Stone Temple Pilots Concert

Did you grow up listening to the sounds of Stone Temple Pilots. Well if you did you are in luck because the talented band will be playing at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 8pm.

For the current tour, the band is reaching deep into their back catalogue for STP-starved fans. Guitarist Dean DeLeo told Billboard “We’ve been in rehearsals the last week and a half. We’re playing some stuff we’ve never played live. We’re doing some stuff from No. 4 and some things off Purple that we haven’t played since, like, ’94.”

Stone Temple Pilots were able to make alternative rock into stadium rock; naturally, they became the most critically despised band of their era. Accused by many critics of being nothing more than rip-off artists, pilfering from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, the band nevertheless became major stars in 1993. And the influences of those bands are apparent in their music, but Stone Temple Pilots do manage to change things around a bit. STP are more concerned with tight song structure and riffs than punk rage.

Their closest antecedents are not the Sex Pistols; instead the band resembles arena rock acts from the '70s -- it's popular hard rock that sounds good on the radio and in concert.