STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Guitarist Dean DeLeo Talks Core Reissue, Theater Tour
December 2, 2011, 12 years ago
RollingStone.com has issued the following report from Greg Prato:
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' seminal debut, Core, sold eight million copies and spawned the radio hits 'Sex Type Thing', 'Plush' and 'Creep'. Now, with the 20th anniversary of its release approaching, the band is preparing for a celebration.
Though no plans are confirmed yet, guitarist Dean De Leo has plenty of ideas for the occasion.
"What I'd like to see happen is the band go out and do more intimate shows – really lovely theaters around the country," DeLeo tells Rolling Stone. "Smaller shows, doing the first album in its entirety, and then maybe take requests."Core was released on September 29th, 1992, and served an important template for the rock band's career. DeLeo recalls that they did not have many extra outtakes from its recording session for an expanded reissue, but that "We have tons of live recordings from that era, and we didn't multi-track record that stuff. There's no fixes, so they'd sound incredible if we just master them," he says. "I have dozens and dozens of DATs from that era. So this is the true essence of the band – no fixing a guitar part or a vocal part. This is the how it went down."
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