1365 - Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song 1994

"Interstate Love Song" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Released in 1994, the song is from the second Stone Temple Pilots studio album, "Purple". Bassist Robert DeLeo brought in a song he had been working on when Stone Temple Pilots convened at Cole Rehearsal Studios in Hollywood, California in March 1992. His brother, guitarist Dean DeLeo, said, "We were in Atlanta touring Core, and Robert was playing around with the chords and the melody in a hotel room. I had a feeling about that song immediately." Robert DeLeo stated it was originally a bossa nova song when he began writing it. When he played it for singer Scott Weiland, the vocalist started humming along and turned what was originally the melody for the song's intro into a chorus melody. The song features a memorable opening guitar riff, containing a sound very reminiscent of the alternative music scene of the time. Overall, the song has a notably country-western or Southern rock feel to it, reflective of the "leaving on a Southern train" lyrics. According to Weiland, the song dealt lyrically with a number of themes, particularly "honesty, lack of honesty, my new relationship with heroin." At the time he was having relationship troubles with his girlfriend, as he was using heroin while recording Purple but told her he no longer was.