The book notes he was missing teeth and struggling to breathe. Very little is known of Demri Parrott, except that she was practically worshiped by her fianc, Layne Staley. The story of Sublime is one of the strangest and most tragic tales in all of 90s rock. What happened to Demri? "I'm not doing well," the singer said. Pick it up, this is a classic. In April 1997, Sublime entered the Billboard Top 20. Bob Forrest & John Frusciante Visited Laynes Home. He was reporting on his own ongoing dissolution, giving the play-by-play on his soul being ripped away from him. Gallagher had been friends with Staley since 1986, even living with him and Sleze bassist Mike Mitchell for a period in the 80s. .addService(googletag.pubads()); "I don't give a f*** if you f****** believe me or not, dude. 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. He struggled with addiction for much of his life, and as Steven Hyden of the A.V. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-4') .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) But everyone starts somewhere. ", The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Layne Staley, this Alice In Chains interview with Rockline. eyewitness account from Thorntons bassist Curtis Tillman. Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, started shooting smack and Alice in Chains got famous. "item": {
We are really really lucky people Ann. But that was contingent on him having the energy and focus to be able to work, and I guess that didnt materialize., 5. Demri had a look that seemed to define the musical era, beautiful in a small-town way with her bright eyes, round cheeks, and curly hair. "I got [a] call saying that my dad had died, [but] my family always knew he was around doing all kind of drug,"he's quoted as saying in the book. Neither Demris mother nor Laynes stepfather have been able to confirm that. The book says that former Alice bassist Mike Starr was visiting Staley the day before the singer's death. That was the last time Staley would do a major tour. Menu. Starr, after a stint on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" and "Sober House," overdosed on prescription drugs in 2011. His father was six years clean when they rekindled their relationship, but he soon started using again, and the two of them were getting high together. A year later, though, drummer Sean Kinney painted a different story, saying, "I talk to Layne, but we don't hang out. Im not going to quit doing drugs. Im just a singer. 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. Forrest recalls the story in his book Running with Monsters: A Memoir. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. "@type": "WebPage",
googletag.pubads().refresh(); "Don' try to talk about this to my sister Liz. Staley erupted, then yelled at him whenever he tried to take more pills. According to Ferrano, even though everyone around them knew that they decided to accuse Parrott of causing Staleys addiction and depression. Forrest says that Staleys mind clearly still worked but that he was a million miles away., Bob: Hey Layne. There was a stash of cocaine and two crack pipes on the table. "@type": "WebPage",
They began dating a short time after they saw each other. Of course he did." The singer spoke about how he went on a journey when he was 16 to find his father, but what he discovered made him not want to look any further. 6. 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. 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. Demri's biological paternal grandfather was Beryl Gibson Dougherty (the son of Duncan M. "Dunk" Dougherty and . 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. Its the worst pain in the world. He dropped out of my life for 15 years." 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. var googletag = googletag || {}; It's too late. .build(); 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. I don't live his lifestyle, so his house isn't the healthiest place to be around. Me? 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. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_1', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-3') !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"); Just as Alice in Chains became famous, Staley's girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, introduced him to heroin. Sublime proved to be an ideal band for a generation that approached rock music with an irreverent, hip-hop-inspired sensibility. Less sympathetic listeners might dismiss Junkhead as the empty lamentation of a rock-star addict, but Staley wasnt looking for pity. function(bids) { At the time of his death in 2002, neither Kinney nor AIC guitarist Jerry Cantrell had spoken to Staley for more than two years. Around 1999/2000, Bob Forrest and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante tried to help Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley get clean. "I promised that I would always be there for my children," she said to TheSeattle Times. "I told him I was sorry this was how it turned out.". }
Whether or not he still spoke to his bandmates was also up for debate. So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. She was adopted by her stepfather Stephen John Parrott. (Rolling Stone later noted that the heroin-related death of touring Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin that July garnered more coverage than Nowells death.) .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) 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. 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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); On one hand, the two bands got up to some hilarious business pranking each other. 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. Parrott, too, was a heavy drug user and fatally overdosed on October 29, 1996. "position": 4,
