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Layne Thomas Staley (August 22, 1967 - ca. April 5, 2002) was the lead singer and co-lyricist of the rock group Alice in Chains and the short-lived supergroups Class of '99 and Mad Season. Through his career as a musician he struggled with severe drug addiction, which eventually led to his death in April 2002.Early life Layne Staley was born to Phil Staley and Nancy McCallum (nee Layne) in Kirkland, Washington.[2] He was eight years old when his parents divorced, after which he was raised by his mother and sisters. In early 2002, shortly before his death, he would describe the experience of witnessing his parents' divorce: "My world became a nightmare, there were just shadows around me. I got a call saying that my dad had died, but my family always knew he was around doing all kind of drugs. Since that call I always was wondering, 'Where is my dad?' I felt so sad for him and I missed him. He dropped out of my life for 15 years."[3] In that same interview he also said that he was convinced that if he became a celebrity his dad would return.Staley began playing drums at age 12; he played in several glam bands in his early teens, but by this point, Staley had aspirations of becoming a singer. His bandmates found this amusing, and they would poke fun at him, which infuriated him.[4] He proceeded to trade in his drum set for a microphone and started the band Alice In Chains with co-founder Jerry Cantrell.[edit] Drug addiction Like several other musicians in the Seattle grunge scene, Staley was a heavy user of heroin. His drug habit had started when he was a teenager when he began using marijuana and LSD in 1980. He was introduced to cocaine in 1982 when he was 15 and soon after he stole heroin and ecstasy, becoming an addict in 1989.In the 1990s, Staley battled a severe addiction that would eventually lead to his death. This had a profound influence on the lyrical themes of Alice in Chains, with many songs depicting bleak and helpless atmospheres centering around the pains of addiction. The album Dirt showcased this preoccupation in songs like "God Smack," "Junkhead" and "Hate to Feel."The other members of Alice in Chains, seeing Staley's deteriorating condition, opted not to tour in support of their 1994 EP Jar of Flies. Following its release, Staley entered a rehabilitation clinic and began to work on a side project with several Seattle musicians, including Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees. The band worked on material for several months and eventually scheduled a show at the Crocodile Cafe under the name The Gacy Bunch. Within a few weeks, the band changed its name to Mad Season. In January 1995, Mad Season performed two songs on Pearl Jam's Self Pollution Radio broadcast, "Lifeless Dead" and "I Don't Know Anything". The band completed an album, titled Above, which was released in March 1995. The first single, "River of Deceit", became a modest success on alternative radio, and "I Don't Know Anything" still receives occasional airplay. A live performance filmed at the Moore Theater in Seattle was released in August 1995.During Alice in Chains' hiatus, reports of Staley's addiction began to gain widespread circulation in fan and media communities, in part from changes to his physical condition brought on by prolonged heroin abuse. Referencing Staley's guest-singing appearance with Tool on the song "Opiate", the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, "At KISW-FM's 'Rockstock' concert at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Bremerton in May 1994 -- just a month after the death of Kurt Cobain -- Staley made a surprise appearance. He looked sickly and wore a wool ski mask to hide his face."[5] Some of the more persistent and unsubstantiated rumors, ranging from gangrene to missing fingers,[6] surfaced during this period. Mark Arm of Mudhoney is quoted as saying: "I remember seeing him in '95…he turned up and was totally green, and my stomach turned at that point — watching somebody on a track that they couldn't get off."[7]Alice in Chains regrouped to record an eponymous album, sometimes referred to as "Tripod," (largely due to the image of the three-legged dog, Sunshine, featured on the cover) released late in 1995. To accompany the album, the band released a home video, The Nona Tapes, in which they poked fun at the rumors of Staley's addiction – Charles R. Cross would later say that they had Staley's obituary on stand-by at The Rocket – but the band lapsed again, failing to complete tours planned in support of the album. When asked about the frustration of not touring to support the record, guitarist Jerry Cantrell provided some insight into how Staley's addictions led to repercussive tensions within the band: "Very frustrating, but we stuck it out. We rode the good times together, and we stuck together through the hard times. We never stabbed each other in the back and spilled our guts and do that kind of bullshit that you see happen a lot".