Former Singer Of Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland, Found Dead Outside Of A Hotel

Some terribly sad news to report this Friday. The rock world has just suffered a great loss. 48-year-old Scott Weiland, the former frontman for the successful rock band Stone Temple Pilots, was found dead while on a tour stop in Minnesota.

This was confirmed on his Facebook page early Friday morning,

Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts.

According to the reports, police officers responded to a call of an unresponsive adult inside a recreational motor vehicle outside of a hotel. When they arrived on scene, they discovered that he was dead. Scott had just turned 48 back in October and had a lengthy history with drugs and alcohol. In 1995, officers arrested him after they found him with crack and heroin. Reports also claim his substance abuse issues caused the breakup of his band several years ago.

Scott and his band Stone Temple Pilots were pretty huge in the 1990s. In fact, their debut album ‘Core‘ in 1993 peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 8 million copies. In 1994, Weiland won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal for the song Plush.

Weiland was currently married to photographer Jamie Wachtel. They got married in 2013 after meeting in 2011 while filming a music video for the song I’ll Be Home For Christmas. After hearing about Scott’s death, she told The Los Angeles Times, “I can’t deal with this right now…It’s true.”

Famous fans of Scott’s, along with his rock friends, went on Twitter to share their memories of Weiland.

Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.