Stone Temple Pilots – Scott Weiland – Interstate Love Song – Isolated Vocals
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Scott Weiland has been touted as one of the “fabulous four” top modern rock singers of the 90s (those four would be Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Lane Staley and Scott Weiland).
“Interstate Love Song” reached number one on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart (current Mainstream Rock) on September 17, 1994, replacing the band’s previous single “Vasoline”. The song stayed at number one for 15 weeks, a record at the time, and gave the Stone Temple Pilots 17 consecutive weeks at number one with both songs. It also peaked at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in Iceland, as well as number 20 in Canada.
“Interstate Love Song” has been praised as one of the best songs of the 1990s and was featured on STP’s greatest hits compilation Thank You in 2003.
Bassist Robert DeLeo brought in a song he had been working on when Stone Temple Pilots convened at Cole Rehearsal Studios in Hollywood, California in March 1992. His brother, guitarist Dean DeLeo, said, “We were in Atlanta touring Core, and Robert was playing around with the chords and the melody in a hotel room. I had a feeling about that song immediately.” Robert DeLeo stated it was originally a bossa nova song when he began writing it. When he played it for singer Scott Weiland, the vocalist started humming along and turned what was originally the melody for the song’s intro into a chorus melody. The song “borrows” chords directly from Jim Croce’s 1973 song “I Got a Name.”
Stone Temple Pilots recorded the song during sessions for Purple at the Southern Tracks studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Weiland was able to complete his vocals for the song in one take.
According to Weiland, the song was about the troubles he was having with his girlfriend, Jannina, saying, “The words are about the lies I was trying to conceal while making the Purple record”. “She’d ask how I was doing, and I’d lie, say I was doing fine,” he wrote in his autobiography “Not Dead and Not For Sale”. “I imagined what was going through her mind when I wrote, ‘Waiting on a Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines, your lies, feelin’ like a hand in rusted shame, so do you laugh or does it cry? Reply?'”
So let’s check out this legendary track together, shall we?
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