Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

Notes

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CHAPTER 1

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, and Ken Elmer.

  1. To avoid confusion, Layne Staley and his relatives are referred to by first name. And throughout the book, Layne is referred to by first name to emphasize his role as a principal character in the story. Layne’s middle name at birth was obtained and confirmed during author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, and Nick Pollock, as well as by the divorce records of Phil Staley and Nancy Staley, which identify Layne as “Layne R. Staley.”

  2. Seattle Times, August 23, 1967, 77. Reviewed via microfilm at the Bellevue Library in Bellevue, Washington.

  3. Phil Staley–Nancy Layne marriage certificate, obtained by the author through public records; Seattle Times, “Nancy Layne, Phillip Staley to Be Wed,” January 29, 1967.

  4. Seattle Times, “Mrs. Phillip B. Staley,” March 7, 1967. Phil’s age in relation to his three brothers is evident in an entry for the Staley household in the 1940 U.S. Census, in which Phil is the only child of his parents’ listed.

  5. For the family’s whereabouts and history, see the Staley household entry in the 1900 U.S. Census. Seattle Sunday Times, “Old Studebaker Shows Class in Speedy Races,” October 12, 1913; Seattle Sunday Times, “Success Marks First Season of New Automobile Association,” September 13, 1914; Seattle Sunday Times, “Staley Quits Vulcan,” July 31, 1921; Seattle Sunday Times, “Two Leases Negotiated,” October 2, 1921; Seattle Daily Times, “Earl B. Staley Will Move Shop on June 25,” June 19, 1927; Seattle Daily Times, “Incorporations,” December 20, 1927.

  6. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

  7. Phil Staley–Nancy Staley divorce records, obtained by the author through public records.

  8. Phil Staley–Nancy Staley divorce records, obtained by the author through public records; Jim Elmer–Nancy Staley marriage certificate, obtained by the author through public records; Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

  9. For the dates and set lists of Elton John’s Seattle shows in October 1975, see http://www.eltonography.com/cgi-bin/show_concert.cgi?DATE=1975-10-16 and http://www.eltonography.com/cgi-bin/show_concert.cgi?DATE=1975-10-17.

10. Jon Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words,” Revolver, http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art114.html.

11. Jamie Elmer’s birth date is taken from the Jim Elmer–Nancy Elmer divorce records, obtained by the author through public records. The ages of the siblings in relation to one another is from an author interview with Ken Elmer.

12. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 214; Wiederhorn, “To Hell and Back.”

13. Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words.”

14. Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words.”

15. Tom Scanlon, “Alice in Chains Singer’s Legacy Lives On Through Music,” Seattle Times, August 24, 2007.

16. Scanlon, “Legacy Lives On.”

CHAPTER 2

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Tim Branom, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Byron Hansen, Nick Pollock, Ed Semanate, and Rick Throm.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 214.

  2. The date of Layne’s supposed graduation and the date his records were sent to the Chrysalis School are from a document viewed at Meadowdale High School.

  3. Tom Scanlon, “Alice in Chains Singer’s Legacy Lives on Through Music,” Seattle Times, August 24, 2007, http://seattletimes.com/html/musicnightlife/2003850521_staley24.html.

  4. A transcript of the PMRC hearing can be read at http://www.joesapt.net/superlink/shrg99-529/; Gore, quoted in New York Times, “Tipper Gore Widens War on Rock,” January 4, 1988, http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/04/arts/tipper-gore-widens-war-on-rock.html.

  5. Paul Andrews, “Parents, Artists Disagree Over Rock-Labeling Issue,” Seattle Times, October 4, 1985.

  6. Drum Magazine, “Sean Kinney,” http://web.archive.org/web/20120325133557/http://www.drummagazine.com/drumpedia/post/sean-kinney/; Sean Kinney, interview for Alice in Chains Electronic Press Kit (EPK), 1996, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsDKZL-0bc.

  7. Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117; Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJW77uMEHdI.

  8. For Layne’s statement about having to hide his jacket, see Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405. The accuracy of this quote was confirmed by author interviews with Johnny Bacolas and James Bergstrom.

CHAPTER 3

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with David Ballenger, Tim Branom, Scott Hunt, and Robert Lunte.

  1. From the lease signed by Bengt Von Haartman, Gabriel Marian, and Rosen Investment Company dated September 20, 1984, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

CHAPTER 4

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Tim Branom, Thad Byrd, Morgen Gallagher, Jeff Gilbert, Dave Hillis, Robert Lunte, and Nick Pollock.

  1. For the list of David Kyle’s former students, see Robert Lunte’s biography at http://seattlevoicetraining.com/bio/.

  2. The approximate timing for the Alice ’N Chains name change is based on three pieces of evidence: first, when Thad Byrd films the band in September 1986, they are still called Sleze; second, several of Tim Branom’s rough demo mixes from late 1986 already have the Alice ’N Chains name written on them; and third, by the time the demo is actually released in January 1987, the name change has already taken place.

  3. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 216.

  4. The Rocket, June 1987, 10.

CHAPTER 5

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, David Ballenger, James Bergstrom, Duane Lance Bodenheimer, Tim Branom, Morgen Gallagher, Jeff Gilbert, Dave Hillis, Ron Holt, Scott Hunt, Matt Muasau, Bobby Nesbitt, Scott Nutter, Nick Pollock, and Darrell Vernon.

  1. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 168.

  2. Regarding the details of Rob Brustad’s death, see King County Medical Examiner’s report, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  3. A scan of the bill for the May 1, 1987, show featuring Slaughter Haus 5, Devol, and Alice ’N Chains was posted on the Music Bank Facebook page. The quotes from the show are from a bootleg recording available on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oePWygNmqLc.

  4. On Jerry’s knowing he wanted to be in a band with Layne after seeing him at the Tacoma Little Theatre show, see Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 217.

  5. Gloria Jean Cantrell’s maiden name is taken from her death certificate, obtained by the author through a public records request; Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

  6. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

  7. Ibid.

  8. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgIGhwlDeo&list=PL764A777926D8EF70.

  9. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

10. Marc Ramirez, “These Teachers Did More Than Make the Grade, They Made a Difference,” Seattle Times, September 1, 1991.

11. Gene Stout, “Cantrell Seeks Out a Solo Identity on First Tour Away from Alice,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 30, 1998.

12. Jerry Cantrell, interview with G&L Guitars, April 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T9tY1ioKQ; Guitar World, “Alice Keepers,” June 2013, http://nemi72.tumblr.com/post/49303015723/jerry-cantrell-shares-the-tales-behind-some-of.

13. For the name and pictures of Raze, see http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=39. To confirm Vinnie Chas’s real name, the author received a photo of his gravestone from Tim Branom, which also included his birth and death dates.

14. Biographical details of Dorothy Krumpos taken from her obituary in the Tacoma News Tribune, October 10, 1986; Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 170.

15. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

16. The information regarding Gloria Jean Cantrell’s date and cause of death is from her death certificate, obtained by the author through a public records request. Biographical details of Gloria Jean Cantrell taken from her obituary in the Tacoma News Tribune, April 15, 1987. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

17. Ticketmaster Capital Rock-Off ad, which appeared in the June 1987 edition of The Rocket.

18. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJW77uMEHdI.

19. Mike Starr memorial service DVD, March 20, 2011 (a copy of the DVD was provided to the author by Gayle Starr).

20. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 169.

21. Mike Starr memorial service DVD; Hit Line Times, “Burien-Based SATO Wins the Latest Battle of the Bands,” December 1, 1982; Mark Ralston, “SATO: An Exciting Talent,” The Profile, May 3, 1983, provides details about SATO shows and recordings. Photographs, as well as audio and video recordings, are posted on the SATO Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/pages/SATO/143587999040388?fref=photo.

22. Information about the Northwest Metalfest compilation is available at http://www.thecorroseum.com/comps/nwmetalfest.html.

23. Layne Staley, interview for Alice in Chains Electronic Press Kit (EPK), 1996, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALAJkqgGgVM.

24. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZjcOCrepk; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 217–18.

