u/Illumination-Round

The myth of Layne's final interview, supposedly months before his death, is obviously one that will never truly go away. But though it's doubted, has it ever been conclusively proven as fake?

If it is a fake, it's certainly a very detailed and convincing one with regards to how junkies operate. If the interview is fabricated, Rubio must've heard about or seen or knew junkies living the way she ascribes to Layne. After all, all she had to do was transplant all of that and project onto Layne.

When you've been in a debilitating addiction like heroin for many years, your body definitely starts failing the way the quote ascribed to Layne describes. And when you're so lost down that path, you shut out as many people as you can from the outside world, and Layne was spending most of the time holed up in his condo.

I know people, especially from his family, say Layne was appearing positive in spite of his health, but I think that was a performance for their sake. When he would do things like hold his newborn nephew, he was putting on act to make it seem like he still had lots of living planned out. In truth, ever since Demri died and after the Music Box/The Faculty recordings, Layne just completely retreated and probably didn't see any reason to hang around anymore.

He wasn't actively deciding to die, but he sure as hell wasn't deciding to live. He probably looked at it as, "Whatever is meant to happen will happen. If I'm going to die, so be it." He certainly wasn't reaching out to the active AIC members at all, especially Jerry, who was still fighting his own demons, and wasn't fully clean yet by the time Degradation Trip came out.

Of course, that wouldn't change the sleazy nature of Rubio's way to promote her book, and that it was far easier to get away with that shit back then, because Googling things to determine how true something was was something still in its infancy, so it couldn't be prevented from coming out.

"The Invisible Man" is a song where there's a lot to like about both the final mix and demo versions.

I'd especially like if there was a mix that combined Roger's live drums from the early version (and the second guitar solo from that version as well) with the vocals, bass and guitar from the final mix.

With the news of the ReLoad box set coming out, and with Hardwired... and 72 Seasons being too recent for that treatment, there are only four potential box sets left to be released at this point: sets for Garage Inc., S&M (possibly), St. Anger and Death Magnetic.

What are the odds that these will happen, and what would they be like?