Stone Temple Pilots "Purple" Color:Clear (Atlantic Records 75 Year Celebration Edition) the Southern California quartet immediately

the Southern California quartet immediately connect by opening up

Billie Joe Armstrong got to work

The songwriting is straightforward and wonderful

bassist Nico Bones

Stone Temple Pilots "Purple" Color:Clear (Atlantic Records 75 Year Celebration Edition) the Southern California quartet immediatelyHaving scored a massive hit with their debut album, Core, Stone Temple Pilots returned to the same sludge filled well for Purple, only to come up with an album that's harder, more concise, and filled with thunderous, punishing riffs. Headbangers will rejoice over the grinding guitars of "Meatplow," "Vasoline," "Lounge Fly," and "Unglued," but the album reveals far more than one dimension. They back off the throttle for the hushed (though still