#1980 demri

[littlequeenies]

Ca. 1980/81 - Little Demri with her family celebrating a birthday.

(L to R) Kathleen Austin holding possibly baby Derek, a family member, Demri's cousin Kaytie blowing the candles and Demri behind her, and Devin.

Posted in https://www.instagram.com/demri_lara_parrott/ who thanks @memoriesofdemri

[modelartist-demri]

Demri by Jack Plasky, at her apartment, unknown exact date.

💬 Jack Plasky: “Demri was beautiful, and proud of her body. Once she created (lightning fast) her little set to work in, those clothes came flying off. I tried asking her questions ... but I could not get the words out, and grabbed my camera and started shooting. When we shot, we never talked about what we wanted to achieve, but at the end we both got what we wanted. We were one.

Memory thanks to @memoriesofdemri

[demri-parrott-staley-blog]

Demri Lara Parrott (February 22, 1969 – October 29, 1996) was the long-term companion of Layne Staley, original singer of Alice in Chains.

Early life

Parrott was born in Bremerton, Washington to Kathleen Austin and Dennis Dougherty on February 22, 1969. She had three brothers: Devin, Derek and David. She attended school in Arlington, Washington and dropped out in her Junior year. Some of her interests included philosophy, poetry, decoupage, art and theather. She also worked briefly as a model.

Later years

It's believed that Parrott met singer Layne Staley sometime in the late 1980s, as she is thanked in the liner notes of Alice in Chains' debut album Facelift (1990). She was widely believed to be the woman in the cover of the band's second album, Dirt, however, this was denied by her mother, and later revealed to be actress Mariah O'Brien.

During her relationship with Staley, both developed a heroin addiction. They got engaged in 1992, but split up sometime between 1993-94. Due to her drug usage, Parrott started having heart problems and went on several open-heart surgeries. She passed away on October 29, 1996 from endocarditis at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington and is buried in the Ivy Green Cemetery in Bremerton. Staley passed away six years later, on April 5, 2002.

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[littlequeenies]

Hello!

What kind of outfits/clothing pieces were a staple in Demri Parrott's everyday wear?

Thanks so much!

Barbara Dearaujo: “Demri was a fashion nut. She loved everything vintage. Victorian style dresses, 70’s stuff, overalls and combat boots. She wore things no one else could even try to pull off without looking like a weirdo but she always seemed to make the weirdest things look cute and cool. I’m pretty sure Demri was one of the girls who started the so-called ‘Seattle Grunge Look’, for girls at least. Demri was not a rocker chick, she totally had her very own style going on that we all secretly wanted to emulate.

In the early 90’s she dressed in all kinds of crazy yet cute clothes, anything retro or vintage. She loved long dresses, skirts, tutus, overalls 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 this type of thing but even if you had it probably wouldn’t of looked as cool on you. She had that tiny little body that looks great in clothes.

She always wore her hair really long like to her butt or longer and she had thick wavy auburn hair. 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.” [5]

[Spring 1990 - by Krista Kay]

Ryan Kalsbeck: “Layne and Dem had that full on vintage clothing styles mixed with a hippie, new grunge rock twist. Homemade glass beaded long necklaces and bracelets, funky hats, hair sticks. Dem had pink lace and satin knickers that were real and from the 1900s.”

[1992 - By Alison Dyer]

Sherri: “She would always wear the rolled up overalls with black tights. She was so cute and original. Biggest smile, she always lit up the room. Heart of gold!”

[1991 - By Ed Chalfa]

Jacque: “As to her clothing style, it was kind of hippy chick but distinctively Demri.”

[1988 - By Krista Kay]

Kathleen Austin: “Someone once told me she would show up at a club in an outfit and the next night there would be several girls copying it.

