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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS TRIVIA

1) What were the Stone Temple Pilots originally called?


After forming in 1989 under the name Mighty Joe Young, the band signed with Atlantic Records and changed its name to Stone Temple Pilots.

2) What award did the Stone Temple Pilots win at Rolling Stone's 1994 music awards?


The band was simultaneously voted Best New Band by Rolling Stone's readers and Worst New Band by the magazine's music critics. The following month the group won Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist and Heavy Metal/Hard Rock New Artist at the American Music Awards.

3) What does Core, the title of the band's first album, refer to?


The band decided on the name "Core", referring to the apple of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Keeping to this theme, the album also features songs such as "Wicked Garden" and "Sin".

4) In which song does Scott Weiland sing: "Sell your soul and sign an autograph"?


Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

5) Which band member spent five months in jail in 1999?


Lead singer Scott Weiland encountered problems with drug addiction in the late-1990s, which inspired some of his songs and resulted in prison time.

6) Which Stone Temple Pilots song is based on misunderstood lyrics?


During an interview with SongFacts in 2014, Scott Weiland confirmed that the key line in "Vasoline" came from a misheard lyric: His parents put on the Eagles song "Life in the Fast Lane", and Weiland thought they were singing, "Flies in the Vasoline." In his autobiography, he adds that the song "is about being stuck in the same situation over and over again. It's about me becoming a junkie. It's about lying to Jannina [his first wife] and lying to the band about my heroin addiction."

7) Which song features the lyrics: "You rock the magic plane with no abbreviation"?


Lovely disguise, read between the lines
You rock the magic plane with no abbreviation
Three, four you sell what you bought
And there ain't no magic pen to get back what you lost

8) What side band did the other members of the band form while Weiland was dealing with legal problems?


The band, sans Weiland, recruited Dave Coutts, the frontman of Ten Inch Men, and performed under the moniker Talk Show. Talk Show released one self-titled album in 1997 before dissolving.

9) Which actress is featured in the music video for "Sour Girl"?


The trippy video, which features what can only be described as super-creepy Teletubby-like creatures, was based on a dream Weiland had. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was a huge fan of the band, played the female lead in the video. At the time, Gellar was a rising star thanks to her TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

10) Which member of the band was fired in 2013?


Weiland responded to the firing with his own statement, "I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press. Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out."

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