This might be a little leap in logic because I recall Weiland saying that they never met, but it was pretty obvious artistically, and spoken about publicly quite a bit that Weiland's big icon was David Bowie. I'm surprised that Bowie hasn't said anything about Weiland's death, or done some kind of cover or something like that.
Again, maybe it's a leap to think that he would, but it's something to talk about.