29 club show in Vancouver–a surprise “blind date” appearance promoted by Molson Breweries–had already been canceled because of a severe winter storm there.) Plans for more STP gigs, to begin in late February, were put on hold.
The rest of STP–Dean DeLeo, drummer Eric Kretz and Dean’s younger brother, bassist Robert DeLeo–had no choice but to cancel the Anchorage show and two concerts scheduled for the following weekend, in Hawaii. By his own count, Weiland had already been in and out of drug-rehab programs 13 times in the last three years. 30, on his own volition, Weiland–a recent alumnus of the Impact Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center, in Pasadena, Califorinia–checked into an undisclosed rehabilitation facility. He said, ‘I’m going into treatment.’ I said, ‘I’d love to believe that.’ And on Monday, he checked himself in.” On Dec. “When I talked to him, I could hear his condition. “Scott called and said, ‘I’m fucking up–I need help,'” DeLeo, the group’s guitarist, recalls grimly a few days later. After six weeks on tour with STP and more than six months of staying clean, of successfully fighting the dark urges that had once sucked him into the black hole of heroin addiction, Weiland, STP’s 29-year-old singer, had fallen off the wagon–hard. 29, shortly before Stone Temple Pilots were supposed to fly to Anchorage, Alaska, for a New Year’s Eve show.
Dean DeLeo got the phone call at his Southern California home on Sunday, Dec.
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