In and out of bands from age 16, he eventually formed what became Stone Temple Pilots after meeting Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag concert in the mid-'80s. After he moved with his family to Huntington Beach when he was 14 and enrolling at Edison High School, his tastes expanded to include harder-edged groups-everything from the Sex Pistols and Depeche Mode to Black Flag. Young Weiland’s favorite acts were pop bands such as the Beatles, Cheap Trick, the Beach Boys and the Sweet. Though he has spent most of his life in Southern California, Weiland first got excited about music while growing up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where he had moved with his mother, stepfather and younger half brother, after his parents were divorced in the early ‘70s. “Bad luck follows me around when I use, so I don’t use.” “Some people suffer negative circumstances when they use, and others don’t,” he finally says. “You end up putting everything you have into wondering whether someone’s going to be alive the next day,” he told the Toronto Star in September.Īsked about his drug problems, Weiland shrugs. Weiland’s bandmates declined to comment for this article, but Robert DeLeo said last year that dealing with the singer’s addiction became a nightmare. The singer entered rehab at the time and then again after another tour with STP last spring. He and the rest of STP (guitarist Dean DeLeo, his bassist brother Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz) returned to the road in the fall of 1996, but the tour ended with the band canceling its last few shows when Weiland relapsed. Weiland’s life in a Pasadena drug treatment center at the time included early-morning wake-up calls, military-style room inspections, sharing a tiny space with one or more roommates and working menial jobs such as washing dishes or raking leaves.
Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop,” which turned out to be the least successful commercially of STP’s three albums, with an estimated 1.5 million copies sold. That led to a court-ordered stay in a rehab center that forced Stone Temple Pilots to postpone a tour timed to the band’s 1996 album, “Tiny Music. Weiland has been in and out of rehab programs about a dozen times since he was arrested in Pasadena in 1995 and charged with possession of cocaine and heroin. They bring him lunch and later apologize for him as he keeps an interviewer and a photographer waiting while he sits alone and watches the climactic scenes of “Devil’s Advocate” on videotape.įlash back two years and things were dramatically different for the Santa Clara, Calif., native, who spent most of his teen years in Huntington Beach. On the video shoot, he relaxes in his dressing room as a publicist and a personal assistant cater to his every whim. Weiland’s life these days is a far cry from his many times in rehab. “Life doesn’t make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
“I feel lucky to be alive,” he says, lighting up a cigarette. Scott Weiland at KROQ’s Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine in June 2001. Weiland, whose grueling day is devoted to the video for the single, realizes his career is at a crucial point, and he seems grateful for the second chance. The album has been preceded by a single, “Barbarella,” in which Weiland addresses his addiction-"Can’t you see it’s a disease?"-and pleads with the futuristic superbabe of the title to “save me from my misery.” who are in the limelight and are successful and smart.” Of Weiland, he says: “He has that drive, that obsession that I have and others I’ve worked with have. Lanois, who was brought in to remix five tracks on “12 Bar Blues” and will tour with the singer as a guitarist, calls Weiland’s music challenging and adventurous. Many rock fans will also be surprised to see who is in Weiland’s corner musically: Daniel Lanois, the Grammy-winning producer whose credits include such acclaimed works as Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” and U2’s “The Joshua Tree.” It’s a remarkably eclectic collection in which Weiland seems to explore all his musical influences-from David Bowie and the Beatles to the Doors and Brian Wilson. Weiland’s new solo album, titled “12 Bar Blues” and due March 31 from Atlantic Records, may surprise critics of his work with Stone Temple Pilots. Meanwhile, Weiland was back in rehab for the third time in less than a year. Life doesn’t make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
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