Stone Temple Pilots and Live Launch Joint Tour: Set Lists, Videos

Stone Temple Pilots and Stay kicked off their co-headlining tour with a live performance in Harmony, California on Friday, Aug. 16.

The trek sees each bands celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of a landmark launch. Stay’s 1994 album Throwing Copper is essentially the most commercially profitable launch of their catalog, an eight-times-platinum triumph that spawned hits resembling “Lightning Crashes” and “I Alone.” In the meantime, STP’s 1994 launch, Purple, offered greater than 6 million copies and cemented the band among the many period’s biggest rock acts.

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Each naturally bands lent closely on their thirtieth anniversary materials through the Harmony live performance, although their approaches have been noticeably completely different.

Stay Ship ‘Time Machine’ Set

After a gap set by fellow ‘90s rockers Our Woman Peace, Stay took the stage because the evening’s first headliner. As anticipated, the band devoted loads of their time to materials from Throwing Copper. Eight of their 14 songs on the evening got here from the 1994 LP, nonetheless, the tunes have been combined in with a gradual weight loss plan of different songs from Stay’s catalog.

Frontman Ed Kowalczyk — the band’s solely remaining authentic member — joked that his group was “leaping in a time machine” to cowl materials from the final 30 years. But in a present that was purposefully about celebrating the previous, Stay additionally made time for the current. Specifically, their model new music “Woman Bhang (She Obtained Me Rollin’)” which was carried out early within the set. Different highlights included an emphatic rendition of the 1999 hit “The Dolphin’s Cry” and the brooding tune “Lakini’s Juice.”

Stone Temple Pilots Carry out ‘Purple’ in Its Entirety

The ultimate efficiency of the evening got here from Stone Temple Pilots, who opted to honor Purple by performing the album in its entirety from starting to finish.

To start out, the uncooked aggression of opening music “Meatplow” gave strategy to the acquainted sounds of “Vaseline.” Later, “Interstate Love Track” prompted one of many largest sing-alongs of the evening, as hundreds in attendance joyously belted out the ’90s basic.

Jeff Gutt is now seven years into his run as STP’s singer, having taken over from Chester Bennington and Scott Weiland earlier than him. It was certainly a frightening process moving into a bunch that featured two generational frontmen, however Gutt has unquestionably made the band his personal.

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Throughout 16 songs, the vocalist showcased substantial stage presence and charisma, however he was additionally certain to pay tribute to STP’s roots. Early on, Gutt launched the remainder of the band, made up of basic period members Dean DeLeo (guitar), Robert DeLeo (bass) and Eric Kretz (drums). “They made an incredible file and we’re right here to play by way of that sucker for you,” the singer declared.

Whereas a lot of Purple‘s songs have remained in Stone Temple Pilots’ set lists over time, a number of of the tracks have been lengthy deserted. Notably, the Harmony present marked the primary time in 22 years that STP performed “Kitchenware & Candybars” in entrance of a reside viewers (the band did, nonetheless, carry out it throughout a reside stream in 2020). STP was additionally certain to finish the evening by taking part in a handful of their non-Purple hits, together with “Plush” and “Intercourse Sort Factor.”

Full set lists for each performances may be discovered beneath.

Stone Temple Pilots and Stay will proceed to tour collectively by way of the tip of summer season, with a closing live performance on Sept. 15 in Indianapolis.

Watch Stone Temple Pilots Carry out ‘Interstate Love Track’

Watch Stone Temple Pilots Carry out ‘Fly Lounge’

Watch Stay Carry out ‘Lankini’s Juice’

Stay, Harmony, California, 8/16/24

1. “Prime”
2. “All Over You”
3. “Promoting the Drama”
4. “Freaks
5. “Woman Bhang (She Obtained Me Rollin’)”
6. “Ache Lies on the Riverside”
7. “Pillar of Davidson”
8. “Shit Towne”
9. “The Dolphin’s Cry”
10. “Flip My Head”
11. “White, Dialogue”
12. “Lakini’s Juice”
13. “I Alone”
14. “Lightning Crashes”

Stone Temple Pilots, Harmony, California, 8/16/24

1. “Meatplow”
2. “Vaseline”
3. “Lounge Fly”
4. “Interstate Love Track”
5. “Nonetheless Stays”
6. “Fairly Penny”
7. “Silvergun Superman”
8. “Large Empty”
9. “Unglued”
10. “Military Ants”
11. “Kitchenware & Candybars”
12. “Plush”
13. “Useless and Bloated”
14. “Trippin on a Gap in a Paper Coronary heart”
15. “Intercourse Sort Factor”