rockstars and bands who tried to save Scott weiland
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In today’s video were’ going to take a look at 3 rockstars who tried to save Stone Temple Piltos and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland.
Bursting onto the scene in the early 90’s Stone Temple Pilots had almost immediate success thanks to their 1992 debut record Core. The band would continue to have sustained success throughout the rest of the decade and early 2000’s before their implosion in 2003. Weiland would go on to play with supergroup velvet revolver which featured 3 members of Guns n’ Roses before he finally reformed with stone temple pilots and played with his last band the wildabouts. Weiland would sadly pass away in December of 2015 while on tour after being found dead on the band’s tour bus as a result of an accidental overdose with alcohol and drugs found in his system.
In 1992 Stone Temple Pilots would tour with Megadeth. Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine would reveal to Loudwire in 2015 that while on tour with STP he gave advice to Scott Weiland telling him
"It's really peculiar the way things went down with me and Scott, because I was in Finland doing a 'rate a record' thing for a magazine one time and they had given us the 'Core' record to review. And I was listening to it and I thought, 'Either this is a really bad joke or these guys are gonna be massive, because they've got a sound that's very similar to a lot of the great bands that are in the alternative scene right now, but I don't know if it's a parody or if it's the real deal.
Impressed Mustaine requested the band open for Megadeth on their 'Countdown To Extinction' tour, which they did. Mustaine would admit to helping the band rearrange songs on their setlist to help the flow of their show a bit more. He would add: t"he thing that I regret was at the end of the tour, I told him, I said, 'Look, Scott, you're gonna be huge. You're gonna have money, you're gonna have drugs, and it's gonna be everywhere.' And I said, 'If you do anything, stay away from heroin.'
Mustaine would criticize those close to Weiland. Mustaine would add he thought those close to him took him out of rehab too soon so he could make money on the road towards the final year of his life.
Adding
"No song, no performance, no amount of money is worth a human life. And I think that the music industry suffered a tragic loss. But as much as the onus is on Scott for doing it, there are other people that are responsible for that."
Kiss Gene Simmons
In 1996 Kiss would reunite with their original lineup and Stone Temple Pilots were supposed to open a handful of gis for the band. Stone Temple Pilots had released their album the same year Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop. STP’s tour to support the album was hampered by Weiland’s addiction and the band would have to end up pulling out of some tour dates including playing Tiger Stadium with Kiss in the summer of 1996. Ironically, the band would be replaced by Alice in Chains, whose frontman Layne Staley was also dealing with addiction and a band who didn’t tour much to support their new album at the time. Kiss Gene Simmons would tell Detroit Radio Station WRIF 101.1 FM radio
"I met Weiland at a club and I said to him, 'Look, you've gotta be straight, cut it out with all the heroin and the crap, respect the fans, get up un stage, do a great show, it's all yours. We'll support you, but I want you clean on stage.'
"[He told me] 'Gene, I promise!' It's like what anybody who's a drug addict and alcoholic says. 'I've been clean for a million years,' and stuff. And then he died.
"And I don't believe it [when they tell me they have beaten their addictions]," he said. "If you were an alcoholic or a drug addict, you're gonna be that for the rest of your life. And that's what they tell you in AA and other organizations - that every day it's gonna be a decision. You're gonna have to make that decision to be straight or ruin your life and hurt everybody around you.
Velvet Revolver
Formed in 2003 the supergroup would feature ⅗ of Guns N’ Roses use your illusion lineup in addition to scott weiland and guitarist Dave Kushner. Scott was the last member to join the group as the band spent a year looking for a fr