“Mockingbird Girl,” Magnificent Bastards (1995) In honor of Weiland’s epic contributions to the songbook of the ’90s - and then some - here’s a look at three songs he wrote outside the core Velvet Revolver and STP catalogs.ġ. Usually, I’ll have some lyrical ideas that I bring to the table and just work into the song, but it usually starts for me with the melody.”

And then it’s the song that inspires a lyrical idea. That inspires a melody, and then this overall feeling of the melody. “I want to feel the riffs and the beats as the song comes together. “It’s always a new thing every time, and every time I get together with a new group of guys and work stuff out, I want to feel the groove,” said Weiland of writing in 2014. The singer reunited with STP for one last album, Stone Temple Pilots, released several years before his death at 48 in 2015. By the late ’90s, Weiland also began releasing his own solo material with 12 Bar Blues in 1998, through his fourth, Blaster.

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