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. 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. Sublime proved to be an ideal band for a generation that approached rock music with an irreverent, hip-hop-inspired sensibility. Demri Parrott (born Demri Lara Murphy on February 22nd 1969 - d. October 29th 1996) was the love of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley's life.She was born in Bremerton, Seattle (WA) to Dennis Dougherty and Kathleen Austin, and had three brothers, Devin, Derek and David. timeout: 2000 }, Following his death in 2002, Screaming Trees frontman told Rolling Stone, He never recovered from Demris death. Demri did not get Layne started in drugs his history was prior to her and tons of people know that.. The server responded with {{status_text}} (code {{status_code}}). .defineSizeMapping(mapping2) Far Out Magazine details one of Layne Staley's final interviews, as published in "Layne Staley: Angry Chair." Its okay! Demris friend Amber Ferrano denied the claims saying: It started after she died. She was the fiance of musician Layne Staley. "@type": "ListItem",
Staley was found dead, toothless and weighing only 86 pounds, in his Seattle apartment in 2002. Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley and model Demri Parrott's relationship started as a fairytale but turned out a tragic love story that people can still remember. "name": "Deep Cuts"
.addService(googletag.pubads()); She was around five feet tall-maybe even shorter-and was stunningly beautiful. 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. 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. "I never wanted to end my life this way," he continued, lamenting but ultimately accepting his decision to start using crack cocaine and heroin years before. Learn More{{/message}}. apstag.setDisplayBids(); "When I tried drugs, they were f****** great, and they worked for me for years," he said. Johns a guitar player. Demri Parrott was in relationships with Rosheen Raugi (1993 - 1996), Kent Lake (1988), Paul Uhlir (1987 - 1989) and John Baker (person) (1984). The story of his decline began on July 3, 1996, after Staley left the stage following a warm-up set for KISS. Taproot were recording a new album with Alice In Chains producer Toby Wright in 2002, and wanted Layne Staley to sing on a song, according to Mark Yarms book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. In June 1992, the albums post-production was complete and the album was 100% complete by the end of June. If you have a better quality version of this photo please send it! He would never perform with Alice In Chains again. (Rolling Stone later noted that the heroin-related death of touring Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin that July garnered more coverage than Nowells death.) "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
My biggest dream is to become a world-renowned writer. Demri was the biological daughter of Kathleen Ann (Austin) and Dennis Wayne Dougherty. 1 most spectacular death in rock history ended the life of singer Johnny Ace, whose biggest hit, Pledging My Love, surged to the top of the Billboard rhythm and blues chart about two months after his untimely demise on Christmas day 1954. Description: Demri Lara Parrott Murphy (February 22nd 1969 - October 29th 1996) was an American model, artist, and muse, and an amateur actress, girlfriend and later fiance of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. Its a very difficult thing to explain. "Layne shot me up first a couple of times. 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. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. hp: 1, 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. "@type": "WebSite",
We talked for a little and when we parted ways, I cried., This wasnt the last time Gallagher saw Staley. 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": "WebPage",
The album-opening Them Bones welcomes you with the screams of a man being burned alive, and it just gets more brutal from there. ", He then goes says his heroin habit was to blame, and he was well past the point of shooting up for fun. Rare pictures show her to be dark-featured and pretty, with long black hair and dark eyes. Some believe that that when Layne his ex Demri Parrott died in 1996 from Drug overdose, Layne never recovered from her death and probably what caused him to fall apart beyond repair with his drug using. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. She was of Native American (Cherokee), Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Swiss-German descent. 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. Still, obvious as it was, Staley got defensive when pressed about his habit, worried it would come to define him. RIP Layne and Demri.. In 2005, Cantrell, Kinney and Mike Inez, who replaced Starr as bassist, reunited for a benefit concert. "@type": "ListItem",
Layne Staley, Demri Parrott and Debbie Murphy at the Pantera show in the Mercer Arena, Seattle. !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"); To quote a Staind album title, the legacy of Dirt is colored by 14 shades of gray. The book says that former Alice bassist Mike Starr was visiting Staley the day before the singer's death. Layne: Im okay, though. Zack de la Rocha had quit Rage Against The Machine just a few months prior, and his bandmates were looking for a new singer. 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. (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage). .build(); But you don't write and sing songs like "Rooster" and "Would?" .addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280]]) 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. 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. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); The frontman was fighting his addiction and wanted to get clean many times by entering rehabs or finding other ways to live a healthier life, however, he died due to a speedball overdose on April 5, 2002. 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. 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.. Mar 14, 2016. "@type": "WebSite",
