Demri Lara Parrot and Layne Staley were two close friends who were taken from us too soon ~ Demri passed away Oct. 29, 1996 and Layne in April of 2002. We will always remember them and this website is dedicated to their love, art, music, life and friendship.
I hope people enjoy the pictures, videos and stories and leave comments to honor their memories. This is a brand new website so make sure to leave comments to help get people talking.
Itch, Love Stories about Heroin?
I JUST FOUND THIS ARTICLE – DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS BOOK WAS EVER RELEASED AND IF SO..HOW CRAPPY WAS IT? I MEAN WHO IS THIS CHICK AND WHAT THE HELL DOES SHE KNOW ABOUT LAYNE’S RECLUSIVE LIFE? NOTHING.
I’D BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW OR FOUND OUT. I ASSUME IT WAS NEVER RELEASED SINCE THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE AND I’VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I think it’s total crap her trying to make people think she had some secret relationship with Layne complete garbage.
It’s pretty funny because if you visit her website http://itchlovestoriesaboutheroin.synthasite.com/ and you click on the link called The Horse Chronicles it brings you to her Financial Advisor website.. so I guess being an author didn’t work out so she thought she’d try her hand at giving advice on money?
Here’s the article…
LAYNE STALEY Book ‘Itch, Love Stories About Heroin’ Due In April – Oct. 10, 2008
A new book based on late ALICE IN CHAINS singer Layne Staley’s last five years of reclusive life in downtown Seattle is scheduled for release in late 2008. Entitled “Itch, Love Stories about Heroin”, the book “will reveal some secrets about the singer, as well as offer an inside look at his addiction and struggles with heroin,” according to a press release.
“It will be a struggle to finish the book,” author Tanya Vece said. “It will be like closing a chapter on his life, and mine — not for good but I think saying what he would want to have said.”
According to the press release, “Staley did call in an interview to Vece’s friend author Adriana Rubio about a month before his passing. Weak and coughing, Staley wasn’t ready to comment on his reclusive life, but did talk briefly about his fight with drugs.”
“Everyone knows he was addicted,” Vece stated. “I want to talk about who he was, and get to the real Layne — addiction and art.”
When asked on her connection to Staley, Vece said “Let me just say there are some things I won’t expand on — some things even I will keep secret!”
Tanya Vece is the current editor of independent art e-zine The Horse Chronicles. She has three other fictional independent books out and is an honoree of the International Press Academy. Her recent accomplishments include press coverage through CNN for the Democratic debate in Las Vegas.
NOW HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK – THIS WAS FOUND ON HER WEBSITE
An excerpt from Itch. Love stories about Heroin.
I remembering walking through a dark hallway and people looked like demons. Their faces were gone, removed from the world, and looking into another one. Everyone’s skin seemed to be on the verge of melting as their eyes were lit with an ominous green glow. They were hyper and distant. They were also ready to kill, hungry for something beyond the taste of blood. They all looked like they were awakened zombies, trying to recapture their youth in this underground melting pot of demons, fairies, and sleepwalkers who just wanted to waste away beneath the Earth’s surface.
As we headed down the stairs, the volume of the techno house music raved through my ears and pulsated in my veins. It overtook me like a tidal wave. He grabbed my arm while leading the way past a sea of people dancing to the same beat. They all looked drugged, numb to each other yet amazingly moving together in sync. Multi-colored lights scanned the pulsating blanket of the beings in search of someone not moving. The lights flashed and spun, chasing hips that were loosing momentum in this dance that blurred the line between feeling alive and allowing oneself to be dead to the world.
“This is new my thing. This is where I have been at lately” Layne yelled at me. People were starting to strip off their clothes ,while others sprayed water into the crowd from embellished tanks on plastic guns.
I moved with him, feeling more and more evil with every self indulging twaddle motion of my weightless arms. The air was overly humid and infused with sweat. All of us, packed together in this basement like sardines, moved together as one. I could feel the music transforming me into an abstract version of myself. As the lights glazed over me, up and down, right to left , and all around -I could feel my eyes transitioning from morbid blue to a drunk with envy green.
All of us were outcasts, out of sorts, out of our minds and some of us on the verge of being out of our bodies. It was a tragically fantastic place to be.
Layne and I circled the room, on the train of unwinding souls with no real destination. All of us just stuck in our places, like the repetitive pace of the blaring bass in the background. As people bobbed and swayed, someone from the outside could have described this place as hell on Earth. Drugs, alcohol and relishing in sin were all staple crops in this rhythm nation. The best part was not one person gave a damn as every-ones eyes were dilated with an oblivious craving to never loose the taste of this parallel universe.
Layne started to throw up blood on the floor , tipping his hat to himself while laughing away the pain in his stomach. The music was becoming louder as horns drilled into the stagnate drum beats that were now screwing the room. Nothing was stopping this party, this was happening before we entered and would continue on far after we left. Being sick here was not an option. I just kept spinning, moving faster and faster trying to create a dizzying blur that would allow me to ignore his illness and my own slow collapse.
