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Mike was a dear friend of mine for many years. We dated for about 9 months when I was 19 years old and he was about 26 and then we stayed friends for years after we broke up. We had lost touch while he was going through his darker days but he was always in my heart. I had found him again recently on Facebook and wrote him a message to call me..I don&#8217;t think he was very active on the internet because he never wrote me back.. but then a couple weeks before his death he called my cell phone and left a very short but sweet message..that just said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hi Barbara, this is Mike Starr, I love you! Call me back OK? I love you. Ok, Bye&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was really happy to hear his voice again but he also sounded kinda sad and possibly loaded. I put off calling him back. Then my Mom called me Tuesday night to tell me his body had been found in Salt Lake City. I was sad but not shocked. I was angry at myself for not calling him back because maybe I could of said something that would of changed his path.. I know I&#8217;m probably really wrong but I can&#8217;t help feeling that way. I feel like I failed him somehow.. like he was reaching out for a friend and I was not there. There&#8217;s nothing I can do about it now but carry on and love as hard as I can because we&#8217;re not promised a tomorrow. None of us are.<br \/>\nMike will always be missed and remembered. I had some really fun and amazing experiances with Mike and AIC. Facelift had just come out when we started dating so I was with him when he really started to feel and see the effects of fame and it was a lot of fun for both of us and to be along for the ride for something like that was so surreal pretty cool for a young girl from Laguna Beach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_872\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mike-Starr-Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-872 \" style=\"border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Mike Starr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mike-Starr-Dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mike-Starr-Dead.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mike-Starr-Dead-260x350.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love this picture because you can see the silver pendent I gave him before her left to record Dirt in LA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Mike went off to record Dirt in LA&#8230;. I ended up meeting someone else so we broke it off but we did remain good friends. About 2-3 years later he tracked me down and he was so excited because he wanted to give me a present&#8230; he gave me one of his Facelift Platnum albums with my name engraved in it. He drove me down to Naff studiors that day and then downtown to Susan Silvers office to get the Platnum Album.. I just thought it was amazing that even though we had been broken up for years that he still loved me and he told me because of the fact that I was with him during that time in his life he he wanted me to have it and he was like a little school boy when he gave it to me.. so excited and so proud of his\u00a0accomplishment. I was also so proud and touched by his generosity and I was also so happy that he still thought of me and our times together because they truly were amazing times.. I was just\u00a0extremely\u00a0touched and I&#8217;ve kept it with me ever since through some crazy times, countless walls in countless bedrooms of mine and it&#8217;s even been my \u00a0&#8220;carry on&#8221; the airplane once.. I still have the Alaska Airlines sticker on the back.. It is one of my most prized possessions and always will be.<br \/>\nWhen I was dating Mike I became friends with Layne and Demri and when me and Mike Starr broke up I started dating one of Layne and Demri&#8217;s best friends, Darin Lamb so I was still very much a part of the AIC family for many years. I was blessed to have been a part of their lives and I&#8217;ll never forget their laughter, their goofy ways and the fun we had together. It&#8217;s incredibly sad to me that we lost them all so young. Heroin is a curse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510781566_f4a487deba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Mike Starr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510781566_f4a487deba-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Starr\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510782078_1f947635bc_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Mike Starr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510782078_1f947635bc_z-450x298.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Starr\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some really great communities on Facebook dedicated to Mike and Layne and a lot of his friends including Mike&#8217;s beautiful sister, Melinda Starr are active members. If your looking to share your memories or how their music touched your lives this is where I would go to do that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/180327405362440\">In Memory of Mike Starr Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Layne-Staley-Mike-Starr-Memories\/145178768881195\">Layne and Mike Memories Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Rest in Peace Mike Starr you were an AMAZING man and a talented musician!!! 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class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/rest-in-peace-mike-starr\/mikestarr-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mIkesTaRr-150x150.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\/2011\/03\/rest-in-peace-mike-starr\/annamaria-disanto\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/110308mike-starr1-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mike Starr\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/rest-in-peace-mike-starr\/5510781566_f4a487deba\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510781566_f4a487deba-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mike Starr\" \/><\/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\/2011\/03\/rest-in-peace-mike-starr\/5510782078_1f947635bc_z\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5510782078_1f947635bc_z-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mike Starr\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/rest-in-peace-mike-starr\/mike-starr-dead\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mike-Starr-Dead-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-872\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-872'>\n\t\t\t\tI love this picture because you can see the silver pendent I gave him before her left to record Dirt in LA\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<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 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Mike was a dear friend of mine for many years. We dated for about 9 months when I was 19 years old and he was about 26 and then we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,16,17,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice-in-chains","category-featured","category-mike-starr","category-news","category-pictures","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}