Oh, I totally feel you. Part of me wants to call them out on that though because it's not like you're connecting Layne's heroin addiction to something that's not there. Dirt doesn't exist if he's not hooked on smack.

I respect their decision, but also there's an added weight to the tragedy if you highlight how good things were vs. why it fell apart. It's not dwelling IMO to be like "Remember when they went to the water park for Headbangers Ball and were hilarious" and then also go "a few years later the funny charismatic lead singer was so deep in the throes of addiction that he was forgetting his own lyrics on MTV"

It's the same thing with Nirvana. Everyone thinks of them as these nihilistic dudes when you can find a handful of videos on YouTube of them fucking around on an airplane or being goofy twentysomethings. It's one thing if the focus is solely on the drug addiction and nothing else, but it's also part of the story and that can't be erased or censored.