Weiland was innate Scott Kent however his title was changed once his stepfather, David Weiland, adopted him. Though natural around Santa Cruz, he moved to Ohio by age Little phoebe, & lived there until he was Fifteen, at which point he returned to California.

Weiland met bassist Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag concert, and shortly thenceforth formed a band Mighty Joe Young sustaining DeLeo's brother Dean in guitar and Eric Kretz on drums. A band's title was changed to Stone Temple Pilots fallowing it was found shortly after signing using Atlantic Records that Mighty Joe Young was already taken. A title itself has there is no significance differently forming a acronym "STP" which Weiland remember getting the sticker of in his bike as a tyke.

Weiland composed a band's lyrics & sang lead vocals. Around 1992, they freed their foremost album, Core, and their 1st hit, "Sex Type Thing" enshrined a two when one of a elastic at the forefront of the grunge movement, the genre that was spawned away from Seattle in the late eighties and became rock's central movement of the early-mid 1990s.

Around 1994, Weiland married Janina Castenada and STP freed their 2nd album, Purple. A season prior, STP toured using a Butthole Surfers, where these are widely believed Weiland picked higher his heroin addiction, a habit that would checker virtually all of the rest of his career.

Within 1995, Weiland was caught and convicted of buying rock cocaine. He was sentenced to 1 season's probation. Issues sustaining drug utilize did non clear higher when his phrase, & STP was forced to cancel virtually all of their 1996-1997 tour inside trend lines of their third release, Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop.

Using Weiland's status in the b& uncertain and unpredictable, STP went in hiatus. Robert, Dean & Eric created the class action Talk Show with lead singer Dave Coutts, and Weiland freed the solo album inside 1998 called Twelve Bar Blues. Weil& composed too wrote a lyrics for virtually all songs on the album, and collaborated by using many creative person, notably Daniel Lanois and Sheryl Crow. the album was non a commercial message hit, & Weiland was one of these days caught within Manhattan buying diacetylmorphine, ending his brief tour. The former conviction within Los Angeles, coupled by owning many probation violations had Weiland sentenced to poky instance.

A constant reverting were overmuch for his marriage, & Castenada filed for divorcement. His time period inside pokey experienced apparently helped to wean him from either his habit, & when freed, he rejoined a Stone Temple Pilots, & married once more, to model Mary Forsberg, by owning whom he has 2 kids, Noah & Lucy.

Inside late 2001, Weiland's battles by using a law continued. He was arrested within domesticated violence charges in Las Vegas, apparently for pushing Forsberg. When a charges were in time deferred upon a few agreeing to counselling, Forsberg in time filed for divorcement. Weiland's career likewise snort, by having an affray between Weil& and guitar player Dean DeLeo on the final gig of STP's Shangri-La Dee Da tour leading to the band's demise.

Weiland was one of these days asked to join the band began by previous Guns n Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, along sustaining guitar player Dave Kushner, by using a working title "The Project", & late becoming "Velvet Revolver".

Velvet Revolver's debut album "Contraband" was freed in the spring of 2004. It debuted at first on the hoarding stock & index charts and has sold concluded 3 million copies globe-wide up to now.

Weiland was last arrested in October 27, 2003, in Hollywood, California, after a traffic collision. He was charged by owning driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Within July of 2005 his drug charges were dismissed fallowing he with success completed rehab & subsequent drug tests.