Weiland didn’t flinch in his lyrics to “Interstate Love Song,” from the chart-topping album “Purple”: “Breathing is the hardest thing to do/ With all I’ve said and all that’s dead for you/ you lied – good bye.” Like kindred spirits Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots preferred slow-tempoed incantations to the quick, hook-heavy hair metal of Motley Crue or the more structurally gymnastic Metallica. Where once Los Angeles was teeming with pop metal bands, a darker sound had hit, and Stone Temple Pilots entered with heavy chords and grim themes. Released by Atlantic Records, Stone Temple Pilots’ 1992 debut album, “Core,” came out a year after Nirvana’s “Nevermind” had rewritten the rules for commercial rock music. Though known for harnessing hardened energy to create commercially palatable rock, Stone Temple Pilots gigged early shows at underground Hollywood spots such as Club Lingerie and the Whisky a Go-Go. Weiland got his start as a rocker in Southern California – and met future Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag show in Long Beach. In 1995, Weiland was arrested in Pasadena when police caught him with cocaine and heroin. Those flights took their toll throughout Stone Temple Pilots’ first run, though.
“I can’t name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man in a space without demons and doubts.” “The opiate took me to where I’d always dreamed of going,” he told Spin magazine in 2011.
He earned continued success after leaving Stone Temple Pilots in 2002, when he helmed the multi-platinum supergroup Velvet Revolver. The Grammy-winning singer, 48, had a strikingly long career considering his struggles with addiction. Officers arrived and determined the adult male was deceased.” The department declined to identify the victim pending further investigation. Late Thursday, the Bloomington Police Department issued a news release confirming a death: “Bloomington police officers responded to a hotel in the 2200 block of Killebrew Drive on a report of an unresponsive adult male in a recreational motor vehicle. So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight.” That tweet later appeared to have been removed. Reports of Weiland’s death began to circulate after fellow rocker Dave Navarro tweeted: “Just learned our friend Scott Weiland has died.
“At this time we ask that the privacy of Scott’s family be respected,” the statement said. A statement on Weiland’s Facebook page posted Thursday night said Weiland had “passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota.”
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