OMG THIS IS COMPLETE GARBAGE!!!!!! IF HE WAS WITH HER IN A CLUB IT WAS PROBABLY THE VOGUE OR SOMETHING AND SHE’S JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT SOUND MYSTICAL AND “DARK”. GIVE ME A BREAK. I HAVE A REAL HARD TIME BELIEVING THERE WAS SOME HEROIN CLUB… I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT. LOL! IF THERE EVER WAS SUCH A THING I WOULD OF BEEN THERE. NOPE NEVER.
“Everyone’s skin seemed to be on the verge of melting as their eyes were lit with an ominous green glow” “The best part was not one person gave a damn as every-ones eyes were dilated with an oblivious craving to never loose the taste of this parallel universe.”
THAT’S JUST FROM LIVING IN THE NORTHWEST YOU KNOW ALL THAT RAIN, NO SUNSHINE IT TENDS TO MELT OUR SKIN AND PIN OUR EYE BALLS IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOME UNDERGROUND DRUG SOCIAL SCENE.. Haha!
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I will tell you this, Everyone who was in Layne’s life has fought to keep this pile of trash from seeing the light of day. I’ve seen excerpts and they physically sickened me that a so called friend would ever try to put out such filth about Layne. Everyone who knew Layne knew how much his privacy meant. Hopefully, it will never see the light of day….this girl is a so called party organizer in Vegas and loves to ride the coattails of the glitterati. Honor Layne by takiing her picture and all mention of her book down. Thank you….and I can tell you are here for the sole purpose of honoring the good parts of Layne & Dem..you have a good heart…
Olivia
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Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hello,
im trying to find the admin email adress so i can mail him.. i can’t find it anywhere here in the site (sound stupid?) i only want to ask a couple of question… NOT bad ones
by the way, thanks you very much for this site it mean alot to some of us
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 at 3:26 am
This is Tanya Vece. I would like the owner of this site to email, office@musicpublicityservices.com or myspace me, myspace.com/8thlayneentertainment
I know you feel like you’re a part of Layne’s life because you are a fan, but that does not mean you have the right to judge on things you were not a part of. This site came up on my press ticket while pulling clips for some of my clients.
Don’t you think before you write about what you think you KNOW you should contact the author of the book for their statement? I am getting so tired of hearing what FANS have to say when they never KNEW Layne. Write what you want but have the balls to contact me first. I can’t believe how stupid some of the stuff even sounds. Before you make me out to be this lunatic you should get your facts straight. Layne’s mom doesn’t want the book out and I am publishing the letter she sent to me as to why she doesn’t want it out. I am tired of reading all this crap about people who only own a record but were no where close to the situation itself! I have a publisher. Facts have to be checked. Photos don’t lie. Next time contact me! I would be more than happy to answer questions then have you write your “fan” point of you without fact checking!
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Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
BTW – get your link right. http://www.thehorsechronicles.org NO FINANCIAL ADVISOR
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Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
This Tanya person is about as legitimate and valid as the “Octomom”. Does she intend to publish said book with all of the typo’s included?
Hey, I know a famous dead person TOO! But you don’t see me cashing in on that personal relationship just to make a buck. If she was in fact, as close to Layne as she claims to be, then I pity her.
Keep those memories, good or bad, to yourself. No sense in making a spectacle of his tragedy. Let the man rest in peace, would ya??
Keep the faith, Barbara…Her 15 minutes will be up soon.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
First off this comment shows the ignorance of a FAN.
Email my office, office@musicpublicityservices.com and I will send you an MP3 of an interview I did in Chicago stating I AM KEEPING NO MONEY from the book. Explain how I am cashing in on it?
Second off the memories should be kept alive. People are interested, you responded didn’t you? I couldn’t think of a better way than to share my story and my photos of Layne in his last days then with his fans. Maybe even help one of them make the decision to go to rehab.
Legitimate? Hmmm. Seems I have been credentialed by CNN, run a successful company, and make my living as a writer.
This board is set-up to honor people you don’t even know. You are on it writing nasty things about people you don’t know. Tells me a lot about your character. The “Cashing in” statement was the best one yet as it shows how lacking your research truly is!
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Just a comment to Ms. Tanya Vece. Ma’am, frankly stated, if you are in fact a writer…heh, then I’m an astronaut! Firstly, everyone is suddenly “writers” and I personally blame Hollywood-ism for this. Secondly, you’re not…simple as that. Your style is sub-par at best and your so-called metaphors leave much to be desired. Go read a good book, American Psycho should do…and try again…but not about Layne, not about someone you really never knew.
Thanks so much and to the lovely lady running this site, nicely done!
B.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Hey lady….Calm the fuck down. I just researched you a bit and you stated in one interview that you were donating HALF the proceeds between the Layne Staley Fund and a clinic. So, where is the other half going? That’s 50%…Just so we’re clear.
