Staley had actually died on April 5, 2002 eight years to the day after fellow Grunge rock frontman Kurt Cobain had taken his own life but his body wasn't found until April 19,according to Ultimate Classic Rock. Demri Lara Parrott Murphy (February 22nd 1969 - October 29th 1996) was an American model, artist, and muse, and an amateur actress, girlfriend and later fiancee of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. ], Also, demri never got sober, so, all the times layne was in rehab, demri was still using heroin, which wasn't very helpful. 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. Given the loss of Staley and lag time between records, Black Gives Way To Blue had no right being any good. googletag.pubads().refresh(); However, she goes on to say that her late son was "shocked to find that God isn't going to dig you out of every tunnel that you put yourself in to. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_3', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-5') "@type": "ListItem", .addSize([0, 0], [[320, 50]]) "@type": "WebSite", It's known that Parrott was upset about the situation because Parrott herself was an aspiring model and actress. What's not known is if they finally connected. At his side are two beautiful women, looking at him adoringly. "name": "Layne Staleys Haunting Wedding That Never Was Will Break Your Heart" nodes: [ .addService(googletag.pubads()); Tom Morello later claimed that he had no recollection of ever speaking to Staley about auditioning for Audioslave, so this could be a case of Gallagher misremembering the conversation, and it having more been about Staley considering the idea of calling up the former Rage Against The Machine members. 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. But this version of AIC is an appreciably different band; many things can be said of Layne Staley, but Morgan Freeman-esque is not one of them. Krist Novoselic brought him food, hoping he could save him after losing Kurt Cobain. 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. 4. } }); 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. But when theres 20,000 people out there, just loving everything, and just dancing around with smiles, nothing can stop that.. Ramirez had been playing Sublime songs for much of his life when he hooked up with Gaugh and Wilson, learning them shortly after picking up the guitar at age 11. By the end, she was living with an older man who bizarrely drove her around unconscious for several hours before getting help. He had just gotten pretty much the entire Nerf arsenal, so we went to war. I can get by without them. I know he was joking, but I dont like to hear stuff like that. I did crack and heroin for years. But soon he was caught in an inescapable trap that led to his premature death in 2002. { 3. I didn't create myself because I would have done a hell of a better job.". I think theres always been a little bit of death trip element [and a] survivor element, DuVall told Rolling Stone. Demri's biological paternal grandfather was Beryl Gibson Dougherty (the son of Duncan M. "Dunk" Dougherty and . Thats terrible, Mom. The pain is more than you can handle. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_1', [[300,250],[336,280],[728,90],[970,90],[970,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-1') "@type": "WebPage", This was neither the beginning nor the end of Staleys sufferings that he was trying to get rid of it for years. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/", } Parrott, too, was a heavy drug user and fatally overdosed on October 29, 1996. He seriously, seriously hated "Rutherford." I dont wanna see people anymore and its nobodys business but mine.. 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. Thinking about both of them yesterday and. To quote a Staind album title, the legacy of Dirt is colored by 14 shades of gray. 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. One of the many drenched-in-drug moments revealed in David de Sola's new book, "Alice in Chains: The Untold Story," has Cobain and Staley striking a deal while the bands were on tour in Rio de Janeiro. "@type": "ListItem", }); 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.. 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. Demri Parrott was in relationships with Rosheen Raugi (1993 - 1996), Kent Lake (1988), Paul Uhlir (1987 - 1989) and John Baker (person) (1984). .addService(googletag.pubads()); They began dating a short time after they saw each other. 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. !function(a9,a,p,s,t,A,g){if(a[a9])return;function q(c,r){a[a9]._Q.push([c,r])}a[a9]={init:function(){q("i",arguments)},fetchBids:function(){q("f",arguments)},setDisplayBids:function(){},targetingKeys:function(){return[]},_Q:[]};A=p.createElement(s);A.async=!0;A.src=t;g=p.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];g.parentNode.insertBefore(A,g)}("apstag",window,document,"script","//c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js"); Staley then delved into his family life and how his father passed away after falling into a drug-filled route, with the two growing estranged. timeout: 2000 }, I dont go broke, and I do it a lot. Even as his habit kept Alice In Chains off the road and out of the studio, Staley still had more than enough money to ensure that hed always have a steady supply of the substances he craved. 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. Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. - CANADA \u0026 USA:- YouTube http://bit.ly/2Kbji5C - iTunes https://apple.co/2KNOCD2 - Vimeo http://bit.ly/2Iv1ywd - XBOX http://bit.ly/2K8AF6Z- Google Play https://bit.ly/3cwDybUWHAT IS CLASSIC ROCK? Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. The last public appearance he made was almost four years before his death when he attended his bandmate Jerry Cantrells solo concert in Seattle on Halloween in 1998. apstag.fetchBids({ The memories alone give me a contact high. var mapping2 = googletag.sizeMapping() "@type": "WebPage", As an act of first-person journalism from the depths of hell, Dirt has few equals in rock history. I know I did my best or what I thought would be right. So it is that Alice in Chains, with its influential blend of heavy metal and grunge, which plays on. I dont give a fuck if you fucking believe me or not, dude. But the loss still crushed him. Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro recently tweeted about late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley and Layne's girlfriend Demri Parrott, who died in 1996. dawn to dusk. ROCK IS DEAD? 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. By 1998, Staley already seemed on last legs. Then, Staley said his dad reached out. That night, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr, who had just been tossed from the band, claimed he actually died and came back as he bounced from shooting up with one famed musician to the other. Bob Forrest & John Frusciante Visited Laynes Home. The story of Sublime is one of the strangest and most tragic tales in all of 90s rock. That was the last time Staley would do a major tour. His comments given to Rubio show that Staley was aware that his mortality was on the horizon and had accepted his fate. 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. Layne Was Going To Record With Taproot In 2002. 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. Sadly, Starr wasn't too far behind his former friend and bandmate. .defineSizeMapping(mapping2) This portable projector plays your movies in crisp, high-contrast, 1080p detailno matter where you are. Its 1987, and Staley knows how to walk the walk of the day, strutting onstage in baby blue satin suits and exuding big-cock charisma. In 2011, at the age of 44, he too died of an overdose, as per Rolling Stone. I told him that John had gangrene once. 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. "@type": "ListItem", googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_sidebar_1', [[300,600],[300,1050],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-7') Staley's first-ever concert, according to the article, was seeing Elton John in October 1975, who he checked out with Jim. This past Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the death of Demri Parrott, Layne Staley's ex-fiance. We talked for a little and when we parted ways, I cried., This wasnt the last time Gallagher saw Staley. "This f****** drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive. Can you try to talk sense to him?, Forrest agreed to, and he and Frusciante visited Staley at his Seattle condo. Its the worst pain in the world. He would never perform with Alice In Chains again. What happened to Demri? So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. "position": 3, Far Out Magazine details one of Layne Staley's final interviews, as published in "Layne Staley: Angry Chair." Staley goes on to discuss how he got back in touch with his dad years after giving up trying but only because Phil had seen his photo in a magazine and, realizing he was rich, hit him up for drug money. Alice In Chains 2.0 became a band with two lead singers, with Cantrell frequently dueting with DuVall or taking lead vocals on his own. But its a surprisingly decent addition to the Alice In Chains canon. .addSize([0, 0], [[320, 50]]) Starr left Staley's place later that day. Survivors include her mother . The book says that former Alice bassist Mike Starr was visiting Staley the day before the singer's death. He was reporting on his own ongoing dissolution, giving the play-by-play on his soul being ripped away from him. Neither Demris mother nor Laynes stepfather have been able to confirm that. On the other, Staley's affair with heroin got serious fast. *Rain When I Die. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", } }); After a year in stores, it was selling 50,000 copies a week, eventually going on to sell 6 million. Starr himself had drug issues and, like Staley, succumbed to their power. .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. "position": 4, Its known that both Parrott and Staley were struggling with their drug addiction problems for a very long time until the young couples early and unexpected deaths. ,{ No one would ever see him alive again. Bob: Your Moms worried, man. Still, its the brand name that puts butts in the seats, and Alice In Chains has drawing power; Black Gives Way To Blue sold 126,000 copies its first week, good for a Billboard debut at No. The last time Kathleen Austin Demris mother saw Layne was in 1997. .addService(googletag.pubads()); In fact, it was his accountants who first noticed something might've been up. 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. }, Forrest recalls the story in his book Running with Monsters: A Memoir. .addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280]]) Seattle Weekly describes the tragic scene when police kicked in the door to Layne Staley's condo in Seattle's University District on April 19. "It would make him madder than f***," said Nick Pollock, one of Staley's former bandmates, who claimed he used to call his buddy variations of "Rutherford" just to mess with him. From the start of Dirt, youre trapped in Staleys skin, and for the next 50 minutes there will be no escape. 