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3 unusual facts about Stone Temple Pilots


Joe Lanham

The station's format consisted mainly of a mix between classic and modern rock, with heavily rotated artists including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool.

KMJK

Jason Justice played the station's final song, which was the acoustic version of "Plush" by Stone Temple Pilots and announced a live legal ID that ended in "Boom".

Mighty Joe Young

the original name for Stone Temple Pilots, who recorded the Mighty Joe Young Demo before changing their name


Adam Dutkiewicz

For this album he took on the job of co-producer alongside Brendan O'Brien (known for his work with AC/DC, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, Mastodon, and Stone Temple Pilots).

DC3 Music Group

In the past three years the company has produced many projects for artists such as Godsmack, Creed, Chickenfoot, Rage Against the Machine, Staind, Alter Bridge, Slash, Guns N' Roses, Three Days Grace, Stone Temple Pilots, 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, and many others.

Shaw Conference Centre

It has hosted a wide variety of guests and performers in its history, including Tiesto, Bobby Orr, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Metallica, Slipknot, Stone Temple Pilots, Paul Rodgers, Scorpions, Goo Goo Dolls, Dream Theater, In Flames, Deftones, Sum 41, Jean Chrétien, Desmond Tutu, Gordie Howe, Prince Charles, Diana Princess of Wales and Tina Turner.

Soma San Diego

At this downtown location some well-known San Diego bands such as Rocket from the Crypt, blink-182, Unwritten Law, Stone Temple Pilots, and Buck-O-Nine built a strong local following before moving on to tour nationally in the mid 1990s.

SpiritBank Event Center

Since opening in 2008 it has been the site of numerous concerts and events, including ZZ Top, Stone Temple Pilots, Jason Mraz, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Chris Tomlin.

Sunshine Building

The Sunshine Theater has hosted a number of notable acts such as The Strokes, Snoop Dogg, Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Rancid, Coheed and Cambria, Social Distortion, Deftones, and Deadmau5 among others.

Ten Inch Men

After the bands final disbandment in 1993, Mark Templin married Carrie Hamilton, the daughter of Joe Hamilton and Carol Burnett, and former Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts joined members of the Stone Temple Pilots to create the band Talk Show, who released their eponymously named album in 1997.

The Wondergirls

In its initial, short lived incarnation, the band featured Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray, Ian Astbury of The Cult, Shannon Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars, Jay Gordon and Ryan Shuck of Orgy and Julien-k, Doug Ardito of Puddle of Mudd, Ken Andrews of Failure, Martyn LeNoble of Porno for Pyros, and Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age.

WGFN

For a time, The Bear experimented with an updating of its classic-rock playlist to include more hit AOR and alternative rock tracks from the 1980s and 1990s, from artists such as White Zombie, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Live, Stone Temple Pilots and Depeche Mode.


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Fictionist

On July 2, 2012 the band announced that its major label debut album will be produced by Grammy nominated producer Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen, Lifehouse) and engineered by Nick DiDia (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Stone Temple Pilots).

MIGGS

Over the course of a decade, the band has released five albums and toured extensively with high profile bands such as Maroon 5, Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland, LIVE's Ed Kowalczyk, Plain White T's, Green River Ordinance, Parachute, Candlebox, and KT Tunstall .