Amongst the many effected in the music industry after the death of Scott Weiland, his ex-wife and former Stone Temple Pilots bandmates may have been the hardest hit. The singer was found unresponsive in his tour bus while traveling with his new band Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts. A few days after news of his death reached the industry via Dave Navarro's Twitter, Stone Temple Pilots Dean DeLeo was driving in his car when the radio switched on "Creep" from their 1992 debut album Core.
"It really hit me hard," DeLeo said to Rolling Stone on the making of the song. "It took me right to when we cut the track. We started after dinner and listened back to it around 11:30. We had all these candles lit in the control room. The five of us," he said, referring to the band and producer Brendan O'Brien, "all looked at each other just as the song finished. We knew we had captured something."
Their debut album, Core, sold upwards of 8 million copies in the United States and put Weiland at the forefront of the '90s grunge scene. The singer had two runs with Stone Temple Pilots, but had a rocky relationship with his band due to personal problems and addiction issues. During these two stints, the band sold more than 20 million copies in total. The band fired Weiland in 2013 after a rocky reunion where the talented singer was unable to keep it together.
Others in the music industry also spoke out on Weiland's death, including Travis Barker formerly of Blink 182.
"Whatever you're masking when you're doing drugs gets more severe the more you mask it," the drummer said to Billboard. "Everyday you're doing it more and more and you're never facing what you're running from - whatever that is. The masking gets to be so dangerous. It is excessive. It's unfortunate."
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