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. sid: '1366', " Kinney recalls. Topics But he did take time to discuss his relationship with his biological father, saying he went off on a journey at age 16 to find his estranged dad, only to find out just enough regarding his father's lifestyle to give up the effort. Layne Thomas Staley, singer-guitarist, born August 22 1967; died before April 19 2002. Hes wearing gold Elvis sunglasses and talking about partying with the other bands on tour and hanging with champion skateboarder Remy Stratton. Most people who love Sublime today are fans of a band that Nowell hasnt been a living member of for 15 years. Parrott had died in October 1996. 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. (Terry McGinnis/WireImage). 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. By the time Staley actually was a star, he traded in the poufy-haired bravado of glam for the vein-popping gutter grime of Alice In Chains. Sublime proved to be an ideal band for a generation that approached rock music with an irreverent, hip-hop-inspired sensibility. One of the purely amusing anecdotes de Sola shares concerns the night the Music Bank, the rehearsal warehouse where the band rented space, was raided in 1988. Clearly, Staley maintained some of what he learned in his religious upbringing, but he wanted nothing to do with the structures it forced him into. "@type": "WebPage", googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-2') "When I haven't talked to anybody in years, and every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this that ain't my title My bad habits aren't my title. He was down in a hole so deep he couldnt hope to hit bottom. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. Alice In Chains drummer Sean Kinney told Greg Prato in the book Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History Of Seattle Rock Music that Staley had long resigned himself to an early grave: Layne told me straight up, Im never coming back. Demri Parrott Remembered. } Dope sick hurts the entire body. She was hurt that they chose someone that looked like her rather than having her do it. 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 . Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. To their shock and dismay, the two addicts discovered there was almost an excess of cocaine to be had in Brazil but no smack. Kinney, though, continued to have fun the old-fashioned way on the Shi--y Cities tour in 1992. Ive never heard someones voice hit the tape like that. His skin was grey, dark circles under his eyes. "Layne shot me up first a couple of times. By this point he had quit [Alice In Chains], he had lost most of his teeth, and weighed barley 100 pounds. Then Kurt shot me, and then Layne shot me after that and I died, for like 11 minutes.". 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. } "position": 4, The singers life was full of trauma, and drugs, at first, offered him an escape from his pain. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). 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. Gold Standard: Oscars edition - Best Director. Brown heroin stains led from the bathroom to the living room. Band manager Susan Silver told Staley that he had to be the one to break it to ticket buyers that the concert was going to end midperformance because he was too screwed up to carry on. Although they were no longer together, Staley was clearly devastated by the news. But nevertheless, Starr still blamed himself and never even spoke about it until that Celebrity Rehab interview in February of 2010. 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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); "He finally kicked heroin use, and I'm still fighting," the singer said. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. 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. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_anchor', [[728,90],[320,50]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-6') During those years, Staley became a recluse and barely left his apartment. Layne Staley died on April 5, 2002. I don't live his lifestyle, so his house isn't the healthiest place to be around. I didn't want my fans to think that heroin was cool.". Layne and Mike Starr were watching television on April 4, 2002, the day before Staley died of a heroin overdose. Just as Alice in Chains became famous, Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, introduced him to heroin. In 2009, Alice In Chains released Black Gives Way To Blue, its first album of original material in 14 years. Rare pictures show her to be dark-featured and pretty, with long black hair and dark eyes. Gaugh and Wilson tried as best as they could to capitalize on Sublimes unexpected and poorly timed success, signing a deal to release a series of archival records collecting early songs, outtakes, and remixes, starting with 1997s Second Hand Smoke. 