Tommy Black, a band member of Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts has been arrested on drug charges after cocaine was found on the tour bus where bandmate Scott Weiland was found dead on Thursday. The former frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver was 48. Investigators found small amounts of cocaine on the bus, though a cause of death hasn’t been released.
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Today, Weiland’s death was felt across the world of music.
Vitorino said he learned of Weiland’s death from his tour manager.
He co-founded Stone Temple Pilots in the early 1990s and enjoyed hit albums such as Core and Purple and singles like Vasoline and Interstate Love Song. After the band split, Weiland formed Velvet Revolver, a group with Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan.
Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing first responder radio communications, said Weiland died from cardiac arrest while asleep on his tour bus. The singer subsequently filed a countersuit against Stone Temple Pilots, claiming the band have no legal right to remove him from the line-up.
He had battled substance abuse problems for years, but said he was sober.
Our thoughts are with Scott’s family and friends at this time. Weiland’s life was filled with both triumph and tragedy, something his former band mates in Stone Temple Pilots noted in a statement issued early on Friday.
The local coroner confirmed the death but didn’t cite a cause. Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington took over Weiland’s singing role in the band, though he announced last month that he was splitting from the group so he could focus more on Linkin Park.
We know amidst the good and the bad you struggled, time and time again. FILE – In this November 24, 2008, file photo, singer Scott Weiland performs at the Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles to promote his new album, “Happy in Galoshes”.
Two years later, he was sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation that resulted from a 1998 arrest for heroin possession. Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, “got me hooked, a wizardly mix of glam and post-punk, and I confessed to Scott, as well as the band many times, how wrong I’d been in assessing their native brilliance”.
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Weiland “was the best he has ever been”, she said. After several stints in rehab and actually being kicked out of STP in 2013, Weiland was making great strides turning his life around for the sake of his two children.