You also tout this “CNN” accreditation around as if it’s something to be proud of. Big fucking deal!! Also, on your Linkedln page, you “claim” to have been offered an internship at SNL, but “Opted to decline the offer”. Hhehehee….GOOD ONE!! And then on your horsey page, you claim to have been a comedy writer FOR SNL. So, which one is it, dipshit? And who would turn down the chance to intern at SNL? What was your better offer? Writing copy for the local high school newspaper? Oh….that’s right….You were busy in the shooting gallery, with a bunch of rockstars.
You don’t even have a legitimate website for your “PR Firm”…You release “Press releases” on a FREE website that allows any idiot with a computer release a “Breaking news story”. Hell lady, I just took a dump, why don’t I write a fluff piece about that? I should…I could….I am just as talented as YOU…..But I digress.
Why can’t manage to keep any clients either? You lost two within a month of signing them on, then you do something REALLY tacky, like tell everybody how they didn’t pay their bill. You sure can’t keep a secret, can you? How professional was that to say about some unknown, pathetic rock band who fell into your deception?
Lady, to ME and everyone else who comes across your self-proclaimed dribble, thinks you are one of those washed-up groupies, who can’t let go of the past and age gracefully and quietly. Go away. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck someone else over with your fantasies. Nobody is buying what you have to sell. (or trying to sell since 2007).
Go exploit your vagina on some reality show. Go get money the old fashioned way….Marry some rich Vegas cat and bump him off for his loot. You seem to be scotch taped together pretty nicely….albeit I WOULD rethink your Chola eyebrows. Go fuck Brett Michaels…..Go write a book about how much you hate him. Go fuck a washed up celebrity. Go and develop an eating disorder. Go dance around an airport, wrapped in a bed sheet with a bunch of religious nuts. Go and become a new murder victim for the Bloods or the Crips. Go do something with your life, other than post your stupidity here.
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Mark Reply:
October 6th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Do you know which bands she was reffering too?
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Yvonne…10/10; couldn’t have said it better myself. And yeah, no worries here, if history is anything to judge by…this badly written tome of inaccuracy and deception is never coming out!
PS. Really loved the last bit of your reply; this Vece hag should be calling you up for some writing lessons!
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@Brett – YOU are MY hero, Brett. I am glad that others are smelling the bullshit that permeates through the internet.
I was in the music biz for a looooooooooooooong time and it sickens me when I see another ass clown attempt to cash in on another persons misfortune, or untimely death. I have a dear friend, who is world renowned for her voice, who passed away and her own FAMILY took advantage and made millions off of her legacy.
Hey Vece….You REALLY wanna help out some addicts with your “story of hope”? Why not simply blog about it, so EVERYONE can read your tales and that way we KNOW you are not in it for a profit. Reading a crappy blog is free. And some people read them on the toilet. You would be helping others with your sage advice PLUS they would be killing time whilst having their daily constitutional. Yes, ALL roads lead to the crapper or poop in some way with me.
Brett, I wish there were someway to contact you, without Beelzebub finding out our true identities!! I is a-scared of her!!
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Wow Yvonne, thanks so much – possibly four words I’ll never get tired off (not that I get ‘em a lot…but, truly rhapsodic…as they say ;P)!
As for contacting me, ach, to hell with Ms. Vece; she SO “can’t touch this”…as MC Hammer would say! So, feel free to drop me a mail at bret2tom at gmail dot com – it’s a loooong way around, but yeah, will definitely do the trick!
Best and chat soon!
Oh yes, before I forget, final shoutout to Beelzebub and as a friend of mine would say, “suck it down, monkey f*ck!” \m/
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Oh Em Gee….How the fuck did she claim to know Layne, when she was born in like ‘94 or something? Evi-fucking-dently, she is the illegitimate daughter of Nikki Sixx.
Tanya….you really aren’t very good at covering your tracks. Jesus Christ!!
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
FLAME WAR!!! It’s On! I’m the webmaster and also a long time friend of Layne’s.
I have no clue who you are Tanya Vece except that your obviously completely full of SHIT! The whole story about you in some techno club and Layne telling you this is where I’ve been lately.. makes me giggle and puke a little at the same time.
All I have to do to make fun of you.. is quote your “so called book”…
“Layne and I circled the room, on the train of unwinding souls with no real destination. All of us just stuck in our places, like the repetitive pace of the blaring bass in the background. As people bobbed and swayed, someone from the outside could have described this place as hell on Earth. Drugs, alcohol and relishing in sin were all staple crops in this rhythm nation. The best part was not one person gave a damn as every-ones eyes were dilated with an oblivious craving to never loose the taste of this parallel universe”.
That is so pitiful and total trash!!!!!!
I also love this….
