Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band that consists of Scott Weiland), brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo, and Eric Kretz.

Originally called Mighty Joe Young, the band released their debut album Core in 1992 under the STP moniker. Core producied the hits "Sex Type Thing", "Plush", "Creep", and "Wicked Garden". In 1993, the band filmed an episode of MTV Unplugged, where they debuted the song "Big Empty". The group won Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist and Heavy Metal/Hard Rock New Artist at the 1994 American Music Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song "Plush".

Stone Temple Pilots released their second album, Purple, in June 1994 and it debuted at number one in the United States. "Interstate Love Song" quickly became a big hit, spending a record-setting fifteen weeks atop the album rock tracks chart. Other hits from the album included "Vasoline" and "Big Empty". By October, just four months after its release, Purple had sold three million copies.

Stone Temple Pilots released their third album, Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, in March 1996, and it debuted at number four on the U.S. charts.

Due to Weiland's personal issues, Stone Temple Pilots went on hiatus and the band members went on to other musical projects.

In 1998, the band regrouped and released in 1999, No. 4. The single "Sour Girl" was fueled by a popular music video starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. The band also recorded an episode of VH1 Storytellers, and went on a summer tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. No. 4 would eventually be certified platinum by the RIAA.

During the summer of 2001, the band released its fifth album, Shangri-La Dee Da, which produced one modest rock radio hit in "Days of the Week".

The band recorded "All in the Suit That You Wear," a song intended to be the lead single on the soundtrack for the 2002 film Spider-Man. However, the band eventually opted out of the song's inclusion on the soundtrack due to Chad Kroeger's song "Hero" ultimately being chosen as the lead single.

The band had dissolved by the end of 2002 after reports of an altercation between Dean DeLeo and Weiland after the last show of Stone Temple Pilots' fall 2002 tour. A greatest hits album, Thank You, with a bonus DVD of archive material and music videos, was released in 2003.

Stone Temple Pilots reunited in 2008 for a 65-date North American tour.

The band's self-titled sixth album Stone Temple Pilots was released in May 2010, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

STP is scheduled to play the Rock Allegiance festival at Hershey Park in September 2012, which will kick off the band's Core anniversary tour.

On June 26, STP released its first-ever concert film, Alive in the Windy City, on DVD and Blu-ray. The performance was filmed at a sold-out show in March 2010 at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago.[34]