Stone Temple Pilots, Filter, Local H, Veruca Salt, Deftones, Nickelback, Union Underground, Glassjar

Bicentennial Park, Miami, FL.....

A local radio station festival called Zetafest.Scott Weiland of STP was just out of jail after being locked up in 1999 for multiple parole violations after a drug conviction. I was interested in seeing STP, but mostly I wanted to see Local H, Vercua Salt, and Filter. Deftones was interesting for a few songs until watching sweaty suburbanites mosh became excruciating boring. They had two side-by-side stages set up and were alternating between them to make the changeovers quick, and some of the aggro-rock bands were so generic it felt like one band was running back and forth between the two stages. A quick change into a clean shirt and voila! More screaming into a mic from the left of the crowd instead of the right.

Vercua Salt was a lot of fun, and Local H was enjoyable--although nowhere near as dynamic as when Joe Daniels was still drumming. 


Stone Temple Pilots setlist:

  • Crackerman
  • Vasoline
  • Tumble in the Rough
  • Wicked Garden
  • Piece of Pie
  • Big Empty
  • Interstate Love Song
  • Plush
  • Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
  • Down

encore break

  • Dead & Bloated
  • Sex Type Thing


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