“I know you feel like you’re a part of Layne’s life because you are a fan, but that does not mean you have the right to judge on things you were not a part of. This site came up on my press ticket while pulling clips for some of my clients”.
LOL!!! Good. Why don’t you check your facts before you assume I’m just a fan like you.
I was there and I never saw or heard of YOU. If you think I need to ask your permission to trash your “almost” book which hasn’t even been mentioned online in YEARS then you have another thing coming. If this book is ever seriously published… I’m just going to give you a heads up now..There’s going to be a lot of bloggers out there who are also AIC fans who will tear you apart and I’m pretty sure they will not ask you for your permission first.
I don’t feel obligated to get a quote from you or hear your side of your fake fictional story. You say pictures don’t lie.. well actually yes they can..Even if you showed me a picture of you sucking Layne off you couldn’t make me believe for two seconds that he was dating you or that you and him had some secret techno love affair. I can tell just from your excerpt that he wouldn’t of dug you.
It’s totally possible that you hung out with him for maybe a weekend or something..we’ve all had random flings but your not supposed to go off and write a fucking book about it and make it into something more then it was. Believe me I knew Layne during what you call his “recluse” years and he would not think this crap you’ve written is cool or honest or a good deal. He’d think that you were a selfish bitch who was trying to make money off his death and his drug addiction. Your trying to save junkies my ass. PUKE!!!!! A hard-on doesn’t count as personal growth.
You can call me a liar I can call you a liar it’s all pretty fantastic really.
The thing is I KNOW your making whatever you had with Layne into some BIG Magical adventure and maybe it was.. for you.. but I can promise you it was probably just another day for him. I’m also positive that he would not appreciate you trying to make a living off his name.
I don’t appreciate it and I hope your shitty book never see’s the light of day. I promise you that our friends would agree with me on this. Demri and all the other people in his life who REALLY did share his life with him. NOT YOU.
Tanya I’d like to see things from your point of view but I can’t seem to get my head that far up my ass.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Notice how Tanya has NOT come back to defend herself? It’s women like her that give white trash a bad name.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I would just like to thank all of you for your class. Wasn’t born in 94. I’m 29. I think all of you are great and wonderful people for keeping Layne’s memory alive in your hearts. You all speak so well and causing such a muck about me has helped generate interest in the book. In turn it will cause the presales of my book to increase and generate more money for charity. This said, I thank you all for playing right into the palm of my hand and helping me accomplish my goals to 1) Raise more money for Layne’s charity and The LA Free Clinic by causing a stir about my book and 2) Giving hope to others who couldn’t get a legitimate job in the music industry (or as a stripper)hope to one day take time away from their small families, and small lives, to write hateful spiteful and uneducated FAN letters on a FAN web page. Truly, Thank you again. This is my last post as I have to get back to my life now. Thanks for the surge ! Bye kiddies.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Oh, and those of you who DO want to read my FREE blog, myspace.com/8thlayneentertainment Why not call SNL yourself and see which one it was. I have no tracks to cover, just the story of my life. You don’t have to like it but don’t write about what you don’t know about first hand. As far as two clients- two clients in five years for not getting paid is a valid reason not to keep them on. I don’t think any person on here would continue to go to work if they were not getting paid. Just how life works. I wouldn’t think any of you would understand that because you are all too musy writing stuff you think you know about me. Write me directly. We may disagree but at least a fair and direct conversation would take place. And again, I do think it is great all of you love Layne so much. Bye kiddies.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Tanya…you’re calling this a stir – heh, you don’t get out much, do you? So why hasn’t Random House signed you yet? Come on, you’re an accomplished author (yes, yes…no)! As for your diatribe, so bloody immature… ‘nuf said!
PS. Successful you say? ROFL! Yeah…totally…I can SO see it now! Damn exploitive fluffer…
PPS. Pre-sales? You gotta be shitting me, no self-respecting AIC fan would even dream of touching your book…I’d rather encourage the entire community to give this book the recognition it deserves – none whatsoever!
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Here’s an email from Tanya and my response just so everyone can see what a jerk she is.
Tanya Vece Said,
Wow, such rage and hate. I must have really gotten under your skin. Nope, never heard of you. There is such as thing as a forensic photography analysis all publishing companies put their photographs, via new authors, through. I laugh because you are so uneducated on who Layne was I question who you are. If you knew me , or heard any of my interviews, you would know I never claimed to ever be Layne’s girlfriend and talked about Demri and Layne’s relationship. I really do feel bad for you. I thought I could reason with someone trying to have an educated and constructive, yet different, point of view than I. I see the person responding to me has only harsh, negative, untrue and unbiased things to say to and about me without knowing me and never KNOWING Layne. You even bring in the quote “sucking him off”. How classy of you to bring a lude term up in any conversation about your so-called friend. Yeah, I pictured you in your flip flops and Coors Light T-Shirt in front of the computer patting yourself on the back for thinking of that insult all on your own. Then I felt even sadder as I thought how fans like you really think you have a connection in real life to any musician. Your reply has painted a true picture of the ignorance that exists in you. I’ll make sure to put a special mention, along with your email, on the publisher’s web site when the book goes to presale. I think your comments will help sell the book, and cause all that money to go to Layne’s charity as well as The LA Free Clinic. SO I guess I owe you a thank you. Thank you for being so small minded and responding to me allowing for a heated debated in which return sells more books with all the money going to charity. Again, Thank you. ——————————————————————————————–
Tanya,
Ok, My name is Barbara Dearaujo I’m 36, I met Layne when I was 19 and I was best friends with him and his girlfriend for most of my 20’s until Demri passed away and then I left Seattle. I don’t give a rats ass if you don’t know me because I seriously have no clue who you are.
