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Re: Stone Temple Pilots Australian Tour
Went to the Perth gig last night. Strangely it's actually the first time STP has ever toured Australia.
Thought the gig was really good. Sonically the music was great and the songs sounded very close to the album versions which was impressive. Scott's voice also sounded really good.
That said I was disappointed that the set only went for about 1 hour and 10/15 minutes. They played most of the stuff I wanted to hear though which was stuff from Core and Purple I didn't care much for their later stuff past these two album and possibly parts of their Tiny Music album.
However I have to make a comment on Weiland's stagecraft. I never got to see VR when they came to Oz. I had my ticket for the Perth gig on the Contraband tour and that show was cancelled and obviously things imploded before the Libertad tour even got to Australia. Anyhow, I have to say I don't like his stagecraft. He looks gay at times the way he struts/moves around. I dunno it just doesn't work for me.
It probably didn't help that he came out for the first song and he had that FUCKING MEGAPHONE with him which I HATE! It's funny I was talking to my wife about it (she didn't go to the concert but has been forced to watch VR boots in the past). She said exactly the same thing as me. I started to tell her about how he looked and moved on stage and before I could finish she says - he looks gay the way he moves about.
Anyhow, that aside it was a good concert, albeit too fucken short IMO. The other stupid thing is we went to go and get some more drinks at 9:30 (STP hadn't even started) and they had shut the fucken bar. Seriously we live in a nanny state here it's pathetic.
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However I have to make a comment on Weiland's stagecraft. I never got to see VR when they came to Oz. I had my ticket for the Perth gig on the Contraband tour and that show was cancelled and obviously things imploded before the Libertad tour even got to Australia.
Although I saw VR for 3 shows of the contraband tour I was so disapointed that libertad tour collapsed...VR's libertad lvie setlist was a great mix and slash was getting back into rocking, would have been a great show. Guess he's made up for it with soundwave now though.
Anyhow, I have to say I don't like his stagecraft. He looks gay at times they way he struts/moves around. I dunno it just doesn't work for me.
Interesting you say that, a number of my friends have commented the same thing seeing VR. A few people described him as a Mick Jagger want to be without Jagger's inante coolness and machismo that lets him get away with that kind of efiminate prancing.
It's probably not helped by the fact that scott tends to be heroin abuser thin either and seems to like tight pants and so on.
It probably didn't help that he came out for the first song and he had that FUCKING MEGAPHONE with him which I HATE!
We disagree there...although I don't like when he over uses it (or I think he does) but in moderation it's kinda cool.
For example I like the way it's used in the intro to sucker train blues over the guitar before all the distorition kicks in
Here's the same thing from Myles and co...and while it rocks as hell...that into sort of misses that siren noise
It's funny I was talking to my wife about it (she didn't go to the concert but has been forced to watch VR boots in the past). She said exactly the same thing as me. I started to tell her about how he looked and moved on stage and before I could finish she says - he looks gay the way he moves about.
Yeah i always think with rock stuff...you have to have a certain persona to pull it off. Like Axl can walk around in bike pants and a feather boa and well..he still seems to come off like he could fight you...hahah....on one hand scott seems unself concious enough to get away with it sometimes - but he's right on that threshold of not pulling it off i think...maybe all us aussies are homophobic or something..but yeah it totally comes across as not the kind of image you'd expect him to be trying to achieve....
Anyhow, that aside it was a good concert, albeit too fucken short
Yeah sounds like a very short set. Cos it wasn't the cheapest show ticket price wise was it? I was going to go but was broke when it went on sale and I think its sold out now for the saturday show here.
IMO. The other stupid thing is we went to go and get some more drinks at 9:30 (STP hadn't even started) and they had shut the fucken bar. Seriously we live in a nanny state here it's pathetic.
That's pretty rough 9.30 and before the headline act and its shut. Bad form 
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Interesting you say that, a number of my friends have commented the same thing seeing VR. A few people described him as a Mick Jagger want to be without Jagger's inante coolness and machismo that lets him get away with that kind of efiminate prancing.
