Scott Weiland, Former Singer of Stone Temple Pilots, Dead at 48

[Beaverhausen]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead

Scott Weiland, the former frontman for rock bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died, his Facebook page confirmed early Friday morning (Dec. 4).

Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while...


Dave Navarro, guitarist and member of Jane's Addiction, first tweeted the news at 9:01 p.m. PT on Thursday night: "Our friend Scott Weiland has died." (He has since deleted the tweet.)

[TwilightGardener]

1. Sad news. A talented rock singer.

RIP to Mr. Weiland. Too young.

[JI7]

2. drugs

[awoke_in_2003]

3. My bet

I liked STP

[JI7]

5. i wasn't into them that much

they were ok . the drug problem is still sad. although it seems to not happen as much as it did some decades back.

[thelordofhell]

4. Fuck Heroin

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Sigh. A shame.

Of course we don't know why yet but one suspects as to what likely happened.

Either way, RIP.

[Solly Mack]

7. Well, damn.

[Unknown Beatle]

8. I saw STP in concert

and they blew the doors out of the concert venue. I mean they rocked hard. Great concert! I play a little guitar and I tried to emulate some of Dean DeLeo's, the guitarist for STP, style. Not easy.

RIP Scott

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. ...and I almost didn't go because I wasn't a huge fan

but that was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

[blue neen]

9. What a shame. Weiland had an amazing voice.

He has struggled with addiction disease for a long time.

[callous taoboy]

10. Sad. My condolences to his friends and family and fans.

[Miles Archer]

11. This has always been a "when," not "if," story in the wings

If you have followed the story from STP through Velvet Revolver, if there was ever a guy living on borrowed time, it was Scott. It's tragic...I thought the first V.R. album was great, a much better rebound from Axl than he pulled off with is "reformed" GnR.

The fact that no one will probably ask "How could this have happened" doesn't make it any less sad.

[laundry_queen]

18. Yep. Still sad.

[YoungDemCA]

23. I felt that Layne Staley's death was similarly a matter of "when"

I wonder if the two of them were close.

Sad news, either way.

[Dorian Gray]

12. I'm so sad

to hear about this. One of the premier bands in my (post) formative years. Loved STP and him. I don't envy the cycle of addiction he suffered through. May he RIP>

[bigwillq]

13. RIP

[HughBeaumont]

14. Yet another to the list of now deceased performers I've seen live.

I wasn't the biggest fan, but there was no denying his stage presence in his prime.

Addiction is an awful, awful beast to overcome.

Let's hope he finds the peace in rest he didn't get on Earth.

[prayin4rain]

15. pick a flower, hold your breath and drift away...

[AngryAmish]

16. And Shane MacGowan is still alive

[panader0]

17. and he has new teeth.

[bunnies]

20. *sigh*

[YoungDemCA]

21. A goddamn shame.

Though not really that surprising, unfortunately.

Scott Weiland and Layne Staley: two iconic voices of 90s hard rock, and two individuals who weren't able to conquer their personal demons.

RIP.

[Cal Carpenter]

22. Sad

STP wasn't my favorite but I have a soft spot for all those rockers. What a shame.

Art and madness.

[Throd]

24. Sad, but not surprising.

[tammywammy]

25. I saw them in concert once

It was the tour after No 4 came out. They played almost the whole Core album. What a great show.

May he rest in peace.

[Go Vols]

26. RIP

[NikolaC]

27. RIP

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Interstate Love Song is a 90's classic

It will be with us a long time. Many of their songs will.

Wishing a good journey to a guy from my generation who helped give us our sound.

[Initech]

29. RIP, I love STP.

[Arugula Latte]

30. A talented guy with a great voice; a big part of the sound of the 90s.

Very sad.

Addiction is just horrific.

[DonCoquixote]

31. oh (censored)

To think, he was picked for Velvet Revolver (aka Guns and Roses 2.0) because he supposedly had his head together better than Axl Rose, and now Axl will actually OUTLIVE HIM!

Bands may recover, but behind all the recovery, there is still some sibling that lost a brother, some father and mother, who will never see their son again. That is what matters.

However, as far as news goes, there is some real news behind all this: despite folks like Janis and Jimi being dead forty years, despite Layne Stanley and Shannon Hoon (Weiland contemporaries for those not Gen X) being dead ten years, the industry, this same record industry that pretends to care SO MUCH about these artists, is still willing to keep the wheels greased as long as there is a chance to make some money. There are documentaries galore where some record exec or producer admits that they kept giving addicts drugs for the sake of "one more show." This went on before STP and Velvet Revolver, and when Chester Pennington records another album as STP singer, and Axl goes back on the road with GnR, there will be some record exec making sure their precious investment stays on the drugs.

Of course, we could also talk about the lunacy of our drug policy, where we see that addiction is nasty enough where even people who can afford treatment still die. For Celebs, drug treatment is a BIG BUSINESS, one that frankly makes a lot of loot taking advantage of desperate people who just happen to be rock stars. There was an interview Stevie Nicks gave to Oprah where she flat out said that if she did not have a lot of money, she would never have gotten treated, that it cost as much to get rehab as to maintain the drug habit. This was coming from the lead singer of a band famous for blowing millions on Cocaine, a band that makes many modern bands and their XTC pills and e-cigs look like a kindergarten class. So, of course, we expect people who are poor and middle class to cut drugs cold turkey, right?

[Unknown Beatle]

33. Shannon Hoon died twenty years ago.

Cocaine overdose in 1995.

[NaturalHigh]

32. It's a tragedy that such a great talent died so young.

He's had to fight his personal demons for a long time. At least he's finally free from them.