CHAPTER 6

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, David Ballenger, James Bergstrom, Tim Branom, Ken Deans, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Randy Hauser, Ron Holt, Bobby Nesbitt, Scott Nutter, Nick Pollock, Sally Pricer Portillo, and Darrell Vernon.

  1. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZjcOCrepk; Music Bank liner notes; Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.

  2. Ressner, “Alice”; Cantrell and Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009.

  3. Cantrell and Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009.

  4. Music Bank liner notes; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 221.

  5. A flyer from the January 15, 1988, Kane Hall show was auctioned off on the Mike Starr Facebook page. It is described as “flyer to their VERY 1ST SHOW!” and can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/mike.starr.forever /photos/a.10154115703020322.1073741856.498651025321/10154115703490322/?type=1&theater.

  6. Jenny Bendel, “Diamond Lie—The Show and Beyond,” City Heat, circa January/February 1988. A scanned copy of the article was provided to the author by Tim Branom. The origin of the “Suffragette City” cover was conveyed to the author in an interview with Scott Nutter.

  7. Diamond Lie submission packet to Columbia Records, May 17, 1988. Scans of the packet were provided to the author by Jacob McMurray, the EMP Museum’s senior curator.

  8. Jon R. Zulauf, “Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum,” July 15, 1991; Randall Hauser, “Re: U.S. v. Hauser,” July 12, 1991. Both documents were obtained by the author through a public records request as part of the United States of America v. Randall C. Hauser case file.

  9. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 28.

10. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 173.

11. Tim Branom’s history of Gypsy Rose, including photos and a flyer for the July 14, 1988, show, can be read at http://timbranom.tumblr.com/gypsyrose.

12. Demri’s signature was seen by the author in a review of the Music Bank guest book, currently in possession of the former Music Bank manager, David Ballenger.

13. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 178; Richard Bienstock, “Excerpt: Kim Thayil on the Secrets Behind His Tunings,” Guitar World, November 12, 2012, http://www.guitarworld.com/excerpt-kim-thayil-secrets-behind-his-tunings; Richard Bienstock, “Jerry Cantrell Tells How Alice in Chains Buried Their Past with ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here,’” Guitar World, June 18, 2013, http://www.guitarworld.com/jerry-cantrell-tells-how-alice-chains-buried-their-past-devil-put-dinosaurs-here.

14. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 272.

CHAPTER 7

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Steve Alley, David Ballenger, Ken Deans, Jack Hamann, Randy Hauser, Scott Hunt, Dean Noble, George Stark, Darrell Vernon, and Diana Wilmar.

  1. On Jerry’s giving Axl Rose a copy of the band’s demo, see the Jerry Cantrell and Duff McKagan interview with Soundwave TV, March 3, 2014, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKaLN8FcaA; for the date of the Iron Maiden and Guns n’ Roses show in Seattle, see http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/history/history88.php.

  2. King County Medical Examiner’s report, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Author review of Facelift liner notes.

  5. Marian and Von Haartman lease agreement, dated February 3, 1987, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

  6. Mike McKay and Richard A. Jones, “Government’s Response to Defendant Marian’s Motions to Suppress,” April 19, 1991, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian. For details about the power consumption, see Mac Gordon, “Affidavit for Search Warrant,” July 20, 1988, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

  7. Unsigned, undated affidavit, possibly written by Mike Severance.

  8. Gordon, “Affidavit”; R. Joseph Wesley, “Search Warrant,” July 20, 1988, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

  9. Mac Gordon, “Follow-Up Report,” July 26, 1988, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

10. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 221–22. The quote about the band members sleeping in Layne’s VW Dasher appears in the Music Bank liner notes.

11. Detective S. J. Ameden statement, date unknown, obtained by the author through a public records request; author interviews with Darrell Vernon and David Ballenger.

12. Author review of police and court documents, obtained through public records requests; Bruce Sherman, “‘$30 Million-a-Year’ Pot Farm Found in Ballard,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 22, 1988.

13. Sherman, “‘$30 Million-a-Year’ Pot Farm”; Terry J. Franklin, “Crime Laboratory Report,” August 8, 1988, obtained by the author through a public records request from Federal Archives in Seattle, where it is archived as part of the case file for U.S. v. Marian.

14. Brad Fridell, “Pot Case Goes to Feds; No Arrest Made Yet,” Ballard Tribune, August 24, 1988.

15. Music Bank liner notes.

16. A scanned flyer for this show is on the Internet. Diana Wilmar confirmed to the author that this was the show she went to.

17. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm511Gt3J0o.

18. Transcript of Gabriel Marian guilty-plea hearing, May 30, 1991; transcript of Gabriel Marian sentencing hearing, August 28, 1991; Richard Jones, “Affidavit of Richard Jones in Support of Motion for Search Warrant,” March 5, 1991; Irwin H. Schwartz, “Defendant Gabriel Marian’s Motion to Conduct Depositions,” March 28, 1991. All of these documents were obtained by the author through a public records request.

CHAPTER 8

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, James Burdyshaw, Thad Byrd, Ken Deans, and Randy Hauser.

  1. Jon R. Zulauf, “Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum,” July 15, 1991. The filing is part of the U.S. v. Randall C. Hauser case file and was obtained by the author through a public records request.

  2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 177.

  3. On Susan’s family, see the Boulger Funeral Home obituary for William Silver, http://www.boulgerfuneralhome.com/obits/obit.php?id=1929; Susan Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch,” Rip, January 1996, http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/rip_1-96.shtml.

  4. Poki (Hugo) Piottin biography, http://pokibio.blogspot.com/; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47.

  5. Patrick MacDonald, “‘Dry’ Club Hopes That Music, Films Will Keep Place Afloat,” Seattle Times, July 29, 1983; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47.

  6. MacDonald, “‘Dry’ Club.”

  7. Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch”; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47–48.

  8. Jacob McMurray, “The Metropolis: Birthplace of Grunge?” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 2009, http://blog.seattlepi.com/emp/2009/11/19/the-metropolis-birthplace-of-grunge/.

  9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 44–47; Jim Walsh and Dennis Pemu, The Replacements: Waxed-Up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2013), 61.

10. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 48; the Fred Flintstone caricature can be seen in Walsh and Pernu, Replacements, 62.

11. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 49.

12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 132–33.

13. Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch”; Dr. Martens Web site http://www.drmartens.com/us/history; Charles R. Cross, Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (New York: It Books, 2014), 94–95.

14. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 72, 98.

15. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47, 60.

16. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 105–6; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 157–58.

17. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 275; for Novoselic’s acknowledgment of Susan in his speech during Nirvana’s induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 10, 2014, see http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=46030.

18. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 100, 105–6; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 60, 64.

19. Alice in Chains biography, circa summer of 1989, copy provided by Ken Elmer.

20. Sean Kinney and Layne Staley, Guest List interview, circa 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRsZLGmJ0nw.

21. The Hard Report, February 17, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.

22. Pulse, April 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.

23. Seattle Times, “Alice in Chains Hopes to Link Up with a Major Deal,” May 19, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.

24. Don Kaye, Deathvine, Kerrang, July 15, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.

25. Rip, September 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.

26. Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.

27. The estimated duration of negotiations between Alice in Chains and Columbia Records was conveyed to the author by Ken Deans in an interview and corroborated by Sean Kinney in a 2010 interview with Kinney and Jerry Cantrell on Faceculture.tv, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm511Gt3J0o.

28. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv.

29. Sony Music press release, “Michele Anthony Named President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Music Label Group U.S.” December 2, 2005, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/michele-anthony-named-president-and-chief-operating-officer-of-sony-music-label-group-us-67493772.html.

30. Alice in Chains, contract with CBS Records, September 11, 1989. The document is part of the case file for Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al., filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013, and was obtained by the author through public records.

CHAPTER 9

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Steve Alley, Bryan Carlstrom, Ronnie Champagne, Dave Hillis, Dave Jerden, Leslie Ann Jones, and Evan Sheeley.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 261; Music Bank liner notes; Jerden and Champagne interviews.

  2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 273–74; Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.

