Died Scott Weiland, former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

Scott Weiland, former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, died on Thursday in Minnesota, while sleeping. The 48-year-old musician was touring with his new band The Wildabouts. There were no advanced the reasons of death.

The news was confirmed by his wife, photographer Jamie Weiland, the US newspaper Los Angeles Times . Your manager , Tom Vitorino, wrote on Facebook that Weiland “died in his sleep, a local tour in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts”. The band was going to a concert that night.

The musician was born in Santa Cruz, California, in 1967. He founded the Stone Temple Pilots in 1989. The band stood out in the 1990s and won a Grammy for song Plush in 1994. With the grunge explosion in the early 1990s, through the Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and the consequent rise of more aggressive rock the center of the music scene, the Stone Temple Pilots gain a prominent position with the edit Core , the debut album in 1992. Two years later, Purple would cement that position.

But unlike the dark Alice in Chains, Nirvana or the essential cathartic Pearl Jam, the Stone Temple Pilots looked with devotion, and showed it to the classic rock of the 1970s a time when the black shadow of Black Sabbath resurfaced, adapted by a new generation, the Stone Temple Pilots seemed to prefer the sparkling light that radiated even glam rock and Led Zeppelin. They had in a versatile vocalist Scott Weiland, an eccentricity on stage she also absorbed Trinity “fri, drugs & amp; rock’n’roll” of the 1970s, which earned them place in memory of the generation that lived the years of grunge and who gave songs like Plush , Vasoline or Interstate love song the status of classics of their time.

Scott Weiland He led the band until 2002 and in that year formed the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver with former members of Guns N’Roses. In 2008, he left the band and went back to the Stone Temple Pilots, who have returned to active that year. Weiland would leave once the band in 2013, then replaced by Chester Bannington, Linkin Park, which however returned to focus on those all the attention. The musician has also worked solo, having edited 12 Bar Blues (1998), “Happy” in Galoshes (2008) and The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2011).

Scott Weiland battled an addiction to alcohol and drugs and was in rehab several times. Of multiple marriages born two sons, the union with ex-wife Mary Forsberg.