# Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394 "2015-12-04T06:46:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/21 "2015-12-04T15:25:54Z")
Not surprised. Tragic that someone so talented couldn’t keep the demons at bay. I was a big fan in the 90s, still have all their CD’s (including “Shangri La Di Dah”) and the first Velvet Revolver CD. “Sell your soul and sign an autograph…” ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/22 "2015-12-04T15:28:37Z")
Oh man, this sucks. My first live concert was STP and it was one of the best ever. Scott Weiland was amazingly talented, but obviously had his demons. I’m pretty bummed about this news. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/23 "2015-12-04T18:23:01Z")
STP came along when my younger son was at the age where teenagers don’t communicate with adults. We both loved the band and bonded over their music. No matter how strained it got around the house between mom and son, we could always talk about STP and keep the communication channels open. They were a lifeline for us during a difficult time. I can’t say I’m shocked to hear this, but deeply saddened and regretful. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/24 "2015-12-04T19:09:36Z")
They are saying they won’t release details of the cause of death until next Friday. So, yeah, almost certainly waiting for the Tox screen to come back. Dammit!!! I’m so sick of people dying from addiction. Why can’t we treat this disease in this country? We already know how, so why the frack aren’t we doing it? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/25 "2015-12-04T19:11:39Z")
The long-odds are on “Choked on a chicken bone”. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/26 "2015-12-04T19:23:40Z")
I won’t be hearing the lines: I am smellin’ like the rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed I am smellin’ like the rose that somebody gave me 'cause I’m dead & bloated the same for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/27 "2015-12-04T21:40:12Z")
Just heard on the radio that cocaine was found on the bus. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/28 "2015-12-05T00:54:03Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Just heard on the radio that cocaine was found on the bus. To the surprise of no one, I’m sure. Core was one of my favorite albums when I was in college. Purple and later STP albums didn’t really excite me much at the time, but going back to them in the last few years I can appreciate them better (especially compared to much of this century’s music). Velvet Revolver was really good, what I heard of them. Out of curiosity, anyone have him in the death pool? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/29 "2015-12-05T01:28:15Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > This question may not be appropriate for this thread but did Pearl Jam ever cover STP’s Plush live or is that just a myth? The Pearl Jam website has what seems to be a [comprehensive list](http://pearljam.com/music?order=asc&filter=&order_by=song) of every song they’ve ever released or performed, and “Plush” isn’t listed. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/30 "2015-12-05T05:10:33Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Out of curiosity, anyone have him in the death pool? Uh, Brian Jones? I know, I know … Tonite we went to our favorite burger/beer barn and walking in I was thrilled to hear Plush ringing out. Then Interstate LS came on so I asked the waiter if the restaurant was doing an official STP night. He said ‘no, just fans loading the jukebox.’ Even cooler. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/31 "2015-12-05T05:25:25Z")
When Kurt Cobain died, a lot of people thought Scott Weiland would probably be next. He must have had the constitution of Keith Richards to have made it that far. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/32 "2015-12-05T05:32:46Z")
He was talented guy but a hardcore drug addict. He and his band were derided in the early nineties as a Pearl Jam wannabe knockoff band. But those criticism subsided. Scott Weiland was a great singer, much more varied and versatile than Eddie Vedder, whom gets so much more respect. Vedder sounds the same as he did in 1991. Not saying he sucks, he does not. But Weiland’s vocal styles have changed since Stone Temple Pilots came on the scene. Weiland really demonstrated he can sing different styles. Later STP he sounded different than before. Like on Sour Girl". He also did Christmas songs in the old time crooner style and could pull off a convincing Jim Morrison I have heard. Great singer, may he rest in peace. Scott Weiland 1967-2015. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/33 "2015-12-05T06:01:59Z")
