Layne Staley’s Final Days with Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains: Layne Staley's final days with Jerry Cantrell and the rest of the band resulting in the songs Died and Ge Born Again.

0:00 - Alice in Chains Implosion
2:20 - Boggy Depot
4:05 - Layne Staley Returns To Alice
5:13 - Recording 'Died' & 'Get Born Again'
7:13 - Internal Tensions Leak/End


Alice in Chains Facelift Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShifZejOW_I&t=3s

Alice in Chains SAP Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLsGm4bR9o&t=295s

Alice in Chains Rooster Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8NjS5kLwo&t=2s

Alice in Chains Jar of Flies Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjU0uOP0sig

Days of the New Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-XIhOZUcak&t=617s

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I’ve covered a lot of Alice in CHains videos on my channel including their glam days, making of facelift, jar of flies, sap and rooster. Links to those videos are down below. But today let’s take a look at a frontman Layne Staley’s final days with the band in the studio.
Alice in CHains would establish themselves as the first band out of seattles so called grunge movement to have a gold record with facelift. They would be release several big records including 1992’s Dirt, 1994’s EP Jar of Flies and 1995’s Self titled record that would prove to be their final studio album of original recordings. Addiction and in-fighting led to the band stop touring in any major capacity by 1993. Frontman Layne Staley’s addiction to heroin would be the group’s achiles heal and it wasn’t something the singer hid. A lot of their sop****re release 1992’s Dirt captured Layne’s struggle. The band’s last major appearance on the




road would be 1996, a year that saw the band briefly open for kiss that summer and make a few live tv appearances in addition to cutting an unplugged album. It was obvious from layen;’s changing physical appearance by 1996 he was still struggling with addiction. Following that summer alice in chains camp would lie dormant. Layne was hit with devastating news in October of that year when he learned his ex-fiance Demri Parrot had died. It was said by those close to him that he never fully recovered from her death.
By november of 1997 Layne would record guest vocals on the song the things you do for his friend jesse holt. Layne had previously recorded vocals on the track in 1988. In the book alice in chains the untold story, jason buttino who has the recordings would be quoted in the book as saying layne’s voice by this point in time was so quiet and soft his vocal track had to be boosted. Buttino also attributed the change in his voice not just due to his deteriorating health but the fact that the song was recorded a year after Demri’s death, something that obviously was still weighing heavily on him. It was during this time There’d be the odd news story about some running into Layne a lot of which is captured in the books everybody loves our town and grunge is dead. Even MTV reported in August 1997 there were rumors circulating online and on radio stations that Layne had lost several fingers to gangrene. The rumors likely stemmed from a 1996 profile that rolling stone did on the band that highlighted his personal problems. A rep for the band would issue a statement to mtv that read "I visited Layne the other day, and he's fine... and he's got all his fingers."
In October of 1997 the band’s manager Susan would appear at the north by northwest music and media conference and the seattle times would report at the time and i quote “she also hinted with a sigh that a lice is about to self destruct.” It was during this time Silver closed her management business.
A few months after the report came out in late 1997 reports would surface that guitarist Jerry Cantrell was now turning his attention to putting out a solo record. It’s important to note that boggy depot consisted of ¾ of alice in chains minus layne staley. Of course as Cantrell started doing press for his solo effort boggy depot which in April of 1998, the question of alice in chains inactivity continually ca