There is a problem with your email/password. In 2010, Starr was reported to be working with his new band, which included touring with the bandDays of the New. So why was Mike given the boot but Jerry didn't kick out Layne for the same reason? [His] performance was flawless and this just about squashes all rumors of his prior poor health condition. In 1997 Inez played with his Alice in Chains bandmate, Jerry Cantrell, on his debut solo album, Boggy Depot. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. 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The crowd response was amazing as crowd-surfing and high-decibel applause was present.". Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66660320/mike-starr. Then the trio began staging what Cantrell and Kinney later said were fake auditions in order to coax Staley into joining their band. Bath 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. 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. Mike had been an original Gypsy Rose member, but coincidentally he had left the band shortly after Jerry exited, due to an argument over a woman. Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies EP was released in 1994 with Inez on bass. Their lead singer, the astonishingly talented Layne Staley, passed away in 2002 after years of falling into a drug-induced shamble of decay, tooth loss, and torment, as related on Guitarworld. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. It was a time of heavy substance abuse for him, of which he says,"Getting f****** up is fun, and that's why people do it. Everyone has their own opinion. After their last live performance on July 3, 1996, Alice in Chains went on hiatus. In the clip Starr can be heard saying, "In the heyday of ALICE IN CHAINS, I was the best bass player/entertainer there was. In 1993 he left the group. Mike caused trouble on tour I remember hearing somewhere. This was around the same time that Cantrell met Staley and recruited him into Alice in Chains. Make sure that the file is a photo. It was in this huge warehouse called the Music Bank that had fifty different rooms, Cantrell says. We wanted to continue intense touring and press, Mike was ready to go home." The band would concur and ditch their manager and sign with Susan Silver, as well as Pearl jam manager Kelly Kurtis and Ken Deans. During the Dirt tour bassist Mike Starr was kicked out of Alice in Chains due to his budding drug addiction. A statement from Primary Include gps location with grave photos where possible. [4][5] Inez has earned seven Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.[6]. 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. A Subreddit for anything Alice in Chains related. The group also participated in the 1993 Lollapalooza Tour . 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. The band reunited in 2005 for a live benefit show, Alice in Chain's music was deeply personal and vulnerable, and a lot of that comes down to its confessional nature. 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. Bassist Mike Starr would also overdose, in 2011. Since the late 1980s, his career has consisted of the role of bass guitarist in popular hard rock bands. Former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead Tuesday afternoon (March 8). 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. I decided to stop because I was miserable doing it. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. 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. The main singer for the band's tour was William DuVall. He was 44. There is much speculation regarding the meaning behind the name Alice In Chains. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Layne would recall that meeting telling an interviewer when i met mike starr he was on a honda motorcycle in his bathrobe and sunglasses. A few songs from the Tokyo, Japan show of this tour appear in the bonus features section of their live DVD, Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. ", 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. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. These are just words Im pulling off the top of my head. In 2004, Inez recorded the track "Crazy or High" with Black Label Society for their studio album release Hangover Music Vol. In 1989, more than 50 musicians auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne's group, and Inez, then a member of the local L.A. band Skin on Skin, won the spot of bassist. Considered a commercial long shot compared with other local heroes, Alice in Chains signed with Columbia in 1989 after Nick Terzo, a rep involved with the bands music publishing, joined the labels A&R team. Why? 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.. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. The group recorded It's Five O'Clock Somewhere although Inez did not play any live shows during the corresponding tour. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Negative racial/anti-Semitic, or religious stereotypes are prohibited. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Mike Inez began his career in music by playing guitar and saxophone. For Cantrell, though, this wasn't his first experience with pain not by far. 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. He said he recognized the man as Michael Christopher Starr and called police. ", The Untold Truth Of Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell. 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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. His parents would split at a young age and Mike would move to Florida with his father. Back in April 2005, Seattle's KIROTV.com reported that Mike Starr was arrested in Seattle for vandalizing a car. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Mike Starr, the former Alice in Chains bass player who went public with his drug problems on a reality TV show, has been found dead nine years after the band's singer died of an overdose. The tattoo parlor is cluttered with designs of skulls, gargoyles, dragons and other Goth images. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. In his own plain and direct words, "I felt emotions when I listened to music. Staley is reluctant at first to discuss his heroin problems, especially in light of a recent Rolling Stone article about the drugs revival, which mentioned him. These projects represent the greatest works from one of the best artists of the iconic Nineties Seattle-based grunge era. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. Cantrell talks about the myth of drugged-up, creative musicians, and says that he'd produced better music without it. 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. He was the original bassist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains (1987 to 1993). Mike Starr was fired from Alice In Chains because of his drug problem. Learn more about merges. 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. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Once the buzz began that the region was a fertile territory for new bands, talent scouts from major labels came swarming up in droves. For all the albums out-of-the-box success, the making of Dirt was plagued by bad luck. The article, he says, caused his family and friends much grief. It was just a difference in priorities, lead singer Layne Staley told Rolling Stone in 1994. Thanks for your help! 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. 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