Krisha Augerot used to live in the Seattle area in the late 1980s and early 1990s and hang out with Layne Staley and Demri Parrott and the like, and was romantically lnked to Jerry Cantrell.
Krisha Augerot: “Alice in Chains – I hung out with that scene in particular one summer. I don’t remember exactly what year it was, but I was dating Jerry off and on, and hanging out with Demri. We’d all go to the beach every day during that summer at Magnuson Park, hang out, then have a barbeque at a friend’s house. It was this constant party for the summer. It was a very free, loving time.
In the liner notes [of Above], he said something about, ‘I’ll always remember that summer’, which was the summer – what ever year it was – where we all went to the beach and went to barbeques. That really fresh, youthful time that we all had before it was all about drugs. He mentioned a few names in there – I think he mentions my name, Demri, and another girl named Fabiola, who was really good friends with the two of them. I know that meant a lot to him – that whole time period.”
Fabiola Gonzalez: “Remembering that summer of ‘89 when we were young and innocent, and free. Layne, Demri and I walking through the long grasses on the trails of Magnuson Park, heading to meet up with El Steiner, Freedom James, Krisha, Jerry, Betzold, Dmitri and others. Demri carrying her conga drum with a scarf wrapped around it, me a bottle and a stick. Layne’s hair half in dreads and curls with his goatee braided and one of my beads dangling on the end of it. He’s wearing ripped up jean shorts and Dem and I in our bikinis. His and Demri’s chests bare and golden from the sun, sparkles in our eyes and smiles, lots of smiles. We were going to worship, have a drum circle with our friends on the shores of Lake Washington and swim in it’s waters on a hot summer day ... That day Layne experienced the Soundgarden for the first time, when you could walk up to it and stand in the middle and listen to the wind channel sound through the tubes, creating the most beautifully haunting, mystical music.”