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By this point he had quit [Alice In Chains], he had lost most of his teeth, and weighed barley 100 pounds. Neither Demris mother nor Laynes stepfather have been able to confirm that. .build(); .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . This portable projector plays your movies in crisp, high-contrast, 1080p detailno matter where you are. That same year, Alice In Chains played its final shows with Staley, performing on MTV Unplugged in Aprilthe bands first concert in three yearsand several dates with the newly reunited Kiss, ending with a gig in Kansas City on July 3, 1996. "Don' try to talk about this to my sister Liz. Parrott was born in Bremerton, Washington to Kathleen Austin and Dennis Dougherty on February 22, 1969. You're not wrong if you're picking up on a bit of resentment at the end there. The2002 Rolling Stone article claimed that thedeath of ex-girlfriend Demri Parrott was one of the catalysts for Layne Staley's collapse into an isolated, drug-fueled existence that ultimately claimed his life. googletag.enableServices(); { ,{
Even sadder, Seattle Weekly says Staley's death contributed to the reversal of an encouraging decline in drug overdoses in the Seattle area. Club tells us, the year 1996 seems to have marked the start of his slow, sad downfall. The two were allegedly watching a show called "Crossing Over," which is about a psychic medium that helps connect loved ones to deceased relatives. 99 talking about this. David de Sola writes that Staley would fly into a minor rage whenever someone referred to him by that name. .build(); He seriously, seriously hated "Rutherford." She said after most of the crowd left at night Layne was still there, and she wanted to go swimming so Layne followed her to the pool. "I promised that I would always be there for my children," she said to TheSeattle Times. Of course he did." "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/layne-staleys-haunting-wedding-never-will-break-heart/",
Kaths death was good for only No. Forrest recalls the story in his book Running with Monsters: A Memoir. They began dating a short time after they saw each other. Nevertheless, Alice In Chains has lived on like few bands of its time, and even in death Staley is still among the most vital singers youre likely to hear on the local modern-rock station. She also created a path for herself as a model, artist, muse, and actress who died of a drug overdose on October 29, 1996, at the age of 27. The couple got engaged in 1992 and their friends and family thought that they would tie the knot and live happily ever after. var googletag = googletag || {}; In a lawsuit filed after Staley's death, his mother, Nancy Layne McCallum, alleged that at one point in the mid-'90s, her son tried to withdraw from the band to take care of his issues, but Silver forcefully pointed out that if he did, he would be putting 40 people out of work. Alternative Nation published a similar article in September 2014, but we are now publishing a new version with a couple of new stories. "They were obviously coked out because they (the strippers) started b----ing up one side and down the other to the point where Layne actually told them to shut up because they were making it worse than it needed to be," according to one observer. It cites reports of 76 crack cocaine-related deaths in 2002, up sharply from 46 the year before, and 80 opioid deaths compared to a milder 64 in 2001. You and me., 7. },
Producer Dave Jerden watched as Staley disintegrated after a dressing-down from Cantrell: "Layne, who had such a strong personality, had completely turned into this nothing.". Other (false) rumors emerged, claiming that Staley had contracted gangrene by shooting up and had body parts ranging from fingers to an entire arm amputated. He was supposed to record guest vocals for a song by Taproot, but his body was found shortly before a recording session was set to take place. Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. }); .addService(googletag.pubads()); He didnt have a great voice, but he sang like he did, using the power of his personality to give his vocals the sunny brassiness that made Sublime songs so irresistible on the radio once 1996s Sublime brought the bands music to the masses. And as we're all aware, things have hardly improved in the decades since. Then he relapsed again. Alice In Chains: The Untold Story author David de Sola shared some information with Alternative Nation about the wedding that never came to be between Staley and Parrott, and how the planned site of the wedding eventually was where a much sadder event took place. At the time of his death in 2002, neither Kinney nor AIC guitarist Jerry Cantrell had spoken to Staley for more than two years. Hes the reason I started singing.. Harder still,Nancy McCallumtold The Seattle Times that she still gets flooded with emails and letters from people all over who are experiencing addiction or love someone who is. var googletag = googletag || {}; At his side are two beautiful women, looking at him adoringly. Moreover, its been claimed that Layne Staley didnt want to live after losing a beloved even if their relationship ended. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/",
