The 1990 album Facelift brought them into the light. It generally doesn't end good." Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? We wanted to continue intense touring and press, Mike was ready to go home." Try again. Eventually, Staley quit the other bands he was performing with at that time and joined their band as well. The expensive campaign didnt stop there when the album went nowhere slowly, Ienner decided to attach 40,000 free concert videos to copies of Facelift. VI. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time where they found 44-year-old Starr's body. Just because we play a certain breed of music doesnt mean I cant appreciate a lot of other, lighter feelings or lighter art.. Inez recorded with the band for their eponymous 1995 release Alice in Chains, which also debuted at #1. We dont stuff our personal demons inside us, we get them out, Staley says. They were snatched up within weeks. 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. Starr was arrested for "investigation of property destruction and theft.". , with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993. Be respectful even if you disagree. A real trouper, Staley has been performing on crutches, bellowing his cathartic anthems of despair as he hobbles around the stage. He met Mike Starr in 1998 while working on a short film and the two began the "Unchained" book project in December 1999. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. WebIn January 1993, Alice in Chains was in Brazil to perform two shows at the Hollywood Rock festival. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Starr, 43, a founding member of ALICE IN CHAINS, had been in legal trouble before in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Mike Starr I found on Findagrave.com. Why? His parents would split at a young age and Mike would move to Florida with his father. Following Layne Staley's death in April 2002, Inez joined Heart and toured with the band from 2002 through 2006. That movies soundtrack considerably boosted the groups profile when the crunchy dirge Would? caught on. Alice in Chain's music was deeply personal and vulnerable, and a lot of that comes down to its confessional nature. That's just the reason they gave to the public. It was in this huge warehouse called the Music Bank that had fifty different rooms, Cantrell says. Starr joined the New York City-based ALICE IN CHAINS tribute band FACELIFT on stage on May 9, 2009 at Sullivan Hall in New York City to perform three songs "Man In The Box", "Would?" ), Photos: Motley Crue, Slipknot, Alice in Chains Rattle the Heartland, Though Alices nightmarish style may have seemed at odds with the soft, fuzzy, feel-good tone of Singles, the bands charismatic guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, enjoyed the film. Mike Starr was fired from Alice In Chains because of his drug problem. PAUL STANLEY Blasts MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE After She Complains Of Harassment, DAVE LOMBARDO To Tour U.K. With 'Progressive Grindcore' Band EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, MIKKEY DEE Is Open To Playing With KING DIAMOND Again: 'That'd Be Great Fun For Me'. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. There were roughly 400 people in attendance, including former bandmatesJerry CantrellandSean Kinney. RadarOnline.com reported in early October that Starr was arrested on September 28 in Los Angeles on a drug charge. For medical advice, always consult your medical doctor. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Although its the night after Sadistic Sunday, Staley is having a grand time. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The whips come down hard at the Basement in Dallas, an underground club where the last night of every weekend is celebrated as Sadistic Sunday. Then the trio began staging what Cantrell and Kinney later said were fake auditions in order to coax Staley into joining their band. Starr and Cantrell left Gypsy Rose and the two of them began working together to form a new band. With Would? leading the way, Dirt entered stores the same week that the Singles soundtrack and Pearl Jams debut also hung in the Top Ten, following earlier chart assaults by fellow locals Nirvana and the resurrected Temple of the Dog. Cantrell talks about the myth of drugged-up, creative musicians, and says that he'd produced better music without it. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. with Phil Anselmo and "Rooster" with William DuVall. During the Dirt tour bassist Mike Starr was kicked out of Alice in Chains due to his budding drug addiction. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr had left the group after the release of their album Dirt and Inez replaced him. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Try again later. Hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, the season consists of eight episodes that follow the real-life experiences of celebrity patients undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Please enter your email and password to sign in. 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. (i.e. The group also participated in the 1993 Lollapalooza Tour. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Bullying, racism, personal attacks, harassment, or discrimination is prohibited. On March 8, 2011, at 1:42pm, police were called to a home in. 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. 