The police received a call Thursday night that Weiland appeared to be dead on the tour bus. A post on Weiland's official Instagram page says he died in his sleep on his tour bus while in Bloomington, Minnesota. First responder audio reveals that the former Stone Temple Pilots frontman was not breathing when the incident was reported Thursday night and dispatchers were heard saying he was in cardiac arrest. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will continue investigating the death with updates to come.Singer Scott Weiland, 48, is reported to have died after going into cardiac arrest, according to TMZ. "Officers arrived and determined the adult male was deceased," read the release, which did not identify the deceased. 3rd at 8:22 p.m., officers responded to a report of an unresponsive adult male in a recreational motor vehicle located in the 2200 block of Killebrew Drive. The Bloomington, Minnesota, Police Department issued a statement at 11:15 p.m. Former MTV VJ and longtime radio personality Matt Pinfield wrote on Facebook "I am speechless … and sad at the loss of my friend, and although many of you are probably not surprised, it doesn't make it any easier. Tributes to the late singer have been pouring in from all over the music world. Heroin was also a drug of choice for Weiland, who had checked into a rehabilitation facility but did not finish the program, according to reports around 2007.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS SINGER CONVICTED CRACK
In 1995, the singer was convicted of buying crack cocaine and sentenced to probation. Read More: Scott Weiland Marries Photographer Jamie Wachtelīy then, Weiland had weathered several public run-ins with the law, mostly due to drug use and driving under the influence. They released an album called Contraband in June 2004 and another in 2007 called Libertad, the last to feature Weiland on vocals. In 2002, Weiland joined former Guns N' Roses members Slash (guitars), Duff McKagan (bass) and Matt Sorum (drums) in a supergroup called Velvet Revolver. He announced his exit from the group on Nov.
Most recently, the group recruited Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington to handle frontman duties. Stone Temple Pilots would carry on in various incarnations in the coming years. The band took the first of several hiatuses just a few years after reaching the apex of their popularity, during which Weiland participated in several side projects.
Read more Scott Weiland Says 'F- ISIS,' Calls Donald Trump Presidency a 'Nightmare'įeaturing Weiland’s distinctive lower register singing style, a sort of growl that grew ever more popular in the post-grunge years, STP went on to sell 13.5 million albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, but infighting eventually drove the members apart. "Interstate Love Song" led the Mainstream Rock Songs chart for 15 weeks. The band would eventually land 11 top 10 hits on the Alternative Songs chart, including the three-week No. 1 album Purple, which contained several radio hits including the songs "Big Empty," "Vasoline" and "Interstate Love Song." 3 on the Billboard 200 followed by an even bigger achievement a year later in 1994 when STP released the No. In 1993, the band’s debut album Core peaked at No. Read More: Scott Weiland Mourned by Krist Novoselic, Joe Perry, Ryan Adams & MoreĪ California native, Weiland formed the band Stone Temple Pilots with brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo and saw huge commercial success in the 1990s.
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