Classic Rock

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

Perdida is the kind of record I’ve always wanted to make,” says Jeff Gutt, who’s now three years and two albums into his tenure as Stone Temple Pilots’s lead vocalist. “You’re on the road for so long and you’ve got all these loud amplifiers and drums… then you kinda want to just sit back and write a song by the fire. It’s good to take a deep breath and put out something beautiful.”

Perhaps unfairly, ‘beautiful’ isn’t the first word that comes to mind when picturing these battle-scarred rockers, who arrived with a bang in 1992 with their debut album . So when was released and .

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