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Tech Blog: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/ Secure Programming Blog: http://www.safercode.com/blog/ Blog: http://blog.shantanugoel.com/ -->{"id":142,"date":"2009-02-03T05:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T05:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divageekdesigns.com\/demri\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T09:00:56","slug":"layne-tid-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/layne-tid-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Layne tid bits.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:15px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5290871788\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sweetlayne1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" title=\"sweetlayne\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sweetlayne1.png\" alt=\"sweetlayne\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sweetlayne1.png 600w, http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sweetlayne1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Layne had a cat named &#8220;<strong>Y<em>ttik&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> which is kitty spelled back wards.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my funny tid bit for the day.. Oh and he loved pudding. At one point I think he was only eating pudding..chocolate pudding, vanillia pudding\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He liked to make people laugh and he could be extremely silly at times and then at other times quiet and introverted\u2026 he was very down to earth..you never would of known he was famous or whatever unless of course you knew who he was. He didn\u2019t dress in expensive clothes, drive expensive cars\u2026he did buy a Harley Davidson at one point though.<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t act holier then thou and he was nice to his fans just as long as they were not annoying. But hey no one likes annoying people.. He would talk to people if they were respectful of his space and didn\u2019t ask rude questions about his drug use etc.. That would piss him off. He never wanted people to think using drugs was something that he thought was cool. Some idiots would try to impress him in all the wrong ways but just as long as people didn\u2019t act retarded or rude then he would be cool to his fans. Same with Demri. She didn\u2019t hate groupies. I\u2019d say she hated annoying people but not groupies in general. Demri loved people and she would make friends with everyone she met. Demri was bi-sexual and she loved to flirt with girls. She also loved to embarrass them if at all possible. She\u2019d whisper something in their ear and you\u2019d see their mouth just drop open and you\u2019d be like OMG Demri what did you say to her? It was always something overly sexual and wild and the girl was usually three shades of pink. So in that way Demri and Layne were the same..they loved to shock people. Get a reaction out of someone wether it be laughter or shock.<br \/>\nBoth of them were pretty hilarious, together they were pretty funny too and cute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/restvi-vi1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147\" title=\"restvi-vi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/restvi-vi1.gif\" alt=\"restvi-vi\" width=\"138\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-142 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/layne-tid-bits\/screen-thumb77-demri-site\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/screen-thumb77-demri-site1-150x110.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/layne-tid-bits\/sweetlayne\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sweetlayne1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/layne-tid-bits\/restvi-vi\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"138\" height=\"87\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/restvi-vi1.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Article Quote&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alice In Chains drummer Sean Kinney told Greg Prato in the book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1550228773\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=divagecom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1550228773\">Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=divagecom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1550228773\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em> that Staley had long resigned himself to an early grave: \u201cLayne told me straight up, \u2018I\u2019m never coming back. I\u2019m not going to quit doing drugs. I\u2019m going to die like this\u2014this is it.\u2019\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>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. But Staley wouldn\u2019t see or talk to his bandmate. At the time of his death in 2002, neither Kinney nor AIC guitarist Jerry Cantrell had spoken to Staley for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The day of his death was estimated to be April 5, exactly eight years after Cobain\u2019s suicide. Staley\u2019s method of killing himself was slower and more painful, but ultimately no less effective. A stiff cocktail of drugs composed of cocaine, codeine, and morphine was rattling around his ravaged, 86-pound frame. A syringe loaded with a fresh supply of heroin sat in his hand; a used needle lay at his feet. Two crack pipes were waiting on his coffee table, and several more used needles were uncovered when his body was moved. Staley wasn\u2019t the sort to hedge his bets when it came to calling his own drug-related death.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone with a passing knowledge of Staley\u2019s life and music, his downfall played out like the worst kind of ending\u2014distasteful, depressing, and all too predictable. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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. Staley and Parrott were no longer together when she died; because she lacked Staley\u2019s rock-star bank account, Parrott was reduced to living out a conventional junkie death, finally prostituting herself in order to score drug money. But the loss still crushed him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/part-7-1996-layne-staley-and-bradley-nowell-are-th,49874\/\">Read this article\u00a0<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:15px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5290871788\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=Rememberlayne\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/subscribe-button.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 3 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9721071389\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He liked to make people laugh and he could be extremely silly at times and then at other times quiet and introverted\u2026 he was very down to earth..you never would of known he was famous or whatever unless of course you knew who he was. He didn\u2019t dress in expensive clothes, drive expensive cars\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,9,10,11,13,17,19,20,114],"tags":[179,38,80,184,81,89,101,191,105,194,115,121],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice-in-chains","category-article","category-demri","category-featured","category-gallery","category-in-the-media","category-layne-staley","category-news","category-personal-stories","category-pictures","category-sean-kinney","tag-alice-in-chains","tag-beautiful","tag-layne","tag-layne-staley","tag-layne-staley-tribute","tag-memory","tag-picture","tag-pictures","tag-rest-in-peace","tag-sean-kinney","tag-seattle","tag-tid-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}