  3. Layne Staley and Sean Kinney, interview, Fuse TV, 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdaClCmFXw.

  4. Evan Sheeley allowed the author to inspect and photograph the markings on Mike’s amp in August 2011, when it was being kept at his store, Bass Northwest; he later sold it at the request of Mike’s family, after Mike’s death.

  5. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 261; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 273.

CHAPTER 10

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Bryan Carlstrom, Ronnie Champagne, Ken Deans, Jeff Gilbert, Dave Jerden, Jacob McMurray, Nick Pollock, and Rocky Schenck.

  1. Leone Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry Revealed a Young Man ‘Angry Too Long,’” Seattle Times, March 29, 1990; Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story, a documentary directed by Scot Barbour, 2005.

  2. Dawn Anderson, “Malfunkshun,” The Rocket, December 1986.

  3. A. Wood, “Drugalog outline.” For the timing of the intervention and Wood’s rehab treatment, see Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 29; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 154–55.

  4. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 231; Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry.”

  5. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, 32.

  6. David Duet quote taken from the transcript of his interview with Yarm for Everybody Loves Our Town (Yarm provided the author with the excerpt featuring the complete quote).

  7. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 231–33; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 226–31; the times of Wood’s overdose and hospital admission are from Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story.

  8. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 228.

  9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 229.

10. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 233.

11. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 231–33; Greg Prato, “Andrew Wood,” Allmusic.com, http://www.allmusic.com/artist/andrew-wood-p139483/biography; Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 226–31; Jacob McMurray, Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011), 151; Lonn M. Friend, “Lament for a Starchild,” http://www.glampunk.org/mlb2.html; Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry”; Andrew Wood death certificate, obtained by the author through a public records request.

12. For the date of the memorial service at the Paramount Theatre, see Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, 32; author interview with Ken Deans; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 232–33; Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry”; a partial audio recording of David Wood’s address at Andrew Wood’s memorial service can be heard at the beginning of Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story.

13. Deans interview; Chris Cornell, “Essence of Dreams,” October 14, 2008, http://www.myspace.com/chriscornell/blog/440829728; Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, with Charles R. Cross, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (New York: It Books, 2012), 192.

14. Cornell, “Essence of Dreams.”

15. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 234–35.

16. Pearl Jam Twenty film, directed by Cameron Crowe, 2011.

17. “Rekindled: Candlebox’s Kevin Martin Talks to AAM,” All Access Magazine, July 24, 2008, http://www.allaccessmagazine.com/vol6/issue11/candlebox.html; Chris Cornell, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, interview on KISW 99.9 FM, April 14, 1991, http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/radio041491.shtml; Kevin Wood, interview, Fullinbloommusic.com, http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/kevinwood.html.

18. Rocky Schenck declined to be interviewed by phone but agreed to answer the author’s questions in writing. The result was a seventeen-page PDF document titled “AIC Memories” he sent to the author that chronicled in great detail Schenck’s experiences with the band.

19. Schenck, “AIC Memories.” More information about the Facelift cover shoot and album title came during a follow-up e-mail exchange between the author and Schenck; Music Bank liner notes.

20. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

21. The release date for Facelift is taken from the RIAA Gold and Platinum Program searchable database; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 261.

CHAPTER 11

Sources for this chapter include an author interview with Jimmy Shoaf.

  1. For the length of Alice in Chains’s tour with Extreme, see Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 263.

  2. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 263.

  3. Patrick MacDonald, “Screaming Trees: A Band with Bark Has a New EP,” Seattle Times, October 12, 1990.

  4. John D’Agostino, “Rock in the Reptile House: Iguanas in Tijuana Is a Bizarre, Almost-Anything-Goes Venue Just 15 Minutes from San Diego but Light-Years from Most Other Clubs,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-14/entertainment/ca-3235_1_san-diego.

  5. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 44.

  6. Patrick MacDonald, “Word,” Seattle Times, December 7, 1990.

  7. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, 44.

CHAPTER 12

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Kathleen Austin, Johnny Bacolas, Randy Biro, Duane Lance Bodenheimer, Jim Elmer, Rick Krim, Paul Rachman, and Aaron Woodruff.

  1. On the dates of the February 1991 West Coast tour, see Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 52; for the food fights on the freeway, see Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 274.

  2. For details about the show, including date and set lists, see http://www.metalsetlists.com/showthread.php?t=10581.

  3. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 274.

  4. Patrick MacDonald, “It’s a Concert for Peace at the Paramount,” Seattle Times, February 22, 1991.

  5. Patrick MacDonald, “Established Acts Take Big Awards,” Seattle Times, March 4, 1991.

  6. For the start of the European tour featuring Megadeth, the Almighty, and Alice in Chains, see the “History” section of Megadeth’s official Web site: http://www.megadeth.com/history#1991.

  7. The clips are available on Aaron Woodruff’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/OBSSMEDIA; comments from Mike Starr memorial service DVD. A copy of the DVD was provided to the author by Gayle Starr.

  8. Kyle Anderson, Accidental Revolution: The Story of Grunge (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007), 99.

  9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 234.

10. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340; Music Bank liner notes.

11. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX06Qiqv-E0.

12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 385.

13. Ibid., 277–78; Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 180–81. The information about the location of the Alice in Chains Singles shoot is from an e-mail to the author from Michelle Panek, dated September 23, 2011. At the time, Panek worked at Cameron Crowe’s office. Crowe declined to be interviewed for this book.

14. Regarding Death Angel’s bus accident, see Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal (New York: HarperCollins, 2013), 264–65. For the dates of the Clash of the Titans tour, see http://www.slayerized.com/ontheroad/tourdatabase/1991.html.

15. Alice in Chains, interview, Headbangers Ball, 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9w9aQhtbyc.

16. Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117; Wiederhorn and Turman, Louder Than Hell, 265–66.

17. MTV “Buzz” special, circa 1998–99, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hepqBckLhW8.

18. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 263–64.

19. Everett True, Nirvana (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007), 294–95.

20. Jon Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words,” Revolver, http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art114.html.

21. For Layne and Demri’s choice of venue for their wedding, author interview with Kathleen Austin; for information about Kiana Lodge, see http://kianalodge.com/.

22. Author interview and e-mail correspondence with Paul Rachman; undated Demri Parrott handwritten note to Paul Rachman, 1991. Rachman sent the author a scan of the document for review.

CHAPTER 13

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, Kathleen Austin, Johnny Bacolas, Randy Biro, James Burdyshaw, Jason Buttino, Dave Hillis, Dave Jerden, Jonathan Plum, Nick Pollock, Paul Rachman, and Evan Sheeley.

  1. For the tour dates and itinerary of the Van Halen and Alice in Chains tour, see http://www.vanhalenencyclopedia.com/entries/for-unlawful-carnal-knowledge-tour.html. The stories about Mike’s high school yearbook and the phone call to Ken Kramer during the Van Halen tour come from the Mike Starr memorial service DVD, March 20, 2011. A copy of it was provided to the author by Gayle Starr.

  2. Gene Stout, “Van Halen Frontman Fires Band’s Heavy-Metal Decibels to the Top,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 8, 1991.

  3. For the date, nominees, and winners of the 1991 MTV VMA, see http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1991/.

  4. Duff McKagan, It’s So Easy and Other Lies (New York: Touchstone Books, 2011), 4, 51.

  5. Vanessa Ho, Linda Keene, Kery Murakami, and Peyton Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene’ and Heroin Use: How Bad Is It?” Seattle Times, April 20, 1994, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940420&slug=1906421.

  6. Ho, Keene, Murakami, and Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene.’”

  7. Hype! Helvey-Pray Productions, 1996. Information about Bruce Silver’s heroin addiction is taken from the author’s interview with James Burdyshaw; Susan Silver is quoted in Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340. According to records from the Denver coroner’s office, Bruce Silver died of hypothermia when he fell asleep in a parked car in Denver in December 1996. He was thirty-four years old.

  8. John Brandon, Unchained: The Story of Mike Starr and His Rise and Fall in Alice in Chains (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2001), 61.

  9. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 266. Bacolas verified the quote during an interview with the author.

10. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 399.

