{"id":34,"date":"2025-04-03T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wers.org\/wecb\/milkcrate\/2025-4-2-stoned-at-the-winery-catching-up-with-a-stone-temple-pilots-tribute-band\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T02:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:00:51","slug":"2025-4-2-stoned-at-the-winery-catching-up-with-a-stone-temple-pilots-tribute-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/milkcrate\/2025-4-2-stoned-at-the-winery-catching-up-with-a-stone-temple-pilots-tribute-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoned at the Winery: Catching Up with a Stone Temple Pilots Tribute Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width:1998px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-block-wrapper\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom:39.93994140625%;overflow: hidden\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/STP__Banner.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/STP__Banner.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1998x798\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" width=\"1998\" height=\"798\" style=\"object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Graphic by Izzie Claudio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<h1 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">By Charlie Desjardins<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">It\u2019s 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, and I\u2019m being led through the bowels of City Winery to the \u201cgreen room.\u201d There, I\u2019ve been promised an all-access, highly-exclusive pre-show interview with the self-described No. 1 Stone Temple Pilots tribute act \u201cnorth of Boston,\u201d and absolutely nothing will stand in my way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Except for a locked door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cThere\u2019s a door open on the other side!\u201d Olaf Westphal, bassist for Plaistow, New Hampshire\u2019s Stone Temple Posers, shouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width:822px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-block-wrapper\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom:66.1800537109375%;overflow: hidden\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.54.00E280AFPM.png\" data-image=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.54.00E280AFPM.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"822x544\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" width=\"822\" height=\"544\" style=\"object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Stone Temple Posers and I in the City Winery green room. Photograph courtesy of Grahame White.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Most people my age are probably spending their Saturday mornings recovering from hangovers, but seeing as how I never drink, connecting with passionate, underappreciated segments of the local music scene is the only liquor I need. In my eyes, Stone Temple Posers are one of those segments, and when Olaf reached out to me with a warm invitation to their gig at radio legend Mistress Carrie\u2019s \u201cGrunge Brunch,\u201d one major question lept to my mind and stayed there for the next week. It gnawed at my brain fibers as I slept, leered at me from behind the shower curtain, and followed me down dark alleys . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><em>Why Stone Temple Pilots?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Don\u2019t get me wrong, I absolutely adore STP, but . . . what does a band like Stone Temple Pilots even mean to my generation? Hell, what did Stone Temple Pilots ever mean? They were always labeled grunge, but their slippery style favored the DeLeo brothers\u2019 huge riffs over doom-and-gloom musings. They dabbled in heavy metal, alt-rock, and glam, and though they always stood as commercial giants, they never achieved mythical hero status like Alice in Chains and Nirvana. They were ripped by the press as misogynists following the release of debut single \u201cSex Type Thing,\u201d derided as Pearl Jam rip-offs, labeled druggies about five thousand separate times, and buried into oblivion by shock-jock indie bloggers who couldn\u2019t tell the difference between a baby carrot and their own prick. One of these bloggers, Pitchfork\u2019s Ryan Schreiber, wrote an infamous review in which he wished for frontman Scott Weiland to \u201ctie [himself] off and fall directly into space forever.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">To these \u201clegitimate\u201d critics I say <em>screw you, and screw your bullshit! <\/em>STP has always deserved more respect\u2014especially following Weiland\u2019s untimely passing in 2015\u2014and if it takes a group of middle-aged dudes with thick New England accents and hockey-dad garb to plant those seeds, then so be it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width:766px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-block-wrapper\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom:65.01305389404297%;overflow: hidden\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.55.13E280AFPM.png\" data-image=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.55.13E280AFPM.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"766x498\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" width=\"766\" height=\"498\" style=\"object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Stone Temple Posers performing at \u201cGrunge Brunch.\u201d Photograph courtesy of Grahame White.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cHave you always loved STP?