"position": 3, 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. Money goes to the Therapeutic Health Services (THS), which runs the Layne Staley Memorial Fund. Actually, the best of times was when everyone was just strung out on booze, coke and sex the basic musts on any rocker's CV. 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. According to MTV, the book "Layne Staley: Angry Chair" details the AIC singer's final interview with author Adriana Rubio, an Argentinian journalist. FULL FILM: https://youtu.be/qMlLfrU5fjsAlice in Chains lineup throughout the Layne Staley era consisted of Layne Staley (87 - 98), Jerry Cantrell (87 - 98), Sean Kinney (87 - 98), Mike Starr (87 - 93) \u0026 Mike Inez (93 - 98).Alice in Chains post-Layne Staley has consisted of William DuVall (06 - Present), Jerry Cantrell (05 - Present), Sean Kinney (05 - Present) \u0026 Mike Inez (05 - Present).The We Die Young EP consists of three tracks: We Die Young, It Ain't Like That, Killing Yourself.Facelift consists of twelve tracks: We Die Young, Man in the Box, Sea Of Sorrow, Bleed The Freak, I Can't Remember, Love, Hate, Love, It Ain't Like That, Sunshine, Put You Down, Confusion, I Know Somethin (Bout You), Real Thing.Sap consists of 5 tracks: Brother, Got Me Wrong, Right Turn, Am I Inside, Love Song.Dirt consists of 13 tracks: Them Bones, Dam That River, Rain When I Die, Down in a Hole, Sickman, Rooster, Junkhead, Dirt, God Smack, Iron Gland, Hate to Feel, Angry Chair, Would?Jar of Flies consists of 7 tracks: Rotten Apple, Nutshell, I Stay Away, No Excuses, Whale \u0026 Wasp, Don't Follow, Swing on This.Self-titled consists of 12 tracks: Grind, Brush Away, Sludge Factory, Heaven Beside You, Head Creeps, Again, Shame in You, God Am, So Close, Nothin' Song, Frogs, Over NowThe MTV Unplugged performance consisted of 13 songs: Nutshell, Brother, No Excuses, Sludge Factory, Down In A Hole, Angry Chair, Rooster, Got Me Wrong, Heaven Beside You, Would?, Frogs, Over Now, The Killer Is Me. She was around five feet tall-maybe even shorter-and was stunningly beautiful. They couldnt have a chance to get back together as both of them died tragically in a short time after their break-up. Parrott was born in Bremerton, Washington to Kathleen Austin and Dennis Dougherty on February 22, 1969. Much farther down on the most spectacular rock deaths list is Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. "position": 4, var mapping1 = googletag.sizeMapping() "I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. And it's a little comforting to think Staley at least didn't believe he was alone at the end. He was traveling with a bodyguard hired specifically to keep his drug use in check, but after the show he overdosed. "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. 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. The article notes that Jerry Cantrell had told Kerrang! I think maybe the percentage has been a bit inverted [on the new album]. I never wanted [the publics] thumbs up about this fucking drug use. He reminds me of my friends from high school, who returned home from the first year of college in the summer of 1997 blasting nothing but the Sublime record. .addService(googletag.pubads()); nodes: [ Staley remembered, I was trying to kick this habit out of my life and here comes this man asking for money to buy some smack., He finally kicked heroin use, and Im still fighting, Staley said resentfully. That was the last time Staley would do a major tour. 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. According to Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, it was love at first sight. She did not use heroin until with him. 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. The couple was defined as soulmates and everyone admired their passionate relationship. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. function(bids) { .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) It's hard enough to lose a child. Ill look at the coke-fueled disaster of Oasis misbegotten epic Be Here Now, and the unlikely triumph of Radioheads dystopian prog-rock masterpiece OK Computer. It seems strange, since Staley would, of course, go on to become one of the most noteworthy figures in a genre that would present itself as the antithesis of everything bands like Mtley Cre stood for. var googletag = googletag || {}; Its okay! asi: 'theadengine.com', In Greg Pratos Grunge is Dead, Laynes mother Nancy revealed that Layne was a video game freak. He had a big screen TV, 5 games 5 different gamers. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", But those successes, which include singles like What I Got and Santeria frontloaded in the first half of the record, made Sublime a leftfield and shockingly prescient smash, predicting and capitalizing on musical trends that were just taking hold when Nowell died. pubID: '434bb5e4-3704-4b75-b36c-785a444462bd', RIP Layne and Demri.. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_anchor', [[728,90],[320,50]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-6') "item": { "@type": "WebSite", .addService(googletag.pubads()); Much of the interview deals with his ongoing experiences with heroin addiction, which he claims were about to take his life. On one hand, the two bands got up to some hilarious business pranking each other. (1969-1996) model, artist, grunge icon, beautiful soul } But its a surprisingly decent addition to the Alice In Chains canon. Don't try to contact any AIC members. Layne: Im okay, though. Me? Staleys horse-addicted ghost is still Cantrells muse, only this time Staley is actually dead. She will know it sooner or later. } Sublime was a band for working-class people who could reconcile the casual bleakness of the lyrics of a song like Wrong Waya cheery ditty about an underage hookerwith the dance-happy music. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-2') .addService(googletag.pubads()); Fortunately for Staley, Elmer appeared to be a pretty decent stepdad and even played a large role in getting young Staley into music. Im not going to quit doing drugs. Nowell was musically precocious as a child, able pick out a tune on his guitar after only hearing it once. I changed my number. I don't need any help to get annihilated.". Yes, Staley had been experiencing heroin addiction for years by the time this 1995 article which was titled "Alice In Chains' Layne Staley: Needle and Damage Done" came out. ROCK IS DEAD? However, Parrotts friend Amber Ferrano denied these rumors saying that all of them were wrong and her friend never used the drugs before she met the Alice In Chains singer. In October of that year, his former girlfriend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. 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. Ramirez grew up on Sublime records, and based on this clip of Sublime With Rome performing the hit Wrong Way in 2010 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he was hired for his ability to make Nowells demise seem like a mere inconvenience that temporarily kept the band off the road. "I got [a] call saying that my dad had died, [but] my family always knew he was around doing all kind of drug,"he's quoted as saying in the book. My liver is not functioning and Im throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. I told him that John had gangrene once. Courtney Love, center, tried to chase down Staley following the death of Kurt Cobain (r.), to see if he might've known something about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Cobain's death. }); Late Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley was reclusive his his final years prior to his 2002 drug overdose death, but stories have surfaced over the years about collaborations he discussed, his hobbies, and run ins he had with old friends. Rooster is a spooky character study about Cantrells father fighting off demons from the Vietnam War, but it also applied to Staleys own drawn-out, unwinnable conflict. Trending. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_1', [[300,250],[336,280],[728,90],[970,90],[970,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-1') 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. apstag.setDisplayBids(); 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. The album-opening Them Bones welcomes you with the screams of a man being burned alive, and it just gets more brutal from there. FULL FILM: https://youtu.be/qMlLfrU5fjsAlice in Chains lineup throughout the Layne Staley era consisted of Layne Staley (87 - 98), Jerry Cantre. The end everyone saw coming had finally arrived. Staley and Parrott were no longer together when she died; because she lacked Staley's rock-star bank account, Parrott was reduced to living out a conventional junkie death, finally prostituting. He said, In his arm? "Then, our family friend Fred loaned him a drum set, and he loved the drums. The memories alone give me a contact high. 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.