Red Hot Chili Peppers/Stone Temple Pilots/Fishbone

PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ I was supposed to go backstage and meet the guys in STP after their set was over. That would have meant missing part of the RHCP performance, but I didn't mind, having just seen them at the same venue a few week before . However, the meet & greet never happened. When STP came out for their performance, singer Scott Weiland mentioned to the audience that someone from their record company, Atlantic Records, had just embarrassed them in front of their friends, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It seemed like a pretty harsh way of calling out someone. For the meet & greet, I had been told by a rep from the label to go to a certain location in the amphitheater as soon as STP had completed their performance. When I did, though, the rep told me in a very agitated tone of voice that the meetup was cancelled. I found out later that the label rep had told the guys in STP rather loudly backstage that the bill should be reversed and that RHCP should be openin...