after he was fired from stone temple pilots, weiland formed a solo band called the wildabouts. they released an album in march 2015 called "blaster" but their guitar player, jeremy brown, died the day before it came out. weiland himself died on this band's tour bus in bloomington, minnesota on december 3, 2015 after drinking and taking drugs such as cocaine and ethanol. he was 48 years old. he had battled addictions to drugs for over 20 years, at first becoming addicted to heroin in the 1990s.