She attended at school in Arlington (Washington), and dropped at her . There were times where someone had to go into the bathroom to see if Brad was still alive, Leary told Rolling Stone. He showed up in the recording studio toothless, emaciated and looking like an 80-year-old man. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/deep-cuts/", "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", "Go f-----g do it now.". He looked like an 80-year-old version of himself, Seattle music journalist Jeff Gilbert told Prato. Its okay! According to Ferrano, even though everyone around them knew that they decided to accuse Parrott of causing Staleys addiction and depression. {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. Demri Parrott was an American model. Two crack pipes were waiting on his coffee table, and several more used needles were uncovered when his body was moved. By the end of the year, that title would belong to Radiohead. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. "@type": "WebPage", Johns a guitar player. .addSize([0, 0], [[320, 50]]) The day of his death was estimated to be April 5, exactly eight years after Cobains suicide. Far Out Magazine details one of Layne Staley's final interviews, as published in "Layne Staley: Angry Chair." Much of the interview deals with his ongoing experiences with heroin addiction, which he claims were about to take his life. To their shock and dismay, the two addicts discovered there was almost an excess of cocaine to be had in Brazil but no smack. Layne turned a corner with two strippers into a hallway crowded with cops. Gallagher had been friends with Staley since 1986, even living with him and Sleze bassist Mike Mitchell for a period in the 80s. 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. According to The Book Of Rock Lists by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein (1981 ed. 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. } "There is no f-----g way I'm going to do that," he shouted. "@type": "WebSite", 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.". Demri Parrott probably is referenced in the most AIC songs that we know of: *Love, Hate, Love. Like lots of rock stars, Layne Staley didn't have the happiest, most stable upbringing. His comments given to Rubio show that Staley was aware that his mortality was on the horizon and had accepted his fate. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_sidebar_1', [[300,600],[300,1050],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-7') 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. 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. Demri Parrott had an encounter with Katina Bonita Evangeline (1991). "item": { Layne Thomas Staley, singer-guitarist, born August 22 1967; died before April 19 2002. }); The 20th anniversary of the death of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staleys girlfriend Demri Parrott was over the weekend. She wasn't happy with the suicide ruling and wondered what more there might be to the story. What happened to Demri? .defineSizeMapping(mapping2) Nancy responded, Laynes got an odd sense of humor. "name": "Rock Features" Her death also led to the end of Layne when he shut the world out and later died in 2002 at 34. I know I did my best or what I thought would be right. Although they were no longer together, Staley was clearly devastated by the news. 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. 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.. So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. There would be occasional sightings of Staley after that with open sores on his arms. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_sidebar_1', [[300,600],[300,1050],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-7') ver: '1.0', 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. 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.pubads().refresh(); "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. 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. 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. 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. nodes: [ "@type": "WebSite", Me? Yeah we were . She says she hopes that her son's music will shed light on the disease of addiction that ultimately took his life. "position": 4, And as we're all aware, things have hardly improved in the decades since. " Kinney recalls. Im just a singer. Rumors began circulating that he had lost an arm to gangrene. If you are interested in promoting your band/music email altnationadvertising @gmail.com, Layne Staleys Haunting Wedding That Never Was Will Break Your Heart, Why Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Smashing Pumpkins Are Haunted By Ghosts, 10 Candidates To Fill In For Eddie Vedder On Temple of the Dog Tour, Adele Melts Down At Las Vegas Show In Photo, Jessica Simpson Is Exploding Out Of Top In Photo, Pearl Jam Member Reveals Truth About Tom Sizemore, Travis Scott Alleged Victim Leaks Hospital Video. 9. On the other, Staley's affair with heroin got serious fast. Demri's obituary. Nowells music was divorced from the deadly serious alternative music that had been the norm for the early part of the 90s; Sublime pointed the way to a new kind of mainstream rock that had the aggression and energy of punk and none of the underground pretension or anti-corporate ideology. In 1993, when the band was touring in support of "Dirt," Staley would walk offstage midsong to get high. { The story of his decline began on July 3, 1996, after Staley left the stage following a warm-up set for KISS. (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage). 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. He dropped out of my life for 15 years." 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. 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. Dirt plugs you into the day-to-day slog of one addicts life; even if you don't connect with the record, you still cant help but feel a dull ache in your bones and the sting of rancid sickness in your nostrils. 