His will to live went with her. Although he'd lived as a recluse for years, former Alice in Chains bassist Michael Starr who Diffuser says blamed himself for Staley's death claimed on an episode of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew"that he was the last person to see Staley alive. His comments given to Rubio show that Staley was aware that his mortality was on the horizon and had accepted his fate. The book says that former Alice bassist Mike Starr was visiting Staley the day before the singer's death. 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. hp: 1, melisaiscan@rockcelebrities.net, When Neil Young Found A Way To Communicate His Son With Disabilities, Inside Of The Third Eye Blind: Departures, Net Worths, And Conspiracy Theories, How Journey Fans Were Divided By Neal Schon And Arnel Pineda Feud, Paul Stanley Appreciates Gene Simmons Overcoming His Biggest Fear For Him, Top Five Best Counting Crows Songs Of All Time, James Hetfield To Share The Screen With Peter Dinklage In Dark Western Thriller, Rob Halford Believes Ozzy Osbourne Needs Support After His Difficult Decision, Neal Schon Reacts To Arnel Pineda Fans Accusations, Total Bullsh*t, Nikki Sixx Applauds Selena Gomez For Her Courage, Ted Nugent Believes Americans Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves, Paul Stanley Reveals Gene Simmons Real Character Beyond KISS Persona. Alice in Chains was the first of grunge's big four to break out, but Nirvana clearly won the to-the-death competition. apstag.fetchBids({ Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, started shooting smack and Alice in Chains got famous. The singers life was full of trauma, and drugs, at first, offered him an escape from his pain. They couldnt have a chance to get back together as both of them died tragically in a short time after their break-up. "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." Very little is known of Demri Parrott, except that she was practically worshiped by her fianc, Layne Staley. "He finally kicked heroin use, and I'm still fighting," the singer said. Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. .build(); She was the biological daughter of Kathleen Ann ne Austin and . She also has Demris engagement ring that Layne gave her. ver: '1.0', .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) By the next year, the band's dark and deeply pained breakthrough album, "Dirt," was rife with references to the drug. Starr left Staley's place later that day. 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. It's too late. *Rain When I Die. That version of the band still records and performs. 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. By early 2001, it had been a couple of years since he had seen his old friend, so he was very surprised when he ran into him at a party. {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. .build(); Nowell was musically precocious as a child, able pick out a tune on his guitar after only hearing it once. }, I think theres always been a little bit of death trip element [and a] survivor element, DuVall told Rolling Stone. He said he was going back to treatment and then going to LA to do the audition in a couple of months. 5. In October of that year, his former girlfriend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. The story of Sublime is one of the strangest and most tragic tales in all of 90s rock. You dont get the same singular experience listening to Godsmack (which took its name from a Dirt track), Staind, or Creed, who adopted the superficialities of Alice In Chains sonic and thematic signposts and reconfigured them into interchangeably angsty and thuddingly poppy plop-metal. I know I did my best or what I thought would be right. 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. 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 never wanted to end my life this way. "item": {
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. There would be occasional sightings of Staley after that with open sores on his arms. Mike Starr said he was going to be best man at Layne and Demris wedding. This actually isnt much of a departure from the sound of Alice In Chains 1.0, which was steeped in the undead Southern-rock harmonies of Staley and Cantrell. She claims her daughter had come "to be there with Layne as he's doing his transition." 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? 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. 5 on Marsh and Steins list. Finally, Starr left angry. So it is that Alice in Chains, with its influential blend of heavy metal and grunge, which plays on. ", The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Layne Staley, this Alice In Chains interview with Rockline. This fucking drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive, he said. "itemListElement": [
