Concert Review
Stone Temple Pilots
Live
Soul Asylum
Tuesday September 10, 2024
Blossom Music Center
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Review/Photos: Joseph Suto
It was another celebration as the Jubilee Tour touched down at the Blossom Music Center Tuesday evening. Stone Temple Pilots, Live and Soul Asylum led the charge for a pavilion crowd of over 4,000 fans. These bands were at the forefront of leading the music scene in the early to mid 1990s. It was good to see a tour package of this magnitude. Sure had these guys toured together in 1995 they would have been playing stadiums. To still see them play a shed tour is still pretty significant in this modern day era of music.
Stone Temple Pilots headlined and closed out the show with a solid set that featured the band playing their Purple album in it’s entirety to celebrate the 30th anniversary. It was a hit right out of the gate debuting at #1 and stayed there for three weeks eventually went on to sell six million copies in the U.S. alone. Vocalist Jeff Gutt did the songs justice as he has since joining the band in 2017. The rest of the band of course is still the same ever since their formation with guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz.
Some of the highlights included the classic “Vasoline”, smash “Interstate Love Song” and “Plush”. Hard to believe it has also been thirty years since I last saw the band way back in 1994 as they opened for The Rolling Stones to a sold out Exhibition crowd in Toronto, Ontario. I cannot wait for them to make another album as it will be great to see a tour where they rifle through their catalog put together an amazing set of their whole discography.
Live was up second and took the stage with “Top” from their big album Throwing Copper which has gone eight times platinum. It is also celebrating it’s thirtieth anniversary and celebrated by playing eight tracks from said album. While there was not much room to dig up some treasures from other albums, the band did manage to play a new song Lady Bhang (She Got Me Rollin’). While vocalist Ed Kowalczyk remains the bands sole original member this did not deter from the killer band he has assembled in performing the catalog. Joining Kowalczyk were guitarist Zak Loy, drummer Robin Diaz and bassist Chris Heerlein. There were two moments that really brought the crowd alive. The first occurred after “All Over You” as the band tore right into “Selling The Drama”. The second occurred during the encore when the band Closed out the night with “I Alone” and ended with “Lightning Crashes”.
Opening the night with a very short seven-song set was the pride of Minneapolis, Soul Asylum. Vocalist/guitarist Dave Pirner remains the last remaining member. The band was solid as they banged out a short but sweet set. It would have been a much better show had it started earlier so everyone would have been able to play a few more tunes. It was good to see Pirner and company playing a big stage again. With a new soon to be released album Slowly But Shirley due September 27 we should get a chance to see em hit the road very soon playing much longer sets.
Stone Temple Pilots
Live
Soul Asylum
Set Lists
STP
Meatplow
Vasoline
Lounge Fly
Interstate Love Song
Still Remains
Pretty Penny
Silvergun Superman
Big Empty
Unglued
Army Ants
Kitchenware & Candybars
Plush
Dead & Bloated
Crackerman
Sex Type Thing
Live
Top
All Over You
Selling the Drama
Freaks
Lady Bhang (She Got Me Rollin’)
Pain Lies on the Riverside
Pillar of Davidson
Shit Towne
The Dolphin’s Cry @Info[with extended solo/outro]
Turn My Head
White, Discussion
Lakini’s Juice
Encore
I Alone
Lightning Crashes
Soul Asylum
Somebody to Shove
Misery
The Only Thing I’m Missing
Black Gold
Runaway Train
Just Like Anyone
April Fool