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. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/10-surprising-stories-about-layne-staleys-reclusive-years/", 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. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_1', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-3') 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. I think theres always been a little bit of death trip element [and a] survivor element, DuVall told Rolling Stone. 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I told him that John had gangrene once. .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) 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. The two had argued over Staley's condition until Staley threatened to end the friendship if Starr reached out to the authorities. 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. The album-opening Them Bones welcomes you with the screams of a man being burned alive, and it just gets more brutal from there. ROCK IS DEAD? Layne Might Have Considered Fronting Audioslave. Gold Standard: Oscars edition - Best Director. He ended up in the hospital. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", Then he relapsed again. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); .build(); Im telling you: Demri was here last night. Demris mother, Kathleen Austin, heard this story from Mike Starr after Laynes death and relayed the story to David de Sola (and it was corroborated by Jason Buttino). Alice in Chains was opening for Van Halen on tour in 1991 when Staley, prompted by Parrott,. 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. 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. ", The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Layne Staley, this Alice In Chains interview with Rockline. } 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. 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. Trending. Genealogy for Demri Lara Parrott (1969 - 1996) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Forrest recalls the story in his book Running with Monsters: A Memoir. Demri did not get Layne started in drugs his history was prior to her and tons of people know that.. !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"); Kurt Cobain short-circuited death by heroin with a shotgun blast to the head in 1994. Staley wasnt the sort to hedge his bets when it came to calling his own drug-related death. 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. "position": 3, Neither Demri's mother nor Layne's stepfather have been able to confirm that. { .addService(googletag.pubads()); 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. 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. In June 1992, the albums post-production was complete and the album was 100% complete by the end of June. .addService(googletag.pubads()); The story of Sublime is one of the strangest and most tragic tales in all of 90s rock. 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. Formed in 1988, Sublime made its name by playing surf towns up and down the California coast, honing a feel-good blend of punk, hip-hop, and ska informed by Nowells multicultural upbringing in Long Beach. She was adopted by her stepfather Stephen John Parrott. She will know it sooner or later. 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. But you don't write and sing songs like "Rooster" and "Would?" - WORLDWIDE:- Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatisclassicrock2Cheers,Daniel Hes wearing gold Elvis sunglasses and talking about partying with the other bands on tour and hanging with champion skateboarder Remy Stratton. "When I tried drugs, they were f****** great, and they worked for me for years," he said. Staley and Parrott met in 1988 while she was working at a store called Saturdays. He never made it, so Chris Cornell went and got the job.. }); ", He then goes says his heroin habit was to blame, and he was well past the point of shooting up for fun. sid: '1366', From the start of Dirt, youre trapped in Staleys skin, and for the next 50 minutes there will be no escape. { A year after his death, a rare interview emerged with Staley that hed given with Argentinean writer and music fan Adriana Rubio, titledLayne Staley: Angry Chair A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician. .addService(googletag.pubads()); !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"); But Staley, of course, never did. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. "@type": "ListItem", Mar 14, 2016. I had the chance to throw out all this anger by the music in order to help others. } .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) simplerGPT: true, But when theres 20,000 people out there, just loving everything, and just dancing around with smiles, nothing can stop that.. 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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); We talked for a little and when we parted ways, I cried., This wasnt the last time Gallagher saw Staley. The engagement was called off, but she did pick out a dress. 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. Club tells us, the year 1996 seems to have marked the start of his slow, sad downfall. For the first time, there were problems with his vocals. 3. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_1', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-3') Krist Novoselic, Mark Lanegan, Mike Inez & Sean Kinney Tried To Help Layne. "@type": "BreadcrumbList", Does taking Russian roulette out of the equation make Aces death any less spectacular? Demri Parrott was in relationships with Rosheen Raugi (1993 - 1996), Kent Lake (1988), Paul Uhlir (1987 - 1989) and John Baker (person) (1984). } Best of 2022 Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. He was also a serious heroin addict, a habit inspired in part by wanting to mimic his heroes. } But the loss still crushed him. I didnt own the album because I didnt have to; if you spent time in a dorm in 1996 and 97, all you heard was Sublime, Odelay, and Dave Matthews Band. As for fans that object to another man heading up Sublime, Ramirez seems content to play the haters gonna hate card. "And now they're turning against me, and now I'm walking through hell, and this sucks. Staley and Parrott, by then his fiance, went to rehab together at least once. I did crack and heroin for years. 