He found success in the 90s with Stone Temple Pilots with brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo.
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Scott Weiland seemed healthy and sober during what turned out to be his final concert with his band the Wildabouts this week in Toronto but “something was off”, says a photographer who shot the show and worked with the band in the past. Their debut album, Core, reached No. 3 on the Billboard Charts and their follow up, Purple, reached No. 1.
Weiland’s Facebook page gave no details about the circumstances of his death. They went on to embark on a reunion tour but took a break for Weiland to support his second solo album.
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Weiland rose to fame as the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots, which became one of the most commercially successful bands to come out of the early 1990s grunge rock movement. Visits to rehab and police stations were also a distraction from the singer’s powerful voice, a gravelly bass that he tamed to sing rock ballads such as Velvet Revolver’s “Fall to Pieces” – a song about a singer struggling with demons, and whose video includes the depiction of a seeming drug overdose.
But Abramowicz, whose photography can be seen in the liner notes of the band’s latest CD, said Weiland didn’t seem under the influence of anything during the show in Toronto on Tuesday.
Stone Temple Pilots, though, returned in 2008 with Weiland as its frontman again.
Those dreams ended on a tour bus in Minnesota, where he was found dead.
Scott Weiland fell off the wagon and was doing crack cocaine during the days before his death, according to TMZ, citing musical sources close to the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer.
Sure, there were short reunions, and everybody said all the right things.
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The singer, who co-wrote and recorded such hits as “Tripping On a Hole in a Paper Heart” and “Interstate Love Song”, had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse. Black, 47, of Studio City, was arrested and is being held by Bloomington police pending a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance.