She could pull articles of clothing that no one would think to combine and she would look adorable. She once designed a skirt from boxer shorts. I saw it on paper. As far as I know, it never came to fruition.” [6]

[Ca. 1990s - ByJack Plasky]

Shawna Murphy: “I had one of her necklaces ‘Forever’. It was like black cut glass stones, three strands with a gold clasp. She wore a lot of old-timey costume jewelry.” [6]

[Ca. 1990s - By Jack Plasky]

Tracy Johnson: “She did not want to be known as the girlfriend of a rock star and did whatever the hell she pleased but was friendly and personable to everyone she met. She wanted to be a model that’s why there are so many pictures of her posing. One thing that was funny. We were in Canada (canvouver, as we called it) and Dem couldn’t find Layne and was drunk and pissed off. But she has to pee, so we stopped and she walked in this alley, many people were around, and she just squatted and peed, then pulled up her long johns with her tutu tucked in the back of it and started to walk away. She was gonna find him come hell or high water, even with the whole backside of her tutu tucked into her long johns and wearing converse, of course.

A lot of things she wore didn’t go together, like long johns with big baggy overall shorts and a frilly blouse with cowboy boots. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but you would have to know Demri to understand.” [6]

[Summer 1988 - By Randy Hauser]

Hope that helps :)

Everyone please check the book we put together with our beloved friend Ana, you can download it and read it from *here*. There's all the memories sorted by subject like style,hobbies, voice, dreams...

[littlequeenies]

Hi 😊 I love your blog 💖 I had some questions about demri. I know she was a brunette, but do you know the. exact hair color/shade of brown?

what about what foundation shade she would've been?

Hi! Thank you very much!!

Her hair colour I'd say it was dark brown but as we saw when she was little, she was blonde. So I guess her blonde hair got darker (it happens to many people when they grow and don't have like a pale/light blonde) and she never dyed it back to blonde (as many people do)

As for the foundation (had to google here, haha I don't know nothing about makeup!) I'd say it was always very light (if indeed there was foundation!). I think she always wore very natural colours (except for maybe some photoshots or events)

I don't now if it really helped, but if anyone knows better, please comment below or reblog with the new info (and then I'd reblog it again) :)

[Photos 1 & 2 courtesy of her cousin]

[littlequeenies]

Hi! I found out about demri through liking alice in chains but how did you find out about demri? what made you be interested in her?

We first saw her in a (I think not longer existing) Livejournal Community called Vintage Groupies. They featured mostly 1960s and 1970s wives, girlfriends and groupies of rock, like Pattie Boyd, Marianne Faithful, Sabel Starr & Lori Maddox, Anita Pallenberg, etc. But because it was a community, everyone could add their favourite, create an entry for them. And someone did for Demri, or 90s muses including her, Courtney Love and other grunge girls.

At first, for the few photos I saw, she reminded me a brunnette Alicia Silversone. When we were little we loved Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler from Aerosmith's videoclips Crazy and Cryin', and then I was sad to learn she died so young.

I loved that there was a bit of a mystery aura surrounding her, very few photos and facts, but she was very beautiful and creative, and looked a genuine happy and good person. So we started looking for more info on her, photos, built a website... and now here,keeping her memory alive :)

[littlequeenies]

do you have any photos of demri wearing her engagement ring?

do you know any of her favorite artists or art styles? as in visual art

Hi there!

So we don't know if actually Demri is wearing her engagement ring or not in these fall 1993 photos (it's not clear when she and Layne cancelled their engagement but presumably in 1994). It was a claddagh ring (you cannot see it well in these photos, sadly):

Maybe here too? We don't know the exact date of these photos. She was always wearing big earrings, lots of necklaces and bracelets but not rings, looks like.

Sometimes the heart can be a stone, we don't now if that was the came or was the classing claddagh, but it had a stone, maybe is this one? (photo from 1992)

As for her artists or art styles, she loved Victorian decor, angels and so,and her favourite artist was Brian Froud, a British illustrator, you may find more information under the tag used on our site, and particulary this post.

Hope that helps!

[littlequeenies]

Demri's "book"

Ana from the much missed "Memories of Demri" instagram/tumblr accounts collected all the different memories that people who met her, shared...

I came up with the idea of sorting them not only by subject, but also a bit of a chronological display...

