are. Your drool is getting on my monitor.