LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 2, 2019…TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO STP RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘TRIPPIN’ ON A HOLE IN A PAPER HEART’
-TRIPPIN’ ON A HOLE WAS STP’S 5TH SINGLE TO REACH # 1 ON THE BILLBOARD ROCK CHARTS
-THE SONG GARNERED A GRAMMY NOMINATION IN 1997 FOR “BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE.”
-STP’S DRUMMER ERIC KRETZ WROTE MOST OF THE MUSIC FOR THIS SONG. ACCORDING TO KRETZ, THE INSPIRATION FOR THE DRUM LINE WAS TOWER OF POWER’S SONG ‘WHAT IS HIP?’
-SCOTT WEILAND WROTE THE LYRICS. WEILAND SAID IN A RADIO INTERVIEW THAT THE AMBIGUOUS LYRICS ACTUALLY ALLUDED TO A “VERY BAD EXPERIENCE DROPPING ACID”
-THIS HAS THE LONGEST TITLE OF ANY STP SONG. THE FULL TITLE NEVER APPEARS IN THE LYRICS, BUT WE DO HEAR ABOUT THE “PAPER HEART” IN THE FIRST LINE. AND THE WORD TRIP APPEARS TWICE “KEEP ON TRIPPIN’ ANYWAY” “ONE MORE TRIP AND I’LL BE GONE”
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘TRIPPIN’ ON A HOLE IN A PAPER HEART’
