Scott Weiland (born October 27, 1967 in San Jose as Scott Richard Kline and later adopted by his stepfather David Weiland) is an androgynous junkie rock star and a dick. He was, then wasn’t, then was, then wasn’t again, and now, it seems, is again the lead singer for the faux-grunge band Stone Temple Pilots, which formed in 1990 and had its first hit with the debut album, Core, in 1992. Many dismissed the band as a second-rate Pearl Jam and Weiland as a second-rate version of Pearl Jam’s leader Eddie Vedder, himself a quintessential dick.
Originally, the band called itself Shirley Temple’s Pussy. When the record label made its preference for a new name explicitly clear, the band decided it liked the initials so they just found some other words that started with the same letters. Sure, the new name didn’t have the fervent, evocative poetry of a 1930s child star’s genitalia, but it would suffice.
In 2003, Weiland and three other junkie rock stars formed Velvet Revolver, one of the worst names in the history of rock bands. Some other sucky band names are Soi Disant, Awkward Positions, Swing, Mighty Joe Young, Magnificent Bastards, Camp Freddy, The Wonder Girls, Shirley Temple’s Pussy, and Stone Temple Pilots. What these bands all have in common is that Scott Weiland was in them.
Weiland is best known for his work with intravenous equipment. His career as a drug fiend began, as so many similar careers do, with the gateway drug marijuana, which he first tried when he was 13. At 16, having dropped out of high school in his freshman year, he first tried cocaine. Not long after that, he first tried rehab. All of this, though, was mere prelude to his discovery of his true calling, hardcore heroin addiction.
Weiland is the poster boy for recidivism. His death could be reported at any moment.
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1 Heroin
2 More heroin
3 Still more heroin
4 Heroin yet again
5 No heroin?
6 No, heroin
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