I found this posted on Flickr.com.. which reminds me check out the new gallery page on this site. By the way.. I LOVE Second Coming and so did Layne and Mike Starr.

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Alice In Chains Announces New Album “Black Gives Way To Blue” Listening Parties

Alice In Chains are currently set to release their new album “Black Gives Way To Blue” on September 29th. The band has issued the following announcement about two exclusive listening parties for the album:

“Do you live in L.A. or New York? Do you have an unquenchable thirst to hear the new Alice In Chains album now? Do you want to be cooler than everyone else for the next two months? Then check this out…

“There will be two private listening parties coming up, and a very small number of lucky Alice In Chains fans will be able to hear the new album in its entirety long before the release date on September 29th.

“The first listening party in Los Angeles will be this coming Tuesday, July 14th, at 7:00 P.M. The New York Listening party will be on July 21st.

“Here’s all you need to do: Send an email to aliceinchains@velvethammer.net with either LOS ANGELES or NEW YORK in the subject line and include your name, email address, and phone number.

“Five winners will be chosen at random, and the winners will be able to bring one guest. You’ll sit next to record company honchos and industry bigwigs as they all get a sneak preview of Black Gives Way To Blue. Then you can race home and start blogging about the music, and every board member on this site will hammer you with questions for the next two months.

“Here’s the pseudo-legal portion of the contest: Admission is non-transferrable, so if you’re one of the chosen few, this means your name will be your ticket in, and you can’t send your cousin Larry in your place.

“Absolutely no cameras, cell phones, video cameras, or recording devices of any kind will be allowed. You will be patted down and searched before you enter, so don’t try anything sneaky or you won’t be let in. If you look sketchy, suspicious, or just plain weird you will probably be given a body cavity search as well, so take a shower and try and be on your best behavior. And most importantly, LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AND CAMERA IN THE CAR!!!

“That’s about it. Winners for L.A. will be announced Monday, winners for New York will be announced July 20th – so send in your emails now and sit back and cross your fingers for the next couple of days.

“Good luck…”

Alice In Chains Reports On “Black Gives Way To Blue” Listening Party

By Metal Underground

Alice In Chains recently held a listening party for their upcoming album “Black Gives Way To Blue,” which will be released on September 29th. The band issued the following report on the party:

“Ive been to a record release party before, but never a listening party. There actually isn’t that much of a difference, but at the record release party the emphasis seemed to be on party, while last night’s emphasis was definitely on listening.

“Oh sure, there were some typical L.A. industry weasels who were more concerned with their hair gel than the album, but the vast majority of people were paying attention and rocking out.

“I couldn’t pick out the website winners from the industry types, but I imagine they may have been the ones that were banging their heads and playing air drums. But then again I saw some label people doing a bit of air guitaring too, so who knows?

“The event was held at the Ricardo Montalban Theater, so instead of standing around schmoozing and sucking down free cocktails all night long, most people sat down and listened to the record as still images were projected on a giant screen onstage.

“There were about 300 people there, and with the exception of a few of them getting out of their seats to go to the lobby (It’s L.A. man, of course there was free food & drinks), they sat in their seats and actually listened for nearly an hour.

“No one knew the song titles, no one knew how many songs there would be, and no one knew that when it was all over the screen would rise and the band would be set up on stage to play.

“The guys started off the short set with Down In A Hole, then Jerry said a few words before they played two new songs; Your Decision, and the title track, Black Gives Way To Blue.

“So now that a few people have finally heard it and Jerry spoke publicly about the lyrical content, I think I can reveal to the rest of you that the title of the album and the song of the same name are dedicated and in reference to Layne.

“For the guys to play it live for the first time was an emotional experience, and it did Layne proud, as it sounded amazing and the crowd went nuts when it was over.

“The whole thing was an emotional experience, but instead of getting all sentimental and Oprah-ey, I think I’ll just quote Jerry, who said to me, ‘We’ve been sitting on this f*%#ing egg for so long, it feels good to finally hatch it.’

“Unfortunately it doesn’t get hatched for real until September, but last night was a nice sneak preview.”

“A Looking In View” Download

Alice In Chains has posted their new music video online for the song, “A Looking In View.” You can check it out by heading to the bands official website.  ”A Looking in View” song is also a free download  (registration is required).

The song is from their upcoming album “Black Gives Way To Blue,” which is scheduled to be released on September 29th through Virgin Records.

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Found this online and decided to post it here..

When the Suffering Undoes the Artist

By JON PARELES

Published NY Times: Sunday, April 28, 2002

(NY Times Article)
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Alice in Chains is coming to the Roseland Theater on September 26th. Tickets go on sale Saturday but buy your tickets starting now! There is no password, just click the link!

Alice in Chains Presale

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GRIND by ~Lilith413

Check out even more Layne Staley Fan Art at Deviantart.com after the cut, there are a ton of these amazing art pieces dedicated to Layne and a few even to Demri which is awesome, Layne has touched a lot of hearts in this world it is obvious. If you have something to contribute send it to me.

