
Scott Weiland's problems with substance abuse emerged early on in his career. The band was also featured on the iconic The Crow soundtrack, released the same year, with their song Big Empty helping to set the mood and tone of the superhero comic book adaptation.

In March of that year, the hit single Plush from Core would win a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. It spawned two hit singles, Interstate Love Song and Vaseline. The second Stone Temple Pilots album Purple arrived in 1994, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Charts. It wasn't until 1992 that they released their debut album Core, which propelled them to mainstream success. Scott Weiland helped form Stone Temple Pilots in the late 80s, going under the name Mighty Joe Young. At this time we ask that the privacy of Scott's family be respected." "Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts. Here is the statement made to the public. It is widely known that Scott Weiland struggled with a substance abuse problem. At this time, the cause of death is not being made public. It was later confirmed by both his wife and manager that he had died, giving an official announcement on Scott Weiland's personal Instagram. He was scheduled to perform in Minneapolis last night, but the concert was canceled.Īlso known as the frontman for supergroup Velvet Revolver, the musician was found unresponsive in the back of his tour bus by his persona manager. The singer was on tour with his band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts. Scott Weiland, former singer of Stone Temple Pilots, has passed away at the age of 48.

His autobiography called Not Dead & Not For Sale, was co-written by David Ritz.Scott Weiland was found dead in the back of his tour bus, with the cause of death not yet reported. Afterwards they filed to get a divorce, but it did not push through since they reconciled instead but divorced in the end. Scott Weiland was arrested because of domestic violence but the couple decided to go to counseling. He got married again to a model called Mary Forsberg in 2000 and they had two children together, Lucy and Noah. They got married in 1994 and they divorced in 2000. Scott Weiland was married to his first wife was Janina Castaneda.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS SINGER CAUSE DEATH FULL
Afterwards, he devoted himself to his music career full time and he was working as the Paste Up artist of Los Angeles Daily Journal which is a legal newspaper. During this time, he moved to Ohio and there he attended Kenston High School and moved to California like a teenager and also attended the Edison High School of Orange Coast College and Huntington Beach. When he was five years old, he took up the name of his step father David Weiland. Some said that he was among the three voices of this generation together with Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain.įrom his biography, Scott Weiland was born to Kent and Williams Kline. Many people offered the evaluation of his career and his life and these included Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins and David Fricke of Rolling Stone. During the tour of 2015 for the album Blaster, he died and the cause of death was accidental overdose of drugs while in the tour bus in the city of Minnesota.

There were some critics and his fans started to note the failing health with the dwindling energy of Weiland. When he left Stone Temple Pilots, Weiland made up the Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts which received the mixed review. He was ranked by Hit Parader to be among the 100 heavy metal vocalists. He is now viewed to be most versatile and talented vocalist. He is known to use megaphone while battling with the substance abuse and fought with the substance abuse. He became also to be known as a person who likes to change his vocal style and appearance. At the beginning, he was derided by the criticism since his onstage persona become to be known as chaotic and flamboyant.
