“I keep on the edge of the permanently knife,” he said the singer Scott Weiland to USA Today in 2011, referring to his addictions to drugs and alcohol.
“I swear obviously not relapse into heroin, but I would never have believed that alcohol would be such a nightmare, and it’s legal,” he admitted in the interview.
The razor’s edge reached its end, and with it, the life of Weiland, Thursday night December 3rd, at 48 years. The exvocalista bands Stone Temple Pilots (STP), Velvet Revolver and now The Wildabouts was found dead on the bus carrying him, with his group, in a tour conducted by the United States.
The bus was parked outside a motel in Bloomington, Minnesota, said the news portal TMZ .
died in his sleep. That’s all that was known during the morning and part of the afternoon of December 4. Found dead on tour manager.
The news of the death was confirmed by his wife, photographer Jamie Weiland, told Los Angeles Times : “I can not deal with this now. It is true, “she said crying. The causes of death have not been unveiled
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However, media International communication ventured to give their predictions on the occasion of the death heroin, based on their history of addiction to cocaine, and crack . So for now, the press points to a drug overdose.
His baritone, slightly androgynous, that it began to make famous at the beginning of the decade of the 90 with the birth of grunge , will be remembered for issues such as Creep , Plush , Slither and Barbarella .
loud. Weiland was the “complete package”. Singer, musician, artist, rockstar , frontman and problematic … His career was headline news on several occasions, both for the success he achieved with his band, for their legal problems and constant visits to rehab.
The rough voice that characterized his record was a cloud that covered the criticism of fans sound of Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, who did not have good reception to the incipient Stone Temple Pilots (whose first name was Mighty Joe Young), as they claimed it was a copy of those pioneering bands.
However, Weiland along with his companions (the DeLeo brothers Robert and Dan and guitarist Eric Kretz) continued their proposal and the album Core (1992) and the simple Sex Type Thing were consolidated as one of the groups regarding the rock alternative noventero
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Drugs came to life about 1990 Weiland and never turned away from him. “Getting to Manhattan with other friends from other bands I heard asked their ‘contacts’ that take them several bags of China White (a synthetic drug). I could not pass up the ‘privilege’ of being a star of rock and the night before the first concert in New York, I got high, “he said in an interview quoted by the . website Gibson guitars
“The state that took me was indescribable; I felt calm and full of courage in a world full of demons and doubts. But I know it’s been a place full of conflict and trouble that have destroyed vital parts of my life journey, “he said.
The first major encounter with the police occurred in 1995, when he was arrested buy crack and the band had to cancel the tour to promote their third production, Tiny Music … Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996).
From that year, the erratic behavior and relapse into drug by the singer were constant. There was imprisonment and internment in rehabilitation clinics that disrupted the presentations and recordings of STP
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In the midst of these ups and downs, Weiland released his first solo material, 12 Bar Blues (1998); He returned twice to STP, with whom she would record a few more records. A brutal fistfight between him and Dan DeLeo marked the end of the group in 2002.
New vigor. A new arrest He came in 2003, after being caught driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, but withdrawals accusations came an important invitation. Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, former members of Guns N ‘Roses, and guitarist Dave Kushner, offered him to join a band they were forming. That was how the supergroup Velvet Revolver was born.
With them he recorded Contraband (2004) and Freedom (2007), albums that came to refresh the hard rock and rock alternative of the new millennium.
Again, the ghosts of the drugs appeared and Weiland was officially fired from the band in 2008, but before the artist announced he would meet that year with the original formation of Stone Temple Pilots to participate in a music festival. The quartet released a self-titled album last but Scott again left the group in 2013.
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