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Demri was a huge fan of the Cocteau Twins and if you’ve never heard their music I recommend checking them out. I LOVE them too.
I just thought I’d add that just in case people might be curious as too what kind of music besides grunge. She also like the Cure, Violent Femmes, Janes Addiction and she was actually friends with Perry Farrell from Janes Addiction.

She loved to create crafts like paper collages and decoupage which is where she’d cut out Victorian styled angels and fairies and flowers.. usually from real pretty wrapping paper, wallpaper or whatever she could find (stuff like this) and then she’d use decoupage clue and clue them all to boxes, antique makeup totes and carry cases. She loved to surround herself with art and pictures.

She’d also cut out pictures and then plaster the walls in her apartment and then later in her hospital room with all kinds of art collages and hanging dried flowers. She loved dried flowers and incesne. But Demri was a not a hippy, goth, grunge girl..she was her own creation. She was the “it” girl in Seattle in the early 90’s and anyone who knew her and the club scene at the time I doubt would argue with me on that.

You can see an example of the type of stuff she did in these pictures..not her stuff but you’ll get the point I think.
Decoupaged Suit Case
Paper project..so Demri

She liked cupids, hearts and anything Victorian for example these Victorian clip art.

In the early 90’s she dressed in all kinds of crazy yet cute clothes anything retro or vintage. She loved long dresses, skirts, tutu’s, over-alls and doc martins, hand-made clothes, she never really wore jeans and t-shirts it was always something you’d never think of wearing but looked great on her and made you wish you would thought of it type of thing but even if you had of it probably wouldn’t of looked as cool on you..haha. She had that tiny little body that looks great in clothes.

She always wore her hair really long like too her butt or longer and she had thick wavy auburn hair and even though it was usually knotted and dred locked here and there but knotted or not it always looked cool. She wore black nail polish and when she wore make up she used maybe some black mascara and red lips but she didn’t usually wear a lot of make up maybe except for lipstick when she went out. She was also the first girl I met who used her lipstick to add blush to her cheeks.
She also wore Patchouli oil and oil perfumes..which I’m not a fan of myself but it smelled good on her and she definitely had a very distinct smell. Her whole house smelled like her, her clothes, and if she stayed at my house.. my house smelled like her too. It was not a bad smell not at all just uniquely Demri. She always looked adorable even when she wasn’t trying.

What else can I say.. the girl was unique and amazing and since she was older then me..I always kind of looked up to her so if it sounds like I’m idolizing her her.. I’m not. I know Demri had her faults and I believe me I was not blind to those but we all do and why talk about those over and over when she’s gone forever, what good does that do?
I want to remember the funny, sweet, beautiful parts of her and share those things with the people who are interested and from the stats on this post it sure seems that there are a lot of people who are interested in knowing more about who Demri really was.
I just wanted to add a little more and to shed more light on who she was as a girl and not just the tragedy. She was so much more then that….

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Layne had a cat named “Yttik” which is kitty spelled back wards.

That’s my funny tid bit for the day.. Oh and he loved pudding. At one point I think he was only eating pudding..chocolate pudding, vanillia pudding…

He liked to make people laugh and he could be extremely silly at times and then at other times quiet and introverted… he was very down to earth..you never would of known he was famous or whatever unless of course you knew who he was. He didn’t dress in expensive clothes, drive expensive cars…he did buy a Harley Davidson at one point though.
He didn’t act holier then thou and he was nice to his fans just as long as they were not annoying. But hey no one likes annoying people.. He would talk to people if they were respectful of his space and didn’t ask rude questions about his drug use etc.. That would piss him off. He never wanted people to think using drugs was something that he thought was cool. Some idiots would try to impress him in all the wrong ways but just as long as people didn’t act retarded or rude then he would be cool to his fans. Same with Demri. She didn’t hate groupies. I’d say she hated annoying people but not groupies in general. Demri loved people and she would make friends with everyone she met. Demri was bi-sexual and she loved to flirt with girls. She also loved to embarrass them if at all possible. She’d whisper something in their ear and you’d see their mouth just drop open and you’d be like OMG Demri what did you say to her? It was always something overly sexual and wild and the girl was usually three shades of pink. So in that way Demri and Layne were the same..they loved to shock people. Get a reaction out of someone wether it be laughter or shock.
Both of them were pretty hilarious, together they were pretty funny too and cute.

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Layne singing with a local band called Seventhsign. It’s been rumored that this is Demri singing in the video with him but I’m here to tell you.. that’s absolutely not Demri. Period. Just like it’s not Demri on the cover of the Dirt album. Ok, so now that we got that squared away.. enjoy the video. Layne didn’t know the lyrics and was on crutches so it’s pretty classic. Watch! Enjoy!

Layne Staley w/ Seventhsign

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This is the video played during the changeover from the electric to acoustic set on the 2006 Alice in Chains tour. It’s a brief look at a little of what made so many of us love Layne so much …

Layne Staley Tribute Video (Features Rare Footage)!!!

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To view the rest of this set please visit the photographers Flickr.com account.

I was pleasantly surprised to find these pictures online and was even more surprised to see my best friend Rosheen is also in the pictures with Demri. Rosheen passed away 6 months after Demri.

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