[8]During the band's appearance on MTV Unplugged, Staley was visibly weak and emaciated and had problems singing at times, including stopping songs due to forgetting the words. He was nevertheless received by the audience with loud applause. He made his last performance on July 3, 1996, in Kansas City, Missouri, while Alice in Chains were touring with Kiss after their Unplugged appearance. In October, Staley's former girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott, died from secondary complications caused by drug use (bacterial endocarditis). He was reported to have been placed on a 24-hour suicide watch according to NME, which quoted, "a friend saying Layne was taking Demri Parrott's death 'extremely badly' and had fallen into a deep depression".[9]During his last interview in 2002, Staley's physical appearance had become even worse than before, he had lost several teeth, had his liver removed and his addiction was so powerful, it made changes to his skin color, turning pale and severely gaunt. He had lost an extremely large amount of weight, from defecating himself and vomiting.[10][edit] Final years: 1997-2002 Staley remained out of the spotlight until February 26, 1997, when he and the other members of Alice in Chains attended the Grammys after "Again" (from the 'Tripod' album) was nominated for "Best Hard Rock Performance".[11] In September 1998, Staley re-emerged to help record two tracks ("Get Born Again" and "Died") with Alice in Chains, which were released on the Music Bank box set in 1999. Additional reports of Staley's deteriorating condition persisted in the midst of the sessions. Dirt producer Dave Jerden - who was originally chosen by the band for the production - said, "Staley weighed 80 pounds…and was white as a ghost." Cantrell refused to comment on the singer's appearance, and band manager Susan Silver said she hadn't seen the singer since last year. [12] Staley was thought to have left behind his "self-imposed rock & roll exile" [13] when in November he laid down additional vocal tracks as part of a supergroup called Class of '99, featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros. The group recorded parts one and two of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" for the soundtrack to the movie The Faculty, with a music video filmed for part two. While the other members of the band were filmed specifically for the video, Staley's appearance consisted of footage pulled from Mad Season's 1995 Moore Theater video. On July 19, 1999, syndicated radio program Rockline was hosting Cantrell, Inez, and (via telephone) Kinney for a discussion on the release of Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, when, unexpectedly, Staley called in to participate in the discussion. From 1999 to 2002, Staley became more reclusive; little is known about the details of his life during this period.In his last interview, which took place in early 2002, Staley spoke of the damage caused by his heroin addiction: "I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning, and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body."[14]As far as published reports are concerned, such as Blender.com's "We Left Him Alone," close friends such as Matt Fox have said, "If no one heard from him for weeks, it wasn’t unusual." Further in the article, reporter Pat Kearny provides a glimpse into Staley's daily life and public routine:"It appears that Staley’s last few weeks were typically empty. According to an employee of the Rainbow, a neighborhood bar close to Staley’s condo, the singer was a frequent patron, stopping by at least once a week. 'He minded his own business,' said the employee, who wished to remain anonymous. Staley would never buy anything to drink, the employee said, but would simply sit at a small table in the back corner of the bar and 'nod off. We just left him alone'."[15]Staley's close friend Mark Lanegan had much of the same to say with respect to Staley's isolation: "He didn't speak to anybody as of late…It's been a few months since I talked to him. But for us to not talk for a few months is par for the course".[16][edit] Death On April 19, 2002, an unidentified person placed a call with 911 to say "She hadn't heard from…[Staley] in about two weeks."[17] Staley was found dead in his home after "his mother and stepfather went to his condo with the police". [18] As reported by Rick Anderson of the Seattle Weekly, his body was surrounded by various drug possessions and paraphernalia: "When police kicked in the door to Layne Staley's University District apartment on April 20, there, on a couch, lit by a flickering TV, next to several spray-paint cans on the floor, not far from a small stash of cocaine, near two crack pipes on the coffee table, reposed the remains of the rock musician."