Purple (album)
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Personnel

  • Stone Temple Pilots – design
  • Dean DeLeo
    Dean DeLeo
    Dean DeLeo is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...

     – electric and acoustic guitars, percussion on track 6, drum ending on track 7
  • Robert DeLeo
    Robert DeLeo
    Robert Emile DeLeo is an American bass player, songwriter, and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone...

     – bass, guitars on tracks 2,3,6,7,11 & percussion on track 6
  • Nick DiDia – engineer
  • Clay Harper – assistant engineer
  • Eric Kretz
    Eric Kretz
    Eric Kretz is an American musician and producer, known as the drummer for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1990s and early 2000s that reunited in 2008. He has also played for Talk Show, and most recently Spiralarms...

     – percussion, drums
  • Paul Leary
    Paul Leary
    Paul Leary is an American musician from Austin, TX, best known as the guitarist for American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also the producer of a number of songs and albums by other bands, including U2, Sublime, the Meat Puppets, Daniel Johnston, The Reverend Horton Heat, Pepper, Maggie...

     – ending guitar solo on "Lounge Fly"
  • Brendan O'Brien
    Brendan O'Brien (music producer)
    Brendan O’Brien is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.At age 14, O'Brien played guitar for the Atlanta-based cover band Pranks. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the Samurai Catfish band...

     – producer, engineer, mixing, mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

     on "Army Ants"
  • Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...

     – vocals, percussion on Track 6, guitar on Track 7
  • Dale Sizer – illustrations
  • Caram Costanzo – assistant engineer
  • John Heiden – design

Album

Year Chart Position
1994 U.S. Billboard 200 1
UK Albums Chart 10
Australian Albums Chart 1
Canadian RPM Albums Chart 2

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999) Position
U.S. Billboard 200 99

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1994 "Big Empty" Mainstream Rock Tracks 3
Modern Rock Tracks 7
Top 40 Mainstream 40
"Interstate Love Song" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
Modern Rock Tracks 2
Top 40 Mainstream 22
"Vasoline" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
Modern Rock Tracks 2
"Unglued" Mainstream Rock Tracks 8
Modern Rock Tracks 16
1995 "Pretty Penny" Mainstream Rock Tracks 12
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