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. He looks and acts nothing like a legendary "rock star," and instead lives for his music, same as he always has. This account has been disabled. Mike Starr, the original bassist in Alice In Chains who recently appeared on VH1s Celebrity Rehab, died March 8th in Salt Lake City of unknown causes. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Mike was ready to go home. Starr later claimed that he was fired due to his drug addiction.In 1993 he left the group. The main singer for the band's tour was William DuVall. 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. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. (Note: The Starr portion of hte clip begins around the 2:20 mark.). 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. 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. There was a problem getting your location. Hes gained some weight, the color has returned to his skin, and a muscleman on tour keeps an eye on him in case the old urges return. In 2004, Inez recorded the track "Crazy or High" with Black Label Society for their studio album release Hangover Music Vol. Stay up to date with in depth music reviews, exclusive interviews and widespread coverage of whats happening from your favourite music genre. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. 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. 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If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends). 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. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Ask away and we will do our best to answer or find someone who can.We try to vet our answers to get you the most acurate answers. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. In 1995, Inez played with Slash on the Guns N' Roses guitarist's side group, Slash's Snakepit. Mike talks about Celebrity Rehab, his former band Alice in Chains, his new bands and being the last person to see Layne Staley alive. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. 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. But to me they were a diamond in the rough., For Columbia, signing Alice in Chains was a deliberate move to regain the labels foothold in the hard-rock market. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. 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. Its probably the most focused weve ever been, the most complete record weve made, he says, its a brutal record with some real force, and I mean that in a very good way. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. All those bands put out records around the same time, and we hadnt put one out in two years. Primary Wave Music announced that it has acquired the music rights from the estates of Layne Staley and Mike Starr of the Grammy-nominated Seattle band Alice In Chains. The 1990 album Facelift brought them into the light. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. I was so high i couldnt dress myself.so i wore my bathrobe with underwear on and my sunglasses and cowboy boots on my honda motorcycle on my way to the beach. Inez uses four Ampeg SVT-2PRO heads, two of them plugged into four 1x18" cabinets for the lows, and the other two plugged into two 8x10" cabinets. That tour was a real challenge, because were not a speed-metal band, says Kinney. Starr was with the group for theFaceliftandDirtalbums and theSapEP. At around this time, Inez formed the band Spys4Darwin with Sean Kinney, Chris DeGarmo from Queensrche, and Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge. 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. In 2010, Starr was reported to be working with his new band, which included touring with the bandDays of the New. Please try again later. Cantrell himself, a seriously quiet and inwardly-focused kid, was president of his high school choir and performed in musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, but always idolized bands such as AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and KISS. Months before the official album release, Columbia sent selected retailers free Alice EPs, called We Die Young, which they could sell for pure profit. Make sure that the file is a photo. At the 2007 VH1 Rock Honors, Alice in Chains performed the tribute to Heart. After haggling over deal points with Columbia for six months, the group was finally ushered into a studio by producer Dave Jerden, who had previously worked with the Rolling Stones and Janes Addiction. This is a carousel with slides. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Deans would reveal in the book Everybody Loves our Town how Mike Starr posed the biggest headache to the bands future recalling Overall the guys were terrific human beings. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. He has considered Alice In Chains to be "One of the greatest bands he's ever heard" since 1991. 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. It came from a real place. Half of the bands original lineup would be lost to drug addiction and while a lot of hte focus is put on late frontman Layne Staley, today were going to take a look at the life and career of bassist Mike Starr.Born in Hawaii in 1966, bassist Mike Starr was the eldest of two having a sister who was three years younger. You can always change this later in your Account settings. 