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Layne Staley - RIP

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  • 20-04-2002 4:53pm
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    NeRb666
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭


    Alice in Chains lead singer dies
    04/20/2002

    Jim Klockow, KING5.com


    SEATTLE – The lead singer to the Seattle-based grunge rock band Alice in Chains died Friday afternoon.

    Kirkland, Wash. native Layne Staley was 34.

    A King County medical examiner's investigator said his office collected a body from the address in the 4500 block of 8th Ave. N.E. Friday night and planned an autopsy Saturday. The Medical Examiners office refused to confirm the identity of the deceased.



    Alice in Chains was forced to cancel a 1994 tour after Staley admitted his battle with heroin addiction.
    Unofficial reports suggested that Staley died of a drug overdose.

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that the person had been dead for several days.

    Alice in Chains was one of a handful of grunge rock bands that became a national sensation by bridging the gap between hard rock and alternative music.

    In addition to its minimalist, hard-driving music, heroin was also part of the grunge scene.

    Alice in Chains was forced to cancel a 1994 tour after Staley admitted his battle with heroin, a drug that had taken a toll on other Seattle musicians, including Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain.

    Cobain’s own struggle


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    Brautigan
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    Rest in Peace.

    Alice in Chains were a fine band indeed...


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    NeRb666
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭NeRb666


    Reports suggest it was a heroin OD, he may have been dead for several days


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    yellum
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    Just read it on Fox News. Bugger.


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    angelicdemon
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    REST IN PEACE......we will all miss you


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    metalish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭metalish


    R.i.P i've been deppressed all weekend, and now im sitting here listening to their song "Heaven Beside you"

    We will all miss him


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    BeatTun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭BeatTun


    layne stayley - fukkin legend


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    #8
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    that was wierd. Just started listening to Facelift again last week.



    "We Die Young" is one class song ... check it out. A bit morbid considering lastest developments but it still kicks ass


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    Cheez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭Cheez


    Ahh sh1te he was damn good,another dead hero


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    cournioni
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    Damn... :(

    I haven't heard anything about this until now... He was a damn good singer and he will be missed in the world of rock and metal.

    Another person dead from from Pantera's first real tour in 1990. First Exodus and now Alice in Chains... :(

    May he Rest in Peace.


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