Ep327: Eric Kretz of Stone Temple Pilots
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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 UnderTheSouthernStars festival
- Eric has some vinyl!
- Eric discovers Houses of the Holy
- Kiss Alive and STP at Cobo Hall
- Yes Fragile and the magic on vinyl
- Record shopping in San Jose in the 70s
- Taking Dean to San Jose
- Eric moving to LA, forming Mighty Joe Young
- Dean left a career to join STP full time
- Getting signed to Atlantic records
- Barney calls
- Seeing live shows in the Bay Area
- The transition from Mighty Joe Young to Stone Temple Pilots
- Renaming the band
- The popularity of Core
- Was there pressure for album #2?
- The fade in for Vaseline
- Are the STP master tapes safe?
- Stone Temple Pilots on vinyl
- The physicality of vinyl records
- Are STP modern vinyl pressings from the master tapes?
- Quality control on modern STP pressings
- Working with Don Was
- Any unreleased recordings / outtakes with Scott or Chester?
- How STP writes music
- Under The Southern Stars festival
- Will "Thank You" ever be released on vinyl?
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| 0:00.0 | This message is to all Australians. Hey, Aussies, live music is back, and we're kicking it off in March with the Under the Southern Stars Festival, featuring Stone Temple pilots, Cheap Trick, Bush, Black Rebel motorcycle club, and lots more. |
| 0:15.7 | The bands hit the Australian shores starting March 12th, Hastings, Yarrowonga, Melbourne, Adelaide, Wallong, |
| 0:22.5 | Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Brisbane, all of you head over to underthesothernstars.com. |
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| 1:14.9 | Well, hey everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 327 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for |
| 1:21.0 | record collectors, music nerds, and the criminally insane. And today we have one of my former |
| 1:26.8 | countrymen here on the show, |
| 1:28.4 | Mr. Eric Kretz of Stone Temple Pilots, who is coming out to Australia for the Under the |
| 1:33.7 | Southern Stars music festival, underthesuternstars.com.a.U will start your re-entry into live music |
| 1:40.9 | with cheap tricks, stone temple pilots, Bush, and more, and that's all |
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