Scott Weiland Dies at 48, Says Guitarist
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 US band Velvet Revolver, L to R, Dave Kushner, Scott Weiland, Slash and Duff In this Dec 1, 2004, file photo, Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland, left, and McKagin, pose with the best hard rock award at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Slash perform “Fall to Pieces” perform at the VH1 Big in ‘04 awards, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles in this February 13, 2005, file photo. — AP/AFP photos Scott Weiland dies at 48, says Guitarist ocker Scott Weiland, ex-frontman of the wife. In 2008, he checked into rehab after being Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver who arrested for a DUI and is believed to have struggled Rbattled substance abuse over the years, was with sobriety for the past 25 years. “People have this found dead on Thursday. He was 48. Jane’s misconception about me,” he said in an interview Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro tweeted the with USA Today in 2011. “OK, I struggled with heroin news. “Just learned our friend Scott Weiland has and cocaine and I was a big rock star. But music is died. So gutted, I am thinking of his family not what defines me. I’m a brother, a father, a son.” tonight,” Navarro wrote. Weiland was found unre- Weiland later split from Stone Temple Pilots and sponsive on his tour bus in Minnesota, where he formed supergroup Velvet Revolver with ex-Guns and his current band The Wildabouts were sched- N’ Roses rockers Slash and Duff McKagan, and Matt uled to perform at the Medina Ballroom, but the Sorum.
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