Rhapsody has a little write-up on the Christmas album that Weiland did, (_The Most Wonderful Time of the Year_ - 2011) which I thought was a little funny. And true. > [@](#): > > Instead of transforming these holiday chestnuts into alt-rock cool, Weiland plays them straight – kind of. The move must be a nod to his hero David Bowie, whose 1977 duet with Bing Crosby, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy,” surely served as an inspiration. With saccharine string arrangements and show-biz schmaltz, Weiland sounds like a '40s crooner who entered the studio after knocking back too much eggnog. You can almost hear him falling off his stool on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” The scary thing is the guy could’ve been a half-decent pop singer had he come up through the tradition. > > - Justin Farrar ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/34 "2015-12-05T06:29:00Z")
Anybody else think Weiland was channeling Peter Cetera on _Interstate Love Song_? No disrespect intended. I probably like more _STP_ songs than those by any other bands of their genre and I’ve been very saddened by Weiland’s death, but the first time I heard _ILS_ on the radio I didn’t know who it was by and thought “_Who’s this guy who sounds like Chicago?_”. I was quite surprised to find out it was by the _Stone Temple Pilots_ and Weiland was the singer. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/35 "2015-12-05T06:55:03Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Anybody else think Weiland was channeling Peter Cetera on _Interstate Love Song_? Did you mean to say Terry Kath or Robert Lamm? Weiland sounded nothing like Peter Cetera. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/36 "2015-12-05T07:09:58Z")
I probably did. It’s been decades since I’ve listened to much of _Chicago_ and I’ve pretty much lost track of what its various singers sounded like. Cetera was just the name that came to mind as _Chicago’s_ singer. So basically I’m not sure which of _Chicago’s_ singers it is I think he sounds like, but _ILS_ strongly evokes _Chicago_ to me. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/37 "2015-12-05T07:44:01Z")
Okay, just went back and listened to a few _Chicago_ tunes and I’m gonna go with Terry Kath. And you’re right, Cetera and Scott Weiland sound nothing alike. I think the instrumentation contributes to the _Chicago_-esque effect as well. Quite a bit actually. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/38 "2015-12-05T10:56:54Z")
Wow, this is hard to take. Scott was about a year younger than me. I’ll confess that I wasn’t a big STP fan; when “grunge” was a thing, I was sort of “on the cusp”. I was juuuust a bit too old for it. I was late-20s, and all the grunge kids were early-20s. I was coming off 80s hair metal. My favorite thing about grunge was the fact that the clothes I had been wearing all of my life were suddenly fashionable (flannels! I grew up in western Washington, just like Cobain). But I did like “Plush” and ILF. RIP, Scott. ---
**Author:** ![smokey78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@smokey78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smokey78)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/39 "2015-12-06T21:04:54Z")
One of my fave songs is “Lady Picture Show” I didn’t know til recently it was about Weiland’s former girlfiend who was a rape survivor. I’m impressed EW and other venues covered his death. I thought Layne Staley and Alicie in Chains were huge, but barely saw any coverage for his death. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394/40 "2015-12-06T21:33:48Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Okay, just went back and listened to a few _Chicago_ tunes and I’m gonna go with Terry Kath. And you’re right, Cetera and Scott Weiland sound nothing alike. I think the instrumentation contributes to the _Chicago_-esque effect as well. Quite a bit actually. Hmm, never thought about Weiland channeling Terry Kath but you may be on to something. I can totally picture STP covering [Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkGQHnwVjE) > [@Lamia](#): > > The Pearl Jam website has what seems to be a [comprehensive list](http://pearljam.com/music?order=asc&filter=&order_by=song) of every song they’ve ever released or performed, and “Plush” isn’t listed. And Nirvana never covered “Creep”, and Alice in Chains never covered “Sex Type Thing”. 🙂 Of course, in retrospect that speaks to the band’s versatility. Most second-tier grunge bands are only capable of cloning one artist, whereas the first STP record cloned 'em all. So it’s really not that surprising that they found their own unique style on future records. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-temple-pilots-singer-scott-weiland-has-died/739394.md?page=3)