MUSIC REVIEW: Stone Temple Pilots

July 16, 2008 at 3:04pm

It kinda looked like play for pay; starting nearly 45 minutes late, Stone Temple Pilots played CMAC as four musicians, not as a quartet. It wasn't tense exactly, but the interplay seemed�somewhat forced. The glue that�kept them together was the band's incredible catalogue. Kings of 90's rock, this band become the casualty of all the excesses and bullshit drama that makes for great music,�but destroys bands.

The selection of last night's tunes was essentially a romp through the hits, as the band has nothing currently on deck. Singer Scott Weiland pranced, preened, and prowled the stage like a fabulous rock star god lady boy. You just don't see enough of that anymore. His voice sounded great -- at least,�what I could make out, as the sound was complete dogshit. I split after hearing "Big Bang Baby" -- the one song I really wanted to hear -- and headed for the parking lot at the top of the hill where, remarkably, the sound was incredible. It was as if the soundman was mixing from way up there.

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