\u201d I ask the Posers excitedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cNope,\u201d frontman Hal White says with a laugh. \u201cAt the time I hated grunge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><em>Well. . . this is awkward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Hal was the last person to figure into the Stone Temple Posers equation, as Olaf, his stepson and drummer John, and guitarist Paul had been gigging together since their stint with cover band The Nerve in the early 2000s. While that band played a large variety of Stone Temple Pilots covers, it wasn\u2019t until 2011 that Olaf and Paul joined their first STP tribute band, Crown of Apathy (a reference to <em>Core<\/em>\u2019s deep cut \u201cPiece of Pie\u201d). From there, Olaf held stints in Stone Temple Aviators and SiN. Right now, he\u2019s splitting his time between the Posers and a Nirvana tribute group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cI went somewhere else and somewhere else and somewhere else,\u201d Olaf tells me, recalling his journey between STP cover acts. \u201cThis one has worked a lot longer than the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">The aforementioned \u201cjourney\u201d to Stone Temple Posers started in 2014\u2014the twentieth anniversary of Stone Temple Pilots\u2019 1994 classic <em>Purple<\/em>\u2014when Olaf, Paul, and John noticed a sudden lack of tribute acts in the area. Sensing an opportunity to pay homage, they placed a call on Craigslist for a singer, and one person answered the request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cAnd then that person left so we got Hal,\u201d Paul jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Like his bandmates, Hal, a Marine Corps veteran, had a long and winding road to musical glory, though he started in a far starrier place: a hair band called Goldwing, which the Posers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/stonetempleposers.com\/band-members\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">website <\/span><\/a>describes as \u201cWinger before Winger was Winger!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cI was a guitarist-turned-bassist,\u201d Hal recalls. \u201c[Goldwing] had been trying out singers, and they couldn\u2019t seem to land anyone so they got me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Nowadays, with his salt-and-pepper hair and Patriots quarter-zip, Hal White couldn\u2019t look any less like Kip Winger if he tried. He also couldn\u2019t sound any less like Scott Weiland, but even he knows that. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width:690px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-block-wrapper\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom:66.66667175292969%;overflow: hidden\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.56.30E280AFPM.png\" data-image=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.56.30E280AFPM.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"690x460\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" style=\"object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Stone Temple Posers\u2019 frontman Hal White. Photograph courtesy of Grahame White.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201c[Scott Weiland] isn\u2019t the easiest guy to emulate,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I gotta imagine what he would be doing at this age. I\u2019m not taking my shirt off, I\u2019m not dying my hair orange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">This lack of one-to-one authenticity hasn\u2019t stopped Stone Temple Posers yet, and if their busy concert schedule is any indicator, it might never stop them. They do most of their gigging at small pubs and music halls, often playing bills alongside tributes to Green Day, System of a Down, and Heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cWe once opened for a band at [New Hampshire biker bar] Wally\u2019s,\u201d Olaf, the closest thing the Posers have to a band manager, tells me. \u201cNext week we\u2019re playing at The Boat in Dracut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">One peculiar rule I discovered: the band never plays with other Stone Temple Pilots tribute acts. They claim this as a purely artistic compromise\u2014they don\u2019t want audiences to get bored\u2014yet I get mixed signals when Paul runs through the semi-complete list of rival groups (which includes names like Shirley Temple Pilots, Naked Sunday, and New Jersey outfit Lounge Fly).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width:614px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-block-wrapper\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom:66.123779296875%;overflow: hidden\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.57.22E280AFPM.png\" data-image=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/06\/Screenshot2025-04-02at9.57.22E280AFPM.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"614x406\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" width=\"614\" height=\"406\" style=\"object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">Stone Temple Posers\u2019 bassist Olaf Westphal. Photograph courtesy of Grahame White<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cWe reached out to Mistress Carrie about this gig,\u201d Olaf says. \u201cIt was pretty smooth. A lot of times it\u2019s not that smooth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cIt\u2019s definitely territorial,\u201d Hal adds. \u201cFor a long time it was only us. Now we have to beat the other bands to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">While an \u201cSTP-Tribute Band Hunger Games\u201d would make for its own insane (and wildly tempting) investigative piece, I\u2019m happy to report that the Posers don\u2019t seem to care much about coming out on top. Nor do they care about sex or drugs or turning a profit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cThe gigs actually cost us money,\u201d Paul says. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful we got our parking validated today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">\u201cWe do it to make the people happy,\u201d Hal says. \u201cAt least, that\u2019s why I do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><em>Catch the Posers at the 2025 Plaistow Summer Music Series! (June 25 @ Plaistow Town Common)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201c[Scott Weiland] isn\u2019t the easiest guy to emulate,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I gotta imagine what he would be doing at this age. 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