Stone Temple Pilots members Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz discussed their late friend and singer Scott Weiland’s demise in a new Yahoo interview to celebrate Core‘s 25th anniversary.
Dean said, “There’s something that doesn’t feel quite right to sit here and talk about Scott. It saddens me that he’s not able to be here and do it himself.”
“It’s heartbreaking that he’s not here to celebrate this.”
Robert DeLeo later discussed recording Stone Temple Pilots’ 2010 self-titled album, and Weiland’s last few years in the band before his 2013 firing and death in 2015.
“It was literally the three of us in a place, and Scott over here somewhere else, sending over vocals. We took on the role of producing that record, and as a producer when those vocals were coming over, they were not satisfactory. They just were not.”
“It was literally just making a record without four guys in a room. You’re doing four different versions of music of a song to figure out what key is the best because the communication and the people surrounding Scott, it came to that point.”
Dean added, “This is just our point of view. Scott’s not here to give his point of view. He thought those vocals were fine. He could say right now and say ‘fuck you.'”
Robert said, “He came over to hear the songs for the first time. We were listening to the songs, and he passed out in the chair.”
Dean said, “It was very evident where Scott was going. He had a new posse of people around him that just kept feeding him all that he was. They left out one vital part of that, and that was his health and wellbeing, because everybody just wanted money. I think Robert and Eric and I exhausted ourselves just trying to help him, and just be a friend. He wanted no part of it.”
Robert added, “I think when the truth comes around to somebody so heavily into addiction, they want to run away from that. That was well said Dean, it’s really sad to see.”
“To be affiliated with somebody of that musical magnitude and to be so fulfilled by it, and to watch this person just go into this deep hole of demise was just fucking awful. It was just awful, man,” sighs Dean.
