“The two-day concert, coined as America’s premiere rock festival, had one of the most impressive lineups of any festival taking place this summer. The lineup for the show was impressive – besides appearances by 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, Staind, Papa Roach and Kid Rock, Friday night headliner Stone Temple Pilots were set to perform live together for the first time in over seven years.”
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The two-day concert, coined as America’s premiere rock festival, had one of the most impressive lineups of any festival taking place this summer.

The lineup for the show was impressive – besides appearances by 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, Staind, Papa Roach and Kid Rock, Friday night headliner Stone Temple Pilots were set to perform live together for the first time in over seven years.

Papa Roach put on one of the best shows of the festival by far. Jacoby Shaddix, the band’s lead singer, showed more intensity with his stage presence and antics than any other band there.

Headliner 3 Doors Down played a decent but boring set highlighted by songs from their new album that was due to release the following week.

Every band before them played with intensity, but these guys seemed to be content with toe tapping and the occasional jump from one end of the stage to the other.

As fans stood and waited in anticipation for STP to take the stage, the PA system belted out Fight For Your Right by the Beastie Boys. Ironic, considering just a few days previous to this night Scott Weiland spent less than 20 minutes in jail for DUI.

Despite Papa Roach’s best effort, STP stole the show.

Weiland came on stage in a suit smoking a cigarette and wearing aviator sunglasses. Talk about a bad ass.

Weiland’s voice sounded great and Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz’s playing was spot on.

You’d never guess they had just spent the last seven years on hiatus.

To say the band was intense would be an understatement.

Weiland commanded the entire stage.

The DeLeo brothers played with precision and heart and Kretz could have given himself whiplash for pounding the drums as hard as he did.

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