Stone Temple Pilots
Ottawa Bluesfest
July 13, 2009
LeBreton Flats


* Silvergun Superman (CUT)
* Wicked Garden (Cut)
* Vasoline (CUT)
* Big Empty (CUT)
* Lounge Fly (CUT)
* Army Ants (CUT)
* Sour Girl (CUT)
1 Creep
2 Crackerman
3 Plush
4 Interstate Love Song
5 Seven Caged Tigers
6 Down
7 Sex Type Thing
8 Sin
9 Unglued
10 Dead And Bloated
11 Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart

h2 zoom > Audacity > Traders Little Helper > dimeadozen

Taped by : bootlegottawa
Artwork included.


I fucked up. This was the second time I used my zoom - I thought i had pressed record, but it remained in standby. I'm sorry.

Scott seemed a bit out of it - but I was simply too excited as I was finally seeing my greatest guilty pleasure band. The mighty STP had a sweet reunion based setlist that did not dissapoint.

Ottawa Sun

Fans of Stone Temple Pilots had the right to feel a tad special at Bluesfest last night. After all, they had the festival and LeBreton Flats all to themselves.

With Bluesfest's five other stages dark (however, it was the last night for Byward Blues) STP didn't have to worry about any music bleed. But neither the slim pickings -- at least by Bluesfest concert buffet standard -- nor rotten weather could discourage the 15,000 that turned the flats into a private party.

Life is indeed good for STP and their rabid fans. Charismatic singer Scott Weiland rejoined bassist Robert DeLeo, brother Dean on guitar and Eric Kretz on drums after leaving Velvet Revolver last year, and they're doing this mini-tour all month before they release a new album in December.

Once again, one of the trendiest, and most fashionably volatile stars of the grunge generation is back in business and eyeliner-rock a la Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

Dressed in a slick white suit and burgundy fedora, Weiland looked like the consummate rock star, recalling Bowie during his Station to Station tour in 1978. His M.O. was to stand there and let the fans worship before opening the show with Silvergun Superman, Wicked Garden, Vasoline and Big Empty. That laid down the gauntlet for the band to rattle the Bank of America stage down to its bones, with thrashing guitar and well-muscled bass playing from DeLeo.

"You might consider this a lounge," Weiland, still wearing sunglasses, said with spacy intensity. "A very, very big lounge," before launching into the crowd favourite Lounge Fly.

There was the mandatory collage of some of the older hits -- Army Ants, the plaintive Sour Girl and Creep, the Grammy Award-winning Plush, and the massive Interstate Love Song.

For the most part, STP proved to be surprisingly watchable. Especially Weiland, who is every inch the elegant frontman rock star, often whipping the audience into a frenzy with the control and sense of detachment of a skilled dominatrix.

And the fans, at least those up near the front of ground zero, submitted themselves with delirious abandon.

With all this sexy, reckless pole dancing going on, I wondered who's gyrating in Gatineau this night?

Whoever it is, I bet they're dancing to Stone Temple Pilots.

Sun Rating: 4 out of 5


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