By his own count, Weiland had already been in and out of drug-rehab programs 13 times in the last three years. 30, on his own volition, Weiland–a recent alumnus of the Impact Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center, in Pasadena, Califorinia–checked into an undisclosed rehabilitation facility. He said, ‘I’m going into treatment.’ I said, ‘I’d love to believe that.’ And on Monday, he checked himself in.” On Dec. “When I talked to him, I could hear his condition. “Scott called and said, ‘I’m fucking up–I need help,'” DeLeo, the group’s guitarist, recalls grimly a few days later.
After six weeks on tour with STP and more than six months of staying clean, of successfully fighting the dark urges that had once sucked him into the black hole of heroin addiction, Weiland, STP’s 29-year-old singer, had fallen off the wagon–hard. 29, shortly before Stone Temple Pilots were supposed to fly to Anchorage, Alaska, for a New Year’s Eve show.
The song is a playable track in the game Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades.The song was covered by AJ Mclean of the Backstreet Boys during his first solo live show.This video was directed by Robert Hales and Mark Racco. On occasion, the song's lyrics will also flash on either screen. The screens alternate between images of the band performing this song at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, a woman in a room that either shows her underwater or surrounded by fire raining down on her, and shots of a coffee mug falling to the floor and shattering. A white light continuously flickers in the room as confetti is raining down. The song's music video features a dark room with two projection screens.
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In 2015, Loudwire and Stereogum ranked the song number four and number three, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest Stone Temple Pilots songs. "Down" appears on the compilation albums Thank You and Buy This. In 2001, it was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammy Awards, an award STP had previously won for the song " Plush" in 1994.
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