Though he tried his darndest, it took former frontman Scott Weiland, of seminal 90s band Stone Temple Pilots and, GNR sans Axel Rose, Velvet Revolver, still joined fellow 90s troubled rockers Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and Shannon Hoon in rock 'n' roll infamy, dying prematurely. Weiland was on tour with a new band and was found dead in what Billboard magazine said was a mobile home.
Those who grew up in the 1990s came to know Weiland from the band Stone Temple Pilots, which he formed with his two brothers. Billboard fills in the biography from here, "In 1993, the band's debut album Core peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 followed by an even bigger achievement a year later in 1994, when STP released the No. 1 album Purple, which contained several radio hits including the songs "Big Empty," "Vasoline" and "Interstate Love Song."The band would eventually land 11 top 10 hits on the Alternative Songs chart, including the three-week No. 1 "Between the Lines" in 2010. "Interstate Love Song" led the Mainstream Rock Songs chart for 15 weeks."
Weiland had dealt with a substance abuse problems for a good long time. It derailed both STP and Velvet Revolver. An attempted 2013 reunion tour for Stone Temple Pilots ended in back and forth lawsuits between Weiland and STP. According to TMZ, STP " sued Weiland, claiming he sabotaged its 20th anniversary tour by being chronically late for performances, missing promotional gigs and improperly using STP's name to promote his solo career.
Weiland laughed the suit off and countersued, again from TMZ, "accusing the 3 other members of secretly plotting his ouster. Weiland says it's particularly galling, rhetorically asking, "'How do you expel a man from the band that he started, named, sang lead on every song, wrote the lyrics, and was the face of for twenty years?'"
Cause of death is being reported as heart failure.
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