Talk Show Fargo ND

Talk Show

Talk Show

Atlantic Records, 1997

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 09/23/1997

If you were Scott Weiland, I'd be real worried.

You've just spent the last two years screwing with your bandmates in Stone Temple Pilots - first getting addicted to heroin,then cleaning up and recording a poor third album (which we'lleventually get to reviewing here), then getting involved in drugs again, causing the band to cancel the tour supporting thealbum.

Well, Scott, now you should be seriously considering updatingyour resume. Based on the first release from the new DeLeobrothers' side project Talk Show, they've successfully proved that the soul ofStone Temple Pilots lies not in the addict singer, but in theremaining band members.

Tired of waiting for Weiland to clean up his act, guitarist DeanDeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz found themselvesa new vocalist in the person of former Ten Inch Men lead throatDave Coutts. Coutts is not only able to pull off a sound remarkablysimilar to that of Weiland, but he also creates his own, strongervocal persona - and kids, this is truly exciting.