goodhelmet Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 http://www.tmz.com/2015/12/03/scott-weiland-dead/ Drug addiction is a mother fucker. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Sad and 100% completely not surprising. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Fuck. No one can possibly be shocked, but fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Damn it Scott.....RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Never cared much for STP but I love me some Velvet Revolver. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I wasn't 100% sure he was even still alive since I don't even think about him, but this almost seemed inevitable based on his history. Sad and just tragic in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Sad and 100% completely not surprising. Fuck. No one can possibly be shocked, but fuck. I wasn't 100% sure he was even still alive since I don't even think about him, but this almost seemed inevitable based on his history. Sad and just tragic in general. I'm quoting these posts because they read exactly like what I would have posted 13 years ago, about Layne Staley. Probably did, somewhere. I'm certain I did. If they still existed I'm sure I could just requote them myself, and not have to change a word. This is so depressingly familiar. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Never my favorite band but never disliked a single, and very much a component of The Soundtrack Of My Childhood. Certainly one of the voices I tried to imitate before admitting to myself I couldn't sing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I liked both STP and Velvet Revolver honestly, not a huge fan but I had their albums. I don't know much but I had thought he was doing well for a while there, that sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Keith Richards is going to outlive everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Past my first reaction, STP and Velvet Revolver would probably make my "Top 20 favorite bands" list. STP would probably be top 10. So.... yeah, fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I assume either overdose or heart issues related to past drug issues. There aren't really many other options. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 One of the first albums I ever bought, and criminally underrated even among STP albums. Give it a listen if you haven't heard it. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I didn't like grunge much, but I did like Stone Temple Pilots. Not surprising, but sad all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Just say no, kids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I've been listening to STP since I was 13 and I just happened to be wearing my Purple album cover shirt. I've seen STP three times (1996,2001,2002). I shouldn't be surprised at this news, but it doesn't make it suck any less. God damnit, Scott. Rest in Peace. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Weiland used to show up as a top pick in yearly celebrity death pools (hosted by some mags and later websites). He always kept surprising people and trucking along. Eventually he fell of the lists, probably due to falling out of the mainstream, but I think to a certain extent that we all thought that if he made it into his 40s he'd maybe hold on forever. One of the last live shows I went to was STP, actually. Weiland was actually in pretty top form, and did a lot of zany ass-shaking. It was a helluva show, even if my tastes had changed significantly since my teenage fandom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I can't say that I'm surprised, but it's still sad to hear. "Tiny Music..." was such a great, underrated album. Their best effort. Also, another lost classic, is Weiland's "12 Bar Blues", from '98. Check it out if you haven't. Awesome shit, top to bottom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Reading a lot of comparisons to other musicians today, so I just wanna say this: Scott Weiland, say what you want about him, was a fucking rock star. He wasn't some tortured artist like Cobain, or misunderstood genius like Layne, he was an out of control monster of a rock star and it was awesome. It's a sad day, but we were privileged to have witnessed him 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Not surprised but still sad. Fuck 2015. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJay Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Still crushed. Woke up to this news and even though it isn't surprising, still so sad. STP were my band through middle school and high school. They were apart of me growing up. I wore out my Purple cd. Loss of words........ Conversations kill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Sour Girl is a song that stuck with me and wormed into my brain the first time I heard it. I vividly remember believing he was clean, it was all going to work. Sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 STP is one of those bands that snuck up on me, in that I found myself listening to a lot of their music without planning to do so. It's always sad to lose someone like this, someone who played a good part in your earlier years. It sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I was a huge STP fan in high school... Core was released when I was a freshman. One of my favorite memories of high school was sitting in the commons at a regional speech competition. One of the guys from another school brought an acoustic guitar and was playing the riffs from Plush, and we had about a dozen kids (myself included) singing along with him. It was... Man, this just sucks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 STP didn't get a lot of respect during the grunge heyday. Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Hole, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were all (arguably, in some cases) better. STP were looked down on as posers riding the coattails of superior artists. Funny thing is, STP's music has aged far better than a lot of the bands that were seen as better. I love the Smashing Pumpkins, but they don't really work as well without the context of the decade. But Core, Purple, and Tiny Music still sound relevant, even after 20 years. RIP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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