Brendan O’Brien our brilliant longtime producer, urged us simply to put our hearts and souls on the line” and described, rather dismissively, the resulting album as “a good record of generic rock”. Weiland, writing in his autobiography, described the writing sessions for the record as: “…the songs were written together live. However, time heals all wounds sometimes and it was not long before both parties realized more music should be made for the betterment of everyone involved. Indeed Weiland himself had being busy around this time also, with the release of his debut solo album 12 Bar Blues and still harboring some resentment toward his estranged band-mates after a perceived public trashing by band in a press conference some time before. Following the success of 1996’s Tiny Music, STP had entered something of a hiatus, thanks in part to singer Scott Weiland’s ongoing drug addictions which had left the remaining band members bassist Robert Deleo, guitarist Dean Deleo and drummer Eric Kretz to form a side band called Talk Show, whilst Weiland tried to clean up his act.
On October 26th 1999, Stone Temple Pilots released their fourth studio album entitled, yes you guessed right, No.4 to favorable to mixed reviews from critics.
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