11. Ibid.

12. Jeff Gilbert, “Rain Man: Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Cleans Up His Act and Hits Pay Dirt,” Guitar World, January 1992; Jerry Cantrell, interview with Total Guitar, November 7, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3WAJ9L4hc.

13. Jerry Cantrell, interview with Jim Dunlop, June 3, 2013, http://www.jimdunlop.com/blog/dunlop-on-the-record-alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell/. The photo can be seen at http://loudwire.com/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-epic-prank-war-van-halen/.

14. Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117.

15. Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309. Release dates for Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind are from the RIAA’s searchable online database for gold and platinum certifications, as well as Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 60.

16. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

17. Author interviews with David Ballenger, James Bergstrom, Tim Branom, James Burdyshaw, Chrissy Chacos, Dean Noble, Nick Pollock and Darrell Vernon.

CHAPTER 14

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Chrissy Chacos, Dave Hillis, Ron Holt, Jonathan Plum, and Rocky Schenck.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340; for the date of the Sap recording sessions, see Music Bank liner notes. The November 1991 date was also corroborated by Rocky Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

  2. Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, interview on YouTube, source and date unknown, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYt8mGFz8U; Music Bank liner notes.

  3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 340.

  4. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

  5. For Nancy Layne McCallum’s estimate of how many times Layne went to rehab, see VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010; Jim Elmer agreed with that estimate during an interview with the author.

CHAPTER 15

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Randy Biro, Bryan Carlstrom, Annette Cisneros, Dave Hillis, Dave Jerden, Jonathan Plum, Rocky Schenck, Duncan Sharp, Evan Sheeley, and Josh Taft.

  1. For information on Skywalker Sound, see http://www.skysound.com/about_ranch.html.

  2. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 341.

  3. Vanessa Ho, Linda Keene, Kery Murakami, and Peyton Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene’ and Heroin Use: How Bad Is It?” Seattle Times, April 20, 1994, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940420&slug=1906421.

  4. Jocelyn Y. Stewart, “Addiction Specialist Worked with Celebrities,” Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/08/local/me-timmins8.

  5. Marc Lacey and Shawn Hubler, “Rioters Set Fires, Loot Stores; 4 Reported Dead,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Richard A. Serrano and Tracy Wilkinson, “All 4 in King Beating Acquitted: Violence Follows Verdicts; Guard Called Out,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Amy Wallace and David Ferrell, “Verdicts Greeted with Outrage and Disbelief,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Stan Wilson, “Riot Anniversary Tour Surveys Progress and Economic Challenges in Los Angeles,” CNN, April 25, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/us/california-post-riot/index.html?hpt=us_t4.

  6. Nick Bowcott, “Seattle Do Nicely: Jerry Cantrell,” Guitarist, April 1993.

  7. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 341.

  8. For information about the city curfew during the riots, see Matt Moody and Brian MacDonald, “A Rapidly Expanding Curfew Area,” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2012, http://graphics.latimes.com/towergraphic-la-me-riot-curfews/.

  9. Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.

10. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405; regarding Lou Reed, see Jim DeRogatis, Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic (New York: Broadway Books, 2000), 210.

11. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 301, “Intake,” January 5, 2010.

12. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 379.

13. Jonathan Gold, “Record Rack,” Los Angeles Times, September 27, 1992.

CHAPTER 16

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Randy Biro, Martin Feveyear, Mark Pellington, Norman Scott Rockwell, and Jimmy Shoaf.

  1. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 272.

  2. Jeff Gilbert, “Love Hate Love: Alice in Chains Have a Gold Record and We Don’t,” The Rocket, October 1992.

  3. The dates and itinerary of the Alice in Chains/Gruntruck tour are based on an author interview with Norman Scott Rockwell and a review of Rockwell’s commemorative jacket of that tour, which had the dates and locations.

  4. The approximate date of Layne’s ATV accident is taken from an interview conducted by a Canadian TV host on Musique Plus in November 1992, during which Layne mentioned that it happened in September and made the statement about lacking an excuse to play. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ2aB2TVr0.

  5. An author review of photographs and bootleg videos from the fall 1992 tour with Ozzy Osbourne shows Layne performing on crutches or sitting in a wheelchair or on a couch; the Mike Starr quote about Layne stage-diving while still in his cast came from the November 1992 Musique Plus interview.

  6. Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.

  7. Layne Staley and Mike Starr, interview, Musique Plus, November 1992, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ2aB2TVr0.

  8. Ann Powers, “Misery Loves Company,” SPIN, March 1993.

  9. Ressner, “Alice.”

10. Barrett Martin, eulogy of Layne Staley, April 28, 2002, http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.

11. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 385.

12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 384.

13. Lynn Hirschberg, “Strange Love,” Vanity Fair, September 1992, http://www.nirvanaclub.com/index.php?section=info/articles&file=09.00.92.html; Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 273; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 286–87; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 365.

14. Author review of bootleg videos, available online at http://vimeo.com/26750014.

CHAPTER 17

Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, Lori Barbero, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Jason Buttino, Ken Deans, Jim Elmer, Maureen Herman, Nick Pollock, Rocky Schenck, and Toby Wright.

  1. There are multiple bootlegs circulating online for the January 8, 1993, Alice in Chains show in Honolulu, which took place at Aloha Tower. A set list can be viewed at http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/alice-in-chains/1993/aloha-tower-honolulu-hi-73d65acd.html.

  2. Al Jourgensen and Jon Wiederhorn, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen (New York: Da Capo Press, 2013), 96–97.

  3. Unofficial Ministry fan Web site, “Ministry Tour Dates,” http://www.prongs.org/ministry/tour92-93.

  4. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 399.

  5. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 344–45; Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405; Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117, 58.

  6. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 345; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 398–99; Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Interactive Music Video, Behind the Player: Mike Inez, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyZeROPlt8.

  7. Mary Kohl is identified as an employee of Susan Silver Management and an associate manager of Alice in Chains in two separate newspaper articles from 1993. See Don Adair, “Dark Dirges Mark Alice’s Local Return,” Spokesman-Review, September 17, 1993, and Associated Press, “So You Wanna Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star? Dozens of Entrepreneurs Eager to Lead Seattle Musicians to the Promised Land,” The Galveston Daily News, June 6, 1993.

  8. John Brandon, Unchained: The Story of Mike Starr and His Rise and Fall in Alice in Chains (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2001), 88.

  9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 399.

10. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 301, “Intake,” January 5, 2010; Mike Starr, interview on KROQ Loveline, February 17, 2010.

11. Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993. The newsletter is posted on the wall of the men’s bathroom at Feedback Lounge in Seattle; Daina Darzin, “The Real Dirt,” Rolling Stone, February 24, 1994. An archived version of the band’s original Web site can be read at http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091634/www.aliceinchains.net/bio.html.

12. Author review of January 22, 1993, Alice in Chains show in Rio de Janeiro. A complete video of the performance can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydz6tG06P9I.

13. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010.

14. Interactive Music Video, Behind the Player: Mike Inez, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyZeROPlt8.

15. For information about John Henry’s, see http://www.johnhenrys.com/; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 343–45; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 398–400. For the timing of the 1993 European tour, see the Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993.

16. Bootleg footage of Layne inviting the skinhead onstage and punching him can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91fz-cNgU8. The entire incident can be seen in context of the performance beginning at the 4:20 mark of the clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPAu_ge6_U.

17. A bootleg recording of the February 10, 1993, Helsinki show can be found at http://concertsgalore.net/file/alice-in-chains-at-tavastia-helsinki-finland-on-feb-10-1993-concert-bootleg-download-66673.php.

18. On the U.S. tour with Circus of Power and Masters of Reality, see the Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, spring of 1993. For the date of the first recording sessions with Mike Inez, see the band biography on the original aliceinchains.net Web site, accessed via the Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091634/www.aliceinchains.net/bio.html; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 345.

19. Mike Inez and Layne Staley, interview, Headbangers Ball, 1993, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW0CHy668w.

20. Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993. Metallica’s European tour dates for the spring and summer of 1993 can be viewed at https://www.metallica.com/tour_date_list.asp?year=1993&page=2.