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. In 2009, Alice In Chains released Black Gives Way To Blue, its first album of original material in 14 years. The most vocal haters of the new Sublime were from Bradley Nowells family, which issued a statement in 2009 chastising Gaugh and Wilson for carrying on the band name without their original singer and friend. 5. Dont try to contact any AIC (Alice in Chains) members. She did not use heroin until with him. Im not going to quit doing drugs. I'm Melisa. RIP Layne and Demri.. 99 talking about this. But soon he was caught in an inescapable trap that led to his premature death in 2002. var googletag = googletag || {}; var mapping1 = googletag.sizeMapping() She then ignored directions from the officer on the scene to stay outside, entered the house, and sat next to her son's body. *Confusion. "Layne shot me up first a couple of times. She died in the hospital late in 1996. 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. I never wanted [the publics] thumbs up about this fucking drug use. Demri Parrott was former ex-girlfriend of singer Layne Staley from Alice in Chains. They broke up, in part because she couldn't accept his relentless womanizing. "@type": "ListItem", 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. }); He was 44 years old. 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. They were attached at the hip until 1994 when they split for a final time. When I got there, Layne answered the door and he was back to the old Layne. Parrott had died in October 1996. 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. Staley spent the bulk of his childhood being raised by his mom, Nancy McCallum, and her second husband, Jim Elmer, who she met at a mutual friend's Christmas party, according to David de Sola. Since both Staley and Cobain were smackheads and ran with the same musicians, the assumption was he might know something. }); As an act of first-person journalism from the depths of hell, Dirt has few equals in rock history. I know I have no chance. Here he is backstage on the Warped Tour looking like one of the many shirtless, deeply tanned, and blond bros lurking in the audience. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. "name": "Layne Staleys Haunting Wedding That Never Was Will Break Your Heart" 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? Hed been dead for two weeks; the tip-off that something was amiss came not from concerned family members or friends but from Staleys accountants, who noticed that he hadnt spent any money in several days. When [Dirt] came out, the thing did not leave my CD player, Godsmack singer Sully Erna told Cross in Rolling Stone. It took Layne Staley, Alice in Chains' lead singer, a while longer to kill himself with a speedball. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/layne-staleys-haunting-wedding-never-will-break-heart/", You and me., 7. In the end, his dad found him. "@context": "http://schema.org", In 2011, at the age of 44, he too died of an overdose, as per Rolling Stone. ROCK IS DEAD? However, that defensiveness had nothing to do with personal embarrassment. apstag.fetchBids({ { In October of that year, his former girlfriend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. (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? He never recovered from Demris death. } The pain is more than you can handle. 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. She said he looked like a kid again, and at that moment there was no darkness in his life. "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. .addSize([990, 200], [[728, 90], [970, 90], [970, 250]]) apstag.init({ "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/", Cantrell recalled to Charles R. Cross of Rolling Stone how he met his lead singer: Its a Seattle party, and Staley is standing in the middle of it all, his hair dyed a bright glam-rock pink and teased with a hair clip atop his tiny frame. .addService(googletag.pubads()); Where some of the records might have been more Scarface, this one is more Shawshank Redemption.. }, hp: 1, { Less sympathetic listeners might dismiss Junkhead as the empty lamentation of a rock-star addict, but Staley wasnt looking for pity. Sean Kinney would try to visit Layne at his home, and he frequently called him to no avail. Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, started shooting smack and Alice in Chains got famous. I know why youre here. "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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); She will know it sooner or later. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-2') It was therapeutic and worked [for] me for a while until my dad saw my picture printed on a magazine., The singer divulged how his father became a bad influence on him. I'm telling you: Demri was here." .addService(googletag.pubads()); eyewitness account from Thorntons bassist Curtis Tillman. 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. } timeout: 2000 }, "It's heartbreaking and overwhelming and unnecessary." She was the fiance of musician Layne Staley. 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. 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 opioid explosion in recent years tells me that people feel alone," she says. It was later reported that the shooter believed that Pantera was reading his mind, which suggests that the famously affable Abbott was perhaps too good at connecting with fans.