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. "I promised that I would always be there for my children," she said to TheSeattle Times. I didn't want my fans to think that heroin was cool.". "Don' try to talk about this to my sister Liz. "itemListElement": [ Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. 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. Demri Parrott was former ex-girlfriend of singer Layne Staley from Alice in Chains. Where some of the records might have been more Scarface, this one is more Shawshank Redemption.. "name": "Layne Staleys Haunting Wedding That Never Was Will Break Your Heart" Demri Parrott was an American model. ], He looked like an 80-year-old version of himself, Seattle music journalist Jeff Gilbert told Prato. 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. He had just gotten pretty much the entire Nerf arsenal, so we went to war. As Layne sat there and Ann was swimming, a huge meteor went over them and it lit up Laynes face. On April 5, 2002, Layne Staley took a speedball a combination of cocaine and heroin and passed away (via Diffuser). At the beginning of 1997, the biggest British rock band in the world was Oasis. By 1998, Staley already seemed on last legs. What happened to Demri? "@type": "BreadcrumbList", .addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280]]) 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. "The same s--t was going on again.". nodes: [ 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. Very little is known of Demri Parrott, except that she was practically worshiped by her fianc, Layne Staley. googletag.cmd.push(function() { asi: 'theadengine.com', Mark Lanegan and Mike Inez also went to Laynes home and bang on his door trying to see him. " Kinney recalls. 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. }); } She was born Feb. 22, 1969, in Bremerton. The book notes he was missing teeth and struggling to breathe. .addService(googletag.pubads()); I dont give a fuck if you fucking believe me or not, dude. 5. I told him that John had gangrene once. She attended at school in Arlington (Washington), and dropped at her . "@context": "http://schema.org", 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. 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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. Ive never heard someones voice hit the tape like that. } She was the fiance of musician Layne Staley. 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. Rare pictures show her to be dark-featured and pretty, with long black hair and dark eyes. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Rumors began circulating that he had lost an arm to gangrene. Demri Parrott had an encounter with Katina Bonita Evangeline (1991). 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. adServer: 'googletag', I know Im near death, Staley continued. In the end, his dad found him. 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. 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. As Starr stormed out, Staley begged him to stay, saying, "Not like this. 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. Sean Kinney would try to visit Layne at his home, and he frequently called him to no avail. .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) 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. 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 . "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. When I got there, Layne answered the door and he was back to the old Layne. Staley and Parrott met in 1988 while she was working at a store called Saturdays. 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. 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. } "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. Im not going to quit doing drugs. 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Learn More{{/message}}. 5. .addService(googletag.pubads()); He said he was going back to treatment and then going to LA to do the audition in a couple of months. I didn't create myself because I would have done a hell of a better job.". {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. He never made it, so Chris Cornell went and got the job.. So two weeks later [our mutual friend] was having a Super Bowl party. An eyewitness account from Thorntons bassist Curtis Tillman contradicts this story. "@id": "https://www.alternativenation.net/category/rock/", "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. The autopsy later revealed that the next day Staley plunged a speedball into his vein. Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. I invested a lot of money on treatments. }, Layne was very into his artwork during his later years, frequently buying art supplies that were scattered around his home. 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. There would be occasional sightings of Staley after that with open sores on his arms. They couldnt have a chance to get back together as both of them died tragically in a short time after their break-up. The couple was defined as soulmates and everyone admired their passionate relationship. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_3', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-5') We talked for a little and when we parted ways, I cried., This wasnt the last time Gallagher saw Staley. 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. 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. googletag.cmd.push(function(){ Survivors include her mother . "I know I have no chance. The book says that former Alice bassist Mike Starr was visiting Staley the day before the singer's death. } Although they were no longer together, Staley was clearly devastated by the news. .build(); Layne Was Going To Record With Taproot In 2002. His comments given to Rubio show that Staley was aware that his mortality was on the horizon and had accepted his fate. 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. This marriage of sound and fury unites Dirt as a justifiably unpleasant concept record of immense (and immensely sickening) power. "@type": "WebSite", 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. 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. 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. googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; 5 on Marsh and Steins list. "Since that call I always was wondering, 'Where is my dad?' } Demri was the biological daughter of Kathleen Ann (Austin) and Dennis Wayne Dougherty. "This f****** drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive. .addSize([748, 200], [[728, 90]]) The server responded with {{status_text}} (code {{status_code}}). 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. 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. In 2009, Alice In Chains released Black Gives Way To Blue, its first album of original material in 14 years. "item": { Diffuser says that after they realized the singer hadn't spent money in a strange amount of time, Staley's mother gave the police permission to breach his door. "He would get so angry at me, he would be ready to get out of the goddamn moving car. The singers life was full of trauma, and drugs, at first, offered him an escape from his pain. 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. .addSize([990, 200], [[728, 90], [970, 90], [970, 250]]) She says she hopes that her son's music will shed light on the disease of addiction that ultimately took his life. Layne Staley died on April 5, 2002. David de Sola writes that Staley would fly into a minor rage whenever someone referred to him by that name. Genealogy for Demri Lara Parrott (1969 - 1996) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. I can get by without them. I know he was joking, but I dont like to hear stuff like that. Thats terrible, Mom. On top of this, Staley had lost his ability to ingest food and survived off supplements for the last few years of his life. 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. 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. "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." She then ignored directions from the officer on the scene to stay outside, entered the house, and sat next to her son's body. Who doesnt want to go to a concert to hear their favorite songs, regardless of whos singing or whos playing it? var mapping2 = googletag.sizeMapping() Johns a guitar player. Here he is backstage on the Warped Tour looking like one of the many shirtless, deeply tanned, and blond bros lurking in the audience. Staley sound-alikes became so common in the years after his public retreat and death that it was perhaps inevitable that one of them ended up replacing him in his own band. sid: '1366', Demri's biological paternal grandfather was Beryl Gibson Dougherty (the son of Duncan M. "Dunk" Dougherty and . pubID: '434bb5e4-3704-4b75-b36c-785a444462bd', In a very real way, both men remain the most important members of their respective bands. Club tells us, the year 1996 seems to have marked the start of his slow, sad downfall. But everyone starts somewhere. googletag.pubads().refresh(); "The opioid explosion in recent years tells me that people feel alone," she says. pubID: '434bb5e4-3704-4b75-b36c-785a444462bd', I did crack and heroin for years. 7/19/94. People Projects Discussions Surnames You and me., 7. 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. 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. After that, I dont think he wanted to go on.. Two years later, Alice In Chains briefly reunited to record the songs Get Born Again and Died for a boxed set. "When I tried drugs, they were f****** great, and they worked for me for years," he said. complete: 1, Guns not loaded, see? Tillman recalled Ace saying as he pointed it at his head and, with a smile, pulled the trigger. "item": { The album-opening Them Bones welcomes you with the screams of a man being burned alive, and it just gets more brutal from there. 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. - WORLDWIDE:- Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatisclassicrock2Cheers,Daniel Of course he did." 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. So it is that Alice in Chains, with its influential blend of heavy metal and grunge, which plays on. googletag.defineSlot('/98948493,22548962605/alternativenation_multisize_content_1', [[336,280],[300,250]], 'div-gpt-ad-3901802-3') 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. (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage). Forrest had gained a reputation at the time as being someone who could communicate with addicts, he had helped Frusciante get clean in 1997. 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. 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.