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. Former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead Tuesday afternoon (March 8). In early 2008, Inez recorded a "Behind the Player" instructional DVD with the help of John Tempesta. Former ALICE IN CHAINS bassist Mike Starr is featured as a cast member for the new season of the VH1 reality series "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew". For Cantrell, though, this wasn't his first experience with pain not by far. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Starr, who played bass for the seminal Seattle grunge band from its formation in 1987 to 1993, died nearly three weeks Im sure Ill never be completely 100 percent at peace with myself and the world. Bassist Mike Starr interview on the syndicated radio show 'Loveline' with Dr. Drew Pinsky on February 16, 2010. A private memorial was held for Starr at Experience Music Project in Seattle on March 20, 2011. And Staley? By 2006 Inez, along with the surviving members of Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, set out for a world tour with various guest singers to fill in for the late Layne Staley. (The single is also included on Dirt. Cantrell's relationship with his brother was also damaged, as the song "Brother" states:"You were always so far away / I know that pain / So don't run away like you used to do. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. No advertising or spamming is permitted. Because Mike wasn't kicked out for being a junkie. WebMichael Christopher "Mike" Starr (April 4, 1966 March 8, 2011) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice In Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993. ", Cantrell slid into a pit after Staley passed away, which, as he says in an interview on The Fix, you can hear on his 2002 solo albumDegradationTrip. As Cantrell says in an extensive interview with Kerrang!, he grew up in a musical household where his mother played the organ. Alice In Chains Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. WebStarr departed the group while it was touring behind the album Dirt. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. 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. They are best known for the song "Leather Warriors", which appeared onNorthwest Metalfest, a compilation album featuring various metal acts released in 1984 by local Seattle label Ground Zero Records. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. All rights reserved. Staley says he deals with those feelings now through his music, especially Dirt tracks like Angry Chair and Sickman, as well as more overt tunes such as Junk-head. More than anything, hes upset by comments that suggest the music advocates drug use: From song to song, the album changes from glorifying drugs to being completely miserable and questioning what I thought once worked for me. Heres how it works. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. 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. 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. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. In the clip Starr can be heard saying, "In the heyday of ALICE IN CHAINS, I was the best bass player/entertainer there was. Listeners can tell,by and large, if music comes from a real place, and if musicians are emotional frauds (whether they care or not is a different story). 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. These projects represent the greatest works from one of the best artists of the iconic Nineties Seattle-based grunge era. But as the years passed, Staleys musical style began to develop into something much darker and heavier. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Inez also appeared on the 1993 Osbourne live album, Live & Loud. Mad Season, Layne's side projects/art, Jerry's solo work. Everybody thought I was getting the worst of the bunch, says Terzo. The article, he says, caused his family and friends much grief. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. Its an amazing record.. This was around the same time that Cantrell met Staley and recruited him into Alice in Chains. He said he recognized the man as Michael Christopher Starr and called police. The roots of family trauma were planted early, as Cantrell's father, a military officer, divorced from his mother when Cantrell was seven, a mere four years after meeting Cantrell for the first time. The estates managing the business affairs of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley and bassist Mike Starr have sold their stakes in the bands songs. Negative racial/anti-Semitic, or religious stereotypes are prohibited. Bath The dark, brooding side of the Seattle scene. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. We all play rock music, so there is some similarity, he continues. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). There is a problem with your email/password. Primary Wave announced today (February 7) that they have acquired the duos publishing rights and master recording income stream for an undisclosed fee. No hidden symbolism for this bunch. WebAlthough never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staley's substance abuse, which resulted in his death in 2002. Then in August 1998 Alice in Chains returned to the studio to release the songs "Get Born Again" and "Died". 