You were what 21 when you were hanging out with him? and he was 33-34? You were a young girl and he was far beyond Strung out and heart broken. He had lost most his teeth and completely destroyed his body and looked like the walking dead but YOU this young gossip queen was hanging out with him in techno clubs??? You were getting into his head? You were his shoulder to cry on? I happen to know he never left his house and smoked crack and did dope all day. I have to be honest your story about the techno disco fantasy.. I wish that was what really happened. It’d be nice to think of him having fun instead of slowly killing himself in his condo.
Umm…Ok
All I know is you’re writing about my good friend.and then calling me an uneducated groupie. Your story is fantasy and sensationalism. Because even if you did know him and I’m sure you probably did meet him. Big deal. A lot of people met Layne.
The difference is meeting Layne and hanging out with him for let’s give you a bit of credit and say you hung out with him for a month, 2 months..lets say you were talking to him for half a year..
That’s not enough to write a book about him like your some kind of Layne expert? I say bullshit. Complete garbage and if you were so close to Layne I would of heard about you or ran into you. It’s not like he had this huge social circle. He didn’t.
If you think 10 comments on my blog will stir up a huge amount of publicity for your lame book well that’s um.. hilarious. We fed into your hands? That’s also a good one. This is not TMZ.com this is just a sub-domain on my main website which is a Webdesign blog. This is not going to do a damn thing for you but make you look even more stupid and greedy then you already do.
The comments you’ve made here only show you for what you are and that’s a girl who may have possibly met Layne and who decided that their trip to the gothic drug disco was enough to make her an expert on Layne’s life.
My friend… You truly suck.
I doubt these will need “forensic photography analysis” but it will at least shut people up who wanna call me a groupie or worse a liar, I’ve never posted these online because I never felt that I needed to prove anything to anyone but eh I feel the need to shut you up..
I can promise you this..they don’t give these to groupies or 22 year old journalists.
Just so you can see and maybe if you planned on taking it to your forensic buddy.
Calling me uneducated… or picturing me in a Coors t-shirt. Also far from realistic.
But then again you don’t know me.
I can see from your Myspace page that you think knowing celebrities makes you cool and writing celebrity gossip makes you educated.
If you knew Layne then you would know he wasn’t into that celebrity bullshit and he wouldn’t of hung out with someone who was. YOU! So, maybe he was seriously fucked up that night who knows or maybe he was just horribly lonely and you entertained him. I have no clue why all I know is you have no right to make money off him or tell his story and he’d be kicking his own ass for letting you into his world if he could.
If he even did.
Your quote: “Let me just say there are some things I won’t expand on — some things even I will keep secret!”
You can’t tell me you were not trying to add to the mystery and stir up interest by implying that you and him had a romantic relationship with that LOADED quote. You’re a pro at stirring up gossip. I mean your are the “Gossip Queen” after all.. right? Well at least it says so in that clipping you posted on your Myspace.
Believe me.. I know you didn’t have sex with him because sex was the last thing on Layne’s mind in the end. He was not feeling sexy or looking sexy. He was destroyed physically, emotionally and mentally. He was like 96 pounds. You would of cringed at the sight of him and honestly unless you were getting high with Layne… you were not hanging out with Layne period. So.. is that what you were doing? Is that your big “secret”?
Anyway.. I could go on for days and yes you have pist me off.
I just want to say this…you make me sick. I hope you get what you deserve. Nothing.
Barbara Dearaujo
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Oh and by the way she might not of found my “sucking him off” comment funny.. but I did.
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Oh Tanya…..I thank you. This was so much fun. Who’s the publisher? Which script did you write for SNL? Did your daddy, Nikki, ever touch your no-no area? What club did your mama work at? I can only imagine her profession involved a pole of some kind. Hey….what’s the address to that mysterious club Layne took you to?
All these answers and more when we return.
P.S. SPELLCHECK…it’s a writers best friend.
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Whoa….Barbara…This chick is sicker than we thought. She evidently tells people she is the daughter of Nikkie Sixx, that she is Russell Brands fiance/baby mama and that she represents Joaquin Phoenix as PR consultant. She is a ghost…..She has spread rumours about herself all over the web, just to drum up publicity for herself. Not one thing about her can actually be verified. She even spread a rumour that she fucked Keanu Reeves.
