Performer: Stone Temple Pilots
Songwriters: Robert DeLeo, Eric Kretz
Original Release: Core
Year: 1992
Definitive Version: None
After 2 years of playing softball, I decided that I wanted to hit home runs the next year, so in the spring of 1993, I started working on a new swing for the next season. My gym was next to a mini amusement park that had all of the standards—putt-putt golf, video games, bumper cars and batting cages. It had cages for baseball, fast-pitch softball and two types of slow-pitch softball.
So my workouts consisted of weights at the gym for about an hour before I rode the stationary bike. Somewhere in the middle, I’d throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt, grab my bat and head over to the cages for about $5 worth of rips. I never did hit any home runs (I never learned to give the ball any kind of lift), but my swing—and therefore batting average—improved as a result.
Like most people, I saw STP when they hit the scene as Pearl Jam clones. (Rolling Stone once called PJ the Stone Gossard Pilots, which I thought was pretty funny.) After a while, I had bought pretty much everything else worth buying, so I finally turned to the clones. Sure, they’re derivative, but who isn’t in the history of music? And this song was on my Walkman (still using tapes) during a lot of those workouts that spring.
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