Talk Show
Talk Show
1997 | Atlantic
C

Scott Weiland
12 Bar Blues
1998 | Atlantic
B+

After releasing their third record, Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, the shit hit the fan for Stone Temple Pilots. Singer Scott Weiland was busted for drugs yet again, and this time the other three guys in the band were fed up. Both camps (the instrumentalists vs. Weiland) decided to work on something else for awhile, and over the course of the next 2 years, those “something else’s” released commercially disappointing records.

The first to arrive was the eponymous debut record from Talk Show. Talk Show was the non-Weiland Pilots – drummer Eric Kretz, bassist Robert DeLeo and guitarist Dean DeLeo joined by former Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts. The brothers DeLeo were outspoken in their want to be in a more stable band, and one in which they could give more direction to the lyrics and vocal melody (Weiland was notoriously reticent to let anyone work with his vocals), and. Coutts was apparently only too happy to oblige.

The record doesn’t feel too different from a STP record at first – many of the same elements are present – Kretz and the DeLeos were not looking to reinvent their style as much as amend it with a new vocalist (reportedly, this record and Tiny Music were written concurrently). The difference lies in the vocals.
More on Double Review: Talk Show & 12 Bar Blues

Talk Show
Talk Show
1997 | Atlantic
C

Scott Weiland
12 Bar Blues
1998 | Atlantic
B+

After releasing their third record, Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, the shit hit the fan for Stone Temple Pilots. Singer Scott Weiland was busted for drugs yet again, and this time the other three guys in the band were fed up. Both camps (the instrumentalists vs. Weiland) decided to work on something else for awhile, and over the course of the next 2 years, those “something else’s” released commercially disappointing records.

The first to arrive was the eponymous debut record from Talk Show. Talk Show was the non-Weiland Pilots – drummer Eric Kretz, bassist Robert DeLeo and guitarist Dean DeLeo joined by former Ten Inch Men singer Dave Coutts. The brothers DeLeo were outspoken in their want to be in a more stable band, and one in which they could give more direction to the lyrics and vocal melody (Weiland was notoriously reticent to let anyone work with his vocals), and. Coutts was apparently only too happy to oblige.

The record doesn’t feel too different from a STP record at first – many of the same elements are present – Kretz and the DeLeos were not looking to reinvent their style as much as amend it with a new vocalist (reportedly, this record and Tiny Music were written concurrently). The difference lies in the vocals.
More on Double Review: Talk Show & 12 Bar Blues