21. The dates and itinerary of the Lollapalooza 1993 tour can be viewed at http://janesaddiction.org/lollapalooza/lollapalooza-93/.

22. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 424.

23. Sandra Schulman, “Lollapalooza Lineup a Nod to Diversity: The Eclectic Summer Tour Adds Underground Acts on a Second Stage,” Sun-Sentinel, June 16, 1993, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-06-16/features/9301190016_1_lollapalooza-tour-second-stage.

24. Regarding the onstage collaborations among different bands on the Lollapalooza 1993 tour, see Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 423. There are multiple audio and video bootlegs of Layne performing “Opiate” onstage with Tool. On Layne’s friendship with Tom Morello, see Joe D’Angelo and Jennifer Vineyard, “‘An Angry Angel’—Layne Staley Remembered by Bandmates, Friends,” MTV News, April 22, 2002, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453544/layne-staley-remembered-angry-angel.jhtml.

25. Lollapalooza 1993 tour dates at http://janesaddiction.org/lollapalooza/lollapalooza-93/.

26. Darzin, “The Real Dirt.”

27. Footage of the Alice in Chains and Les Claypool pranks appears in Primus’s Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, DVD (Santa Monica, CA: Interscope Records, 2003). The clip can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5c1KQ9Ne4.

28. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz21GO4ASA&list=PL764A777926D8EF70; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 423.

29. Darzin, “The Real Dirt.”

30. Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, with Charles R. Cross, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (New York: It Books, 2012), 209–10; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 538–39.

31. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 378.

CHAPTER 18

Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Dave Hillis, Jonathan Plum, and Toby Wright.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 405.

  2. Jar of Flies liner notes.

  3. Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 322–25.

  4. For the call from Courtney Love to Susan Silver, see Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 383. For more details on the March 1994 intervention, see Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 331–35.

  5. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 340–56.

  6. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 387–88; Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 360; Charles R. Cross, Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (New York: It Books, 2014), 147.

  7. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

  8. Everett True, Nirvana (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007), 460.

  9. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Staff and News Services, “Rock Singer Lay Dead for Two Weeks,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2002. There are multiple bootleg audio recordings on the Internet of Layne performing “Opiate” with Tool at Rockstock in May 1994.

10. Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 407.

11. Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Gene Stout, “Cancellations Raise Questions about Future of Alice in Chains,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 22, 1994; Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 470–71.

12. Live bootleg videos available on YouTube. There are two different clips of Metallica mocking Alice in Chains while doing the “Man in the Box” cover from this tour, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYnSEZKcVw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSq626zbMyk.

13. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

CHAPTER 19

Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Sam Hofstedt, Ron Holt, Henrietta Saunders, and Joseph H. Saunders.

  1. Michelle Ahern-Crane, e-mail to the author, October 15, 2011.

  2. Jeff Gilbert, “Alive: Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready Says Goodbye to Drugs and Alcohol and Is a Better Man for It,” Guitar World, April 1995; Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 146; Mike McCready, interview, source unknown, April 1995, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUAuwmxjyc.

  3. New York Times, “Paid Notice: Deaths SAUNDERS, BAKER,” January 26, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/26/classified/paid-notice-deaths-saunders-baker.html; author interview with Joseph H. Saunders.

  4. John Baker Saunders interview for EMP oral history project, October 20, 1995. A copy of the interview transcript was provided to the author by EMP senior curator Jacob McMurray.

  5. Mike McCready, “Mike McCready Remembers Seattle Bassist John Baker Saunders, 1954–1999,” The Rocket, January 27, 1999; McCready, 1995 interview.

  6. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 482; Gilbert, “Alive.”

  7. Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  8. Gilbert, “Alive.”

  9. Mad Season Facebook page, April 17, 2013, https://www.facebook.com/MadSeason/posts/286025078192141?stream_ref=10.

10. Author review of bootleg recording of the Mad Season October 12, 1994, show. Titled “Season of Myst,” a copy of the recording was provided to the author by Jason Buttino.

11. McCready, 1995 interview.

12. Gilbert, “Alive.”

13. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 483.

14. Darren Davis, “Alice in Chains’ Staley Remembered by Mad Season Mate & Rage’s Morello,” Yahoo! Music, April 23, 2002, http://music.yahoo.com/alice-in-chains/news/alice-in-chains-staley-remembered-by-mad-season-mate-rages-morello—12063858.

15. Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al. lawsuit, which was filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013. Obtained by the author through public records.

16. The complete set list and roster of bands that performed at “Self Pollution Radio” can be seen at http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/spr_set.shtml.

17. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 408.

18. Ibid., 408. Regarding the FTA acronym, see Paul Gargano, “Second Coming,” Maximum Ink, May 1999; http://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/second_coming; Steve Stav, “The Second Coming of Second Coming,” Rock Paper Scissors, 2001, http://www.stevestav.com/2001/09/second-coming-of-second-coming.html.

19. Undated letter from Layne Staley to Johnny Bacolas, circa 1994–95. Bacolas did not allow the author to review the letters, which he keeps in a safe, but he paraphrased the “black cloud” quote, which he attributed to one of Layne’s letters during an interview.

CHAPTER 20

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Gillian Gaar, Jeff Gilbert, Sam Hofstedt, Scott Rockwell, Rocky Schenck, Duncan Sharp, Jon Wiederhorn, and Toby Wright.

  1. For the timing of the demo sessions coinciding with Layne’s work on the Mad Season album, see Jeff Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice,” Guitar World, January 1996.

  2. Music Bank liner notes.

  3. Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice.”

  4. Alice in Chains recorded their third studio album in Studio X, which at the time was part of Bad Animals Studio. In 1997, Studio X split from Bad Animals into a separate entity. For consistency with its name at the time and the one that appeared in the album liner notes, Studio X will be referred to as Bad Animals in this book. For more information on the history of the studio, see http://www.badanimals.com/#/History.

  5. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 484–85.

  6. Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice.”

  7. Regarding the backstory behind “Grind,” see Music Bank liner notes; regarding Layne reading rumors about himself on the Internet, see Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

  8. Different theories about the sound at the beginning of Tool’s “Intolerance” are explored in question F9 at http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html.

  9. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 409–10.

10. The Nona Tapes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poCIt4KfDBo.

11. For the release date of the album, see http://allmusic.com/album/alice-in-chains-r227636/review; Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

12. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

13. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

CHAPTER 21

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Randy Biro, Alex Coletti, Ken Deans, Rick Krim, and Toby Wright.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 412.

  2. The release date for the Unplugged album and its position on the Billboard chart is from http://www.allmusic.com/album/mtv-unplugged-mw0000183677. The airdate for the show is from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276768/.

  3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 411.

  4. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with MTV News, circa June–July 1996, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5rWmq7UTc.

  5. Joe D’Angelo and Jennifer Vineyard, “‘An Angry Angel’: Layne Staley Remembered by Bandmates, Friends,” MTV News, April 22, 2002; Billy Corgan, Twitter, October 15, 2012, https://twitter.com/Billy/status/257902596906446848. Regarding the Alice in Chains dates opening for KISS in the summer of 1996, see http://www.kissasylum.com/ReunionDatesArchive.html.

  6. Blair Fischer, “Alice in Chains Frontman Talks about Band’s Spectacular Second Act,” Lowcountry Current, April 30, 2014, http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/04/30/3086859/alice-in-chains-frontman-talks.html?sp=/99/543/.

  7. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 486.

  8. Author review of bootleg video of July 3, 1996, Kansas City show, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDYr9dbwIQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYrBqO45PTk.

  9. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 411.

10. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 412.

CHAPTER 22

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Kathleen Austin, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, James Burdyshaw, Jason Buttino, Jim Elmer, Jeff Gilbert, Nanci Hubbard-Mills, Karie Pfeiffer-Simmons, Nick Pollock, and Jon Wiederhorn.

  1. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405; Jon Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words,” Revolver, http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art114.html.

  2. Russell requested and was granted anonymity out of concern that any of the information attributed to him might complicate his application for a visa if he should ever have to travel to the United States again. Some biographical information, such as his nationality and the name of his band, has been withheld to protect his identity.

