Rocker Scott Weiland, ex-frontman of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver who battled substance abuse over the years, was found dead on Thursday.
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However, it has now emerged Weiland’s bassist Tommy Black was taken into custody for fifth degree felony possession of drugs after a police search of the bus uncovered a small quantity of cocaine in his living quarters, while another minor stash was discovered in the bedroom where the tragic singer’s body was found. Citing audio communications between the Bloomington, Minn., Police Dept. and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department, TMZ reported that dispatchers “conveyed the musician appeared to have gone into cardiac arrest”.
Our thoughts continue to be with Scott’s family and friends during this hard time. His former bandmates in both Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, the group he joined after his split with STP, have written tributes.
A cause of death was not immediately known.
Another source told the site they had been called at around 7:30pm before news of the death broke to say he’d died of a drug overdose.
Linkin Park’s lead singer Chester Bennington then replaced him as the frontman until November this year.
The memories are many, and they run deep for us.
Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts released the album “Blaster” in March.
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. And that is if you asked me who I truly believed were the great voices of our generation, I’d say it were he, Layne and Kurt.
Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts were scheduled to perform on Thursday at the Medina Inn, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Bloomington, but the show was canceled, the venue said on its website.
All of our love and respect. A guitarist for the band, Jeremy Brown, died at his home in Venice, California, a day before the album’s release.
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“Robert, Eric, Scott and I put 25 years of our lives into it”, DeLeo said.