And then she add some more info,photos and created a very beautiful design.

This is, for now, what looks to be like a book about Demri's life and legacy. It's work on construction and it's done with much love and respect.

Please, feel free to join and share it.

This is for you, Demri, your mum, and all the people who loved you.

[littlequeenies]

Our Muses

We have dedicated this tumblr to our favourite muses, most of them connected to rock music (specially 1960s/90s, but not only) but with their own lives, careers, personalities...

In our *OUR MUSES* page you can discover more about...

Alice Ormsby Gore

Bebe Buell

Carmen Plant

Charlotte Martin

Chrissie May

Cleo Odzer

Demri Parrott

Iggy Rose

Jane Asher

Jenny Boyd

Jo Jo Laine

June Child

Lee Starkey

Marsha Hunt

Maureen Plant

May Pang

Pam Courson

Pattie Boyd

Paula Boyd

And more!

When you click their names you'll find their biographies, links to our posts/entries, their timelines, great sites for them...

We have also sites for Shannen Doherty, Tina Aumont & Victorian Women

Check also our Youtube Channel and our websites!

Enjoy and feel free to comment, share, etc :)

[littlequeenies]

1983 - Family portrait: Demri Parrott (R) with her mother Kathleen and younger brothers Devin Remme (c), and Derek (R) and David (L) Murphy. Arlington, WA. Kathleen would outlive all her children...

Shared by Shellie Friedrich on her nephew David’s online memorial board almost 2 years ago.

Thank Memories of Demri very much.

I post the other photos from this photoshoot session as I have seen they are not on our blog.

Photo 2) Shared by Demri’s cousin Kaytie Lee.

Photos 3 & 4) Shared by Memories of Demri, the close-up of the 4th/5th photo was made by us long ago using the remini app.

[littlequeenies]

I love your blog! It's so special!

Demri Parrott is well-known for her unique style. I was wondering what were her outfits/staple pieces/accessories that she'd typically wear when she wasn't taking photos/doing photoshoots?

Thanks so much!

Aaaww thanks a million for your compliment :)

So we will share again the Demri Parrott book we assembled with Ana that you can find on Drive.

Some of her friends say:

Barbara Dearaujo: “Demri was a fashion nut. She loved everything vintage. Victorian style dresses, 70’s stuff, overalls and combat boots. She wore things no one else could even try to pull off without looking like a weirdo but she always seemed to make the weirdest things look cute and cool... In the early 90’s she dressed in all kinds of crazy yet cute clothes, anything retro or vintage. She loved long dresses, skirts, tutus, overalls 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 this type of thing but even if you had it probably wouldn’t of looked as cool on you.

[Photos 1 & 2 by Krista Kay, photo 3 by Jack Plasky]

Ryan Kalsbeck: “Layne and Dem had that full on vintage clothing styles mixed with a hippie, new grunge rock twist. Homemade glass beaded long necklaces and bracelets, funky hats, hair sticks. Dem had pink lace and satin knickers that were real and from the 1900s.”

Cindy Reframe: “... she would be wearing the Levi’s cutoffs with tights, flannel shirt, combat boots and black leather jacket, ... sometimes wear kind of like babydoll dresses with combat boots or something like that.”

[In 1990 at Dexter Ave, shared by Chay Wilkerson Moore]

Sherri: “She would always wear the rolled up overalls with black tights."

Tracy Johnson: "... A lot of things she wore didn’t go together, like long johns with big baggy overall shorts and a frilly blouse with cowboy boots. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but you would have to know Demri to understand.”

[Various of Demri wearing specially long maxi skirts]

Hope that helps! :)

[littlequeenies]

what color were demris eyes?

According to her friend

Karie Pfeiffer-Simmons: “l was one of Demri Murphy’s best friends until she dropped out of high school her junior year. We went to Arlington High School. She was very tiny. Petite, not over 5 ft. Dark hair, very fair skin. Her eyes were a really cool blueish color and would change colors when she cried."