  3. Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words.”

  4. King County Medical Examiner’s record, October 29, 1996, obtained by the author through a public records request; Demri Parrott death certificate, November 4, 1996, obtained by the author through a public records request. Demri’s death certificate misspells “meprobamate” as “meptobamate.”

  5. Regarding Susan saying this was one of the last times she saw Layne, see Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 416.

CHAPTER 23

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, Kim De Baere, Dan Gallagher, Henrietta Saunders, Joseph H. Saunders, and Evan Sheeley.

  1. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 487.

  2. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  3. Barrett Martin, Above reissue liner notes; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  4. King County Medical Examiner’s record, January 15, 1999, obtained by the author through public records.

  5. Martin, Above reissue liner notes; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  6. Mike McCready, “Mike McCready Remembers Seattle Bassist John Baker Saunders, 1954–1999,” The Rocket, January 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 24

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Jason Buttino, Bryan Carlstrom, Annette Cisneros, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Dave Jerden, Matt Serletic, Jimmy Shoaf, Elan Trujillo, and Toby Wright.

  1. King County assessor records, accessed online by the author. Author review of Alice in Chains album liner notes. Articles, court cases, addresses, and various legal and public-records information accessed on the Nexis database by the author.

  2. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohpVPsELRA.

  3. Author review of recordings of “The Things You Do,” by the Despisely Brothers. The recordings, which are not publicly available, were made available to the author by Jason Buttino.

  4. Patrick MacDonald, “Soundgarden’s History: One of Seattle’s First and Loudest Grunge Bands Calls It Quits After 12 Years of Setting the Pace for Alternative Rock,” Seattle Times, April 10, 1997; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 427–36; Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 515–21. It should also be noted that, after a twelve-year split, Soundgarden reunited in 2010.

  5. Patrick MacDonald, “Internet Dominates Talk at Music Conference,” Seattle Times, October 20, 1997.

  6. Lip Service, The Rocket, November 5–19, 1997.

  7. Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  8. Marc Weingarten, “Unchained,” Guitar World, June 1998, http://web.archive.org/web/20090731074835/http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/guitarworld_6.html; http://www.guitarworld.com/archive-jerry-cantrell-his-first-solo-album-and-state-alice-chains.

  9. Gene Stout, “Cantrell Seeks Out a Solo Identity on First Tour Away from Alice,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 30, 1998; Rocky Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

10. Rex Brown, with Mark Eglinton, Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013), 156–57.

11. MTV News, “Cantrell Solo Nixed for October,” September 15, 1997, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424862/cantrell-solo-nixed-october.jhtml.

12. Troy Carpenter, “News on Jerry Cantrell, Richard Ashcroft, Waylon Jennings,” Billboard, 2002, http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/76876/billboard-bits-cantrell-ashcroft-jennings.

13. Weingarten, “Unchained.”

14. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

15. For the lineup of Jerry’s touring band in the summer and fall of 1998, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Sets Headlining Tour,” September 18, 1998, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424857/jerry-cantrell-sets-headlining-tour.jhtml. For Jerry’s tour dates opening for Metallica, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Takes ‘Boggy Depot’ Online,” March 30, 1998, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424858/jerry-cantrell-takes-boggy-depot-online.jhtml.

16. Jerry Cantrell MTV online chat, July 22, 1998, http://archive.today/7CPBH. A live bootleg video of the cover can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skHETecWxO4.

17. The description of Layne’s physical appearance is based on an author review of photographs taken during the Music Bank recording session by Annette Cisneros.

18. Blair R. Fischer, “Malice in Chains?” Rolling Stone, September 4, 1998, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/malice-in-chains-19980904.

19. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 416.

20. Tom Morello, Twitter, May 25, 2013, https://twitter.com/tmorello/status/338497113958805504; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 416; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 534.

21. For the dates and venues of Jerry’s headlining tour in October 1998, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Sets Headlining Tour.”

22. Author review of photograph of Layne Staley and Jimmy Shoaf taken backstage at the Showbox on October 31, 1998, as first published on Alternative Nation, http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=10483. Shoaf verified the authenticity of the photo.

23. Johnny Bacolas, e-mail to the author, dated December 5, 2013. The Mike Starr quote comes from Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 174. A photo of Layne and Mike performing in drag can be seen at http://grungebook.tumblr.com/post/11443878907/mike-starr-on-diamond-lie-becoming-alice-in-chains.

24. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz21GO4ASA&list=PL764A777926D8EF70.

25. Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, with Charles R. Cross, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (New York: It Books, 2012), 210–11.

26. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 535; Kara Manning, “Chris Cornell Feels ‘Euphoria’ with Newborn Daughter,” MTV News, July 6, 2000, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1427500/chris-cornell-feels-euphoria-with-newborn-daughter.jhtml.

27. Bob Gulla, “Into the Flood Again,” Guitar One, June 2001; Jerry Cantrell, biography for Roadrunner Records, http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/JerryCantrell/.

28. Don Kaye, “A Long, Strange Trip,” Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 liner notes.

29. Gulla, “Into the Flood Again.”

30. Kaye, “A Long, Strange Trip”; Gulla, “Into the Flood Again”; Gene Stout, “Making Music Sees Cantrell Through Death and Dark Times,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 16, 2002, http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Making-music-sees-Cantrell-through-death-and-dark-1087394.php.

31. Tom Hansen, American Junkie (New York: Emergency Press, 2010), 245–48. Hansen declined to be interviewed for this book.

32. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 417; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 535.

33. Bob Forrest, with Michael Albo, Running with Monsters: A Memoir (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 213–16.

CHAPTER 25

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Jason Buttino, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Morgen Gallagher, Jeff Gilbert, Mike Korjenek, Phil Lipscomb, Nick Pollock, Stephen Richards, and Toby Wright.

  1. Adriana Rubio, Layne Staley: Get Born Again (Evansdale, Iowa: ARTS Publications, 2006), xii.

  2. Ibid., xii–xvi.

  3. Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  4. Tom Scanlon, “Alice in Chains Singer’s Legacy Lives on Through Music,” Seattle Times, August 24, 2007, http://seattletimes.com/html/musicnightlife/2003850521_staley24.html; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 423.

  5. The information about Layne having seen Demri the night before was given to Kathleen Austin by Mike Starr after Layne’s private memorial service.

  6. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307.

  7. Jon Wiederhorn, “Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back,” Rolling Stone, February 8, 1996, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-rolling-stones-1996-feature-20110405.

CHAPTER 26

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin and Jim Elmer.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 415.

  2. Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 421.

  4. Seattle Police Department computer-aided dispatch (CAD) record, April 19, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  5. Ibid.; Seattle Police Department incident report, April 19, 2002, published by The Smoking Gun, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/alice-chains-singers-death.

  6. Seattle Police Department incident report; King County Medical Examiner’s record, April 19, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request; Rick Anderson, “Smack Is Back,” Seattle Weekly, October 9, 2006, http://www.seattleweekly.com/2003-01-08/news/smack-is-back/. Layne Staley death certificate, April 20, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  7. Anderson, “Smack Is Back.”

  8. King County Medical Examiner’s record, April 19, 2002.

  9. On Sadie’s being adopted by Jerry, see the Jerry Cantrell feature on MTV Cribs, circa 2002–2003, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQCZ14f0Rs. Regarding Sadie’s death, see http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.

10. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010.

CHAPTER 27

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Chrissy Chacos, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Jeff Gilbert, Randy Hauser, Ron Holt, Dave Jerden, Nick Pollock, and Toby Wright.

  1. Charles R. Cross, “Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 538.

  3. E-mail from Taproot’s bassist, Phil Lipscomb, to the author, April 7, 2014.

  4. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 282.

  5. Gene Stout, “Fans Mourn Death of Alice in Chains Singer,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 19, 2002, http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fans-mourn-death-of-Alice-in-Chains-singer-1085691.php.

  6. The complete statement on the old and now-defunct Alice in Chains Web site can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20020522235447/http://www.aliceinchains.net/.

