


When he sings here about searching and going blind, it relates to the cycle he started when he became an addict. Eric Kretz is the drummer and founding member of Stone Temple Pilots and today we discuss STP history, the big successes, the difficult moments, the vinyl, recordings of the band, the Bay Area music scene and the upcoming tour of Australia.Topics include: Growing up in San Jose The last time STP was in Australia Rescheduling.

Marty Sartini Garner of Pitchfork praised "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" as a representation of alternative rock "whose burning chorus would've fit on Alice in Chains' Dirt, and whose choppy, pepped-up verses cleared a happier path out of grunge that bands like Third Eye Blind would gladly follow." At the time, he was doing his best to hide it from his bandmates and his girlfriend, but he knew he was turning into a junkie, a condition exacerbate by the success of Stone Temple Pilots' first album, Core. Weiland stated in a radio interview that the very ambiguous and mysterious lyrics to the song alluded to a "very bad experience dropping acid." In his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale, he adds that it "reflects my hunger for redemption" Critical reception Stone Temple Pilots, - Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song (Thank You 2003) Stone Temple Pilots Plush (Thank. The core music was written by drummer Eric Kretz, while the lyrics were written by Scott Weiland.
