Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland is known for having been the singer of the Stone Temple Pilots band, and currently being that of Velvet Revover and Camp Fredy. He is very influenced in singing as on stage by the terrible children that were Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Mick Jager or David Bowie ...
With Robert and Dead DeLeo he formed Mighty Joe Young, who later became Stone Temple Pilots. With its first album Core in 1992, the band became very popular on the Grunge scene alongside Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. Purple came out in 1994 and returned directly to the first place of the charts, the group was at its peak. But Weiland had drug problems and was caught in 1994. Without a singer Stone Temple Pilots then struggles to give concerts and compose. Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop was recorded after a detoxification cure, but the latter could not make the tour after a relapse.
After a few months in prison and a new cure Scott Weiland recorded a solo album, 12 Bar Blues, whose cover refers directly to the Blue Train by saxophonist John Coltrane. Although having seduced critics the album is a commercial failure. The following year he reunited with Stone Temple Pilots for N°4 , and then went back to work before recording in 2001 a last album with Stone Temple Pilots: Shangri -- La Dee Da . The band split up soon after.
Weiland joined in 2003 the three former Gunners Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, as well as the former Suicidal Tendencies Dave Kushner to form Velvet Revover who will exit Contraband. In 2007 he seems to have definitely finished with his demons and is preparing a new solo album next to Velvet Revover's new album, Libertad.
But things are spoilt in March 2008 and Scott Weiland announces the end of Velvet Revover . He left the band on April 1, joining Stone Temple Pilots with whom he had already planned a tour in summer 2008. Weiland continues his way and finally exits Happy at the end of the year. He returned to the Stone Temple Pilots, of which he was dismissed on 27 February 2013 for reasons still unknown. We learn later that it is replaced by Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. Scott Weiland is as well known for his talents as a singer and composer, as well as for his dealings with justice because of drug and domestic violence. He also revealed that he had bipolar disorders. He died at the age of 48 during his sleep on December 3, 2015, while on tour in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts . On Friday 18 December 2015, the causes of the singer's death were revealed. Weiland died as a result of an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol, according to the office of the medical examiner in Hennepin County, Minnesota.