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Scott Weiland, one of the leading figure of the '90s Alternative-Rock
movement, was born in Santa Cruz, California USA, on October 27, 1967.
He received his present name at age 5 after his stepfather, David Weiland,
adopted him. In the mid-'80s Scott Weiland met Robert DeLeo and the two
began making music together and playing shows as Mighty Joe Young; the
band which also featured DeLeo's brother Dean on guitar and Eric Kretz
on drums changed its name to Stone Temple
Pilots towards the end of their debut album's recording sessions.
The band became a platinum selling sensation and chart-topping group while
Weiland was distinguished for his flamboyant energetic onstage persona
and vocal style. The rocker has been in and out of rehab after his 1995
arrest for possession of cocaine and heroin. Finally, after continuous
relapses, Weiland's bandmates gave up and formed their own group, Talk
Show.
Scott Weiland released his solo debut, "12 Bar Blues", in March
1998; the album hit #42 on The Billboard 200 chart spawning two Modern
Rock top 40 hits in "Barbarella" and "Lady, Your Roof Brings
Me Down".
Since then he was busted trying to buy heroin, sentenced to another mandatory
stint in a drug treatment program and counseling, overdosed on heroin
in 1999 and ended up spending five months in jail.
That same year he re-joined Stone Temple
Pilots to record the band's fourth studio album but was again busted
for battery charges against his then-wife, model Mary Forsberg.
Weiland, once again, left the band and joined the all-star outfit Velvet
Revolver with whom he released two albums, 2004's "Contraband"
and "Libertad" in 2007. After four years with the band, he was
fired in 2008.
Scott Weiland returns with his second solo effort, ten years after "12
Bar Blues"; his new album, "Happy In Galoshes", which is
expected in stores on November 25, 2008, includes the Active Rock top
40 hit "Missing Cleveland".
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