The Shins have covered The Stone Temple Pilots on the first night of their tour – check out the moment below.The band were in San Francisco for the opening night of their ‘Oh, Inverted World’ 21st birthday tour.
The band’s debut album came out in 2001 via Sub Pop, and last year saw a 20th anniversary reissue released.“This record gave me the life that I never really dreamed I would have,” frontman James Mercer reflected of the album in a statement at the time. “It opened me up to the whole world and gave me validation.
It’s also something that stands as a bit of a pinnacle for our band.”“You release that first record and it’s so well embraced, but you’re always trying to get that magic back, I think,” he added. “We’ve done well, certainly, but the fervour that happened around ‘Oh, Inverted World’ we never quite reached again.
It’s a special moment when you’re a new band and you’ve got what was apparently kind of a new sound. This record symbolised a very special moment in my life, a watershed moment for sure.”During part of the performance last night, Mercer could be seen reading the lyrics to the Stone Temple Pilots song from his phone.Check out the moment here:The ‘Oh, Inverted World’ anniversary tour will run through the whole of August before finishing up in the band’s hometown of Portland on September 16.See a trailer for the tour and a full list of dates below.
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