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If you've ever been responsible for managing a group of people, you'll understand when I say

humans are complicated. As much life experience as you may have, you will always, always

encounter folks who have gone through lives that are much different from yours.

You consider your life to be normal.

They consider their lives to be normal, too.

But the gulf between these senses of what's normal can be absolutely huge.

It all depends on your upbringing, your current environment, your family life, and your state of mind.

There's no judgments here. These are all just statements of fact. Everybody is different.

When you're a rock star, the definition of normal changes. Living in your celebrity bubble skews things.

When compared to civilians, things can quickly become abnormal. Although inside of your

bubble, because of your bubble, you don't realize it. It's as usual, even though those in the

outside world find your life very, very weird. But even by the standards of rock star normal,

which is pretty weird to begin with, the life of

Scott Weiland was off the charts. I mean, when a guy like Slash takes you aside and says,

dude, I'm worried, you'd better take it easy. You know that you're dealing with some

extraordinary circumstances. This is the life and death of Scott Weiland, part three.

This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

Welcome again, I'm Ellen Cross, and this is the third part, the third hour of our look at the

life and death of Scott Wildland. He led a difficult life, so difficult

that were only up to January of 2000 after two hours. At this point, Scott was fresh out of jail.

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