Prior to the classic lineup of Alice in Chains forming 1987 guitarist Jerry cantrell played some demos he was working on for drummer Sean Kinney. Mike Starr had been with Alice In Chains since they formed in 1987 and would be present through their near-meteoric rise to grunge fame. We wanted to continue intense touring and press. I dont know, it somehow makes Layne look more evil. The bands stringy-haired beanpole of a drummer, Sean Kinney, 26, feels Staleys determination to perform right after his accident is a sign of Alices fortitude. and "Them Bones". All those bands put out records around the same time, and we hadnt put one out in two years. There was a problem getting your location. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. with Phil Anselmo and "Rooster" with William DuVall. The estates managing the business affairs of late Alice In Chains members Layne Staley and Mike Starr sell their stakes in the bands songs. Answerbag wants to provide a service to people looking for answers and a good conversation. Mike appears on the Tokyo, Japan section, On "Crazy Or High" and on "No More Tears" (from Bonus Disc), This page was last edited on 16 September 2022, at 05:10. That's just the reason they gave to the public. According to the members of FACELIFT, Starr "was in great shape and form. But it comes with a price. The metaphor for this for me is the beginning of the MTV session where they all walk out. Starr, 43, a founding member of ALICE IN CHAINS, had been in legal trouble before in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. Bassist Mike Starr would also overdose, in 2011. The biggest problem by far was Mike StSources:Alice in Chains The Untold Story, Book David De SolaGrunge Is Dead, Book, Greg PratoEverybody Loves Our Town, Book, Mark Yarm Following Layne Staley's death in April 2002, Inez joined Heart and toured with the band from 2002 through 2006. There were roughly 400 people in attendance, including former bandmatesJerry CantrellandSean Kinney. Inez performing with Alice in Chains in 2019, "Michael A Ines, Born 05/14/1966 in California", "ALICE IN CHAINS Vocalist WILLIAM DUVALL Recalls Being Racially Profiled By Police", "Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart at Walk of Fame Star Ceremony", "Lamb Of God's Mark Morton Debuts First Solo Album, Anesthetic", "Alice In Chains Bassist's Wedding Photo", The European Invasion Doom Troopin' Live, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Inez&oldid=1110554519, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Bass on "Cut You In", "Jesus Hands" and "Devil by His Side", Live DVD. Starr was with the group for theFaceliftandDirtalbums and theSapEP. At the age of 9 his father would relocate to seattle and take his son Around the age of 11 or 12 Starr got a job at ihop as a dishwasher and used the money he saved to buy his first bass guitar and started his first band called Cyprus whose name he took from the bible. This particular October evening, several dominatrixes in body paint lash a patrons bare back with their riding crops, dig their nails into his shoulder blades, then pour vinegar into the wounds before rubbing honey and pillow feathers over his upper torso. However, AIC was not the first name the band had given themselves throughout their careers. Layne would recall that meeting telling an interviewer when i met mike starr he was on a honda motorcycle in his bathrobe and sunglasses. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. He had more horsepower than me, Im not going to be able to do the Brian Johnson gargled razor blades, but together we had something that the other didnt. Layne Staley with Alice in Chains during filming of one of their videos in Los Angeles, August 1990. In the clip Starr can be heard saying, "In the heyday of ALICE IN CHAINS, I was the best bass player/entertainer there was. That tour was a real challenge, because were not a speed-metal band, says Kinney. They were snatched up within weeks. His past charges include DUI, reckless driving, and various drug charges. They couldn't kick Layne out he was 50% of the band. Also in the room at the same time was Kinneys girlfriend a women named Melinda. Cantrell talks about the myth of drugged-up, creative musicians, and says that he'd produced better music without it. It's a part of life. In 2010, Starr was reported to be working with his new band, which included touring with the bandDays of the New. Alice in Chains formed during the late eighties when Staley, then singing in a different band, offered aimless Tacoma guitarist Jerry Cantrell his rehearsal studio as a place to crash. Before recording Dirt, the foursome kept busy by quietly releasing a mellow, guest-laden EP titled Sap and making an appearance in Cameron Crowes recent Seattle-based film, Singles. Bassist Starr died in 2011 as a result of a a prescription drug overdose. Well, the Alice in Chains singer decided to make a return trip to the Basement. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [4][5] Inez has earned seven Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.[6]. Staley, whose aching vocals and frequently haunting lyrics provide Alice with much of its dark, dangerous sound, has been in a cast since late September, when he ran over his foot riding a three-wheel all-terrain vehicle backstage at a show in Oklahoma City. The 100 Best Albums of 2022, In fact, hard work has been a key factor behind the rise of Alice in Chains. As Cantrell says in an extensive interview with Kerrang!, he grew up in a musical household where his mother played the organ. We wanted to continue intense touring and press, Mike was ready to go home." The band was also featured on Decades of Rock: Heart and Friends where they performed "Would?" On March 8, 2011, at 1:42pm, police were called to a home in. Then the trio began staging what Cantrell and Kinney later said were fake auditions in order to coax Staley into joining their band. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Although its the night after Sadistic Sunday, Staley is having a grand time. This account has been disabled. He was most often seen playing several variations of aSpectorNS-2bass guitarthrough anAmpeg SVTall-tube head and Ampeg 8x10" speaker cabinets. As you can see, Cantrell says, Im into some twisted shit. Indeed, he endures a four-hour-plus session, getting a strange array of gruesome faces inked onto his arm, reaching from the wrist all the way up to the crook of his elbow. A statement from Primary For a young rock singer enjoying the first moments of celebrity, things cant get much better. Months before the official album release, Columbia sent selected retailers free Alice EPs, called We Die Young, which they could sell for pure profit. The band was later signed to a record deal withColumbia Recordsand enjoyed extensive success via record sales and radio play in thegrunge rockmovement of the early 1990s. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. WebMike Starr left Alice In Chains in January of 1993. Learn more about managing a memorial . A few feet away, taking this all in, sits Layne Staley, the troubled, enigmatic twenty-five-year-old lead singer of the Seattle hard-rock band Alice in Chains. I said to myself right there. Traveling down to Los Angeles to be near Jerden, the band began recording in April. There were roughly 400 people in attendance, including former bandmates, has said that Starr's death was the result of "a prescription-drug overdose. But by 1984 Starr would end up meeting guitarist Jerry cantrell and play in a band called Gyspy Rose, which was a precursor to Alice in Chains. It's a part of a lot of people's experience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. He was 44. His final show with the band, before he was replaced by Ozzy Osbourne bassist Mike Inez, was at the Hollywood Rock festival in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Flanking himself with guitarist-singer Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney, Staley kept the moniker but changed it to Alice In Chains and the group began to play around the Seattle area. But despite the fun times and early commercial success of Dirt, Staley wont be singing any upbeat ditties in the near future. We were going to have this band that dressed in drag and played heavy metal as a joke., As the quartet refined its musical direction, the Puget Sound scene was erupting with promising groups like the flamboyant Mother Love Bone, the hard-edge Sound-garden and the grunged-out Mudhoney. Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66660320/mike-starr. Please enter your email and password to sign in. A five-minute video clip featuring highlights from the season's first episode can be viewed below. It came from a real place. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Columbia made Facelift a top priority, hoping to prove the company wasnt merely a stable for fresh-scrubbed pop acts like Mariah Carey, New Kids on the Block and C&C Music Factory. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Reflecting on the creative partnership he shared with the vocalist, who passed away on April 5, 2002, aged 34, Cantrell says, Layne was just an amazing talent. It was in this huge warehouse called the Music Bank that had fifty different rooms, Cantrell says. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Mike Starr I found on Findagrave.com. Perhaps the labels most valuable contribution was providing the group with a touring bus. In his own plain and direct words, "I felt emotions when I listened to music. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Naturally, there were many rumours of the "real" reason he left. We all play rock music, so there is some similarity, he continues. Jar of Flies debuted at #1 on album sales charts, the first EP ever to do so.[7]. And Staley? Although its the night after Sadistic Sunday, Staley is having a grand time. Starr, 43, a founding member of ALICE IN CHAINS, had been in legal trouble before in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. He is of Filipino descent. DuVall would go on to be made the permanent singer of the group, which has since released three studio albums with Duvall and toured extensively since 2006. Of that time, Cantrell speaks of darkness and light, saying, "I don't know everything, and I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea of an all-knowing God sitting up on a cloud. Well, the Alice in Chains singer decided to make a return trip to the Basement. If in doubt, leave it out. The worlds biggest and best metal magazine, (Image credit: Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images), Metallica tease new 72 Seasons track through series of TikTok duet videos, Here's what Slayer would sound like playing Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer, Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin charged with trespassing at his former Los Angeles home, Watch Megadeth perform with Marty Friedman for the first time in 23 years, Every issue delivered direct to your door. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Mike was ready to go home. Starr later claimed that he was fired due to his drug addiction.In 1993 he left the group. Starr would end up playing with drummer Sean Kinney in the band.. Starrs early influences would be Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix with a childhood friend of Starr named Jim Hacker revealing to author David De Sola how the future alice in chains bass player was single minded with his focus in life being becoming a rockstar like Van Halen. The group also participated in the 1993 Lollapalooza Tour . Rock Musician. The main singer for the band's tour was William DuVall. A statement from Primary Waves David Weitzman reads: Primary Wave is pleased to partner with the estates of Layne Staley and Mike Starr to honor their musical legacies as part of the classic era lineup of Alice in Chains, who created the amazing songs and records that comprise the albumsDirtandFacelift, and the acoustic EPs,Jar of FliesandSap. Learn more about merges. Starr and Cantrell left Gypsy Rose and the two of them began working together to form a new band. According to Bass Player Magazine, Inez uses the following basses: They are strung with medium-gauge Dean Markley Blue Steel strings. The 1990 album Facelift brought them into the light. In 1997 Inez played with his Alice in Chains bandmate, Jerry Cantrell, on his debut solo album, Boggy Depot. Oops, something didn't work. Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr(April 4, 1966 March 8, 2011) was an American musician, best known as the originalbassistinAlice In Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993. They came to us at a time when we were hungry for music, says label president Don Ienner, who has since taken the band especially guitarist Cantrell, whom he refers to as a future guitar god under his wing. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. So Mike Starr was supposedly kicked out of the band for being an unreliable junkie but Layne was arguably worse. Think of The Beatles, Floyd, the Eagles, that attitude of, You take this line and Ill take that one it adds more colour to the canvas. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). In 1993 he left the group. Why? Inez is the only musician who has been a member of both bands. Inez toured throughout 1993 with Alice in Chains on the strength of the Dirt album. Most bands would have stopped immediately, but we kept touring., Editors picks Nothing attracts me to it anymore. In 2003, Black Label Society's Robert Trujillo joined Metallica; Inez replaced him in Black Label Society, joining for a short two-week west coast tour of the United States and a short tour of Japan for their The Blessed Hellride album. Its really messed up, held together by pins, Staley says later, cracking a small smile as he talks about visiting a specialist who works with the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team. In the beginning I got high, and it felt great; by the end it was strictly maintenance, like food I needed to survive. (The single is also included on Dirt. Try again later. A real trouper, Staley has been performing on crutches, bellowing his cathartic anthems of despair as he hobbles around the stage. Negative racial/anti-Semitic, or religious stereotypes are prohibited. The accident couldnt have come at a worse time: Staley only recently kicked a nasty drug habit; Alices powerful sophomore album, Dirt, just entered the Billboard album chart at Number Six; and the band is on the road opening for Ozzy Osbourne. This band gained attention in the Seattle area playing under several different monikers before they eventually settled on the nameAlice in Chains, which they had taken from Staley's previous bandAlice N' Chains. In 2005, Jerry Cantrell, Inez, and Sean Kinney reunited to perform a benefit concert in Seattle for victims of the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia in 2004. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. Be respectful even if you disagree. By the end of the album, its pretty obvious it didnt work out as well as I thought it would., Staley also expresses his current sentiments onstage, introducing one grim number as a song about a hopeless fucking junkie.. Cantrell adds that Alices heavier sound and misanthropic attitude initially made it an outcast from the citys alternative scene: Some stuff grabs you right away; ours is really an acquired taste. Once the buzz began that the region was a fertile territory for new bands, talent scouts from major labels came swarming up in droves. Im glad we didnt get lumped together with them, because were not those other bands.. The name came from a side project of my old group, says Staley, stroking the remnants of his blond beatnik goatee. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Everybody thought I was getting the worst of the bunch, says Terzo. The facts are that I was shooting a lot of dope, and thats nobodys business but mine, he says, resting on the tour bus before opening for Osbourne in Dallas. Please try again later. At the 2007 VH1 Rock Honors, Alice in Chains performed the tribute to Heart. A Subreddit for anything Alice in Chains related. Starr, who played bass for the seminal Seattle grunge band from its formation in 1987 to 1993, died nearly three weeks Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some Columbia Records people who were vegetarians. There are beers all around, a bevy of exotic dancers smother him with affection, and listen closely theyve even got Man in the Box playing on the clubs speakers. During 1990 and 1991, Alice opened for everyone from Iggy Pop and Van Halen to Extreme and Poison, as well as slogging through a bottom-billed slot on the infamous Clash of the Titans package with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. At around this time, Inez formed the band Spys4Darwin with Sean Kinney, Chris DeGarmo from Queensrche, and Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). Metallica Celebrate Alice in Chains With Tender Cover of 'Would?'. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. Starr briefly joined another band by the name of Gypsy Rose, which included earlyAlice N' ChainsproducerTim Branomon lead vocals and his future bandmateJerry Cantrellon guitar. Alice In Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dies At 44. Stay up to date with in depth music reviews, exclusive interviews and widespread coverage of whats happening from your favourite music genre. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. During the Dirt tour bassist Mike Starr was kicked out of Alice in Chains due to his budding drug addiction. Mike Starr was fired from Alice In Chains because of his drug problem. Mike Starr was fired from Alice In Chains because of his drug problem. Glad we didnt get lumped together with them, because were not those other bands uses! Supposedly kicked out of Alice in Chains. 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