RIP Scott Weiland of STP

I heard about this today. STP was part of the soundtrack to my youth. Sad to hear. Addiction is a nasty business.

love STP, seen them at least 3 times, seen members around town over the years(san diego based band), most recent in irvine with the red hot chilli peps, Scott was very creative, and tormented apparently, too bad, i've been routing for him to get it together for a long time, not surprised even at all that he went young, i'm actually surprised it took this long.

RIP Scott... 

RIP Scott.

Drug addiction is the bane of Rock and Roll.

In some ways he was just another ordinary guy who loved his favorite college football team.

This is an important article to read regarding Scott Weiland's life:

www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-s-family-dont-glorify-this-tragedy-20151207?page=2

I think his ex-wife does an excellent job telling the actual reality of trying to have a life with someone as troubled as Scott. Great singer and talent no doubt. Great person, father and family man - nope, not at all.

I love STP. Been following them since Core and couldn't understand the unfair comparisons to Pearl Jam (Eddie Vedder) when they arrived on the scene. But people have to realize that these guys' lives are not glorious at all. I'm personally sick and tired of hearing rock star overdose, death due to debaucherous, self-indulgent and self destructive behavior. It sucked when Layne Staley died but far from surprising. I guess I've grown kind of numb from this type of news. Obviously just my opinion..........RIP

And sadly no one learns from others mistakes.

  Thats the strange thing about dope, when i was a kid, i smoked weed for a couple years straight, then i started to forget things, and finally said "F-this, i like having my faculties in order, i'm out!", i've partied pretty hard, vicodine or perc on occasion, and even snorted a bit of coke back in the day, i rarely drink at all, i can't even tell you the last time i had a beer....? i think with mexican food when wiz was here was the last time?    Point is i don't have the addictive personality, it doesn't mean i couldn't get physically addicted to a nasty substance of course, but i think it's more to do with wiring in the head? I haven't givin this a TON of thought, but i'm thinking they should legalize all drugs, tax the shit out of it, put forth the "this will kill you" PSA campaign like they've done with cigarettes(working massively well), and with one fell swoop they'd wipe out crime, fund the stupid government, and balance all the budgets... ohh doodah day 8)

I see kids getting killed by heroin every day, the epidemic on Cape Cod is so bad it's making national news.

I think this is the end result of a lifetime of self-medicating.

Addictions for mentally unstable people often come from never having been diagnosed, or from having been diagnosed in life far too late after addictions form.

My grandfather was hooked on methadone, and then later heroin for nearly 40 years after being injured in WWII. My mother often said he was "normal" only when he was high. In the 1970's he was diagnosed as Manic Depressive (Now classified as Bi-Polar II.) Heroin destroyed his life, and his relationship with my mother. He died before I was born.

I've been meaning to get back to the thread I started here about mental illness and creatives. I spent a large part of this year adjusting to new meds after trying different things. But I know the dangers if you don't take the time to take responsibility and manage your condition.

I saw that Ziprasidone, a medication for Bi-Polar I Disorder (BPI people exhibit Histrionic behavior as well as severe mood swings) and/or Schizophrenia was found with all the other substances he was mixing when he died. What's sad is the man had tried to get help at various points, but it's obvious to me that his support circle was absentee at best, or enabling at worst. Mixing substances with meds like that can get a person killed easy.

He might have been troubled, and a terrible family man, but when people with those sorts of problems don't have anyone taking their condition seriously to support them, it's incredibly easy to falter, time and again.

I was a huge fan of Purple and Tiny Music...and I do think that at his peak the man was a genius with an incredible voice.

See post above.

The man was ill and self medicating. Holding some sort of stigma to that doesn't help anybody.

Unfortunately, great creativity, great uniqueness and real rockstar qualities do often correlate with affective psychiatric illnesses like bipolar disorder or adult ADD and often a self-medication with alcohol and drugs follows and speeds up self-destructive behavior. Cary already wrote about it.
Also there is a pretty high risk of suicide. How many rock stars do you admire who died from drugs or suicide and had mental problems? Keith Moon, the inventor of destroyed hotel rooms, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and so many others...
I was a fan of STP in the 90s and still listen to the albums regularly. Also the live shows and Scott's stage presence were legendary.
Too sad Scott died so early.
R.I.P.

It's sad that people with these problems don't get help or refuse to help themselves. I tend to think along the lines of cary and martin in this thread. Thanks for posting that live video by the way that was great.