Where the River Goes - 2017 Remaster

A band composition from Stone Temple Pilots first album, this song is about going where life takes you: I wanna be big as a mountain I wanna fly high as the sun They came up with the riff the first time they jammed with Dean DeLeo, who replaced Corey Hickok on guitar. Dean is five years older than his brother Robert, the band's bass player, and it took some convincing to get Dean on board. When he joined them on his first jam, his new bandmates were blown away, and Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics based on that feeling. "To us, Dean's playing was big as a mountain and high as the sun," he said in his 2011 autobiography. "He pushed us up to a heavenly place."

Running 8:25, this is the longest song in the Stone Temple Pilots discography.