[19] He was only 34 years old. The autopsy report later concluded that Staley died after injecting an extremely large mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a "speedball".The King County Coroner's Office estimated Staley to have died on April 5th, 2002. By coincidence, the same Coroner's Office estimated Kurt Cobain to have died on the same day eight years prior.[edit] After death Jerry Cantrell released the solo album Degradation Trip in June 2002 and dedicated the album to Staley. Several of the songs on Cantrell's double-album version of the recording speak of Staley's reclusiveness (e.g. "Bargain Basement Howard Hughes") and self-destruction (e.g. "Pig Charmer").Following Staley's death, Alice in Chains officially disbanded. For the next several years, the band refused to perform together out of respect for Staley. In 2005, the remaining members reunited for a benefit concert for victims of the December 26, 2004 tsunami, with several vocalists filling in for Staley, including Maynard James Keenan from Tool (a friend of Staley's), and Ann Wilson from Heart, who had previously worked with Alice in Chains when she sang on the Sap EP (performing backing vocals on the song "Brother"). Following positive response, the band decided to reunite formally in 2006. In an interview with MTV News,[20] Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney noted that the band would use the reunion concerts to pay tribute to the songs and to Staley. William DuVall, a member of Cantrell's solo touring band (who often sang Staley's parts on the Alice in Chains songs that Cantrell performed), was announced as Staley's replacement for the reunion shows.In the same interview, Kinney noted the reunion didn't necessarily foretell a future for Alice in Chains. "If we found some other dude, I'd love to move on, write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody…We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs".Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam, also recorded a song eulogizing Staley, titled "4/20/02" (the day Vedder heard the news and subsequently wrote the song). The song featured only Vedder singing and playing the guitar in a ukulele-inspired tuning, and was released as a hidden track on Pearl Jam's 2003 B-sides album Lost Dogs. Zakk Wylde also wrote a song about Layne Staley called "Layne" on the Black Label Society album, Hangover Music Vol. VI[21] Staind featured a song called "Layne" in memory to the singer on their 14 Shades of Grey album. In addition, Cold's song "The Day Seattle Died" was an ode to Staley, as well as Kurt Cobain, who were both figureheads of the grunge rock movement. A further tribute entitled 'Layne To Rest' was recorded by former Babes In Toyland frontwoman Kat Bjelland with her band Katastrophy Wife.[edit] Legacy Staley's influence has likewise been felt in other genres. Two books have been written about him, both authored by Adriana Rubio—Layne Staley: Angry Chair and the more recent, Layne Staley: Get Born Again, which was described as "a 'brand new book' that has been revised and updated with the inclusion of two new chapters: 'Hate To Feel' and 'Get Born Again' as a revival of the acclaimed Angry Chair book".[22] On September 28, 2006, Blabbermouth.net reported on a movie project related to Rubio's most recent book on Staley: "According to a press release from ARTS Publications, Argentinean journalist/author Adriana Rubio has been contacted by writer/director Eric Moyer from Philadelphia about turning her biography of late Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley, titled 'Layne Staley: Get Born Again', into a movie".[23] In relation to the field of literature and criticism, scholars such as Edward Carvalho (author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, Fine Tooth Press 2006) have long regarded Staley and Cantrell's lyrics as essential components of Generation X's interplay in the postmodernist discourse.Cantrell has gone on to say in many interviews regarding Alice in Chains that "Layne is irreplaceable, not only as a singer, but as a person. We all loved him".The reformed Alice in Chains (w/ William Duvall) are also known to have an intermission to include a five-minute filmed tribute in between sets to the late singer.Layne ranked #27 on Hit Parader magazine's list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" (published in the November 2006 issue).[edit] Layne Staley Fund In 2002, Staley's mother, Nancy McCallum, and Jamie Richards, a drug and alcohol counselor, formed the Layne Staley Fund, a non-profit organization that raises money for drug treatment and works with the Seattle music community. It holds a yearly tribute in August, on or around Staley's birthday.[24]
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