We know everywhere it says she had dark features (hair and eyes) but don't specify the colour. Also in many photos they look like brown or black, but this happens to many people with blue and green eyes too, in some photos they look darker we don't know why (the light? flash used in photo?...).

These are the photos with the lighter eye-colour we could find. Looks more like green/amber. Some people have very changing colours depending on the light as well, the mood (as her friend says), etc.

[littlequeenies]

What specific songs/music genres did Demri enjoy? Thank you!

She, of course, loved grunge and Alice in Chains, but she also loved The Beatles and Cocteau Twins.

Fleedwood Mac's "Landslide" and Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" were her favourite songs.

Here's a link of a previous post with all the bands she loved:

🌸Little Queenies🌸 — 💬 Amber Ferrano: “She had music on in the house... (tumblr.com)

On this document we put together with Ana, if you jump to page 56 there's information about her favourite music and films.

We hope that helps! :)

[littlequeenies]

Helena Harland, who runs World of Demri instagram account, has a blog at substack where she is publishing interviews she does to people who knew Demri. I asked for permission to share this entry about Demri's activism in here and she kindly allowed.

From her substack blog:

"Demri possessed a radical nature alongside immense charisma. She was a nudist, openly bisexual, modeled for several adult magazines like Penthouse and Hustler, and was unabashedly sexually liberated at a time where it was seen as taboo. She did not view other people with a critical eye, but rather embraced those who most would find “off-center”. Demri’s late mother Kathleen recalled a memory of driving 20 year-old Demri home one day when she suddenly started shouting “Mom, stop! Stop!” Kathleen stopped the car and Demri jumped out to her friend who had green skin, pointed ears, and pointed elf shoes. Demri said, “This is my friend, he’s an elf. Can we give him a ride?” Kathleen, who likely passed on to Demri her attribute of non-judgment and acceptance, gave the elf a ride as he and Demri squeaked and chirped at each other in their own elf language.

Demri’s uniqueness has always intrigued me, and I often wonder what her moral and political beliefs were, as well as what she would think of today’s political issues. The 90s were marked with many social justice issues like LGBT rights— specifically the AIDS crisis. I asked Amber Ferrano, a close friend of Demri’s what she thought about the AIDS epidemic at the time, and it can be beautifully summed up by this memory:

“Demri was bi. She loved everyone and judged no one. We went to shows in gay clubs and they were awesome. I loved that they handed out free condoms even for our crowd. AIDS was horrible at the time. I remember a few times when guys in full drag (with gloves on, mind you) put their hand out to shake and pulled back saying they had AIDS, but Demri went in for a kiss and a hug. People would make negative comments saying she had AIDS or hepatitis from drugs. She didn't understand why people were so mean. If she were here today she'd be on the frontline along with Layne.”

Demri was also visited in the hospital by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a subversive LGBT activism group that satirized traditional standards and gender roles by combining drag and religious imagery to their street performances. Kathleen said that they adored Demri, and the nurses would gawk at them on their way in.

To seek some more insight on Demri’s activism history, I reached out to Vivian McPeak, the founder of the Seattle activism group called the Peace Heathens, of which Demri was a member. The Peace Heathens were known for their annual Seattle Hempfests, and many Alice in Chains fans have likely seen this video of Layne Staley making an appearance at one in 1994. It is one of the few videos we have of Layne during that year, taken shortly after the release of Jar of Flies.

H: myself, V: Vivian

H: I was wondering what the core beliefs of the Peace Heathens are and how the organization  was conceived?

V: In 1988 I had this idea to start a street-level volunteer group composed of alternative culture folks to do good things in the name of the alt-culture, community service projects and benefit shows for righteous causes that got little support from the mainstream. I called it the Seattle Peace Heathens. I created this manifesto, and Yossarrian “Rex” Kelley did a logo graphic I put at the top of it. I plastered the paper fliers all over The Ave, at places like the Allegro Cafe, Espresso Roma, and The Last Exit. I started getting lots of calls from people excited about my crazy vision quest, wanting to learn more and get involved. We started having meetings in people’s homes that eventually got too large, and we moved them to Ravenna Park, where we turned them into potluck feeds that started attracting a homeless contingent. 

