Wow, this just sounds like a really bad cover band that you'd pay 5 bucks to see. Not a band that you'd go to see even... just a band that is playing at a bar that serves the best buffalo wings in town and has the coldest beer. Then you show up past 9:00 and have to pay the $5 cover charge but you're really hungry and really thirsty so you pay it... And then this shitshow walks on stage and starts raping all your favorite old, classic STP songs. Wow, this is bad.
Scott needs to stop. He has a great ear so maybe he should just get gigs as a studio producer.
I've got to ask you a question, but first I must make it clear that I'm not an angry STP/Weiland apologist who's angry about your constant bashing. Over past couple of years, I've fallen out of my STP obsession quite a bit to the point where I just enjoy their previous work. I haven't looked forward to anything they've done for a few years and I've frequented this forum less and less. The only reason I still check here every once in a while because I still like these guys, just not as much as I used to.
So my question to you is: Why do you still come here? It doesn't seem like hold ANY decent feelings towards STP or Weiland, yet for at least a year you've come here to bash them. Again, I feel detached personally from STP, so I'm not an offended fan telling you "get a life." I'm just genuinely curious.
STP was a big part of my life growing up. There were times that I ate, drank and slept STP. I've probably spent thousands on shirts, shows, CD's (singles, bootlegs, bootleg videos, etc...) As life has gone on and I grew up, my musical tastes have changed and I began working with people in the music industry and became friends with people.
Surprisingly, people here have joked about me being in my parents basement which is laughable. I've been coming here and posting a long time. I've contributed a lot to the community of the years, including many of those videos Rik posted a few years ago. I'm married and I just returned from a great vacation in Hawaii for 10 days. I have a great job and I still work with and keep up with people that work in the industry.
Anyway, it wasn't until about 2009 or so when I started hearing rumblings about the guys in STP from people I know that associate to them... One person pretty directly. You all know I've made it know in many of my posts that I know certain things and I've said things about stuff and a few months later, they're true. My track record is pretty solid.
Every now and then, I lurk on the board to see what everyone is talking about and to see if there were any new old bootlegs from older tours that have come out. I still like the older STP stuff but it's the new stuff that sucks. Every now and then I hear rumblings about the guys from my contact and I'll pass it on in a way I can without jeopardizing my relationships that have taken so long to build over the years.
So many people here are younger than I am and invest the same type of time that I did growing up. It's great if that's what you really want to do but you all think these guys walk on water. I did too but once you really know the REAL guys and you see or hear from someone that knows the REAL people, and you hear what you hear, it really let's the air out of the balloon.
STP doesn't care about you. If you met them after a show at a meet and greet, you met them in a controlled environment and if they came out as being genuine, that's what they want you to think. I know the real truth and it's all about the cash. They don't like one another and they've been working as a name for the last 5 years to take money from their fans.
They recorded the last album separately. They wanted no studio interaction with Scott.
On tour, they travel in separate buses.
They don't work at rehearsing any older material to include in setlists on these tours because that takes time to work together. They can play the greatest hits songs in their sleep... well all except for Scott and he needs a teleprompter because of all the drugs he's done, he has CRS (Can't Remember Shit) Syndrome.
They have all had pretty substantial substance abuse issues and they continue making Scott out to be the one with the biggest issue.
The lies the band has told over the years in interviews about doing certain concerts a certain way, recording certain songs, how many songs they recorded... It's all bullshit. It's all been stuff just to lead fans on into thinking there is more and more out there than there is.
Oh, my contact was told directly by 2/4 members of the band that they know they don't "have it" but as long as fans kept coming to the shows, they were okay with 'business as usual.' Well, I guess enough fans stopped going to the shows and it was enough to cause some strife.
The SW covers album was a cash grab. He had songs in the can that he knew some people would buy so he released it. He released it as an overpriced, mish mosh of mixed quality songs just to get your money instead of putting it on itunes or bandcamp where he has to pay "commission" on what sells.
It goes on and on.
So, I come here to see what's new and exciting and when I feel the need to interject, I will.
It goes on and on.
