As we’ve reported, new Stone Temple Pilots frontman Jeff Gutt has covered many songs from legendary 90’s artists over the years. Below is a video of Gutt covering Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 hit “Hurt.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i_SU3LY32E
New Stone Temple Pilots singer Jeff Gutt covered a Chris Cornell classic, and it has just resurfaced. Gutt covered Audioslave’s “Shadow On The Sun,” and it is beautiful. Listen below!
New Stone Temple Pilots singer Jeff Gutt discussed his connection to Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell in a new SiriusXM interview with Eddie Trunk. Alternative Nation transcribed Gutt’s comments.
“I was actually in a band called Dry Cell, which was on Warner Brothers around the same time as Linkin Park. That was how I knew Chester, that’s when I first met him, in 2001 when they first came out, and we were signed by the same guy.”
He later discussed singing “Hunger Strike.”
“I never wanted to a singer. I always wanted to be the guy on the side, I never wanted to have the spotlight on me. It always made me a little uncomfortable. But then I realized that I had this natural gift of- I think it’s more listening and being able to hear if you’re in pitch or not, it’s more of your ear than your throat, but I had that ability.
I was always the guy showing the singer which to sing, so at one point, strangely enough the first time I put the guitar down, and just sang and held the microphone in front of people, it was Hunger Strike. It’s crazy, because Chester and Chris Cornell had that version. That was the first time.”