He said he was going back to treatment and then going to LA to do the audition in a couple of months. *Referenced briefly in "Don't Follow" ("Forgot my woman, lost my friends / Things I'd done and where I've been") *Referenced in "Again" ("Your weak will won't help her heal her heart") -- Demri was suffering from . Layne Went To A House Party And Hung Out With Ann Wilson, In the Heart book Kicking and Dreaming, Ann Wilson revealed that Layne attended a party at her home around 1999. schain: { According to MTV, the book "Layne Staley: Angry Chair" details the AIC singer's final interview with author Adriana Rubio, an Argentinian journalist. I don't need any help to get annihilated.". Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. He dropped out of my life for 15 years." The specificity of Dirt is what makes the album so moving, and its the most obvious attribute separating Alice In Chains from the legion of bands that emerged to take its place after Staley slipped into permanent heroin hibernation. In October of that year, his former girlfriend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. A friend of hers said so and there's even an interview with Layne where he says Demri was pissed about it because it looked just like her when they could've just let her . Like lots of rock stars, Layne Staley didn't have the happiest, most stable upbringing. He'd been dead for weeks, still cradling a full syringe of heroin. "item": {
After that, I dont think he wanted to go on., He died because he wished he had done right by the one person he knew for sure loved him for the poor butt rocker he was when he met her and hed be the first to admit it.. It's known that Parrott was upset about the situation because Parrott herself was an aspiring model and actress. There were times where someone had to go into the bathroom to see if Brad was still alive, Leary told Rolling Stone. But all too often, McCallum doesn't know what to say; she's just another grieving parent whose kid happened to be famous and touch lives. Layne didnt get in, but sat in a chair sipping a beer. hp: 1, She wasn't far behind, having immediately clocked out of work and raced home, flying past five police cars who, thankfully, didn't try to stop her. Throughout, Cantrells off-kilter, shotgun-blast-to-the-intestines guitar work acts as a queasy counterpoint to Staleys dead-man-walking howling. How lucky are we to have seen that? Ann responded that it was beautiful, and Layne retorted, Do you have any idea how rare it is for a meteor that big, and that bright, to come that close to us? They broke up, in part because she couldn't accept his relentless womanizing. Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, started shooting smack and Alice in Chains got famous. He looked like an 80-year-old version of himself, Seattle music journalist Jeff Gilbert told Prato. Frusciante was hesitant to visit Staley because he didnt think you could really preach to somebody about getting clean, but Forrest was adamant about trying to help him. Layne Thomas Staley wasn't born Layne Thomas Staley. In April 1997, Sublime entered the Billboard Top 20. Much of the interview deals with his ongoing experiences with heroin addiction, which he claims were about to take his life. "And now they're turning against me, and now I'm walking through hell, and this sucks. Rare pictures show her to be dark-featured and pretty, with long black hair and dark eyes. The Book Of Rock Lists gave Aces death most spectacular distinction based on a piece of mistaken information, repeating the legend that the shadowy balladeer killed himself during a game of Russian roulette played backstage at the City Auditorium in Houston between holiday shows with Big Mama Thornton. An indicator of that drop in regard for himself was when, in 1998, he contracted gangrene as a result of his lifestyle. Kinney, though, continued to have fun the old-fashioned way on the Shi--y Cities tour in 1992. My strengths and my talent are my title," he said. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. "itemListElement": [
But Staley wouldnt see or talk to his bandmate. "I was trying to kick this habit out of my life, and here comes this man asking for money to buy some smack." Forrest says that Staleys mind clearly still worked but that he was a million miles away., Bob: Hey Layne. Would you agree, because I kind of would after reading from many of the fan theories? Staleys method of killing himself was slower and more painful, but ultimately no less effective. Now touring as Sublime With Rome, Gaugh and Wilson are playing their old songs with Rome Ramirez, a singer born the same year that Sublime played its first show. "@type": "ListItem",
