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 said he looked like a kid again, and at that moment there was no darkness in his life. 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. Neither Demri's mother nor Layne's stepfather have been able to confirm that. So it is that Alice in Chains, with its influential blend of heavy metal and grunge, which plays on. dawn to dusk. "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." One way she's contributed to the fight is by helping run the Layne Staley Tribute Concert, which the article says is an annual celebration of Alice in Chains' contributions to music. 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. "This music Layne was writing a warning. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", }, Though DuVall obviously apes Staley whenever his voice meshes with Cantrell on one of those ominous, crypt-keeper choruses, at least Black Gives Way To Blue doesnt ignore the track-mark-covered elephant in the room. Staley and Parrott met in 1988 while she was working at a store called Saturdays. Thinking about both of them yesterday and. googletag.pubads().refresh(); .addService(googletag.pubads()); 5 on Marsh and Steins list. At the time of his death in 2002, neither Kinney nor AIC guitarist Jerry Cantrell had spoken to Staley for more than two years. Despite his numerous attempts to get clean, Staleys body was discovered in his Seattle condo, with toxicology reports finding his death was the result of an accidental overdose. He needs his hands and arms. } She says she hopes that her son's music will shed light on the disease of addiction that ultimately took his life. From the start of Dirt, youre trapped in Staleys skin, and for the next 50 minutes there will be no escape. Really.. Whether you believe it or not, it's a hauntingly beautiful story. Club tells us, the year 1996 seems to have marked the start of his slow, sad downfall. It's the worst pain in the world. "item": { "When he returned from a trip to the bathroom," wrote Jon Wiederhorn about Layne Staley for Rolling Stone, "his sleeves were unbuttoned, exposing what appear to be red, round puncture marks from the wrist to the knuckles of the left hand. When Nowell finally pushed his luck with heroin too far in a San Francisco hotel room on May 25, 1996, his band wasnt yet famous enough to warrant much media attention for the tragedy. } He had already lost a finger or two from his veins collapsing and not getting enough circulation to his hands I remember seeing him from a distance, and I thought, Thats the oldest punk rocker Ive ever seen., Flash back about 15 years, and Staley is a dramatically different, happier, and more spandex-friendly person. Hes wearing gold Elvis sunglasses and talking about partying with the other bands on tour and hanging with champion skateboarder Remy Stratton. complete: 1, Part of what makes Dirt an impressive artistic achievement is that much of the album was written or co-written by Cantrell, who performed a sort of method songwriting by infusing a junkies hopelessness and guttural desperation even into songs that didnt directly address addiction. Listening to music you love to hear is fun, period.Rome Ramirez, on replacing Bradley Nowell as the new singer of Sublime, So sing just like him, fuckers/It wont offend him/Just me/Because hes dead.Pearl Jam, 4/20/02, written for Layne Staley. And as we're all aware, things have hardly improved in the decades since. How close do you think that was to us, Ann? { She attended at school in Arlington (Washington), and dropped at her . "position": 2, But while the surviving members of Alice In Chains made sure to present their band as a newly evolved entity, Sublimes Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson are trying to pick up where they were forced to leave off in 1996, when their lead singer, Bradley Nowell, died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Dont try to talk about this to my sister Liz. According to "sources close to the band," Staley lost his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend, Demri Parrott, to a heroin overdose later that same year. { "@context": "http://schema.org", 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. Movies: Now more than ever. He never made it, so Chris Cornell went and got the job.. Survivors include her mother . "I was trying to kick this habit out of my life, and here comes this man asking for money to buy some smack." Staley was playing video games while they talked, and pretended to listen according to Forrest. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", For Nowell, being dealt a shitty hand was a fact of life, but so was the pleasure of smoking killer bud, and acknowledging the former didnt necessarily negate the latter. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_anchor', [[728,90],[320,50]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-6') apstag.setDisplayBids(); Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. "item": { To anyone with a passing knowledge of Staleys life and music, his downfall played out like the worst kind of endingdistasteful, depressing, and all too predictable. "position": 4, ), the No. Neither Demris mother nor Laynes stepfather have been able to confirm that. The singers life was full of trauma, and drugs, at first, offered him an escape from his pain. Staley sightings became increasingly rare, and rumors circulated that the singer was wasting away in his Seattle apartment, doing nothing but drugs, painting, and playing video games to pass the time. Demri Parrott was engaged to Layne Staley (1992 - 1994). The story of his decline began on July 3, 1996, after Staley left the stage following a warm-up set for KISS. She was born Feb. 22, 1969, in Bremerton. On April 5, 2002, Layne Staley took a speedball a combination of cocaine and heroin and passed away (via Diffuser). This was neither the beginning nor the end of Staleys sufferings that he was trying to get rid of it for years. