Stone Temple Pilots (STPBand) shared the stories behind their Purple album
There wasn't a more freewheeling major label at the cusp of the mid-90s than Atlantic Records. In 1994, the House that Ahmet Built was in a full-on gilded age, not only with the commercial success of acts like Tori Amos, Hootie & The Blowfish and Collective Soul, but with the incubation of such vital indie artists as Daniel Johnston, Eugenius and The Melvins.
containing a trove of demos, early versions, acoustic versions and a complete concert from the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, CT on Aug. 23, 1994., it was so streamlined," recalls drummer Eric Kretz. "I mean, we had that record recorded and mixed in three and a half weeks.
"I know talking to Scott back then, our parents would plays us stuff like John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot and then a ton of country music like Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash," the drummer tells Billboard. "As kids, that's what we heard growing up, Robert and Dean included. It all gets so absorbed into your DNA. There's no fear in saying how we wanted to channel that and put it in a song.
"For 'Pretty Penny' Dean had the chord progressions and the strumming all figured out beforehand," the drummer explains. "When we were in the thick of making, he showed everyone the song and then Brendan said to us, 'Hey, I have a great friend Clay Harper who owns a record company, and he's got a two-inch eight-track machine at his house.' So we were like, 'OK, field trip!' We went up to Clay's house and set up in his living room.
, about 40 seconds after the album's epic closing number "Kitchenware and Candybars" fades out at 4:20 on track 11.
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