That's a good call actually I even thought that myself at the time, a couple of instances he strutted like a bit of a Jagger imitation but it just didn't quite cut it.
Possibly as you say too his waif look combined with him dressing like he is auditioning for Talking Heads doesn't help.
In fairness he didn't overuse the megaphone it was only used on 2 songs. I have a hatred for it from the VR boots I have watched. There is one song (it might even be sucker train blues) where at the end or somewhere in the middle he just had the siren on it it wailing and wailing for ages. It annoyed me to the point where I yelled at the TV to STFU. 
Tickets were $90 so it wasn't cheap. The tix had apparently sold out here too but it was a small venue and the top half of the basketball stadium seating it was in was shut off. Even the lower half seated area didn't look full. But a slightly longer set would have been better value for money.
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love me some STP...they out on a great show IMO, and they sound fantastic...ive seen them twice (1993 and 2009) anyway i can understand how wieland's dancing can piss people off but hey he does what he does. he sounds great live seems to like it so wtf....i have no problem with the megaphone, works in the songs that he uses it on IMO...dead and bloated comes to mind
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I'll be seeing STP in Sydney on Sunday, so I'll write up my thoughts of the gig too.
I thought Scott was a hell of a frontman when I saw VR twice on the Contraband tour in Sydney, but I could understand the gay thing, he's not the most masculine of fellows.
In VR he tried to be more of a macho rock n roll kinda guy, but in STP he can be his usual quirky self, which could be seen as being kinda gay... lol
Still looking forward to Sunday's gig though
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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Guitarist: Regardless Of What Happened, The Four Of Us Are Brothers - Mar. 17, 2011
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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Guitarist: Regardless Of What Happened, The Four Of Us Are Brothers - Mar. 17, 2011
The New Zealand Herald recently conducted an interview with STONE TEMPLE PILOTS guitarist Dean DeLeo. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.
On being music's best babysitter, having looked after the band's notorious trainwreck of a singer, Scott Weiland:
"If there was an award given out for patience and compassion I'd have a mantel full of them."
"It's been 20 years I've been in this band and if I allow myself to get bent over and angry, and lost in that bullshit world of anger, then who's the idiot here?
"And look, regardless of what you hear about what happened, the four of us are brothers. We grew up together.
On STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' split in 2003:
"We'd been literally shoulder to shoulder — and Scott and I actually lived together, sharing a room together back when we first started touring and had a house together — for a long time, and you know what?! We started getting really tired of one another's routines. It was a much-needed break."
"I don't think any of us planned on [the break] being that long but Scott had huge success with VELVET REVOLVER, and we were all respectful of it, and we didn't want to throw a wrench in that machine. But then eventually all rivers flow back to the sea don't they?"
On fatherhood:
"[Before] it was all about the band, but [now] the band is pretty much second to all of us. First and foremost we've all become parents, and that takes precedence over everything. But yeah, personally speaking, life has changed, because being a dad puts you in a place where you want to do all you can as a human being as a father and a friend. It's our responsibility to mould these little monkeys."
On the band's latest, self-titled album:
"All of our records were different from one another, which was a very concerted effort on our part to try not to repeat ourselves, and as a guitar player and songwriter I try to stumble upon new things, and of course there are always new inspirations. For us, and me personally, I don't really like to visit where I have been before."
Read the entire interview from The New Zealand Herald.
Re: Stone Temple Pilots Australian Tour
I'll be seeing STP in Sydney on Sunday, so I'll write up my thoughts of the gig too.
I thought Scott was a hell of a frontman when I saw VR twice on the Contraband tour in Sydney, but I could understand the gay thing, he's not the most masculine of fellows.
In VR he tried to be more of a macho rock n roll kinda guy, but in STP he can be his usual quirky self, which could be seen as being kinda gay... lolStill looking forward to Sunday's gig though
My mother years ago when Scott joined VR said when she saw the Slither video that Scott reminded her that he seemed to be copycatting Mick Jagger with half the talent.
I pretty much thought that was a dead fuckin' on statement then, and she wasn't really even that big of a rock fan.
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