Scott Weiland’s bandmate Tommy Black has been arrested for possession of cocaine on the tour bus where Scott died.
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Weiland, 48, who also performed with the Velvet Revolver rock group, had admitted in interviews to a longtime struggle with substance abuse.
The troubled rock star’s body was found in the bed of his tour bus prior to a show stop in Bloomington, Minnesota. He was going to perform with his current band, The Wildabouts, that night.
He came to fame as the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning Stone Temple Pilots, whose hits include “Interstate Love Song”, “Plush“, and “Vasoline”.
Police ultimately confiscated the cocaine (described in all accounts as a “small amount”) found at the scene of Scott Weiland’s death, along with other items of evidence. “Part of that gift was part of your curse”.
“Detectives collected several items of evidence from inside the tour bus, [including] a small quantity of suspected controlled substance that field-tested positive as cocaine, in the bedroom where Mr. Weiland was located”, the Bloomington Police Department in Minnesota said in a statement today, according to the L.A. Times.
Meanwhile, Stone Temple Pilots members Robert DeLeo, Eric Kretz and Dean DeLeo have honoured the memory of their late co-founder in a touching open letter. The band originally went by the name Mighty Joe Young, but the group made a decision to change the name before releasing their first album “Core” in 1992.
The news of Weiland’s death was confirmed via his Facebook page on Friday morning (December 4) though a cause of death is yet to be determined.
Another tragedy has occurred in the shadow of Scott Weiland’s death.
Weiland and the Wildabouts played Adelaide Hall in Toronto on Tuesday, the most recent date before a planned show in Medina, Minn., on Thursday. Weiland focused on his solo career with The Wildabouts after that.
Black was arrested and booked for 5th degree felony possession of drugs.
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Weiland is survived by two children with his ex-wife, Mary Forsberg, who wrote in her 2009 memoir Fall to Pieces that there was a time when the couple, while beset by drug addiction, took a limousine together to rehab.
