I want to because for me Seattle helped define the music that I connected with and defined my youth and who I am. The Seattle scene embedded my love for music- planted the seed in my soul.
I want to go to these sights because it would just seem incomplete to me visiting Seattle, and not going by them. Even though Kurt and Lyne both lived lives in their famous era plagued by drugs, and it is extremely sad, I still think that it is important to go by those places from a music passion standpoint. On the autograph thing, If I have the opportunity to get a piece of work signed I do it, because it gives me an opportunity to personally thank the artists for their work and express my gratitude in what their work means to me personally.
I am not one of those people to seek an autograph to pilfer it off on Ebay for profitable gain. I realise people do it, and it's fine, but personally I find it unethical and that is why I don't. I see both sides, some people aren't into the whole autograph and landmark visits but it's cool either way. I have friends who don't care about autographs, and I respect their opinion as much as mine.
Post edited by red mos on August I think Layne's place is a hot spot for Grunge fans who visit is because what else is there to really see? There's a lot of mystique behind it too since nobody really knows what Layne was up to during his last five years, outside of heroin obviously. I'm still shocked there are no photos of him online post February You would think somebody outside of his family would have taken a picture of him while hanging out or something within the five years following that.
I also have the floor plan of his house. And while much of Alice in Chains' appeal can be credited to the swampy, languid riffs of guitarist Jerry Cantrell, even more of the band's uniquely powerful sound is owed to the vocals of original lead singer Layne Staley. Layne's full-throated crowing and pained howls expressed a pained sense of humanity that many young listeners — embracing the jarring nuances of the '90s after emerging from the pastel shallowness of the '80s — felt down to their bones.
But while many singers attempted to sound more broken than the rest during grunge's heyday, Staley could unfortunately back up the emotion behind his music. By the time he passed away on August 5, , the singer was physically and emotionally crippled by his addiction to heroin, as well as his use of other drugs.
And while he will be forever remembered for his long and storied musical career, the last year of Layne's life depicts him as a very different person, whose traumas and issues with addiction had fundamentally changed the musician so many people knew and loved. According to Guitar World , in , Layne Staley, using the entity the Larusta Trust Layne often used the fake name John Larusta in his business dealings, perhaps as a reference to the Alice in Chains' classic "Rooster" , purchased an apartment in Seattle's bustling University District.
This would be the singer's home for the next five years leading up to his death. Yet, for the last year of his life, almost no one visited Staley in this apartment, and he rarely left.
For the most part, Layne kept an incredibly private and insular life in the year leading up to his death, to the point where the few times people did see him, it was a notable event that they remembered well. According to a Facebook memorial post by early collaborator Tim Branom that was reprinted in Alternative Nation , "In the end, almost no one could contact Layne.
He wouldn't answer the door or take calls. He lived in a condo right smack in front of everyone, in the University District. He weighed some pounds and his health was deteriorating. There were reports that he would go to Toys R Us to buy games and return home, but always by himself. It was well-known that Layne Staley was a lover of video games and would often disappear to play games throughout Alice in Chains' recording process.
In Greg Prato's book Grunge Is Dead , his mother Nancy described him as a "video game freak," while Tad Doyle of the seminal Seattle band Tad describes how Alice in Chains would have his band on their tour bus "playing video games and listening to music. However, like many of the things that seemed to make him happy, video games became an escape for Staley, a way to put his mind to something that didn't wear too hard on his emotions.
In a Rolling Stone profile of the band , while Alice in Chains are playing WhirlyBall, a combination of lacrosse, basketball, and bumper cars that only rock stars can ever dream of enjoying, "Staley [bows] out to play video games on his portable Sega system. There's a trope that rock stars overindulging in bad behavior and harmful drugs "think they'll live forever.
In his last interview months before his death with Argentinean journalist Adriana Rubio, Staley admitted that he knew he was on his way out. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later. I did crack and heroin for years. I never wanted to end my life this way. I know I have no chance. It's too late. Perhaps the most painful thing about this is that Layne's sense of hopelessness drove him to isolate even further and push away even those who loved him.
I don't wanna see people anymore and it's nobody's business but mine. Many outsiders looking in at grunge claimed that the movement glamorized drug use, promoting the concept of art and addiction being intertwined via their lyrics and the growing concept of "heroin chic" that was popular in '90s fashion.
But Layne Staley's final interview reveals that he was no longer using heroin for pleasure, but simply because he was so addicted to it that he couldn't possibly stop. Because of this, Staley was disgusted by heroin's effect on his life — and that he didn't want Alice in Chains' fans to think it was cool. The medical-examiner tabulations were run on Dec. And they come with the caveat of all such statistics: They are indicators of change over an arbitrary period, sometimes based on inconclusive investigations.
Health department spokesperson Matias Valenzuela says a final, official accounting will be completed soon. Deaths involving the narcotic had been decreasing every year since , when heroin-related deaths were recorded, county and University of Washington data show. Now they hope the spike is just a blip on that downward trend.
Get into treatment—treatment works. At least two heroin-related victims were found days after dying, still in kneeling positions. Victims often lived a solitary life and died surrounded by the drugs that overtook them. Needles also were found beneath Staley when his pound body was removed. He lived alone in the two-story, three-bedroom apartment one bedroom contained toys and video games, another musical instruments; the master bedroom had a bed and TV.
Heroin in such cases is often the primary cause of death. Of the 80 heroin-related deaths last year, 19 were thought to be heroin-only, spokesperson Valenzuela says.
Some music fans felt Staley was somehow a willing victim of drugs and faded stardom—resigned to being forgotten to death. But the official ruling was that he died from an accidental overdose. We can only hope that he has at last found some peace. Alice in Chains was voted best hard-rock band runner-up in , and the award apparently had been stolen or otherwise appropriated.
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