Robert DeLeo denies that his band is grunge and mentions a song that, curiously, was influenced by the Brazilian genre
With the rise of grunge, which emerged in Seattle, many bands began to be classified in what began to become a subgenre of rock. Even groups that didn’t even come from the city in the US state of Washington. One of them is the Stone Temple Pilotsformed in 1989 in San Diego, California – approximately 2 thousand km away from the place where the movement was born.
It is not surprising that the members of the Stone Temple Pilots don’t see yourself as grunge. the bassist Robert DeLeo confirmed this impression when speaking to US radio station 107.7 The Bone (via blabbermouth).
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“I don’t think the four of us ever put any kind of name to the kind of music we were making. It turns out that we got to a point where people in this business were creating these terms. It’s a selling point – it’s all a selling point – and we were caught, like other bands, in a selling point for record companies to make money.”
That said, DeLeo pointed out a STP song that he considers to have nothing to do with grunge. Its about “Interstate Love Song”single from the band’s second studio album, Purple (1994). The bassist claims that when composing the song, he adopted an influence that refers to Brazil: bossa nova.
A ‘Interstate Love Song’ is it grunge? I don’t think so. I actually wrote it as a bossa nova song; that’s how it started.”
The track, it is worth noting, also features references to alternative rock as a whole, hard rock and even country. Listen to ‘Interstate Love Song’ by Stone Temple Pilotsin full below:
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Stone Temple Pilots and “Interstate Love Song”
Robert DeLeo was responsible for creating the melody of “Interstate Love Song”while the vocalist Scott Weiland, as usual, wrote the lyrics. The bassist introduced the song after his brother, the guitarist Dean DeLeoheard him play the chords on the guitar in a hotel room.
Other reports point out that, in fact, the track fit into the bossa nova genre when it began to be created. The inclination to the typical style of the Stone Temple Pilotonly came when Weiland sang the lyrics in his own way. Interestingly, the chords used are similar to that of “I Got a Name”song of Jim Croce released in 1973.
Source: Rollingstone
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