A year after his death, a rare interview emerged with Staley that he'd given with Argentinean writer and music fan Adriana Rubio, titled Layne Staley: Angry Chair A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician. When [Dirt] came out, the thing did not leave my CD player, Godsmack singer Sully Erna told Cross in Rolling Stone. However, they decided to break up after a few years while people were waiting for an announcement about their wedding. . Along with Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains was a primary grunge-era influence on the post-grunge bands that ruled modern-rock radio from the late 90s onward. The autopsy later revealed that the next day Staley plunged a speedball into his vein. Much farther down on the most spectacular rock deaths list is Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. 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. The end everyone saw coming had finally arrived. Can you try to talk sense to him?, Forrest agreed to, and he and Frusciante visited Staley at his Seattle condo. 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? Money goes to the Therapeutic Health Services (THS), which runs the Layne Staley Memorial Fund. Less sympathetic listeners might dismiss Junkhead as the empty lamentation of a rock-star addict, but Staley wasnt looking for pity. By 1998, Staley already seemed on last legs. Staley erupted, then yelled at him whenever he tried to take more pills. "There is no f-----g way I'm going to do that," he shouted. If he felt any misgivings about essentially pretending to be Bradley Nowell so his old bandmates could tour again under a lucrative moniker, he didnt show it when he made his debut as Sublimes new lead singer in February 2009 at a surprise show in Nevada. Not exactly a good start to the relationship. At that point, Staley had already been to rehab after an intervention. "I was trying to kick this habit out of my life, and here comes this man asking for money to buy some smack." FULL FILM: https://youtu.be/qMlLfrU5fjsAlice in Chains lineup throughout the Layne Staley era consisted of Layne Staley (87 - 98), Jerry Cantre. The most disturbing song on Dirt is Junkhead, co-written by Staley and Cantrell. "position": 3,
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. 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. "name": "Home"
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. She was adopted by her stepfather Stephen John Parrott. It was love at first sight. Most people who love Sublime today are fans of a band that Nowell hasnt been a living member of for 15 years. Gaugh and Wilson said they had no plans to revive Sublime until they met Ramirez in 2008 and, as they later told Billboard, had instantaneous chemistry with the 20-year-old Fremont, Calif. native. Parrott had died in October 1996. Trending. "I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. Also, demri never got sober, so, all the times layne was in rehab, demri was still using heroin, which wasn't very helpful. You're not wrong if you're picking up on a bit of resentment at the end there. " Kinney recalls. googletag.enableServices(); 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. googletag.pubads().refresh(); 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. 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.. Although they were no longer together, Staley was clearly devastated by the news. They began dating a short time after they saw each other. Demri Parrott. Who doesnt want to go to a concert to hear their favorite songs, regardless of whos singing or whos playing it? The frontmans ex-fiance passed away because of a drug overdose on October 29, 1996, at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. Staley was playing video games while they talked, and pretended to listen according to Forrest. In addition to Mark, Demris friend Ferrano agreed with him and stated that Staley died because he felt guilty about ending their relationship and not being kind to Demri who was the only person that loved him although he wasnt famous and rich back then. googletag.cmd.push(function() { nodes: [ 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. }
I was about 20, and music became my only obsession to stay alive, he said. 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. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . On April 4, 2002, Starr, high on benzodiazepine, offered to call 911. Search for Bradley Nowell videos on YouTube and youll find a smattering of interview clips recorded a year or so before he died. Cobain agreed to pay for the product if Staley shouldered the cost of having it flown in. We were running around like two little kids! Staley's final public performance was in Kansas City, Mo., in 1996. An appearance at Cypress Hills Smokeout Festival followed in October, and the bands first tour commenced in April 2010. What Happened Next? apstag.init({ Layne was very into his artwork during his later years, frequently buying art supplies that were scattered around his home. I didn't create myself because I would have done a hell of a better job.". Her death also led to the end of Layne when he shut the world out and later died in 2002 at 34. "name": "Rock Features"
}); The 20th anniversary of the death of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staleys girlfriend Demri Parrott was over the weekend. By this point he had quit [Alice In Chains], he had lost most of his teeth, and weighed barley 100 pounds. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-4') He never recovered from Demris death. I know Im dying, he starkly told Rubio. 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.". Pick it up, this is a classic. 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. A syringe loaded with a fresh supply of heroin sat in his hand; a used needle lay at his feet.
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