Looking back at the STP catalogue, they’ve always flavoured their heavier moments with sweeter, gentler interludes. We had time on the road to express to each other where we were and mould this into what it became.” And he did feel exactly where it needed to go. After making one record and then going on to this, you either feel it or you don’t. It is a very personal record, and he really did amazing work at seeing where he was with this music personally. His vocal performance on this album is incredible.” Jeff had this really great sense of what each song was asking for, and a great sense of melody and delivery. That was the beautiful moment when the album opened up and allowed me to really know what the songs were going to be. When Gutt first auditioned for the band (to replace Chester Bennington, who in turn had replaced original frontman Scott Weiland) it clearly helped that he could punch the same tonal buttons as Weiland, who helped the Pilots secure their place at grunge’s top table back in the 90s with their early albums.Ĭrucially, Gutt also has real songwriting simpatico with the longstanding members – Robert DeLeo, guitarist brother Dean DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz, in whose Pasadena studio Perdida came together.ĭean remembers sitting with Gutt, an acoustic guitar in his lap, “and Jeff was coming up with his melodies, and that’s when we felt the songs were really taking shape.
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