STP's Dean DeLeo Celebrates New Project, One More Satellite
Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday (May 28) ahead of the release of the debut album from his latest project, One More Satellite.
The new band features DeLeo teaming up with singer and songwriter Pete Shoulder. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article.
"We met back in 2015," DeLeo told host Chuck Armstrong.
"[My brother] Robert and I were introduced to Pete through Ross Halfin — great photographer — and we just hit it off. We did some recording together back in 2017, Robert, Pete, the great Brian Tichy on drums."
DeLeo revealed that the group actually made a complete record in 2017, but they have been sitting on it for the past several years.
"I'm doing all I can for it to see the light of day."
The first song released from the latest partnership with Shoulder via One More Satellite is called "Paper Over the Cracks" and there's no question there is a bit of a Stone Temple Pilots flair to it.
"Look, I've been trying to get away from myself for three decades and I just can't seem to," DeLeo said.
"I think everybody has their own imprint and it's just simply me doing my thing and Pete doing his thing."
DeLeo is no stranger to working with other artists and creating new bands. From helping form Stone Temple Pilots and then, years later, Army of Anyone, DeLeo is energized when he's surrounded by great musicians.
"Having the luxury of being in a band with my brother and Eric [Kretz] and Scott [Weiland] for that matter, you're only as good as those who surround you," he shared.
"And those guys make me sound pretty good. I learned a lot [about] songwriting. Being affiliated with Robert, my brother, his knowledge of chords is through the roof, far more expansive than mine. I learned a lot from him in that respect. I've surely learned a lot from him on how to approach playing bass as you'll hear on this record, me just doing my best Robert DeLeo."
DeLeo was quick to share his love for the music he was part of with Trip the Witch, too.
"Being affiliated with Tom Bukovac and the other musicians that were on that record, it puts you in a place to really approach things in a way — I've always kind of have this philosophy to just really allow the song to dictate what you're going to play," he said.
"Plenty of times when I would hear a song from Tom that he would write and send to me, or even when I'm writing a song, I kind of have a sonic adventure going on in my head, how I want to express it or record it."
Listen to the Full Interview in the Podcast Player Below
Dean DeLeo joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday, May 28; the show replays online here, and you can tune in live every weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you can also see if the show is available on your local radio station and listen to interviews on-demand.
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