“Vatican Gift Shop” was a title coined by guitarist Dean DeLeo, who also came up with the name “Core”. Front and back cover of “Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop” (1996). It was not until early 1996 that the name ‘Vatican Gift Shop’ was heard again, when STP announced the release of their third album, “Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop”. Here’s the most complete YouTube video with recordings of this show:ĭirector Mark Racco uploaded unseen footage of the band arriving in Las Vegas and the song ‘Dancing Days’ on his YouTube channel in 2010: Author Rik Posted on AugSeptemCategories Band Members, Dean DeLeo, Scott Weiland, STP Performances, STP Trivia, Video Tags 1999, anniversary, concert, dean deleo, house of blues, las vegas, MGD, Miller Genuine Draft, scott weiland, stone temple pilots The Vatican Gift Shop (1992)?!Īt the time, this could and would have been dismissed as a typo, an error. His time there has been expertly chronicled by David Fricke in the Rolling Stone article ‘The Needle & the Damage Done’ a year later. The day after the Las Vegas show, Scott was sentenced to a year in jail, of which he served 140 days before being released in January 2000. Over 1000 drunk people walking the tunnel from hotel to hotel had to be one heck of a sight.” Jason, review on Below Empty One of the highlites was the parade of chaos as they walked us from RA to the House Of Blues.
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Miller provided free beer for everyone, a bucket full in our rooms, several at the pre party at RA followed by 5 beers at the show. We were flown in from all accross the country and had rooms at Mandalay Bay.
Tenacious D was booed off stage as no one really knew who or what was going on at that time. We threw the crew out of the rehearsal room and said, ‘Is there anything you want to say? Can we do anything?’ He just goes, ‘I can’t think of three people I’d rather be with on my last night of freedom.'” Rolling Stone MagazineĪt the time, there was only one fan review submitted to Below Empty. He was a wreck, and it takes a lot for Scott to look like a wreck.
The overdose and hospitalization were a violation of his probation on a 1997 possession conviction and Scott had to appear in Judge Larry Paul Fidler’s Los Angeles County courtroom early in the morning of August 13.ĭespite Scott’s legal issues, STP played the House Of Blues in Las Vegas on August 12, for Miller Genuine Draft’s “Blind Date” series, in which contest winners are taken to shows by surprise performers.ĭean DeLeo remembers the look on Weiland’s face at the final rehearsal: “It was obvious what was going through the guy’s mind. Surprisingly, STP played an unannounced 7-song set at the Dragonfly in Hollywood just ten days later on the 17th.
It was near-fatal and he was hospitalized and detoxed in rehab. STP was finally finishing the recording of the album over the summer when Scott overdosed on heroin on the 7th of July. However, the work on ‘No.4’ stopped and restarted several times as Scott fell and got back up again. They were cautiously hopeful at the start, playing an unannounced invitation-only show at the Viper Room on March 16 to let the world know the band was back together. STP reunited in January ’99 with a sober Scott and started writing and rehearsing for their next album. Scott had spent the first half of 1998 as a solo artist touring his ’12 Bar Blues’ album, admittedly spiraling more and more out of control on heroin and cocaine as the tour went on, until his very public May 31 arrest in New York City. The show was recorded for MTV Spankin’ Live and parts of it were aired shortly after the concert in a tumultuous year for the band that ended with Scott Weiland behind bars. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Stone Temple Pilots’ well-known show at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas on August 12, 1999.
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