Fans were very curious how Chester would fare on this tour, even though it was announced after he broke his ankle. They played a warmup show in Scottsdale, AZ before embarking on a fifteen show tour. His first test back on the road would come with Stone Temple Pilots. Unfortunately, Chester broke his ankle in January 2015 playing basketball before a Linkin Park show, forcing LP to cancel sixteen shows of their tour. Not bad! And on Halloween, the band played a show in Connecticut just one day before Chester flew to Switzerland for Linkin Park's large European Tour that November. In October, they played two shows in Alabama and one in Kentucky (two being festivals), adding Sin, a new stripped down version of Plush, and Heaven & Hot Rods to the setlist.all of which were played with Chester for the first time.
They took this opportunity, even though it was a one-off show, to play Crackerman with Chester for the first time. Between LP's European Tour in summer 2014 and Carnivores Tour, STP headlined the Bud Light Weenie Roast in Woodlands, Texas. After the cancellation, the band only was able to perform at a private party in Hollywood in April 2014 before Chester was forced to go back to Linkin Park for presumably the rest of the year.Ĭhester was able to squeeze in five more Stone Temple Pilots shows in 2014, working them around the LP tours. This was a bummer for fans as STP was going to play Dubai, India (who has been trying to get a Linkin Park show for quite a while), Indonesia, Australia and even a two night stand in Hawaii.
Unfortunately, the first International Tour that was planned for Stone Temple Pilots in February and March 2014 was cancelled due to Chester having to finish the new Linkin Park record. The rest of the year in November and December was spent playing one-offs and radio shows throughout the country. In October, STP performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and even ventured to Japan for two shows. Along with an acoustic 'Pretty Penny' that was performed twice throughout the fall at two acoustic events, Chester had learned quite a bit of material for this run. Halfway through the tour, the band changed their setlist slightly to bring in the new single 'Black Heart', two other songs 'Meatplow' and 'Lady Picture Show', change up the order a bit and drop 'Sour Girl'. At the tour rehearsal in Los Angeles, 'Sex & Violence' was played for the first time since October 3, 2000, 'Pop's Love Suicide' was played for the first time since April 18, 1997, and 'Church On Tuesday' was performed for the first time ever. Armed with a few new songs, STP hit the road with a seventeen song setlist that encompassed the classic Stone Temple Pilots hits as well as some rarer songs that the original STP members had been wanting to play for years, but couldn't, due to Scott Weiland refusing to play them. Not bad, eh? It was truly an honor for Chester to be with his idols, a band he grew up listening to and even a band whose t-shirts he wore on stage at older Linkin Park shows.Īfter the KROQ Weenie Roast and the Live 105 BFD the following day, Stone Temple Pilots was off! They announced a fall tour in the United States that kicked off in September and were set to release a brand new EP entitled High Rise. However, Scott Weiland was not with them and instead it was Chester Bennington himself on the stage performing with the band! The news spread across the Internet like wildfire as the band teamed up with KROQ to release their new single 'Out Of Time' right after their performance ended. On during the annual KROQ Weenie Roast, the stage turned after Vampire Weekend to reveal a surprise guest - Stone Temple Pilots.
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