For another perspective, here's RadioKaren's review from the official boards:
Here's my Rockfest story:
we had our RV in the corporate camping section which runs along the fence at the backstage area. we saw one STP bus pull in at around 10:30 (no way they would have made an 11 pm start even without the rain). We saw Robert, Eric and Dean (*sigh*) get off the bus and go into their dressing room. Dean came out right away and had a smoke. Then he went back in. A few minutes later he came back out again (this time he was shirtless...double sigh) to have another smoke. He was standing and talking with a pretty blonde girl. Then they walked around the building where we were standing and went into a full-on make out session. Hubby and I weren't too comfortable watching them so we tip-toed away.
Right after that, Scott's bus pulled up. We never saw him get off the bus.
I made a sign that said "STP--Thank You" for the show. We were going to have people sign it at our booth on radio-row but someone tried to steal it so I had to put it away.
The band took the stage with no introduction-- they just went into Big Empty.Scott didn't sound very good. He was a lot better at Summerfest on July 4th. He missed a LOT of words and was very hard to understand.
Hubby and I were in the 3rd row and we could see Dean and Robert talking to each other a lot. Robert didn't look happy at all! They seemed to be keeping a close eye on Scott.
I didn't think the crowd was bad. But we were in front with a lot of STP fans.
After the encore of Dead and Bloated...Robert kind of tossed his guitar to a tech and stormed off stage.
We waived our sign to Scott, Dean and Eric. Eric pointed to us and laughed. Scott stared at the sign for a long time with a weird smile on his face. I don't know if it was a 'wow that's such a cool sign' smile or a 'wow, you two are really pathetic' smile. But it was a smile nonetheless.
I have some pictures on my webpage including a picture of our sign. My camera SUCKS at taking pictures at night so they're not very good. Here's the link:
http://www.wlxr.com/karenspage2.htmlI thought Scott sounded pretty wasted. I introduced the Wallflowers the next day and asked the production guy backstage what happened during the STP show and he said 'drugs'. I'm not stating anything for a fact..just repeating what the guy said.
Kretzl--where were your seats?
