1. Scott Richard Weiland was an American singer and songwriter.
47 Facts About Scott Weiland
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Scott Weiland was best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from 1989 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2013, recording six albums with them.
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Scott Weiland released one album with rock supergroup Art of Anarchy in 2015, as well as four solo studio albums and several collaborations with other musicians throughout his career.
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Scott Weiland was noted for his flamboyant and chaotic onstage persona, his consistently changing appearance, and his versatile vocal style.
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Scott Weiland became known for his use of a megaphone for a unique vocal effect during concerts.
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Scott Weiland sold over 50 million albums with his various projects and collaborations.
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Scott Weiland's career was plagued by substance abuse issues, leading to various high-profile arrests and his eventual firings from Velvet Revolver and Stone Temple Pilots.
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Scott Weiland moved back to California as a teenager and attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach and Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
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Robert DeLeo said that, while he was working at Mesa Boogie, in Sunset Boulevard, Scott Weiland was working "across catty-corner" from him and would come to show musical ideas.
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In 1995, Scott Weiland formed the alternative rock band the Magnificent Bastards with session drummer Victor Indrizzo in San Diego.
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Scott Weiland encountered problems with drug addiction at this time as well, which inspired some of his songs in the late-1990s and resulted in prison time.
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That same year, Scott Weiland recorded two songs with the short-lived supergroup the Wondergirls.
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In November 2000, Scott Weiland was invited to perform on the show VH1 Storytellers with the surviving members of the Doors.
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Scott Weiland performed vocals on two Doors songs, "Break On Through " and "Five to One".
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In late 2002, significant backstage altercations between the DeLeo brothers and Scott Weiland precipitated the band's break-up.
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Scott Weiland invited the DeLeo brothers to play at a private beach party, which led to the reconciliation of Weiland and the DeLeo brothers.
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Scott Weiland criticized the band after they hired Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington as his replacement, claiming he was still a member and they shouldn't be calling themselves Stone Temple Pilots without him.
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Scott Weiland was sent two discs of material to work with but felt that the first disc "sounded like Bad Company gone wrong".
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Scott Weiland was more positive when he was sent the second disc, comparing it to Core-era Stone Temple Pilots, though he turned them down because Stone Temple Pilots had not yet separated.
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Scott Weiland joined the band soon after, and "Set Me Free" managed to peak at number 17 on the Mainstream Rock chart without any radio promotion or a record label.
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The song "Slither" won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal in 2005, an award Scott Weiland had won previously with STP for the song "Plush" in 1994.
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At the 2005 Grammy Awards, Scott Weiland performed the Beatles song "Across the Universe", along with Bono, Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, Stevie Wonder, Steven Tyler, Billie Joe Armstrong, Alison Krauss, and Alicia Keys.
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Scott Weiland wrote and recorded the vocals after sharing the song files back and forth with Bumblefoot from 2012 to 2013.
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Scott Weiland took part in promotional photo shoots and music videos in October 2014.
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Scott Weiland wrote most of the songs on the album and collaborated with several artists, notably Daniel Lanois, Sheryl Crow, Brad Mehldau, and Jeff Nolan.
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On November 25,2008, Scott Weiland released his second solo album, "Happy" in Galoshes, produced by Scott Weiland and songwriting-producing partner Doug Grean.
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Scott Weiland went on tour in early 2009 to promote the album.
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On October 4,2011, Scott Weiland released The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, an album consisting entirely of Christmas music.
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In 2006, Scott Weiland launched his own record label, Softdrive Records, with his songwriting partner Doug Grean.
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Later, Scott Weiland announced that his label signed the up-and-coming rock band Something to Burn.
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On January 21,2009, Scott Weiland announced the launch of his clothing line, Scott Weiland for English Laundry, in partnership with designer Christopher Wicks.
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At the peak of Stone Temple Pilots' success in the early to mid-1990s, Scott Weiland displayed a deep, baritone vocal style that was compared to that of Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder.
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Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, had Scott Weiland singing in a much higher, raspier tone to complement the band's more 60's rock-influenced sound.
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Later albums showcased Scott Weiland's influences ranging from bossa nova on Shangri-La Dee Da to blues rock and classic rock on the band's 2010 self-titled album.
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Scott Weiland was the one vocalist that I knew had the kind of voice that would serve what we were going to do: he had a John Lennon-ish quality, a little bit of Jim Morrison, and a touch of almost David Bowie.
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Scott Weiland was the best singer to come out in a long time in my opinion.
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Scott Weiland married Janina Castaneda on September 17,1994, and they divorced in 2000.
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In 1995, Scott Weiland was convicted of buying crack cocaine and sentenced to one year of probation.
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Scott Weiland revealed in 2001 that he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Scott Weiland said in an interview with MTV News in November 2008 that several songs on "Happy" in Galoshes were inspired by the death of his brother and his separation from Mary Forsberg.
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Scott Weiland admitted that he went through a "very short" cocaine binge in late 2007.
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In June 2015, Scott Weiland claimed that he had been off drugs for 13 years.
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Scott Weiland's response was directed towards comments made by Filter's frontman Richard Patrick, who claimed Weiland was using drugs and that his fans were pushing him closer to death by "sticking up for" him.
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Scott Weiland was found dead on his tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, on December 3,2015.
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Scott Weiland was 48 years old and had been on tour with the Wildabouts.
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Police searched the tour bus and confirmed there were small amounts of cocaine in the bedroom where Scott Weiland was discovered dead.
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The medical examiner later determined Scott Weiland's death was the result of an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol, and methylenedioxyamphetamine.