Scott Weiland: Life in pictures

Scott Weiland, center, at the Huntington in San Marino with his Stone Temple Pilot bandmates on May 16, 1994.

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Weiland with STP at Verizon Amphitheatre on Sept. 1, 2000.

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Stone Temple Pilots in May 1996.

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Scott Weiland appears in a Pasadena courtroom in 1995. The band member was facing arraignment on charges of possessing cocaine and heroin.

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Scott Weiland performs in L.A. after getting out of drug rehab in 1996.

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Scott Weiland, lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, promotes his solo album “12 Bar Blues” in 1998.

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Scott Weiland at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim in 2001.

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Scott Weiland, lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, in Anaheim in 2001.

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Scott Weiland with Stone Temple Pilots during the first night of the group’s tour after Weiland’s drug rehab in 1996.

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Scott Weiland performs during a Stone Temple Pilots reunion concert in Columbus, Ohio, in May 2008.

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Weiland at the KROQ Acoustical Christmas on Dec. 6, 1997 at Universal Amphitheatre.

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Slash, left, Scott Weiland, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner (kneeling) of Velvet Revolver in 2004.

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Scott Weiland arrives at the premiere of “Hulk” on June 17, 2003, at Universal City.

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Weiland at Edison International Field for the KROQ Weenie Roast in 2000.

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Scott Weiland spends a day at the Santa Monica Pier with daughter Lucy, 2, son Noah, 4, and wife Mary in 2005.

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Scott Weiland performs with Velvet Revolver at the 944 Magazine Super Bowl party in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Feb. 2, 2008.

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Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots at Showbiz Studios in Van Nuys in 2008.

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Scott Weiland at KROQ’s Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine in June 2001.

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