"Since that call I always was wondering, 'Where is my dad?' 9. googletag.cmd.push(function() { So it is that Alice in Chains, with its influential blend of heavy metal and grunge, which plays on. He never made it, so Chris Cornell went and got the job.. And then, our neighbor sold him a drum set, and he changed his middle name to Thomas, because he admired Tommy Lee.". 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.". Forrest had gained a reputation at the time as being someone who could communicate with addicts, he had helped Frusciante get clean in 1997. googletag.pubads().refresh(); Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, started shooting smack and Alice in Chains got famous. (Terry McGinnis/WireImage). }); The 20th anniversary of the death of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staleys girlfriend Demri Parrott was over the weekend. Yes, Staley, born Layne Rutherford Staley on August 22, 1967, picked the middle name "Thomas" because he was a fan of Mtley Cre drummer Tommy Lee. 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. "This f****** drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive. 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. Parrott, too, was a heavy drug user and fatally overdosed on October 29, 1996. I don't need any help to get annihilated.". "Go f-----g do it now.". Dirt by Alice in Chains - Songfacts One of Layne Staleys friends who spoke to NME revealed that he was placed on a 24-hour suicide watch after he had learned that Demri Parrott died from an overdose. As Starr stormed out, Staley begged him to stay, saying, "Not like this. On January 28, 2001, he saw Layne again at a Super Bowl party. Who Was With Demri Parrott When She Died? - FAQS Clear She was hurt that they chose someone that looked like her rather than having her do it. Though never verified, there have been rumors that Layne worked on a home demo called Everyday that he planned on sending to Jerry Cantrell, possibly as late as 2002. The Woman Who Was Accused Of Causing The Death Of Layne Staley "@type": "WebPage", Layne Staley & DEMRI PARROTT's Relationship: Tragedy, Love - YouTube So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. She will know it sooner or later. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. Demri Parrott - Facebook What happened to Demri? Does taking Russian roulette out of the equation make Aces death any less spectacular? Brown heroin stains led from the bathroom to the living room. 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. They began dating a short time after they saw each other. .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) "Then, our family friend Fred loaned him a drum set, and he loved the drums. .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) Layne Thomas Staley wasn't born Layne Thomas Staley. ", The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Layne Staley, this Alice In Chains interview with Rockline. Layne Was Going To Record With Taproot In 2002. 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().disableInitialLoad(); 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. 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. "@type": "ListItem", 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 . }, Rare pictures show her to be dark-featured and pretty, with long black hair and dark eyes. }, In April 1997, Sublime entered the Billboard Top 20. Yeah we were . Forever. 'Alice in Chains: The Untold Story' reveals the drug-addicted history According to Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, it was love at first sight. - 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? She was born Feb. 22, 1969, in Bremerton. Who is Demri Parrott dating? Demri Parrott boyfriend, husband The pain is more than you can handle. And it's a little comforting to think Staley at least didn't believe he was alone at the end. 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. A syringe loaded with a fresh supply of heroin sat in his hand; a used needle lay at his feet. I am interested in rock music, creative writing, drama, and yoga. My strengths and my talent are my title," he said. .addService(googletag.pubads()); .addService(googletag.pubads()); In June 1992, the albums post-production was complete and the album was 100% complete by the end of June. }); "And now they're turning against me, and now I'm walking through hell, and this sucks. ,{ "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. 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. pubID: '434bb5e4-3704-4b75-b36c-785a444462bd', Hes wearing gold Elvis sunglasses and talking about partying with the other bands on tour and hanging with champion skateboarder Remy Stratton. Staley couldnt bring himself to join Cantrell on stage after being asked, and a photo taken of him backstage is the last image of the singer before his death. 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. He told her as a kid that he excelled at swimming, he said I loved to dive into water. He said the water felt like a whole other world. 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. Pick it up, this is a classic. Dont try to contact any AIC (Alice in Chains) members. Layne: Nothing. } He was holding a loaded syringe and was sitting on a batch of used ones. .build(); Sadly, Starr wasn't too far behind his former friend and bandmate. She then ignored directions from the officer on the scene to stay outside, entered the house, and sat next to her son's body. That model was to be Mariah O'Brien, whom Schenck had shot previously for the cover of Spinal Tap's "Bitch School" single. Demri Parrott - Facts, Bio, Favorites, Info, Family | Sticky Facts We talked for a little and when we parted ways, I cried., This wasnt the last time Gallagher saw Staley. ", 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. "Layne shot me up first a couple of times. For the bands cover design, Layne Staley provided the artwork, even painting his girlfriend Demri Parrott on the cover, when approaching the band with the design they quickly agreed with it. .addService(googletag.pubads()); 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. Demri Lara Parrott on Instagram: "Demri's obituary. If you have a Layne Staley, Demri Parrott and Debbie Murphy at the Pantera show in the Mercer Arena, Seattle. How close do you think that was to us, Ann? Do you think that almost hit us, Ann? "position": 1, 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. } In 2005, Cantrell, Kinney and Mike Inez, who replaced Starr as bassist, reunited for a benefit concert. Layne was very into his artwork during his later years, frequently buying art supplies that were scattered around his home. Far Out Magazine details one of Layne Staley's final interviews, as published in "Layne Staley: Angry Chair." Alice in Chains was opening for Van Halen on tour in 1991 when Staley, prompted by Parrott, started using. I was about 20, and music became my only obsession to stay alive, he said. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_3', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-5') "@type": "WebPage", In 1993, when the band was touring in support of "Dirt," Staley would walk offstage midsong to get high. Demri Parrott probably is referenced in the most AIC songs that we know of: *Love, Hate, Love. 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). (Rolling Stone later noted that the heroin-related death of touring Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin that July garnered more coverage than Nowells death.) 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. Staley was found dead, toothless and weighing only 86 pounds, in his Seattle apartment in 2002. in 1998 that he and the other guys in Alice frequently hung out with Staley at his place, playing video games and having a grand old time. She wasn't happy with the suicide ruling and wondered what more there might be to the story. Im just a singer. That version of the band still records and performs. 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. 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. She attended at school in Arlington (Washington), and dropped at her . By this point he had quit [Alice In Chains], he had lost most of his teeth, and weighed barley 100 pounds. An appearance at Cypress Hills Smokeout Festival followed in October, and the bands first tour commenced in April 2010. dawn to dusk. 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 than that, there was no promotional concert tour for Sublime, or any new music to follow it up. var mapping1 = googletag.sizeMapping() At his side are two beautiful women, looking at him adoringly. Me? Layne didnt get in, but sat in a chair sipping a beer. "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." The couple got engaged in 1992 and their friends and family thought that they would tie the knot and live happily ever after. Forrest recalls the story in his book Running with Monsters: A Memoir. His will to live went with her. He never recovered from Demris death. 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. 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. Staley's final public performance was in Kansas City, Mo., in 1996. 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. "@context": "http://schema.org", He was reporting on his own ongoing dissolution, giving the play-by-play on his soul being ripped away from him. Layne Might Have Considered Fronting Audioslave. Alice in Chains was opening for Van Halen on tour in 1991 when Staley, prompted by Parrott,. According to Greg Pratos Grunge is Dead and Mark Yarms Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, many of Laynes rocker friends refused to give up on him and still tried to see him during his reclusive years. And I thought, oh, for heaven sake, listen to his music. 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." "position": 4, googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_sidebar_1', [[300,600],[300,1050],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-7') But his love of Tommy Lee wasn't the only reason he swapped out his middle name. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. Demri Lara PARROTT Left this world October 29, 1996; born in Bremerton, Wa, on Feb 22, 1969 and attended school in Arlington. Those that knew Staley personally seem to agree that he more or less died in spirit when his long-time girlfriend, Demri Parrott, succumbed to bacterial endocarditis stemming from her own drug use in October 1996. If it had been a novel, a good editor would have cut out all the monotonous material about Staley holing up for years in his apartment, so sick that he made his busy corps of dealers bring drugs to his front door, and finished the story closer to 1996, the year he unofficially limped away from the world and Alice In Chains, then one of the biggest hard-rock bands in the land. No one would ever see him alive again. Just as Alice in Chains became famous, Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, introduced him to heroin. Demri Lara Parrott (1969 - 1996) - Genealogy ], On top of this, Staley had lost his ability to ingest food and survived off supplements for the last few years of his life. "position": 3, But everyone starts somewhere. On April 5, 2002, Layne Staley took a speedball a combination of cocaine and heroin and passed away (via Diffuser). "@context": "http://schema.org", Demri Parrott. 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. "This music Layne was writing a warning. Eventually, his father managed to stop using. Next This was neither the beginning nor the end of Staleys sufferings that he was trying to get rid of it for years. The lesson of Black Gives Way To Blue, at least as it applies to the SoCal pot-rock band Sublime, is that there really is life after death in 90s rock, provided you can retain enough of your old sound to convince people to move forward with you. Alice in Chains was the first of grunge's big four to break out, but Nirvana clearly won the to-the-death competition. People who knew both of them well generally agree (and told me) that Layne never got over Demris death. Sean Kinney, Layne Staley, Mike Starr and Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains during an In-Store record promotion in Los Angeles in September 1990. Neither Demri's mother nor Layne's stepfather have been able to confirm that. 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. They began dating a short time after they saw each other. } 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.. 5 on Marsh and Steins list. Thats terrible, Mom. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_3', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-5') But the loss still crushed him. The most disturbing song on Dirt is Junkhead, co-written by Staley and Cantrell. 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. I changed my number. We were running around like two little kids! Both Jerry Cantrell, the other engine driving Alice in Chains, and drummer Sean Kinney openly talk about their sobriety these days, but are none too specific about the substances, other than booze, at the source of their addictions. He ended up in the hospital. Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. People Projects Discussions Surnames Hes the reason I started singing.. Its a very difficult thing to explain. However, they decided to break up after a few years while people were waiting for an announcement about their wedding. 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. (1969-1996) model, artist, grunge icon, beautiful soul The last time Kathleen Austin Demris mother saw Layne was in 1997. Im going to die like thisthis is it. For years, Kinney had tried reaching out to Staley three times a week, either by phone or, when he was in town, yelling at the window of his nondescript Seattle condo. She was around five feet tall-maybe even shorter-and was stunningly beautiful. Staley and Parrott, by then his fiance, went to rehab together at least once. We are really really lucky people Ann. "name": "Home" In fact, it was his accountants who first noticed something might've been up. Genealogy for Demri Lara Parrott (1969 - 1996) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.