In 2008, Weiland reunited with STP for the last time before leaving the band again and embarking on a solo career. “I’m still on the verge all the time,” he said of his fight to remain sober. “My brother passed away, and that’s something that will always stay with me.”
The band eventually split up, again because of Weiland’s substance abuse. Weiland later split from Stone Temple Pilots and formed supergroup Velvet Revolver with ex-Guns N’ Roses rockers Slash and Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. “OK, I struggled with heroin and cocaine and I was a big rock star. “People have this misconception about me,” he said in an interview with USA Today in 2011. In 2008, he checked into rehab after being arrested for a DUI and once, after a fight with his wife, leapt from a moving car to score heroin. Their music still plays in heavy rotation on alternative rock stations alongside ’90s grunge acts Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.īut it was Weiland’s rock star ways that often got him in trouble offstage.Īfter spending five months in prison for possession of heroin in 1998, he was later charged with domestic abuse for assaulting his wife. Wielding a megaphone alongside his bandmates for sound effect, the fiery-haired frontman led the Southern California-based Stone Temple Pilots for two decades.Īlso known as “STP” by their fans, the quartet first broke out in 1992 with hit single “Creep” before going on to become one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with power ballads like “Plush,” “Big Empty” and “Interstate Love Song.”
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