apstag.setDisplayBids(); .addService(googletag.pubads()); Here he is backstage on the Warped Tour looking like one of the many shirtless, deeply tanned, and blond bros lurking in the audience. And as anyone who knows anything about IV drugs can tell you, the veins in the hand are used only after all the other veins have been tapped out.". RIP Layne and Demri.. Layne was flipping through the channels and stumbled on the John Edward show Crossing Over, a show that TV Guide describes as: A psychic claims to communicate with his audiences late loved ones. ], She then ignored directions from the officer on the scene to stay outside, entered the house, and sat next to her son's body. It's the worst pain in the world. hp: 1, After a year in stores, it was selling 50,000 copies a week, eventually going on to sell 6 million. Close to a dozen more stints in rehab were in his future. According to David de Solas book Alice In Chains: The Untold Story, Layne Staley believed that the ghost of his late girlfriend Demri Parrott visited him just days before his April 2002 death. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. (Rolling Stone later noted that the heroin-related death of touring Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin that July garnered more coverage than Nowells death.) .defineSizeMapping(mapping2) That version of the band still records and performs. .addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280]]) He was found dead on March 8, 2011, in his home in Salt Lake City as a result of a prescription drug overdose. Given the loss of Staley and lag time between records, Black Gives Way To Blue had no right being any good. Most people who love Sublime today are fans of a band that Nowell hasnt been a living member of for 15 years. That model was to be Mariah O'Brien, whom Schenck had shot previously for the cover of Spinal Tap's "Bitch School" single. Equally important for Sublimes success was the element of mans-man machismo, which was spelled out on the album cover depicting a hulking and shirtless Nowell standing with his back to the camera and exposing his large Sublime tattoo. Demri Lara Parrott(February 22, 1969 - October 29, 1996) was best known for Demri Parrott her relationship with Layne Staley, the singer of rock band Alice in Chains. Then Kurt shot me, and then Layne shot me after that and I died, for like 11 minutes.". An updated version of The Book Of Rock Lists would probably be topped by Dimebag Darrell Abbott, the former Pantera guitarist who was gunned down onstage by a crazed fan during a performance with his band Damageplan on Dec. 8, 2004 at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. "name": "Layne Staleys Haunting Wedding That Never Was Will Break Your Heart"
FULL FILM: https://youtu.be/qMlLfrU5fjsAlice in Chains lineup throughout the Layne Staley era consisted of Layne Staley (87 - 98), Jerry Cantre. Its not AC/DC roaring back to life with Brian Johnson on Back In Black, but its not the embarrassment it seemed destined to be either. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_anchor', [[728,90],[320,50]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-6') He was down in a hole so deep he couldnt hope to hit bottom. Guns not loaded, see? Tillman recalled Ace saying as he pointed it at his head and, with a smile, pulled the trigger. I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. "name": "10 Surprising Stories About Layne Staley’s Reclusive Years"
", At this point, Staley was too weak to fight on and admitted to having accepted that the drug would get the better of him sooner or later. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/deep-cuts/",
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Neither Demri's mother nor Layne's stepfather have been able to confirm that. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/10-surprising-stories-about-layne-staleys-reclusive-years/",
ROCK IS DEAD? But when the band was recording in Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots in 1992, Staley would hit the scary streets, desperate to score. I was about 20, and music became my only obsession to stay alive, he said. Cobain agreed to pay for the product if Staley shouldered the cost of having it flown in. about the Dirt cover were awhile ago, but that's Mariah, not Demri. Sean Kinney would try to visit Layne at his home, and he frequently called him to no avail. "I told him I was sorry this was how it turned out.". *Rain When I Die. But rather than a heartwarming reunion between father and son, his dad's habits rubbed off on him when he was trying to stay clean. ), the No. The group didnt release another album with Staley following their eponymous third studio album in 1995, which gave Alice In Chains their first number one record in the United States. This idea was explored to an almost nauseating degree on 1992s Dirt, an unrelentingly grim collection of songs about how people should never, ever shoot heroin. There will always be haters, he said in an interview with budZtv in 2010. }
I know why youre here. They are not my friends.". Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready remembered this version of Staley being funny and lucid, and without a doubt he was not reluctant to be a star.. Sadly, Starr wasn't too far behind his former friend and bandmate. Zack de la Rocha had quit Rage Against The Machine just a few months prior, and his bandmates were looking for a new singer. Mainly, he holed up in his apartment, gaming, playing with his cat and doing drugs. