The ex-frontament of Stone Temple Pilots died

On Thursday, December 3, at the age of 48, rock vocalist Scott Weland, one of the founders of the Stone Temple Pilots group, died.

It was discovered dead on the bus, on which with his current Scott Weland & The Wildabouts group, he went to a concert in the city of Medina (Minnesota), TMZ reports. According to Billboard , the musician suffered from drug addiction for a long time.

Scott Weland was born in 1967 in California, in 1986 with a bass player Robert Deloo founded the Stone Temple Pilots group, which later became one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s.

The debut studio album Stone Temple Pilots "Core" (1992) in the United States fell into 8 million copies. In total, 40 million copies of Stone Temple Pilots albums were sold in the world, 15 of their songs were included in the top 10 Billboard chart, six compositions took first place in it.

Over time, Weland's problems with drugs led to the decay of Stone Temple Pilots . In 2002-2008, along with the musicians from Guns'n'roses and Wasteed Youut, he participated in the Velvet Revolver project, returned to Stone Temple Pilots in 2008 and performed with them until 2013, when the group officially announced his dismissal.

Scott Weland recorded four solo studio albums, sang in the Art of Anarchy super group, and recent years concerts with his own SCOTT Weland & THE WILDABOUTS group.