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”. No cause of death was stated. The man hasn’t been charged.
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The Hennepin County medical examiner isn’t saying what caused the death of former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland. “So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight”.
Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts released the album “Blaster” in March. Weiland was found dead on his tour bus around 9 p.m., shortly before he and his current band the Wildabouts were due on stage at the Medina Entertainment Center in Hamel, Minnesota. They say Polanco punched the teen several times, pulled her hair and scratched her. Weiland co-founded Stone Temple Pilots, also known as STP, in the late 1980s, which went on to score such guitar-heavy hits as Plush in 1993 and Interstate Love Song the following year. Stone Temple Pilots were often dissed by critics and fans of other bands as a mere growly imitator of Pearl Jam and Nirvana. The band’s performances, all rhythmically jarring and furiously electric, seemed to depend on how lucid Weiland chose to be. The band released six studio albums, the most recent being 2010’s Stone Temple Pilots. The substance found in Weiland’s tour bus bedroom underwent a field test and yielded a positive result for cocaine.
He was arrested for possession of crack and heroin in 1995 and pleaded guilty to felony heroin possession in 1998.
“The story’s not finished”, Weiland told the AP at the time.
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The Stone Temple Pilots broke up in 2003 and got back together in 2008 – only to split for good in 2013. “And it’s actually … they’re pushing him into his death, because they’re making him believe that, ‘Whatever I did is acceptable, and I can be as high as I want and I can do as much drugs as I want'”.