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_1', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-3') Diffuser says that after they realized the singer hadn't spent money in a strange amount of time, Staley's mother gave the police permission to breach his door. Movies: Now more than ever. I'm Melisa. They also were on hand that year to accept an MTV Video Music Award for best alternative video, an appearance punctuated by drunken shoutouts to Happy Gilmore and Lynyrd Skynyrd and an awkwardly slurred tribute to Nowell. Tough-guy posturing linked hip-hop with hard rock, and it would come to define the rap-rock hybrid that dominated mainstream rock radio in the late 90s. Im not doing well. .addService(googletag.pubads()); Meanwhile, Starr, who'd been introduced to heroin by Staley, drank a bottle of bleach used for cleaning syringes, thinking it was water. "Demri was a fashion icon in the Seattle Grunge scene. And it's a little comforting to think Staley at least didn't believe he was alone at the end. .build(); "I'm not doing well," the singer said. Layne told Wright, Wow, I get to perform again. Wright was preparing to fly up to Seattle to prepare the studio for Laynes return to recording when he got the called that he had died. I dont give a fuck if you fucking believe me or not, dude. Formed in 1988, Sublime made its name by playing surf towns up and down the California coast, honing a feel-good blend of punk, hip-hop, and ska informed by Nowells multicultural upbringing in Long Beach. In a very real way, both men remain the most important members of their respective bands. Johns a guitar player. Dope sick hurts the entire body, he horrifyingly shared. "name": "Deep Cuts"
Staley erupted, then yelled at him whenever he tried to take more pills. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) No one would ever see him alive again. And I thought, oh, for heaven sake, listen to his music. I dont wanna see people anymore and its nobodys business but mine.. Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley had one of the mightiest voices in rock history and alongside Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, among others was one of the greatest figures to come out of the grunge movement that originated in his native Seattle, Washington. "@type": "ListItem",
Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley and model Demri Parrotts relationship started as a fairytale but turned out a tragic love story that people can still remember. When [Dirt] came out, the thing did not leave my CD player, Godsmack singer Sully Erna told Cross in Rolling Stone. "I don't give a f*** if you f****** believe me or not, dude. One night, Alice in Chains dressed up as strippers in skimpy panties and combat boots, and followed Van Halen on stage, aping their signature walk. ", He then goes says his heroin habit was to blame, and he was well past the point of shooting up for fun. But his love of Tommy Lee wasn't the only reason he swapped out his middle name. - WORLDWIDE:- Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatisclassicrock2Cheers,Daniel apstag.init({ At one point, Staley was even informed that his old man had passed away, although this wasn't true. The memories alone give me a contact high. But soon he was caught in an inescapable trap that led to his premature death in 2002. (Terry McGinnis/WireImage). "Everyone always asks if that is Demri [Parrott, then-girlfriend of frontman Layne Staley], on the Dirt cover," he says."I think Demri's name might have been mentioned as a possible model once or twice, but it was never a serious consideration." "I know I'm dying," Staley is reported to have said. Fuck it, fight it, its all the same, Nowell sang on What I Got, and it was a message that resonated with millions of people that had no idea that they were bobbing their heads to a happy-go-lucky dead guy. According to this Alice In Chains interview with Rockline on July 19, 1999, Staley wrote the song "Get Born Again" to target what he saw as "religious hypocrisy." Topics I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. },
The show goes on, but Layne Staley and Bradley Nowell are still in the spotlight. I told him that John had gangrene once. He insisted he wanted to play down his addiction because he was worried that wearing it on his sleeve would turn fans on to drugs, which had gone from a fun hobby to a life-threatening burden. asi: 'theadengine.com', "It was only five or six shows, and by the end of the last one, it was cops, ambulances, and, 'Get on the plane! Staley and Parrott met in 1988 while she was working at a store called Saturdays. {
Some of Staleys fans and friends blamed Demri for causing all these tragedies. Perry Farrell and Kurt Cobain and all those guys did drugs, and Brad wanted to see what it was like. By the time Sublime was in the studio recording its self-titled third record, Nowell was in such rough shape that producer Paul Learyno stranger to substance abuse as a founding member of Butthole Surferssent him home before the record was completed. (Handout). googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); Layne and Mike Starr were watching television on April 4, 2002, the day before Staley died of a heroin overdose. But that was contingent on him having the energy and focus to be able to work, and I guess that didnt materialize., 5. The album-opening Them Bones welcomes you with the screams of a man being burned alive, and it just gets more brutal from there. .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) From rough beginnings to the deadly experiences with hard drugs that stole his prime and took his life to his final years as a recluse, these are the tragic details of one of rock history's greatest voices.