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. } So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. "@type": "ListItem", googletag.enableServices(); (Instrumental), She Was My Girl, Pig Charmer, Anger Rising, S.O.S., Give It a Name, Thanks Anyways, 31/32.Brighten (Jerry Cantrell solo record) consists of 9 tracks: Atone, Brighten, Prism of Doubt, Black Hearts and Evil Done, Siren Song, Had to Know, Nobody Breaks You, Dismembered, Goodbye.PAYPAL: https://bit.ly/2RlNUWCWHAT IS CLASSIC ROCK? The difference on Black Gives Way To Blue was, as the title suggested, a shift in perspective. In the soaring chorus, Staley harmonizes with Cantrell on lines that spell out the catch-22 that defined his final years: Whats my drug of choice? Layne: Im okay, though. It was therapeutic and worked for me for a while, until my dad saw my picture printed on a magazine." "In 5thgrade, he [Staley] borrowed his Uncle Bob's trumpet, so that was his first instrument," said Nancy McCallum, Staley's mother, according to Northwest Music Scene. Demris friend Amber Ferrano denied the claims saying: It started after she died. "They asked if he believed in God? googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_1', [[300,250],[336,280],[728,90],[970,90],[970,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-1') (Terry McGinnis/WireImage). The story of Sublime is one of the strangest and most tragic tales in all of 90s rock. This past Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the death of Demri Parrott, Layne Staley's ex-fiance. She also has Demris engagement ring that Layne gave her. This portable projector plays your movies in crisp, high-contrast, 1080p detailno matter where you are. I wrote the following tweetstorm to remember her (and him) for the occasion: Most, if not all of that material was in my book, where Layne and Demri's relationship and her . Sean Kinney would try to visit Layne at his home, and he frequently called him to no avail. He said he was going back to treatment and then going to LA to do the audition in a couple of months. In 1993, when the band was touring in support of "Dirt," Staley would walk offstage midsong to get high. Mike Starr said he was going to be best man at Layne and Demri's wedding. I never wanted [the publics] thumbs up about this fucking drug use. "@type": "ListItem", Even sadder, Seattle Weekly says Staley's death contributed to the reversal of an encouraging decline in drug overdoses in the Seattle area. } Menu. It certainly rejiggers the list: Guitarist Terry Kath of MOR jazz-rock band Chicago (as well as the city of Chicago) died under similar circumstances in 1978, holding a gun he thought was unloaded to his head and mistakenly offing himself in front of his wife and one of his stage crew members. Just as Alice in Chains became famous, Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, introduced him to heroin. .addService(googletag.pubads()); On the rare occasions that he ventured out of his home, where he gorged on videogames whenever he wasnt gorging on drugs, Staley cut a hard figure: Abscesses covered his arms, and hed lost most of his teeth. Zack de la Rocha had quit Rage Against The Machine just a few months prior, and his bandmates were looking for a new singer. In 1996, Staleys life was turned upside down when his former fiance, Demri Lara Parrott, died of a drug overdose and when she passed, so did a bit of Staley. .addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280]]) Then he relapsed again. 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 using drugs to get high like many people think. It took Layne Staley, Alice in Chains' lead singer, a while longer to kill himself with a speedball. "He finally kicked heroin use, and I'm still fighting," the singer said. This fucking drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive, he said. 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. In the Staley slot was William DuVall, who sang in Cantrells post-AIC band and sat in with Alice when the band first reunited in 2006 for a benefit concert. "@type": "ListItem", "And now they're turning against me, and now I'm walking through hell, and this sucks. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/", "position": 4, The bands 1990 debut, Facelift, went platinum thanks in large part to the popular single Man In The Box, which succinctly laid out the themes of future Alice In Chains records in the very first lineStaley was a man trapped, buried in his own shit, and while he was self-aware enough to acknowledge it, he was powerless to lift himself out. Staley and Parrott, by then his fiance, went to rehab together at least once. 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. They broke up, in part because she couldn't accept his relentless womanizing. 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? By this point he had quit [Alice In Chains], he had lost most of his teeth, and weighed barley 100 pounds. "name": "Rock Features" I had the chance to throw out all this anger by the music in order to help others. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_3', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-5')
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