In between stints with STP, Weiland fronted Velvet Revolver, a group which, in addition to Kushner, featured former Guns N’ Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. They regrouped in 2008, issuing the Stone Temple Pilots album in 2010, before firing Weiland in 2013 and replacing him with Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. After taking the name Stone Temple Pilots, they put out five albums between 19 and won a Grammy in 1994 for the Core single “Plush” before disbanding in 2002. He rose to prominence in the early Nineties as the frontman of the San Diego–based Stone Temple Pilots, who scored hits with songs like “Creep,” “Big Empty,” “Vasoline” and “Interstate Love Song.” The band had come together in the mid-Eighties and recorded a demo under the name Mighty Joe Young around 1990. He moved with his family to Ohio for a number of years before returning to California as a teenager. A stepfather, Dave Weiland, adopted him at age five and changed his last name. His mother, Sharon Williams, and father, Kent Kline, divorced two years later. Weiland was born Scott Richard Kline on October 27th, 1967 in San Jose, California. Weiland’s Velvet Revolver bandmate, guitarist Dave Kushner, tweeted shortly after Navarro “RIP Scott Weiland.” “So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight.”
“Just learned our friend Scott Weiland has died,” he wrote. Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro announced the news in a since-deleted tweet shortly after midnight EST. The group was scheduled to perform at the Medina Entertainment Center in Medina, Minnesota Thursday night. Thursday night while touring with his current group the Wildabouts. TMZ is reporting that Weiland was found dead on his tour bus in Minnesota at around 9 p.m. "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,“ the post read.
Weiland passed away in his sleep on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, according to an official Instagram post. The details surrounding the singer’s death will be released Friday.
Weiland’s manager confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Scott Weiland, the dynamic stage presence and instantly recognizable voice behind Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (©2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. And his arrests for drug possession and stints in rehab led the Stone Temple Pilots to cancel tour dates and contributed to their 2003 breakup. He pleaded guilty to felony heroin possession in 1998.
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In 1995, he was arrested after deputies found him carrying crack and heroin. Weiland had a long string of drug- and alcohol-related arrests and stints in rehab. "There's more to be revealed and more to be told." "The story's not finished," Weiland told The Associated Press at the time.
The Stone Temple Pilots eventually reunited in 2008. Among that group's hits was "Fall to Pieces." The band broke up in 2003 and Weiland went on to front Velvet Revolver, the supergroup that featured former members of Guns N' Roses, including guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan. The singer rose to fame as the frontman of the Grammy Award-winning Stone Temple Pilots, whose hits include "Interstate Love Song," ''Plush," and "Vasoline."
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