Meetings started attracting as many as 70 people, mostly music culture and street culture folks - hippies, punk rockers, and an eclectic mix of just progressive, activism-type people. The thing that struck me most, though, is I would be approached by some very neat and clean folks who came on really strong, talking about how resourceful they were and how they were going to contribute all these things. I became very excited about these folks and what they might bring to the group. Then there was an entirely different contingent of absolute street people. These folks were often disheveled, unkempt; they might even have a distinct odor about them. At first, I was not sure what to think about these people, and I placed much of my focus on the other group of folks who seemed to have their shit really together.

The core values of the Seattle Peace Heathens were a commitment to service to society and others through volunteerism, basic counter-culture values of peace and love, Left politics such as social and environmental justice, and a commitment to the power of change through art (visual and music).

H: -It was said that Demri Parrott was a member of the Peace Heathens, do you have memories of her attending meetings or the Hempfests?

V: [I was closer with Layne, so I’ll tell the story of us meeting first.] I was at a hard rock club called the Prime Rib Palace in Totem Lakes, Washington and I struck up a conversation with a blonde dude with long hair and silver pants. We hit it off. He learned I was fresh from Hollywood and wanted to know all about the club scene there. He said his name was Layne, and he had a band called Sleze that was being renamed Alice in Chains. He gave me his number. He was the first person I developed a friendship after I moved to Washington State. A few years later, he invited me to his apartment in a big old brick complex above Eastlake. I met his lady Demri, a petite girl with a beautiful smile and sparkling eyes. I didn't know where to buy weed, and they told me I could get my weed from them. I am not really sure if they were dealing weed or if they were just helping me out, but they always had an eighth when I needed to buy one.

Around 1988 Layne had developed a heroin problem, and I had a cocaine one. I would pick Layne up and drive us to TUNA (Tuesday Night N.A.) at the Rendezvous on 2nd in Belltown, where a guy named Will ran the Narcotics Anonymous meetings. It was pretty much the rocker NA for the area. Unlike his rock persona, Layne was a quiet, almost shy person. He was sensitive and kind,in my experience. It was stunning watching the band climb to rock stardom. I loved their music and was impressed with the strength and power of his voice.

Demri was a bubbly, outgoing person. She volunteered for the Peace Heathens and helped at several of the benefit shows we produced at the famed OK Hotel, one of the only venues with all-age shows. She helped put up posters promoting the shows around town, and at the shows, she worked the merch table and helped us load gear in and out, even though she was a very diminutive person. She was sweet and kind and fearless. She resonated with the Peace Heathens's core belief that all of the various cultural sub-genres of the music/youth/alt-culture (punk, metal, hippie, Reggae, etc.) shared a common spirit and was essentially responding to the same mainstream desire for conformity and control. She believed in the benevolent act of helping others, which was central to the Peace Heathen identity.

I hope this provided some insight on the free spirited nature of Demri, and the ways in which she provided to her community and led with love and compassion. Big thanks to Vivian for taking the time to speak with me and tell me of all his cool stories, and to MemoriesOfDemri on instagram who pointed out the Peace Heathens sticker on Demri’s suitcase as well as provided the information regarding the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Thank you for reading!

-Helena"

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[littlequeenies]

Did Jerry Cantrell ever talk about Demri? Are there any photos of them together?

As far as we know, he hasn't.

There is this 1991 MTV Video Music Awards photo of all the band with their dates/girlfriends and also I just knew about yesterday that he was in the same camping trip that Layne, Demri and Darin Lamb went to Leavenworth in Washington in the summer of 1991 (our post; instagram photo showing Jerry).

We know both Layne and Jerry were very close friends; and that Demri was really close with Krisha Augerot who dated Jerry on and off in the 1990s. I don't know if Demri was close to any of his other girlfriends.

Although Jerry has talked a lot about Layne, he never said any of Demri, maybe for respect. But we wish he would share photos and stories of their time shared touring, in events, filming...

Thanks for the question!