Weiland's mother and stepfather also checked him into a mental hospital for a three-month stay at 16 - without telling him ahead of time.
"This was a memory I suppressed until only a few years ago when, in rehab, it came flooding back," he wrote in 2011. And at 12, he was raped by a high-school senior. His mother turned out to be an alcoholic. "I liked the psychological and chemical rearrangement brought on by the alcohol." By 7th grade, he was drinking alone.Ĭhildhood and adolescence brought further troubles. "I liked the feeling of entering an alternate energy field," he wrote. Living with his dad during the summer, he chugged his first beers in the 6th grade. Weiland wrote that his "new dad was a good guy whose middle name was discipline" while his biological one was "a cool dude who drove a Pepsi truck for a living but smoked dope at night and listened to the Doors." His name at birth was Scott Kline when his parents divorced when he was 2 and his mother remarried, he took his stepfather's surname. He forgot some lyrics and flubbed others, and often used a megaphone as a prop, or perhaps a crutch.Weiland was born in Santa Cruz, California, in 1967. While he expertly struck the image of a rock star strutting and preening, and shedding his white jacket and T-shirt to reveal a sinewy torso his voice sounded less flexible than usual, and he sometimes seemed nearly out of breath. The band never rose above a sort of grim competence. So it made sense that the crowd carried the choruses of “Plush” and “Dead and Bloated,” and that the band nailed a handful of its other 1990s staples, like “Interstate Love Song” and “Vaseline.” But the feeling imparted by these performances was desultory and joyless. Stone Temple Pilots was always a riff-driven band with an impressive low-end churn, and a handful of its songs are exceptionally sturdy.
It’s just as unclear whether that delay was on his mind as he sang a slow-drag opener, “Big Empty,” which includes the line “Time to wait too long.” Weiland was the cause for the long delay before the group hit the stage. And judging by this show, the decision to tour right now may be one of them. Weiland was ordered to serve an eight-day jail sentence for his arrest last year on charges of driving under the influence, his second conviction on those charges. There was just one piece of unfinished business before the new tour: in late April Mr. Stone Temple Pilots fans rejoiced, if perhaps a bit warily. Weiland to regroup with the DeLeo brothers, and the drummer Eric Kretz. However acrimonious the Velvet Revolver split, it freed Mr. Stone Temple Pilots, with Scott Weiland, played the PNC Bank Arts Center Saturday. There would be time for contrition later: the tour is running through the rest of the summer, provided Mr. “Apology accepted, brother,” Robert DeLeo said quickly, changing the subject and hustling on with the show. Weiland noted that this was a hometown show for half of the band, the brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo, who play bass and guitar. Stone Temple Pilots finally appeared more than an hour after Filter, and there were boos mixed in with the cheers. The evening was billed as 92.3 K-ROCK’s Return of the Rock, with opening sets by the alternative-rock bands Filter and Ashes Divide. “Sometimes you make crazy choices,” he said, in a distinctly undefiant tone. His first comments were barely coherent, and what came next was dispiriting. Two weeks into this post-grunge band’s reunion tour, he seemed bedraggled and bushed, like a scarecrow. Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, had just a few words for the crowd at the PNC Bank Arts Center on Saturday night, and that was probably a good thing.
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