  7. Candice Heckman, “In Seattle Gloom, Fans Honor Staley,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 26, 2002, http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/In-Seattle-gloom-fans-honor-Staley-1086186.php; Jennifer Vineyard, “Layne Staley Memorialized at Second Candlelight Vigil,” MTV News, April 29, 2002, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453662/staley-memorialized-at-seattle-vigil.jhtml.

  8. For the date of the memorial service, see a copy of the program uploaded at http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.

  9. Barrett Martin, “Memoriam for Layne Staley,” April 28, 2002. The complete text can be found on the program for the memorial service at http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.

10. On the performance of “Sand” at Layne Staley’s memorial service, see the exchange between Mike Inez and Nancy Wilson on VH1’s Decades Rock Live! at the 0:26 mark in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HJV1BuQEE. For the story behind “Sand,” see video of Q&A with Ann and Nancy Wilson at EMP from October 8, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5uJv34GBEU.

CHAPTER 28

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Steve Alley, Randy Biro, Jason Buttino, Bryan Carlstrom, Evan Sheeley, and Aaron Woodruff.

  1. On Ray Gillen’s background and the Sun Red Sun project, see http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/music/catalogue/gillen.html.

  2. Andy Greene, “Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dies at 44,” Rolling Stone, March 9, 2011. Information about the charges and the jail sentence are from records from the Office of the Harris County District Clerk and the Houston Police Department, obtained by the author through public records requests.

  3. John Brandon, Unchained: The Story of Mike Starr and His Rise and Fall in Alice in Chains (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2001), vii–x, 1–5, 107; Demri Parrott death certificate, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  4. Salt Lake City Police Department report, May 6, 2003; probable cause statement filed with the Third District Court of Salt Lake City, Utah, May 9, 2003; Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office jail booking sheet, May 6, 2003; judgment of forfeiture filed with Third District Court of Salt Lake City, Utah, May 3, 2004; guilty plea filed with Third District Court of Salt Lake City, Utah, July 22, 2003; bench warrant filed with Third District Court of Salt Lake City, Utah, August 25, 2003. All of these documents were obtained by the author through a public records request.

  5. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010. Mike’s official biography for the show can be seen at http://www.vh1.com/shows/celebrity_rehab_with_dr_drew/season_3/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=13233.

  6. Video of the performances of “Man in the Box,” “Shout It Out Loud,” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF15vxXXLwc, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaoJ1CXVZXU, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1_JLBJ0N8s; Mike Starr, interview on KROQ Loveline, February 17, 2010; Blabbermouth.net, “Mike Starr Featured on Leiana’s Cover of Sonic Youth’s ‘Kool Thing’; Audio Available,” March 24, 2011, http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mike-starr-featured-on-leiana-s-cover-of-sonic-youth-s-kool-thing-audio-available/#hHkm37jJvKZ6LmuM.99. A partial audio recording of “Kool Thing” can be heard at http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=3287.

  7. Mike Starr, Loveline interview.

  8. KROQ, “Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains Slams Dr. Drew’s Celeb Rehab,” February 21, 2010, http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2010/02/21/jerry-cantrell-of-alice-in-chains-slams-dr-drews-celeb-rehab/; WMMR.com, “Alice in Chains Drummer Slams ‘Celebrity Rehab’ as ‘Disgusting,’” February 18, 2010, http://www.wmmr.com/music/news/story.aspx?ID=1198068.

  9. Mike Starr, Loveline interview.

10. Mike Starr memorial service DVD, March 20, 2011. A copy of the DVD was provided to the author by Gayle Starr.

11. Salt Lake City Police Department report, February 17, 2011.

12. Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office jail booking sheet, February 17, 2011, obtained by the author through a public records request.

13. Mike Starr memorial service DVD.

14. Mike’s voice mail to Chris Jurebie was described on the Mike Starr memorial service DVD.

15. TMZ, “Mike Starr’s Last Voicemail—I ‘Need’ Drugs,” March 10, 2011, http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/09/mike-starr-voicemail-drugs-phone-call-alice-in-chains-death/.

16. Salt Lake City Police Department report, March 8, 2011, obtained by the author through a public records request; Salt Lake City Police Department watch log, March 8, 2011, http://www.slcpd.com/Newsroom/Press_Releases/SLCPD/Watch%20Log99CN%20Tuesday99CM%20March%20899CM%202011/.

17. Salt Lake City Police Department report, March 8, 2011.

18. Ibid.

19. Gil Kaufman, “Mike Starr Mourned by Former Alice in Chains Bandmates,” MTV News, March 9, 2011, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1659488/mike-starr-alice-in-chains-death.jhtml; Facebook, Official Mike Inez Page, March 9, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150120611653701&set=a.269811598700.143543.213654063700&type=1&stream_ref=10; Ryan J. Downey, “Mike Starr Remembered by Dr. Drew, Nikki Sixx, Steven Adler,” MTV News, March 8, 2011, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1659481/mike-starr-alice-in-chains-death.jhtml.

20. Last will and testament of Michael Christopher Starr, December 4, 2004; Peter F. Cowles, “Motion for Appointment of Personal Representative; Adjudicating Estate Solvent; Directing Administration Without Bond or Court Intervention and Issuance of Letters Testamentary,” May 5, 2011, obtained by the author through public records.

21. Regarding the public memorial service at Seattle Center, see Melissa Allison, “Memorial Held for Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr,” Seattle Times, March 20, 2011, http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2014556157_starr21m.html.

22. Mike Starr memorial service DVD.

CHAPTER 29

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Annette Cisneros, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Gillian Gaar, Jeff Gilbert, Dave Jerden, Mike Korjenek, and Elan Trujillo.

  1. Allen B. Draher, “Verified Application for Order Adjudicating Intestacy and Solvency, Appointing Co-Administrators, and Granting Nonintervention Powers,” April 24, 2002, obtained by the author through public records.

  2. Rick Anderson, “Smack Is Back,” Seattle Weekly, October 9, 2006, http://www.seattleweekly.com/2003-01-08/news/smack-is-back/; Nancy Layne McCallum, newsletter, Layne-Staley.com, http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=678.

  3. Susan Silver, deposition transcript, April 23, 2007, obtained by the author through public records.

  4. E-mail to the author from Darren Julien. On the sale of Layne’s original artwork for the Mad Season album, see http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/memorabilia/mad-season-layne-staley-5144945-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5144945&sid=b3876a3a-2da0-469b-bbcf-2a6407ecc8a4.

  5. Adriana Rubio, Layne Staley: Angry Chair—A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2003), 69–77, 91. On Rubio’s efforts to get an interview with a man claiming to be Jim Morrison, see Adriana Rubio, Jim Morrison: Ceremony—Exploring the Shaman Possession (Evansdale, Iowa: ARTS Publications, 2005), 124–48.

  6. David de Sola, “Setting the Alice in Chains Record Straight,” Icepicks and Nukes, December 16, 2011, http://icepicksandnukes.com/2011/12/16/setting-the-alice-in-chains-record-straight/; David de Sola, “Statement from Liz Coats,” Icepicks and Nukes, January 2, 2012, http://icepicksandnukes.com/2012/01/02/statement-from-liz-coats/; e-mail from Adriana Rubio to the author, December 16, 2011; e-mail from Liz Coats to the author, December 29, 2011.

  7. TEAS Plus application, serial number 85491584, December 9, 2011; “Motion for an Extension of Answer or Discovery or Trial Periods with Consent,” July 9, 2014—both documents were accessed electronically through uspto.gov.

  8. Silver, deposition; Chris Cornell, deposition, September 10, 2008, obtained by the author through public records; Janet George, “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (FNFCL),” September 22, 2005, obtained by the author through public records; Susan Silver, complaint, May 18, 2007, obtained by the author through public records; Susan Silver, declaration, September 9, 2008, obtained by the author through public records; King County Superior Court records, obtained by the author.

  9. “Motion and Declaration to Appoint Arbitrators and to Strike Order to Show Cause,” July 29, 2005, obtained by the author through public records; Chris Cornell, “Declaration of Chris Cornell in Support of Motion to Enforce Property Settlement Agreement,” June 26, 2007, obtained by the author through public records; Scott Johnson and Aneehal Afzali, “Opposition to Cornell’s Motion to Enforce Property Settlement Agreement,” September 17, 2008, obtained by the author through public records.

