Fans – Musicians – Friends Mourn Layne Staley’s Death

Gene Stout of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was at the vigil Saturday at the International Fountain at Seattle Center last night and spoke to many that were there. Johnny Bacolas of Seattle rock band Second Coming, a band that Layne had performed with commented, “Layne’s passing is a terrible, terrible loss to the ones who loved him and to the music community. When we were teenagers, we used to nickname him ‘the legend.'” Read more.