Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

  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.