Seriously….This is one twisted fuck. I would avoid her at all cost.
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Wow…Nikki Sixx (and I thought that was a joke…this girl for real?!?); Ms. Vese, I’m honoured…truly, I am! It might actually be possible! Yup, imagine some shady, poorly lit alleyway…a truly romantic setting and yes, sadly, growing up with a father strumming out megahit after megahit… Ach shame Ms. Vese…and there you were, growing up on the streets of Vegas with daddy’s truly inspiring ballad promising his return…ah, such a heartfelt song (Ms. Vese, if you’re not in the know…go check out “Home Sweet Home” by your daddy’s band; that would be Motley Crue, btw)!
…now if only her publisher actually existed!
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Oh….well, the plot thickens. She also has represented Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Vedder, Celine Dion, Korn, Elton John, Eminem….Oprah, huh? According to her horsey mag, she did an INTERVIEW with Eddie Vedder. No, not the singer, the plumber from Jersey! But if interviewing a guy with the same name, equates to have “worked with”, then I’ll be damned.
I once bumped into Gregory Hines on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. I suppose I could tell people that I “danced” with Gregory Hines?
Wow…..I really should re-think my resume. I have a lot of tweaking to do.
Oh and btw, the book she is writing is merely a collection of stories she gathered from fans all over the world, who wrote in to her pathetic webzine, on a tab she calls “Memory Layne”. She also claims that Layne found her after she took an overdose of pills and gathered her wallet and keys and began to counsel her on why she needs to “live”. He took her under his gentle wing and nursed her back to health. And for the next 5 years of his life, till the day he died, he was her rock. Her strength…her “will to live”. She wants all of his TRUE fans to know what he really was.
I can’t wait for the auction of his fingernail clippings on Ebay. I am sure she has those laying around somewhere. “But it’s for charity”…Wah.
Hey everybody….I am just going to put this out there now….I had hot monkey sex with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…..Yes…..THE Mozart. Please look for my tell all book to be released soon.
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Isn’t there like a law against misrepresenting oneself? Isn’t that like, I don’t know, called fraud or something of that nature? Shouldn’t Ms. Vece (there I go again…but can’t just call her “hag”/”crone”/, could I?) be howling away her pathetic little existence while stuck on Cell Block C of some Alabama prison? Shouldn’t AIC’s representation be looking into this, maybe compiling a media report of their own? Perhaps a press release of their own! I mean, for heavens sake, where do we draw the line; what is fiction and what borders on slander? And normally I wouldn’t have gotten upset…except, the man’s no longer here to defend himself, to tell her off…
@ Yvonne: Hell yeah, Mozart was one tight ass brother; he got it on with ladies all the way from Novosibirsk to Nantucket! I was like at this one party once and dude…that sh!t was ill! Gonna write a book about it, actually…it has already been written, it’s called…um, yeah, Mozard: The dirty life and times – a night in Tanya Vece… And yeah, there are parts even I will keep secret! Like…the threesome, with like…a group of bikers…oh wait, sorry, did I say threesome…meant like, um… Well, that’s Tanya Vece in a nutshell! As for Eddie Vedder, Oprah … for the love of humanity!
@ Barbara: Love the facelift platinum pics – insane!!! Best of all, you never flaunted that around…or anything like that! That said, glad you did this time around! Awesome, awesome photos! And yes, that shut her up good!
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Thanx for all your comments Yvonne and Brett I’m happy to know I’m not acting insane here but seriously..what gives this crazy bitch rights to tell Layne’s story? He’s rolling over in his grave.
I think the whole techno bar story just threw me completly off and hindered me from acting rational. That is so far from even close to a realistic setting for him at that time. Maybe when he was still healthy but this is supposed to have taken place in the last months of his life and I can assure yu he was not kicking it in clubs hanging out with some 22 year old writer? Yeh like he would trust a writer? Uh no. NOO didn’t happen period.
Anyway, Thank you for sticking it to the bitch.
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Barbara….You are SO welcome. You are doing “God’s work” here. And I defend you to the death. You and I have spoken before, but you are busy so you probably don’t recall.
I have a dear friend who I worked with in the music industry and she became EXTREMELY famous after her death….That’s when all of the vultures came out of the woodwork to cash in. It sickens me and all I can do, is sit back and laugh at these “friends” hash out false memories of her on the internet.
This foul woman will never release this garbage. I don’t think she even has 4 pages completed. If, by some sort of pact with the Devil, it DOES see the light of day, I would hope that Nancy hires a lawyer to sue her for fraud and slander.
Unfortunately we have first amendment rights in this country, that protect vermin like her. All we can hope for is that she contracts a very painful, fatal disease and then we can all dance a jig of glee!
