If nineties rock has a sadder story than Starr’s it’s hard to find. Drew Pinsky, Celebrity Rehab’s creator, host, and chief medical officer: “Devastating to hear of Mike Starr succumbing to his illness. Mike Starr!! Such a sad day!” “Drugs and alcohol aren’t a joke.” And from Dr.
But today, he’s a low, single-note counterpoint to the merry melodies of Charlie Sheen, his passing marked not by candlelight vigils or teary radio-show call-ins, but those cursory, dot-dot-dash micro-eulogies of the multitasker, tweets. Decades ago, Starr would have been a former rock star who died a rock star. While it’s unclear how this particular reality will affect the show’s tenability and ratings, even obituary headlines seemed to recognize the milestone, identifying the deceased as “Celeb Rehab Rocker” or “of Alice in Chains/Celebrity Rehab,” - epithets reflecting Starr’s dual role in public life during his last two years alive. He is survived by his father, John, his mother, Gayle, and his sister, Melinda.Last Tuesday afternoon, the Celebrity Rehab reality show suffered its first certified death: Mike Starr, Season 3, dead at 44.
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He later appeared in a spin-off TV series, Sober House, charting his struggle with sobriety. The drug problems continued and he appeared in 2010 alongside the actor Tom Sizemore and the basketball player Dennis Rodman on the US reality TV show Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew. The following year Starr was sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing luggage at Houston Intercontinental airport, Texas. They recorded an eponymous debut album but disbanded after Gillen's death in 1993. Shortly after leaving the band, Starr joined Sun Red Sun, whose members included Al Romano, Ray Gillen and Bobby Rondinelli. The band later regrouped with a new singer, William DuVall, and have enjoyed renewed popularity. Alice in Chains continued to record, but Staley's addiction problems forced them into a hiatus. He later claimed he was fired by the band. His increasing drug addiction made him unable to function on tour. However, the lifestyle the band sang about was destroying them, and Starr left in 1993. Starr was credited with co-writing one of Dirt's tracks, Rain When I Die. In the UK the band had four top 40 hits with tracks from Dirt: Them Bones, Angry Chair, Down in a Hole and Would?, which was also included on the grunge soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's Seattle-set film Singles (1992). The songs are heavy yet underpinned by precise melodies and Starr's fluid, supple playing, while the lyrics graphically document heroin addiction, self-loathing and dysfunction. Dirt stands as arguably grunge's most remarkable document. Released in September 1992, the album was a huge critical and commercial hit, reaching No 6 in the US. They toured widely, made the well-received acoustic EP Sap, and then returned to the studio to record a second album, Dirt. By mid-1991, the band's single Man in the Box was on heavy rotation on MTV and Facelift had sold close to half a million copies in the US, making Alice in Chains one of the first Seattle bands to get national attention. Seattle was becoming known for a new US rock sound dubbed grunge, which blurred the boundaries between heavy metal and hardcore punk, and eschewed the posturing that had rendered the Los Angeles rock scene cartoon-like. A month later, the group's debut album, Facelift, was released to a positive critical response but modest initial sales. With Silver as their manager, the band signed to Columbia Records and released an EP, We Die Young, in July 1990, attracting a strong response from US rock radio. A local promoter, Randy Hauser, was so impressed by the band that he financed a recording demo and passed it on to Susan Silver, the manager of another emerging Seattle group, Soundgarden.
Cantrell's expressive guitar textures meshed well with Staley's weary vocals while Starr and Kinney locked down huge, rolling rhythms.
Alice in Chains quickly won a loyal following around Seattle and Washington state.
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