In the meantime, the band is celebrating Core‘s legacy by issuing a deluxe, filled-to-the-brim box set edition of the record on Friday, its 25th anniversary to the day.

“I don’t know if he’s well-known or unknown I don’t look at him as ‘well-known.’ But we’re writing music and we’re hopefully looking at finishing a record and putting it out soon.” “We’ve been working with someone – I don’t want to name names yet – and we’re making music,” Robert says. The group has since launched an open audition for a new singer and hopes to announce the results of the search in the next month or so. Since then, the band – whose lineup on Core featured DeLeo, his bassist brother Robert, drummer Eric Kretz and Weiland, who died of an accidental overdose in 2015 – subsequently put out a succession of Top 10 albums (including Core’s 1994 follow-up, Purple, which hit Number One) amid breakups, re-formations and a short stint where the late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington fronted the group. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Dan The album made it up to Number Two on the Billboard chart and the RIAA has subsequently certified it eight-times platinum, making it the most popular record of STP’s career. Stone Temple Pilots weathered comparisons to fellow grunge titans Pearl Jam and controversy that came from people misunderstanding frontman Scott Weiland’s first-person lyrics in “Sex Type Thing” to become one of the biggest bands of the era. That enthusiasm spilled into the 12 tracks the group recorded with producer Brendan O’Brien over a period of three weeks for the LP and it fueled six singles, including the jazzy, mammoth rocker “Plush” and sensitive acoustic number “Creep,” which became staples of MTV’s Buzz Bin, as well as hard-rock and alternative radio. There was such a newness in the air, and with newness comes excitement.”

“The four of us were in the rehearsal room at least five days a week. “We were all really shoulder to shoulder prior to making that record,” he says.

When guitarist Dean DeLeo reflects on the time surrounding the release of Stone Temple Pilots mega-selling 1992 debut, Core, the thing that strikes him is a constant flow of creativity and the sense of togetherness he felt with his bandmates at the time.

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