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am
So, Tanya has responded back to me through email…I guess she didn’t like the fact that I proved I was more then a FAN and by the way.. I hate how she uses all caps every time she uses that word like it’s profanity.
Tanya Vece Said,
I have been advised to have my attorney contact you at the physical address, via your IP address.
Thank you.
My response was…
Hahahaha!
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So tell me Tanya..Who’s going to contact Layne’s lawyer? Who’s going to protect Layne? Me and his fans. Tanya is constantly referring to his fans in a negative way and what I have to say about that is this.. Yes, this is a FAN site and yes I am a FAN and FAN’s are what keep the music alive as well as the man behind the music. Without the FAN’s this site would be pointless. Without the FAN’s her book would be pointless.
What I have to say to her about her lawyer threat.. Um. Seriously? Give me a break!
I have done nothing wrong here. I have not harassed you or stalked you which are the only two laws online that would be taken serious by the police. If you went to the police over a bad review on your book they’d only laugh in your face. I questioned your morality and your validity and I’ve expressed my opinion which as far as I know is still legal in America. Yes, I used a lot of profanity and I did call you names but I did not threaten you or leave comments on your websites or stalk you online. This is my website and I have not done anything here that would get me into trouble with the law.
Just like your protected by freedom of speech.. so are we. I can and I will say that I do not believe in this book and I will not be buying it or reading it. I can and I will say how I feel on my own website. I’m still allowed to do that.
I say bring the lawyer on. Please. I’d like to talk to him.
And to think I thought you were all excited about all the publicity this post was going to give you and help you with your book sales. I thought we had fed right into the palm of your hand? I wonder what changed your mind? Maybe because now I’m not just some FAN spouting opinions? Not fair.
Remember Tanya? You said these things just one day ago…
and then again….
and then again..
I mean you Thanked me like 6 times..what did I do to change your mind Tanya? I’m really hurt. I seriously thought you liked me. I thought you were going to give me a special mention!! I’m totally bummed now.. what went wrong between us TANYA…???
**cries**
Give me a fucking break already. Boycott Taya Vece’s Book.
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Posted on July 11th, 2009 at 12:22 am
I just back from holiday, so this was the first I have read about this “new development”. Whooo….Barbara, if I were YOU, I would be shaking in my boots right about now. Gosh….A real, live lawyer is gonna contact you? wow.
Tanya, you should invest in a good editor, proof reader, maybe some white-out for your fumbling errors, a legitimate PR agency, oh and perhaps a voodoo priestess to exact your revenge on all who mock you!
And Fuck, may I add YOU!
It’s a crime that nowadays anyone can call themselves a writer.
Stay sweet, Barbara….we love you!!
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Oh hey….One more thing…..Tanya Vece IS on Twitter, but she only has 12 (TWELVE) followers. It’s almost pathetic.
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I always tip my cap when puking blood in public don’t you? This is just ridiculous. It’s disgusting and violating the memory of someone who isn’t here to defend himself. She obviously doesn’t know how protective we are of Layne.
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Posted on July 18th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Tanya Vece notes why she only as 12 followers on her myspace page. She yells at laynes fans too! it is http://www.myspace.com/8thlayneentertainment if you don’t have the link
I have the book on pre-order. I prob will return it but I want to see what she is going to put in it. I’ll share it here.
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Posted on July 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
As Layne’s fans and friends, we need to protect his legacy from garbage such as Tayna Vece. She’s nothing but a wannabe star fucker looking to cash in on lies made about a man who is not here to defend himself. Real nice. Do you honestly expect us to believe that Layne, a sickly, addicted man, was hanging out with with a 20 year old in a techno club puking blood on the floor? We aren’t stupid.
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Posted on July 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I laughed my ass off reading this blog. Barbara – I will defend you with my life from any “I-Supposedly-Hung-Out-With-A-Dying-Rockstar-Please-Let-Me-Write-A-Book”-BITCH on this planet or anyone spitting on Layne’s legacy. And yes I heard about that book and yes I read that part with the techno club before and I didn’t believe it for one second. Oh and I just wrote an “Anti-Tanya-Vece”-Post on Twitter (just for fun
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Rock on you guys
LOVE AND RESPECT FOR LAYNE
Jenny
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 at 6:05 am
lol this was a crazy blog!!!! just crazy! lol man so many things being said back and forth. no offense but when i read the excerpt i laughed out loud, i was like “pff! what?!” it was just sooo fucking far fetched. not for layne or for whoever lol but i mean in reality LOL i mean im laughing while i write this!!! i mean whaaaat was going on ahahhah, well, thanks for the laughs i needed them lol
i think the book was written for people who dont really get out much and have a “cool” life or a life at all for that matter, you know young imature people, who still have a lot ot live and are fascinated by certain things. like clubs, celebrities, “cool” people, club scenes, drugs, night time shit etc. but once youve lived a lot of things in your life, shitty times, withdrawal lol, you realize that drug fueled heroin clubs are really not super cool.
