Manager: Ex-Stone Temple Pilots frontman Weiland dead at 48

Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland was found dead on his tourbus by his personal manager Thursday night (December 3).

More as additional details of this tragic death become known. No reasons for his death have been released at this time and the tour manager has asked for the privacy of Weiland’s family to be respected.

Weiland was touring with his newest band, The Wildabouts, who had a show scheduled for Friday night at the Wicked Moose in Rochester.

“I can’t deal with this right now”, she told the newspaper, sobbing. I watched them side stage and Scott Weiland destroyed me, he was the real thing. Among that group’s hits was “Fall to Pieces“.

Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has died, aged 48.

In 1995, he was arrested for possession of crack and heroin.

Scott started the Stone Temple Pilots in the late 1980′s and the band went on to become a huge name on the rock scene in the 1990′s.

Weiland detailed his experiences with drug addiction, rehab and multiple arrests in the 2011 memoir “Not Dead and Not For Sale”.

“I think it would be beneficial to wait a little while, give it a little bit of time to let some air kind of breathe between all of us before that happens”, Weiland said. “I snorted it”, Spin magazine reported that Weiland wrote.

Weiland, a talented rock vocalist plagued throughout his career by substance abuse problems, was born Scott Kline in Santa Cruz on October 27, 1967.

Weiland is survived by his children, Noah and Lucy, whom he had with his first wife Mary Forsberg, and his current wife, Jamie Wachtel, whom he married in 2013.

Our thoughts are with Scott’s family at this hard time.

Stone Temple Pilot’s debut album “Core” was released in 1993 and its follow up, “Purple”, came out the following year.