Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. Story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Tags: stone temple pilots, chester bennington The members of STP are currently promoting the twenty-fifth-anniversary expanded reissue of the band's debut album, "Core", which arrived on September 29 - twenty-five years to the day of the LP's original release. Weiland, who reunited with the group in 2010 after an eight-year hiatus but was fired three years later, died in December 2015 of a drug overdose while on a solo tour. We still get together weeks later here, and we're just, like… We're scratching our heads and wondering what made sense to him at that moment."īennington joined STP in early 2013 following the dismissal of Weiland. "And it hit really hard, being from the same community. We live in the same community, so we took our kids to school and to baseball games, and I saw him all the time," he said. "It was, like, 'Wow!' It couldn't have been any more pointed than with Chester."Īccording to Robert, Chester's suicide was "was a huge, huge surprise. "I forget who it was that said it - it was someone who quoted this in the 1800s - of saying, 'Everyone you meet has a battle inside that you know nothing about.' And it stuck with me," Robert said. He had been open with the press and public about his struggles with drugs and alcohol, which landed him in rehab twice around 2006. I mean, I just look back at the touring that we did and the time we spent together, and it was just laughing and having a good time and such a positive thing and going out there feeling really energetic and great about this… He made us look back at our legacy and go, 'Yeah, this is what it could be.' And now that he's gone, I hear from people that he was so excited about doing this."īennington died on July 20 after hanging himself at his Palos Verdes residence at the age of 41. "And that was such a great thing for the three of us. "Being a - I hate to use the word- fan, but growing up with our music and growing up with Scott and growing up with STP, he gave everything he had," Robert continued. And he memorized all the lyrics, and he went out there, and he gave everything that he had. He was in a huge band he had plenty going on. I'm gonna do this.' And you know what? He didn't need to do that. "It was the energy that he brought into it that we so desperately needed at the time. "With Chester, it wasn't all about his talent," the bassist said. Speaking to Yahoo! Music, Robert said that Bennington's contributions to STONE TEMPLE PILOTS went far beyond music. The LINKIN PARK frontman ended his time with STP in 2015 in order to concentrate on his main act, as well as spend more time with his family.Ĭhester recorded one EP with the band, "High Rise", and did a handful of tours during his two-year tenure. In fact, My News LA reported in 2018 that Weiland received nearly $265,000 a year in royalties alone.STONE TEMPLE PILOTS bassist Robert DeLeo says that the suicide of the band's former singer Chester Bennington was "a huge surprise." While he had massive multi-substance dependence issues, which are never cheap, he was still a well-known rock star who was actively touring and had a steady income. It's a tragic death, but what's surprising about it is that Weiland was reportedly almost penniless when he died.
What's more, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner in Minneapolis also noted that the vocalist was suffering from asthma and cardiovascular disease. The singer had struggled with addiction for much of his life, and as Kory Grow of Rolling Stone informs us, his cause of death was indeed an accidental overdose of methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), cocaine, and ethanol.
While he was a great performer and a successful musician, Weiland's life had more than its share of tragedy. The former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman was only 48 years old when he died in his sleep on a tour stop in Minnesota. In 2015, the world lost yet another rock star when Scott Weiland died.
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