Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo suffered a heart attack onstage touring with Smashing Pumpkins.
Billy Corgan revealed the previously unknown incident when interviewing the DeLeo brothers on his podcast.
During a recent appearance on Billy Corgan’s podcast “Magnificent Others,” brothers and Stone Temple Pilots bandmates Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo opened up about late frontman Scott Weiland, and how his battle with addiction affected the band.
While Weiland’s drug problems are part of what led to Stone Temple Pilots breaking up in 2003, the band did reunite with the singer again in 2008. But, as Dean and Robert revealed to Corgan, they were both hesitant about working with Weiland again.
“There was definitely some trepidation,” Dean said, while Robert added: “[But] there was a lot of history there… I think we just stepped into it lightly.”
“[Weiland] didn’t show up the first day of rehearsal in very good health, and we’re like, ‘Alright. Should we pack this up?’,” he continued. “It brought up a lot of ghosts. I remember just going, ‘You know what? I’m f*cking going home.”
Weiland passed away in 2015. While the coroner ruled his death as an accidental overdose, his widow Jaime Wachtel Weiland recently disputed this claim.
While speaking on the podcast “Appetite for Distortion” last year, Jaime said:
She continued: “But the truth is, Scott died because the main artery in his left ventricle was 95 per cent blocked. That came from 10 years of h*roin use, that came from an entire adult life of chain smoking. His heart stopped.”