i think this lady just….who knows shes around celebs, or something, maybe shes gotta a couple “connections” or …whats it called when you say hi to someone but youre not friends, you just know each other barely? you know stuff like that. and so she thinks shes got a right to talk about this and that and blah blah blah. and whatever its fine if she had a night or any bit of time, however long it was with layne, but….bff…..i mean, im going to compare experiences here just for the sake of sharing. because of certain things and my dads job etc, people like sebastian bach have been in my car, and the guys from The Cult. but like…..im not going to write a book about it LOL it would be so stupid!! i mean i would have to have no shame you know? i mean hello youre putting yourself out there as this and that but youre really not…..so…..dont. i wouldnt. i even dont like writing what i did here, because it always seems like youre boasting you know? but im not!! i obviously dont gain anything from it. in fact all i got from the guys from the cult was some free abysnth shots lol, theyre were all after absynth hahahahah
anyway, i think this ladys really stupid, and i really think barbara is so awesome and so real. because she didnt start this blog from the side of “look at me im so and so i was best friends WITH LAYNE STALEY OMG!” she easily couldve and she didnt. putting the pictures of the albums and etc. but she totallyyyyy didnt, ever. i think that makes her wayyyyy down to earth, and real. i mean on another scale, i never talk to anyone about stuff like what i said before, sebastian bach in my car etc and thats why when i read the other stuff she would write before like, i dont have to prove myself, its because DUH, she KNOWS the truth lol, and she knows shes not lying.
i do have to give this “writer” a thumbs up for having a lot of nerve haha. i owuld never ever ever dream of doing anything like that…..i mean it sounds so made up.
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Posted on August 18th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Hi,
You have probably been asked this several times, but would you ever consider writing a book? I think that if the right people or person did it, it could be a worthy project and worthy of the subjects. We all know the ugliness but if someone could fill in the holes of that with the good things, the rationales, it could complete the story and in the process I think help a lot of people and stop a lot of the fiction that is out there. I have listened to them since I was in high school and I think he spoke to people our age and that is a story in itself that is still relevant today. Please think about it. Maybe it would be cathartic for a lot of people for a lot of reasons.
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Posted on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
There’s much more to this, everyone. Much, much more. If it was just revolving around poor deceased Layne, that wouldn’t still be that mad.
Sadly, at this point, it revolves around A-list celebrities supposedly endorsing the book long before it’s even published, IF it ever gets published. It also involves getting poor development bands lied to. If you go to (website removed by moderator because thie website will not promote her in anyway good or bad) and try to log into the A-list section or log in as a client…do you think it will work? No, you will be redirected to the front page. THERE IS NO A-LIST. The subject knows these celebrities as much as someone in Botswana or Ghana does.
This needs to be stopped. Now. Many good-hearted people fell victims to this whole thing and it results in nothing other than even more confusion. I know people who were victims of this person’s scams and it goes so far that you wouldn’t even believe that anyone with an actual conscience, or any bit of it left, would have been doing this to innocent people. Their feelings will be hurt, I’m sure, but they NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
R.I.P. Layne and Demri.
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
@Doreen Ward – The website your referring to her (website address has been removed by the moderator because we don’t want to promote her) site just goes to a under construction parking page. Are you sure that’s the right address? Believe me I know this person has no conscience. None at all. That is no big news.Thanks for your comment.
.-= ibdreamy > Barbara´s last blog ..Merry Go Round Icon Set – Pastel Pretty-ness =-.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
Oops, sorry, it works only when typed with www.
And I apologise for having said too much in just one post, I am just very angry, so are my scammed friends.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I Haven’t been to these blogs in quite some time. Barbara, you fucking rock! This Vece skank is nothing but a two-bit groupie. As I’m reading some of her nonsense, I couldn’t help thinking exactly what you said. Does she expect anyone in their right mind with a half a brain to believe that Layne Staley was kickin’ it with a 20 year old little groupie-chick wannabe??? Her fantasies are sick and wrong, and a bitch-slap to every person who ever knew and loved Layne. She is making a mockery of the man and his memory, and it pisses me off to no end. Your voice is being heard loud and clear and representing the majority of AIC and Layne FANS. Keep it real Barbara…you are doing one hell of a job keeping Layne’s memory alive and respectable. Thank you for doing what you do!
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Hmmm, I really feel sick after reading this Tanya Vece fantasy story!! I’m from Seattle and I moved away in 1995, I really don’t recall any kind of underground Heroin club scene. Seattle did have a rave scene and the raves moved from warehouse to warehouse and the ravers took all kinds of drugs. The Vouge the Re-Bar, and Moes on Cap-Hill also had rave nights. I really doubt that Layne would hang out at a place like that, he was a mellow, funny, nice guy and gifted singer. Seattle has lost too many great musicians please don’t us in the heart just to make a buck!!!
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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