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The Velvet Revolver songs "For a Brother" and "Pills, Demons, & Etc" from the album Libertad are about him. Weiland said in an interview with MTV News in November 2008 that several songs on "Happy" in Galoshes were inspired by the death of his brother and his separation from Mary Forsberg.
- October 27th, 1967: Scott Weiland Born. The future alt-rock chart-topper was born Scott Richard Kline in San Jose, California. His parents, Sharon and Kent, divorced two years later, and Weiland took his stepfather Dave’s last name when he was five.
- 1986: Mighty Joe Young Formed. According to a 1993 SPIN article, Scott Weiland had been playing in bands since he was 15 and met bassist Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach.
- September 29th, 1992: Stone Temple Pilots Release ‘Core’ Powered by two huge singles, "Plush" and "Creep," the band's debut, produced by Brendan O'Brien, shot to Number Three.
- June 25th, 1994: ‘Purple’ Becomes STP’s First Number One. Again working with O'Brien, the band quickly recorded their follow-up, which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 and stayed there for three weeks — the longest run of any any alt-rock album that year.
Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock supergroup consisting of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of punk band Wasted Youth, and Scott Weiland (lead vocalist) formerly of Stone Temple Pilots.
Dec 3, 2023 · Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland's death was the sad culmination of a long downward spiral of drug abuse – one which he had little chance of escaping.
Jan 28, 2016 · Making it all worse: Weiland was estranged from his own children — Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13 — who lived with their mother, Weiland’s second wife and former model Mary Forsberg.
- Danielle Bacher
May 11, 2024 · Perla Hudson, the wife of Velvet Revolver’s legendary guitar player, Slash, has navigated the depths and ridden the crests of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle for a decade. And no one would be surprised if she simply wrapped herself in that self-indulgent lifestyle that we hear about that beckons and, sometimes, overcomes the rich and famous.
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Dec 4, 2015 · Weiland is survived by his wife, Jamie Wachtel, whom he wed in 2013, and two children, Noah and Lucy, that he had with his ex-wife Mary Forsberg.
