below it is the final publicly released photo of layne staley taken on halloween 1998 backstage at a jerry cantrell show in seattle. one such enigmatic figure is layne staley last photo, the hauntingly talented frontman of alice in chains. His story is one of soaring highs and tragic lows, culminating in a. it was halloween night in 1998, and staley was backstage as a guest. Cantrell reportedly asked staley to join him onstage, which would have been quite historic, but. as layne staley became more and more engulfed by his addiction to heroin, many of those around him began to see him as a withdrawn and tragic figure, but.
