SPILL BOOKS: SCOTT WEILAND – NOT DEAD & NOT FOR SALE: A MEMOIR

Scott Weiland – Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir

Scribner – July 10, 2012

ISBN – 10: 0743297172

ISBN – 13: 9780743297172

Today’s Spill Book Club post is brought to you with great sadness.  Last night, Scott Weiland passed away in his sleep, on his tour bus, after having played his finale performance here in Toronto on Tuesday, December 1.  The music world mourns your loss, Mr Weiland.  Rest in peace.

From the publisher:

In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots—not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam—was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant. Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab.

Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work, and reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty. Not Dead & Not for Sale is a hard rock memoir to be reckoned with—a passionate, insightful, and at times humorous book that reads with extraordinary narrative force.