Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

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.