Layne Staley died five years ago today.

[Swede]

The man could make music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FnQMSD4Zg

[sniffa]

1. now he truLy is

the man in the box.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. ....

:spank:

[Swede]

3. Curt Cobain died on this day too.

Bad day for fans.

[HughBeaumont]

10. Lots of musicians died on this day -

Kurt Cobain
Layne Staley
Bob Hite (Canned Heat)
Danny Rapp (Danny and the Juniors)
Cozy Powell

Howeird Hughes, Sam Walton and Alan Ginsberg also died on this day.

[idgiehkt]

17. wow

I had no idea. How strange. :cry:

[wavesofeuphoria]

4. He had an amazing voice.

[Ariana Celeste]

5. sadly enough,

at that point he must have welcomed it.

At the beginning of 2002, the final interview with the troubled musician had surfaced in Layne Staley: Angry Chair — A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician by Argentinean writer and music fan Adriana Rubio, in which he spoke about the damage caused by his heroin addiction: "I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning, and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layne_Staley#Final_years:_1997-2002

Layne made some great music and had one of the best voices of the 90's imo.

[gbate]

6. I loved AIC. You just don't hear harmony like that anymore. Thanks for posting.

[Ariana Celeste]

7. a couple youtube links-

these are 2 of my favorite AiC songs- Right Turn and Am I Inside

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8jQnyjYFg4

And this is 'Long Gone Day', when he was with Mad Season

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ0woxWA4s

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. It's been five years already?

Good lord. :o

[NightWatcher]

9. I got kicked in the head by Layne

it was at Lollapalloza way back in uh...93. He did a stage dive, boom, a doc maarten right in the head.

That was a great show: Alice, Primus, Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Tool, Rage Against the Machine

[aikoaiko]

11. That was a good 'Pooza - - I think TOOL was 2nd stage.

Here is the full lineup:

Main Stage: Primus, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Rage Against the Machine

Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, The Cocktails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, Glue, Karl Hendrick's Trio, Hurl

[NightWatcher]

12. second stage, who da thunk it

I actually spent a good deal of time at the second stage.
Damn those were the good ole days. Primus rocked the place and RATM opened the show. They started in as the doors were opening at noon. Rage at noon, woof.

[av8rdave]

13. I can't believe it's been that long...seems very recent to me

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. Such a shame

He was dead for like two weeks before somebody finally found him. Two fucking weeks!

[Parche]

15. AIC

WOW hard to believe, one of my favorites
RIP

[Left Is Write]

16. Five years? Doesn't seem that long.