Months before it was released, STP previewed “Big Empty” on MTV Unplugged. Stone Temple Pilots, 2001 (Image credit: Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty) He said, ‘We got it, man.’ That kind of thing happens all the time.” “I wanted to redo it, and I said, ‘I know I can beat that,’” he says. The stirring slide lines were played (in an open G tuning) on a rented Dobro, which the guitarist remembers was “painted yellow and beat to shit, but gosh, it sounded so damn good.” DeLeo’s only qualm at the time was after he played the opening lead line.
Later, he overdubbed a Telecaster through a Fender Princeton. For the basic tracks, DeLeo played a rented Gibson ES-335 (“I didn’t own a hollow-body at the time”) through a VHT Classic power amp and a Marshall 4x12. “Each guy knew what the other was going to do.”Īfter cutting “Dancing Days,” the band recorded three takes of “Big Empty” in relatively short order. “Things happened very quickly,” DeLeo says. The band booked time at the Record Plant in Los Angeles with their producer, Brendan O’Brien, to cut two songs in one weekend: a version of “Dancing Days” for the Led Zeppelin tribute album, Ecomium, and “Big Empty” for The Crow soundtrack.ĭeLeo, his bassist brother, Robert, and drummer Eric Kretz ran through it several times as Weiland tried out different vocal melody ideas while writing lyrics.
Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo at the 21st Annual American Music Awards, 1994 (Image credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
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