And I’d spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff - paying your dues, I guess. I had always looked down upon those shows, just because those people stand in line for a day and get their shot.
Then when I needed to come back, it was years later, because I didn’t want to give up on my dream,” Gutt says. “I had walked away from the music industry because I had a certain integrity and all that. It was very cool that he could be there for that.” Bennington even ended up jumping onstage to sing a couple of songs with Stone Temple Pilots, in what must have felt like a torch-passing moment at the time. He wanted to be there for that first show. “It my first private audition with STP, and he called and asked if he could come. Gutt and Bennington were such good friends, in fact, that Bennington invited himself to the L.A. When we were recording, they’d be recording there. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals I’d see him in the studios that we were at. “I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that’s how I knew him. I’ve known Chester since 2001,” Gutt reveals to Yahoo Entertainment. But he still felt pressure - not only because he had to late fill iconic STP frontman Scott Weiland’s shoes but because the singer who replaced Weiland from 2013 to 2015, Chester Bennington, was in the audience that day.
As a onetime X Factor USA contestant, he’d had plenty of experience covering other artists’ songs, and as the former frontman for several estblished rock bands, he knew how to work a crowd. industry showcase in November 2016, he wasn’t that nervous. The band's evolution throughout the 1990s and early 2000s involved periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction.When Jeff Gutt gave his first performance as the new lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots, at a secret L.A. While initially rising to fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, further releases from the band expressed a variety of influences, including psychedelic rock, bossa nova, and classic rock. The band released its seventh studio album, also titled Stone Temple Pilots, on March 16, 2018. The band's only material with Bennington was the EP High Rise in 2013. The band eventually reconvened in 2008 for a reunion tour, released a new self-titled album in 2010, and actively toured until Chester Bennington's departure. 4 (1999), and Shangri-La Dee Da (2001), before separating in 2002, after which the band members partook in various projects (most notably Velvet Revolver and Army of Anyone). Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996), No. The band released four more studio albums: Purple (1994), Tiny Music. The band's debut album, Core (1992), was a commercial success, and they went on to become one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1990s, selling more than 18 million albums in the United States and 35 million worldwide. On November 14, 2017, Jeff Gutt was announced as STP’s new lead singer.Īfter forming in 1989 under the name Mighty Joe Young, the band signed with Atlantic Records and changed its name to Stone Temple Pilots. On July 20, 2017, Bennington committed suicide at his home. In 2016, the band launched an online audition for a new lead vocalist.
On December 3, 2015, Weiland was found dead on his tour bus before a performance with his band The Wildabouts. Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington joined the band in May 2013, but amicably left in November 2015 to focus solely on Linkin Park. From the band's formation in 1989, its line-up remained unchanged until the firing of Weiland in February 2013. Stone Temple Pilots (often abbreviated as STP) are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitars), and Eric Kretz (drums). The following article has been taken from Wikipedia's "Stone Temple Pilots" article. Soi Disant, Velvet Revolver, Army of Anyone, Spiralarms, Linkin Park, The Wildabouts Alternative Rock, Grunge, Hard Rock, Acoustic Rock, Post-grunge, Power Pop, Modern Rock