OT: RIP Scott Weiland, 48
December 4th, 2015 at 2:10 AM ^
December 4th, 2015 at 2:30 AM ^
Without a doubt my favorite singer. Not a shocking death, but still very sad. So glad I got to see him play 3 times in the last few months. RIP.
December 4th, 2015 at 2:37 AM ^
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The thing I loved about him is that is voice seemed to change with every song...not the same tone or style,,,kept it fresh.
December 4th, 2015 at 5:08 AM ^
December 4th, 2015 at 7:20 AM ^
I didn't know that you were a sour girl during your 20s, but now it makes sense.
December 4th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
...but I'm down with anyone who puts SMG in a music video.
December 4th, 2015 at 5:30 AM ^
provided part of the soundtrack to my college / post-high school years.
Saw them in 1994 on the Purple tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
Amazing show.
December 4th, 2015 at 6:24 AM ^
I saw them at that same show. I remember it was general admission on the floor and we were able to get about 10 ft from the stage. It was a great show. Jawbox and Meatpuppets opened if I recall correctly.
I also recall that being the first show I went to where I felt old. I was 20 and was surrounded by 13 and 14 year old girls.
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December 4th, 2015 at 7:56 AM ^
Maybe that's a good thing, since Frances Bean's father is already dead.
December 4th, 2015 at 8:22 AM ^
She would have been better off being raised by wolves.
/still blame Courtney for Kurt's death
December 4th, 2015 at 8:38 AM ^
If not direct involvement, she definitely pushed him in that direction.
December 4th, 2015 at 9:12 AM ^
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December 4th, 2015 at 8:05 AM ^
Gimme a break.
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December 4th, 2015 at 7:03 AM ^
I'm old. I don't know who Scott Weiland is.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:24 AM ^
...of Jim Morrison, maybe.
Or if you're in octogenarian territory, maybe the 1990s version of Billie Holiday.
Impeccable music ability, ground-breaking records, but unfortunately an unshakable monkey on the back.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:49 AM ^
but I'm a big fan of Stone Temple Pilots. Saw them once, 4 years ago on Halloween great show. You may know some of their songs without knowing who they are.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:59 AM ^
Full-time heroin addict, part-time musician.
December 4th, 2015 at 8:44 AM ^
There aren't too many part-time addicts out there, so the "full-time" does not really single him out. What does single him out is that he was a singular talent.
As a musician he was like the girl with the little curl, and he was very very good much more often than he was horrid . That voice was magnificent.
In any event, your post risks being read as diminishing Weiland's death because he was an addict.* I don't see it that way - maybe because I've seen some friends' kids end up in a box way too young due to their heroin (and oxycontin) addictions.
*I doubt you meant it that way, but it reads that way.
December 4th, 2015 at 8:17 AM ^
I'm the same way when someone talks about some jackoff named "Harry" in "one direction". . .
December 4th, 2015 at 7:17 AM ^
As a sophomore in high school, when a friend popped in Core while we were feeling like badasses smoking cigarettes on break. Since that day, I was hooked.
Scott and Layne Staley provided a respite for me during times throughout high school and here at U-M that I thought were absolute rock bottom at the time. In retrospect, that was just life being life, but I shudder to think where I might be without the outlet they provided.
Like Layne before him, I think we all knew that Scott's life would be a short one, yet the news of his death still stings.
Took the long way into work today to listen to Core, which I would still contend is probably the most complete, solid album to come out of the 1990s, hands down.
"...you don't know my name / you know where to find me."
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is the only song my family lets me sing on Rock Band and even then it's just to laugh at me.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:57 AM ^
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STP's work, especially (IMO) No. 4, was fantastic and he was the essence of that band. Just earlier this week a colleague and I were wondering what he was up to. Sadly, now we know.
R.I.P. Scott Weiland.
December 4th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
I had no idea he had another band going and was touring.
December 4th, 2015 at 8:09 AM ^
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1. Plush
2. Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
3. Interstate Love Song
4. Down
5. Creep
6. Sex Type Thing
7. Dead and Bloated
8. Big Empty
9. Vasoline
10. Sour Girl
December 4th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
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generation music-wise. Lots of garbage before and after, but the early-mid 90's were outstanding. So many good and original bands active all at the same time. Even the pop music (eg Gin Blossoms) was pretty good.
December 4th, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
Got to see the GBs live shortly before Doug Hopkins' suicide -- I want to say, Spring 1993 -- (gee, this is a depressing thread, ain't it?), and it was a DAMN good show. Even though Doug himself had been replaced in the band by then. He was bad off, to say the least.
December 4th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
Also Soundgarden and early Smashing Pumpkins. And a lot of great shoegaze like My Bloody Valentine as well.
December 4th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
Were the gold standard of that musical era. With Alice in Chains coming in at a very close 3rd. Really original songwriting with great vocal styles and really solid musicianship.
Pearl Jam was good until you discovered that Eddie Vetter had no depth as a singer, and Nirvana was really great but they got all the credit that Soundgarden should have gotten.
Scott Wieland and Layne Staley were probably the best rock vocalists to come along in the decade of musical stagnation that preceded the grunge era.
December 4th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
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R.E.M. was killing it in this time frame as well with Out of Time and Automatic for the People.
December 4th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
yesterday. The whole album. Remember when you could do that? Buy a whole album (cd, whatever) and listen to it from beginning to end and all the songs were good? Tons of grunge era albums were like that. Gish, 10, Green, every Nirvana album, and many, many more.
Today? None.
December 4th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
'Still Remains.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L35vA9-DZl4&sns=fb
That's a great song.
Can't forget 'Wicked Garden' either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLuvaSXfig
Core and Purple were so, so good. Very little (to no) filler.