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How I Wrote… “Big Empty”

it, it takes me back to a special time,” Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo says about “Big Empty,” the rousing country- and blues-tinged alt-rock smash featured on both the soundtrack to the 1994 movie and the group’s multi-Platinum album of the same year. “I’ll get in the car with my kids, and every now and then the song comes on. Right away I’m transported to a period that was so beautiful for

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