"Scott Weiland, best accepted as the advance accompanist for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, anesthetized abroad in his beddy-bye while on a bout stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his bandage The Wildabouts," a column on Weiland's Facebook page reads. "At this time we ask that the aloofness of Scott’s ancestors be respected."
Dave Navarro, guitarist and affiliate of Jane's Addiction, aboriginal tweeted the account at 9:01 p.m. PT on Thursday night: "Our acquaintance Scott Weiland has died." (He has back deleted the tweet.)
Weiland and his latest band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, were appointed to bout this ages with accessible dates at Reno, NV on Dec. 18 and City Winery in Napa on Dec. 19.
The Bloomington, Minn. Police Department issued a account at 11:15 p.m. PT account the contest as such: On Dec. 3rd at 8:22 p.m., admiral responded to a abode of an above developed macho in a recreational motor car amid in the 2200 block of Killebrew Drive. "Officers accustomed and bent the developed macho was deceased," apprehend the release, which did not analyze the deceased. The abode seems to accord to a bounded Country Inn & Suites hotel.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will abide investigating the afterlife with updates to come.
Weiland angry 48 on Oct. 27. He continued suffered from actuality corruption issues.
A California native, Weiland formed the bandage Stone Temple Pilots with brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo and saw huge bartering success in the 1990s. In 1993, the band’s admission anthology Core ailing at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 followed by an even bigger accomplishment a year afterwards in 1994, if STP appear the anthology Purple, which independent several radio hits including the songs “Big Empty,” “Vasoline” and “Interstate Love Song,” as it accomplished No. 1.
Featuring Weiland’s characteristic lower annals singing style, a array of bark that grew anytime added accepted in the post-grunge years, STP went on to advertise millions of records, but infighting eventually collection the associates apart. The bandage took the aboriginal of several hiatuses just a few years afterwards extensive their acme of their popularity, during which Weiland alternate in several ancillary projects.Stone Temple Pilots would backpack on in assorted incarnations in the advancing years. Most recently, the accumulation recruited Linkin Park accompanist Chester Pennington to handle frontman duties. He appear his avenue from the accumulation on Nov. 9.
In 2002, Weiland abutting above Guns N' Roses associates Slash (guitars), Duff McKagan (bass) and Matt Sorum (drums) in a supergroup alleged Velvet Revolver. They appear an anthology alleged Contraband in June 2004 and addition in 2007 alleged Libertad, the endure to affection Weiland on vocals. Combined, they awash 2.4 actor units.
By then, Weiland had asperous several accessible run-ins with the law, mostly due to biologic use and active beneath the influence. In 1995, the accompanist was bedevilled of affairs able cocaine and bedevilled to probation. In 2003 and 2007 Weiland was arrested for D.U.I. Heroin was aswell a biologic of best for Weiland, who had arrested into a rehabilitation ability but did not accomplishment the program, according to letters about 2007.
Tributes to the backward accompanist accept been cloudburst in from all over the music world. Above MTV VJ and longtime radio personality Matt Pinfield wrote on Facebook “I am aghast … and sad at the accident of my friend, and although abounding of you are apparently not surprised. It doesn't accomplish it any easier. Addiction sucks. I will absence you Scott.”
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