Up for auction a RARE! "Stone Temple Pilots" Chester Bennington and Dean DeLeo Hand Signed Magazine Page. There is a small tear on the bottom right of the page not affecting the signatures.
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Stone Temple Pilots (often
abbreviated as STP) are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Dean DeLeo (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals), and Eric Kretz (drums). The band's line-up remained unchanged
from its formation in 1989 until the firing of Weiland in February 2013. Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington joined
the band in May 2013, but left amicably in November 2015 to focus solely
on Linkin Park. On December 3, 2015, Weiland was found dead on his tour bus
before a performance with his band The Wildabouts.
In 2016, the band launched an online audition for a new lead vocalist and
announced Jeff Gutt as the new lead singer of
the band on November 14, 2017. After forming in 1989 under the name Mighty Joe
Young, the band signed with Atlantic Records and changed its name to Stone Temple
Pilots. The band's debut album, Core,
released in 1992, was a major commercial success and STP went on to become one
of the most commercially successful bands of the 1990s, selling more than 18
million albums in the United States and 40 million worldwide. The band
released four more studio albums: Purple (1994), Tiny
Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996), No. 4 (1999), and Shangri-La Dee Da (2001), before separating in 2002,
after which the band members partook in various projects (most notably Velvet Revolver and Army of Anyone). The band eventually reconvened in 2008 for
a reunion tour, released their self-titled sixth album in
2010, and actively toured until Chester Bennington's departure. The band's only
material with Bennington was the EP High Rise in 2013. The band released its second self-titled album on
March 16, 2018.
While
initially rising to fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, further releases from
the band expressed a variety of influences, including psychedelic rock, bossa nova and classic rock. The band's evolution throughout the 1990s and
early 2000s involved periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in
part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction.