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You’ve included your 1993 MTV Unplugged performance in the package. And it seemed like a lot of people related to that. All we really knew is we sincerely believed in what we were doing, and really what mattered is we finally had the chance to express what we were going through in life at the time. The business part of it and where it went and how many people related to it, you have no control over that, especially as a first record. I think from a musical standpoint we felt like we were sitting on a bomb. While you were making Core did you at all feel like it had the potential to be as huge as it was?ĭeLeo: Well, I don’t think we would’ve done what we were doing if we didn’t feel it was impactful. I don’t go back and listen to it much, but I can certainly relate to it, still. There’s a lot of frustration and anger and sadness all wrapped into one. I think all of that wrapped up shows on that record.
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I look back and think about that frustrated, highly motivated group of guys, searching for I don’t know what and trying to soothe it with the music we were making.
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I kind of look back at in in lifetimes, and that was definitely a different lifetime for all of us. Bassist and co-founder Robert DeLeo took a break from that to talk about his Core memories…ĭoes it feel like 25 years of Core? Or 25 minutes? Or 250 years?ĭeLeo: Y’know, I don’t like looking back at life in years. STP is now reeling from the loss of another singer - Linkin Park‘s Chester Bennington, who did double-duty with STP from 2013-15 - but is also moving forward in a search for a new singer to usher in another era. Stone Temple Pilots' 'Core' 25th Anniversary Reissue Has Vinyl, DVD