During our revisit of the one and only Talk Show album featuring the three guys not named Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots during their infamous 1997 hiatus, we remarked how the music remained steady but the vocals and melodies were less interesting. Now we get to examine the other side of that temporary split with Weiland's 1998 solo debut 12 Bar Blues. Would the lack of the DeLeo brothers inventive riffing similarly hamper the lead singers creative output? The simple answer is no, thanks to Weiland's willingness to experiment, filling the record with interesting sounds and surrounding himself with accomplished musicians. It is an admirable, if occasionally messy, attempt to shatter the perceptions of what it meant to be "the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots," but more often than not, the influences start to show. Sadly, this left us wondering if the lukewarm critical reception, albums sales and radio play pushed Weiland back into the easy embrace of Stone Temple Pilots too quickly, who churned out successive radio friendly if bland riffage that palled to their primer-era output. Weiland never pushed the envelope like he did on this record, and we try to figure out why.
Intro - Barbarella
13:20 - Mockingbird Girl
18:05 - About Nothing
29:28 - Son
Outro - Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down
#210: Blues for the Red Sun by Kyuss
#209: Discussion on Favorite and Forgotten Albums of 1995
#208: Hi-Fi Sci-Fi by Dramarama
#207: Season Four in Review
#206: The Sun Is Often Out by Longpigs
#205: Gone by Beasts of Bourbon
#204: Scared Straight by New Bomb Turks
#203: The Lizard by Saigon Kick
#202: Interview of Clay Tarver of Chavez
#201: Interview with Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom
#200: Use Your Illusion I & 2 by Guns n' Roses
#199: American Grafishy by Flipper
#198: Short Forth Self Living by Medicine
#197: Psychic Hearts by Thurston Moore
#196: Stoner Witch by The Melvins
#195: Twisted Tenderness by Electronic
#194: Hymns by Corey Glover
#193: At Action Park by Shellac
#192: Ruby Vroom by Soul Coughing
#191: Faithless Street by Whiskeytown
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