STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Bassist Robert DeLeo Talks About New Album
March 25, 2010, 14 years ago
Gary Graff from http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/stone-temple-pilots-weiland-take-separate-1004078483.storyBillboard is reporting:
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS had little trouble gearing up for the group's first new album in nine years, according to bassist Robert DeLeo.
"I think Dean and I always have music going on," DeLeo tells Billboard.com, referring to his older brother and STP's guitarist. "I think it's a matter of always having that on the back burner. Then it's just the right time of saying, 'Hey, let's go make a record.' I think once we made that commitment, the music was presented and off we went."STP - which began its reunion in 2008 with what DeLeo calls the "baby steps" of touring rather than immediately going into the studio - also fashioned a new way of working for Stone Temple Pilots, which comes out May 25. While the DeLeos and drummer Eric Kretz worked on songs together, frontman Scott Weiland mostly holed up in his own Lavish Studios to record vocals with producer Don Was.
"This record was made in a way that Scott wasn't really there for the creation of these songs, musically," DeLeo explains. "We kind of guessed our way through it. It was challenging because we had to get as much as we could done to complete a song, but then we had to hold back 'cause we had to see if it was in the right key and stuff like that. The songs that were sent over to (Weiland) were pretty much in a completed demo form with a scratch melody on there, and Scott has the option to use the melody or not.
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The new STP single, 'Between The Lines', is now streaming online at this location.
Stone Temple Pilots tracklisting:
'Between The Lines'
'Take A Load Off'
'Huckleberry Crumble'
'Hickory Dichotomy'
'Dare If You Dare'
'Cinnamon'
'Hazy Daze'
'Bagman'
'Peacoat'
'Fast As I Can'
'First Kiss On Mars'
'Maver'