10. Bob Gulla, “Into the Flood Again,” Guitar One, June 2001.

11. Fuse, “Alice in Chains Talk New Album and the Band’s Evolution,” May 30, 2013, http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2013/05/fuse-news-alice-in-chains-new-album-interview.

12. Marc Burrows, “No Barricades: William DuVall on Hardcore, Grunge and Alice in Chains,” Drowned in Sound, November 8, 2013, http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147119-no-barricades--william-duvall-on-hardcore-grunge-and-alice-in-chains.

13. Randy DuTeau, “A Crackberry Interview with My Former Bandmate William ‘Kip’ DuVall, Now Lead Singer for Alice in Chains,” Metro Spirit, September 18, 2007, http://introvertedloudmouth.blogspot.com/2008/02/kip-duvall.html.

14. Blabbermouth.net, “Archive News,” March 7, 2001, http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=21.

15. Michael Christopher, “Degradation Trip: An Interview with Jerry Cantrell,” Popmatters.com, December 26, 2002, http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/cantrell-jerry-021226/; Joe D’Angelo, “Jerry Cantrell Perseveres in Wake of Staley’s Death,” MTV News, April 24, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20021001190829/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453571/20020424/story.jhtml; Leah Greenblatt, “Jerry Cantrell Delivers Bittersweet, AIC-Heavy Set at Seattle Nickelback Gig,” MTV News, May 20, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20020803134329/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1454099/20020520/story.jhtml.

16. Gary Graff, “Rockers Team Up in Spys4Darwin,” ABC News, May 31, 2001, http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=104499; David Basham, “Bassist Jason Newsted Leaves Metallica,” MTV News, January 17, 2001, http://www.mtv.com/news/1438016/bassist-jason-newsted-leaves-metallica/. On Mike Inez being considered as a replacement for Newsted, see Mike Inez biography on Ampeg Web site, http://www.ampeg.com/artists/mike-inez/; Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, with Charles R. Cross, Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (New York: It Books, 2012), 279; letter from Sony Music Entertainment to Alice in Chains partnership and Peter Paterno, October 22, 2004, obtained by the author through public records as part of the Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al. lawsuit, which was filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013.

17. CNN, “Tsunami of 2004 Fast Facts,” http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/world/tsunami-of-2004-fast-facts/.

18. Travis Hay, “Alice in Chains Owns Stage in Tsunami-Relief Show Full of Surprises,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 20, 2005, http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Alice-in-Chains-owns-stage-in-tsunami-relief-show-1166879.php. Full set lists of the performance are available at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-photos-from-tsunami-benefit-concert-posted-online/ and http://www.last.fm/music/Alice+in+Chains/Tsunami+Relief+Benefit+Show.

19. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with Voice of America, May 26, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5yQ7z6TJFM.

20. Duff McKagan, It’s So Easy and Other Lies (New York: Touchstone Books, 2011), 337–38; Alice in Chains, Black Gives Way to Blue electronic press kit (hereafter, BGWTB EPK), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYbTnLgJsE.

21. VH1, Decades Rock Live! Web site, http://www.decadesrocklive.com/artists/mainlist.php; VH1 Classic, announcement, April 17, 2006, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vh1-classic-and-world-productions-present-all-star-line-up-for-live-television-concert-series-decades-rock-live-heart-premiering-on-vh1-classic-on-friday-may-5-at-800-pm-etpt-56413912.html.

22. Burrows, “No Barricades.”

23. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 461.

24. Burrows, “No Barricades.”

25. BGWTB EPK.

26. Gillian G. Gaar, “Alice in Chains Homecoming,” Seattle Weekly, February 2, 2010, http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-02-03/music/alice-in-chains-homecoming/.

27. McKagan, It’s So Easy, 342–43; Benny Doyle, “Songs in Their Sails,” Music, November 13, 2013, http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2013/11/13/alice-in-chains-william-duvall/21506/; Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver’s 2007 tour dates can be viewed at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/velvet-revolver-alice-in-chains-more-north-american-tour-dates-announced/; BGWTB EPK; Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with Radio.com, August 26, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSzIDVAGp5o.

28. Bud Scoppa, “Alice in Chains,” Mix, September 1, 2009, http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/alice-in-chains-0909//index.html.

29. “Check My Brain—The Making Of,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zARYZk1gi7g.

30. BGWTB EPK.

31. Dan Snierson, “Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell and Elton John on Their ‘Black Gives Way to Blue’ Collaboration,” Entertainment Weekly, October 1, 2009; Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with Voice of America, May 26, 2010, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5yQ7z6TJFM, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEavsV_FdfY. For information on Elton John’s background and career achievements, see Edna Gundersen, “Elton Still Standing for Gay Rights, Home, Tammy Faye,” USA Today, September 23, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/09/23/elton-john-still-standing-for-gay-rights-family-tammy-faye-bakker/2852913/. Information that Layne used to sing Elton John songs at the Music Bank was provided by Tim Branom during an interview with the author.

32. RIAA Gold and Platinum searchable database, http://www.billboard.com/artist/278597/alice-chains/chart?f=305; Blabbermouth.net, “Alice in Chains Drummer Compares Having New Album Illegally Downloaded to Prison Rape,” September 27, 2009, http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-drummer-compares-having-new-album-illegally-downloaded-to-prison-rape/.

33. Steve Baltin, “Lessons Learned with Jerry Cantrell,” Grammy.com, May 30, 2012, http://www.grammy.com/news/lessons-learned-with-jerry-cantrell; Steve Baltin, “Jerry Cantrell Gives the Dirt on Alice in Chains’ New Album,” Grammy.com, May 23, 2013, http://www.grammy.com/news/jerry-cantrell-gives-the-dirt-on-alice-in-chains-new-album.

34. Steve Baltin, “Jerry Cantrell on New Alice in Chains Record: ‘Time to Get to Work,’” Rolling Stone, May 10, 2012, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jerry-cantrell-on-new-alice-in-chains-record-time-to-get-to-work-20120510; Steve Baltin, “Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Honored with Stevie Ray Vaughan Award,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2012, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-honored-with-stevie-ray-vaughan-award-20120601; Michael Moses, press release, “Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell to Be Honored at May 31st MusiCares Benefit Concert; Alice in Chains to Perform,” March 22, 2012, MusiCares Web site, http://www.grammy.org/musicares.

35. Video of Jerry’s MusiCares acceptance speech can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxbmq4TpIs. Regarding the tenth anniversary of Jerry’s sobriety, see Backstage with Baldy, “July 1st—Vancouver,” http://aliceinchains.umg-wp-stage.com/blog/july-1st-vancouver/.

36. Kyle McGovern, “Alice in Chains Vow ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here’ Will Be Unsurprising Yet Unique,” SPIN, February 14, 2013, http://www.spin.com/articles/alice-in-chains-new-album-title-social-media-decoder-devil-put-dinosaurs-here/; Billboard.com database.

37. Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al. lawsuit, which was filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013, obtained by the author through public records.

38. O. Yale Lewise, Jr., and Michael D. Hunsinger, “Stipulation re the Exchange of the Disclosure of Possible Primary Witnesses,” February 26, 2014, obtained by the author through public records as part of the McCallum v. Alice in Chains lawsuit.

39. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, “Induction Process,” http://rockhall.com/inductees/induction-process/?gclid=CKq2o-ue47oCFallOgodeDcAoA.

40. For a partial listing of Alice in Chains Grammy nominations, see http://www.grammy.com/news/hope-is-on-its-way-for-alice-in-chains. Troy L. Smith, “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs: 25 acts that should be inducted,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 17, 2013, http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2013/12/rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_snu_1.html.

41. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with Radio.com, August 26, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSzIDVAGp5o.

42. Dave Kerr, “A Looking in View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains’ Legacy,” Skinny, November 13, 2013, http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/features/306328-a_looking_in_view_jerry_cantrell_alice_in_chains_legacy.