Interviewer: It sounds like he was a fun guy. Like, shit, I’m hanging out with the wrong guy! He was just really funny.
And he had developed friendships with about 20 people there, a bunch of hot American models. We walked in the bar, me and Jerry, and we just see this big flame and we turn around and it’s our singer we’ve been looking for just having a great time. Interviewer: Had he blown fire before? Mike: Never. At that point, he just had bright green hair. Interviewer: Did he often get jobs on days off? Mike: No, just that one, and it was wild, too. He just wanted to do something different. So we went up there and were like, “What the fuck are you doing?” And he was like, “I just wanted to feel normalcy.” So he got a job at a bar for a couple of nights, just to tend bar and didn’t even really tell people who he was.
Let’s just go to this bar we heard of where models hang out.” So we’re walking to the bar, and we look behind the bar and, true story, there’s Layne blowing fire behind the bar and being a bartender. After a while, me and Jerry were like, “Ah, fuck it. Me and Jerry and Sean we’re just, like, traveling the streets of Tokyo, looking in all the bars for him. And after a few days we couldn’t find Layne anywhere. (An Excerpt from the interview regarding Mike’s memories of touring with Layne) Interviewer : How did he handle time off on the road? Mike: I remember one time when we had a few days off in Japan. Layne Staley Remebered: Alice In Chains’ Mike Inez Pays Tribute
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