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  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.