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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.