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. } While late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley was largely reclusive during his later years, the legendary singer considered fronting the band that later became known as Audioslave in January 2001, according to Staleys friend Morgen Gallagher, who talked to Alternative Nation in August 2015. I had the chance to throw out all this anger by the music in order to help others. Johns a guitar player. She wore vintage costumes, long skirts with docs, lots of vintage style 30s and 40s jewelry. nodes: [ .addService(googletag.pubads()); His will to live went with her. Now for the more positive things: Demri Parrott (which I recently found out was pronounced Puh-Row) was described by everyone who knew her as a bubbly, charismatic and beautiful girl. According to The Book Of Rock Lists by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein (1981 ed. At one point, Staley was even informed that his old man had passed away, although this wasn't true. "He was sort of a classic destroyer of hotel rooms.". Staley was on the sofa, illuminated by a flickering television. ", 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. Staley and Parrott were no longer together when she died; because she lacked Staleys rock-star bank account, Parrott was reduced to living out a conventional junkie death, finally prostituting herself in order to score drug money. But everyone starts somewhere. On January 28, 2001, he saw Layne again at a Super Bowl party. "Alice In Chains: The Untold Story" says the two met in 1988, before Alice in Chains blew up, and that it was "love at first sight." It took Layne Staley, Alice in Chains' lead singer, a while longer to kill himself with a speedball. Demri Lara Parrott Murphy (February 22nd 1969 - October 29th 1996) was an American model, artist, and muse, and an amateur actress, girlfriend and later fiancee of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. Kinney claims he had an alter ego he called Steve who would stand on a chair in an upscale restaurant and pee on the dessert cart or methodically pour beer into the sconces lining a hotel hallway for the pleasure of seeing them explode seconds later. var googletag = googletag || {}; The story of his decline began on July 3, 1996, after Staley left the stage following a warm-up set for KISS. A syringe loaded with a fresh supply of heroin sat in his hand; a used needle lay at his feet. She will know it sooner or later. In 1988, Layne Staley met Demri Lara Parrot, a model who would eventually become a grunge icon. More about Demri Parrott edit Dating History # Rosheen Raugi 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. Forrest called back Staleys mother Nancy and told her that theyd try to help him, though he told her he didnt know if itd work. She attended at school in Arlington (Washington), and dropped at her . He was also a serious heroin addict, a habit inspired in part by wanting to mimic his heroes. As for fans that object to another man heading up Sublime, Ramirez seems content to play the haters gonna hate card. There was a stash of cocaine and two crack pipes on the table. 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. Nowell might have ended up being another heroin casualty of the era, but he didnt sound like a guy that needed a spike in the arm in order to get out of the bed in the morning. 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. "@type": "WebSite", Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Its a very difficult thing to explain. about the Dirt cover were awhile ago, but that's Mariah, not Demri. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-2') Starr, after a stint on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" and "Sober House," overdosed on prescription drugs in 2011. "I promised that I would always be there for my children," she said to TheSeattle Times. Still, obvious as it was, Staley got defensive when pressed about his habit, worried it would come to define him. ], "Since that call I always was wondering, 'Where is my dad?' This marriage of sound and fury unites Dirt as a justifiably unpleasant concept record of immense (and immensely sickening) power. Demri Parrott had an encounter with Katina Bonita Evangeline (1991). He was already pretty reclusive in 1996, but after her death, there were only three recordings that I know of (Despiseley Brothers, 2 AIC songs, and a Pink Floyd cover for a movie soundtrack). Thinking about both of them yesterday and today, and what might have been. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); On April 5, 2002, Layne Staley took a speedball a combination of cocaine and heroin and passed away (via Diffuser). Layne Thomas Staley wasn't born Layne Thomas Staley. pubID: '434bb5e4-3704-4b75-b36c-785a444462bd', adServer: 'googletag', }, 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 . "name": "Rock Features" 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. Layne Considered Sending A Demo To Jerry Cantrell. } 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. Then, two things changed. At the time of her death she had already had a pacemaker implanted due to the damage caused by using dirty needles to inject heroine. 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? His comments given to Rubio show that Staley was aware that his mortality was on the horizon and had accepted his fate. It might be the least spectacular rock death of all time, in the sense that it surprised absolutely no one, including Staley himself. "This music Layne was writing a warning. Whether you believe it or not, it's a hauntingly beautiful story. "I don't give a f*** if you f****** believe me or not, dude. } It was therapeutic and worked for me for a while, until my dad saw my picture printed on a magazine."
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