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. As it stands now, Staley will be wearing the foot cast well into the new year. ", (also now deceased) as having "such severe addictions. The link is below in the description box. Failed to report flower. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Mike Starr (66660320)? Ill always be bitching and moaning about something.. The crowd response was amazing as crowd-surfing and high-decibel applause was present.". [12], Inez married his fiance Sydney Kelly on May 8, 2010, at the estate of Susan Silver, Alice in Chains' manager.[13]. Founder, co-singer, guitarist, and lead songwriter Jerry Cantrelleschewed the show-offy, over-the-top guitar work of the glam era (as many of his contemporaries did), and in its place opted for pointedly constructed lines suffused with the slow, grinding loops and pedal tones of sludge metal and desert rock, such as on 1992'sDirt. Nothing attracts me to it anymore. Crazy how much the bassist in any band is treated as expendable and irrelevant lol. Starr for his part had already met Layne a few years prior telling author Mark yarm how they met i guess i met layne a couple of years ago, but I dont remember it. Joining Starr are country singer Mindy McCready, actress Mackenzie Phillips ("One Day at a Time"),former Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss, NBA great Dennis Rodman, Lisa D'Amato ("America's Next Top Model"),former Miss United States Teen Kari Ann Peniche and Joey Kovar ("Real World Hollywood"). Mike Starr, the original bassist for the band Alice in Chains, was discovered dead at home in Salt Lake City. A more personal downer for the band was Staleys drug abuse, which led the singer to a failed rehab visit and, finally, a cold-turkey kick of his own while reading The Bad Place, by horror novelist Dean R. Koontz. Well, the Alice in Chains singer decided to make a return trip to the Basement. For all the albums out-of-the-box success, the making of Dirt was plagued by bad luck. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Inez was a guest player on "Under the Gun" from Motrhead's 2006 album Kiss of Death. For the last four years he has been a news anchor/producer/reporter with NBC-TV affiliates in Illinois and Nebraska. ". Mike Starr had addiction problems, but was on the road to recovery and didn't commit suicide, two of his friends said Wednesday, the day after the former Alice in Chains bassist was found dead in a Salt Lake City house. In the following year, Inez played on the bonus track to Black Label Society's debut album Sonic Brew, a reworked heavy metal cover version of the Osbourne track "No More Tears". Starr's work is prominently featured in their albums "Facelift" (1990) and "Dirt" (1992), and the EP "Sap" (1992). Inez is the only musician who has been a member of both bands. 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. Try again later. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some Columbia Records people who were vegetarians. The name came from a side project of my old group, says Staley, stroking the remnants of his blond beatnik goatee. In 1983, Starr formed the heavy metal band SATO, his first group of note. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. ", At this writing, Cantrell has never been married and has no kids; he's a support network of one. WebAlice in Chains story is one of tragedy marked by drugs and death. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). During our set the entire crowd would chant, Slayer, Slayer, Slayer. But we figured, hey, if we could play for a Slayer crowd and not get killed, we had it made., All the hard work eventually paid off in September 1991, thirteen months after Facelift was released, the album was certified gold for selling a half-million copies, making Alice the most successful new Seattle band until Nirvana exploded. The metaphor for this for me is the beginning of the MTV session where they all walk out. Later they struck a compromise Cantrell would play guitar for Staleys ill-fated funk-rock band, and the singer agreed to howl for the warehouse metal crew. Please seek professional guidance. The way that I wrote and the way that he wrote blended together so well, we felt like a natural fit. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. This was cut short, however, with his sudden death. Where does the band's name come from? Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Someone reviewed us once and called us The Satanic Everly Brothers, which I thought was pretty cool., Cantrell also acknowledged that his bands 1992 album Dirt is probably our crowning achievement. 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There were roughly 400 people in attendance, including former bandmates, has said that Starr's death was the result of "a prescription-drug overdose. In 2012, as LA Downtown News states, he accepted the Stevie Ray Vaughan award "for the sober musician who has made the greatest contribution to his own recovery and treating the addictions of others. Add to your scrapbook. The resulting Facelift featured violent, tortured Cantrell numbers like We Die Young and Bleed the Freak, as well as several Staley-Cantrell collaborations, including Man in the Box, a song inspired by thoughts of food and fascism. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. So Mike Starr was supposedly kicked out of the band for being an unreliable junkie but Layne was arguably worse. 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