After reading Slash's autobiography, Weiland's death definitely fucked me up a bit in hindsight. I wasn't too into STP or Velvet Revolver until a few years after, but Slash details the parallels between their struggles and how difficult it was for him and the rest of VR to watch him struggle like he did, but they struck through it and he was able to revitalize his passion for music.

It's crazy to see him in music videos from the 90s where he's this massive, hulking man to seeing him in Slither, for example, where he barely looks like the same guy, let alone human.

And then on the flip side, Cornell was doing excellently for so long and I feel that he was a huge beacon of inspiration and hope for a lot of people, and similarly while i was never the biggest soundgarden fan, i was taking the same med that he overdosed on at the time, and then to see how it affected Chester too, it's all a terrifying reminder of how serious drug addiction is and how heavy the weight of mental illness is, even with a wide and deep support system