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. 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. . They broke up, in part because she couldn't accept his relentless womanizing. If its coming from someone, not in her obit or living in Seattle its probably not true and can certainly be verified through one of them. 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. 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. }); He said he was going back to treatment and then going to LA to do the audition in a couple of months. .defineSizeMapping(mapping1) "The same s--t was going on again.". She says she hopes that her son's music will shed light on the disease of addiction that ultimately took his life. She said she believes her daughter was there that night to be there with Layne as hes doing his transition., 10. 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. Layne didnt get in, but sat in a chair sipping a beer. This fucking drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive, he said. The couple got engaged in 1992 and their friends and family thought that they would tie the knot and live happily ever after. A syringe loaded with a fresh supply of heroin sat in his hand; a used needle lay at his feet. He'd been dead for weeks, still cradling a full syringe of heroin. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. I'm Melisa. "@type": "WebSite",
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googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_top_2', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-2') He was 44 years old. 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. Thinking about both of them yesterday and. apstag.fetchBids({ Next 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. She wore vintage costumes, long skirts with docs, lots of vintage style 30s and 40s jewelry. ROCK IS DEAD? { 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. 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. But those successes, which include singles like What I Got and Santeria frontloaded in the first half of the record, made Sublime a leftfield and shockingly prescient smash, predicting and capitalizing on musical trends that were just taking hold when Nowell died. hp: 1, "@context": "http://schema.org",
Actually, the best of times was when everyone was just strung out on booze, coke and sex the basic musts on any rocker's CV. It was love at first sight. 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. Topics Starr left Staley's place later that day. Layne: Nothing. 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. Back in those days, the band lived in abject poverty, "obsessed with getting p---y and who they were f-----g.". I know why youre here. 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. The engagement was called off, but she did pick out a dress. I dont wanna see people anymore and its nobodys business but mine.. }); The 20th anniversary of the death of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staleys girlfriend Demri Parrott was over the weekend. According to Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, it was love at first sight. }
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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); But Staley, of course, never did. "@type": "ListItem",
Nowell was musically precocious as a child, able pick out a tune on his guitar after only hearing it once. Money, status, nothing to me, Staley sings, though thats not completely trueits the money and status that allow him to live this way. She claims her daughter had come "to be there with Layne as he's doing his transition." It's known that Parrott was upset about the situation because Parrott herself was an aspiring model and actress. You and me., 7. Dope sick hurts the entire body. 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. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/deep-cuts/",
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But when theres 20,000 people out there, just loving everything, and just dancing around with smiles, nothing can stop that.. .defineSizeMapping(mapping2) Soon, even bands directly inspired by early-90s bands would conveniently set aside the feminist idealism those groups were known for in favor of an unapologetically assertive masculinity that was both reactionary to recent rock history and restorative of the old status quo. }, Courtney Love tried to chase him down following Cobain's death. People Projects Discussions Surnames But just as Layne Staley is present any time someone plays an Alice In Chains songeven an Alice In Chains song that hes not actually singing onNowell is the living dead, his spirit regenerated both by music he played a conscious part in creating and those who emulate what he left behind. 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. 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. When I got there, Layne answered the door and he was back to the old Layne. 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. 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. "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." Guns not loaded, see? Tillman recalled Ace saying as he pointed it at his head and, with a smile, pulled the trigger. "When he returned from a trip to the bathroom," wrote Jon Wiederhorn about Layne Staley for Rolling Stone, "his sleeves were unbuttoned, exposing what appear to be red, round puncture marks from the wrist to the knuckles of the left hand. Staley created a personal shrine in the recording studio featuring a dead puppy in a jar that he used for inspiration as he crooned lyrics like "Stick your arm for some real fun.". 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. They are not my friends.. Days passed before his accountant sent up an alert that Staley hadn't been withdrawing any money. In the end, his dad found him. One way she's contributed to the fight is by helping run the Layne Staley Tribute Concert, which the article says is an annual celebration of Alice in Chains' contributions to music. }
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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. .addService(googletag.pubads()); apstag.setDisplayBids(); googletag.pubads().refresh(); Much farther down on the most spectacular rock deaths list is Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. In 1988, Layne Staley met Demri Lara Parrot, a model who would eventually become a grunge icon.