Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

  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.