While many ofPurple's songs have remained in Stone Temple Pilots' set lists over the years, a few of the tracks have been long abandoned. Notably, the Concord show marked the first time in 22 years that STP played “Kitchenware & Candybars” in front of a live audience (the band did,...
(CP 240) It is clear that in Nerves, Wieners’ formal lyrics achieved a particular virtuosity within the terms of Olson’s later essay. In a fine account of the opening stanza of ‘Desperation’, Wilkinson identifies a ‘verbal seesaw where positions are exchanged and whereby ‘melancholy ...