Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

16. Pearl Jam Twenty film, directed by Cameron Crowe, 2011.

17. “Rekindled: Candlebox’s Kevin Martin Talks to AAM,” All Access Magazine, July 24, 2008, http://www.allaccessmagazine.com/vol6/issue11/candlebox.html; Chris Cornell, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, interview on KISW 99.9 FM, April 14, 1991, http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/radio041491.shtml; Kevin Wood, interview, Fullinbloommusic.com, http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/kevinwood.html.

18. Rocky Schenck declined to be interviewed by phone but agreed to answer the author’s questions in writing. The result was a seventeen-page PDF document titled “AIC Memories” he sent to the author that chronicled in great detail Schenck’s experiences with the band.

19. Schenck, “AIC Memories.” More information about the Facelift cover shoot and album title came during a follow-up e-mail exchange between the author and Schenck; Music Bank liner notes.

20. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

21. The release date for Facelift is taken from the RIAA Gold and Platinum Program searchable database; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 261.

CHAPTER 11

Sources for this chapter include an author interview with Jimmy Shoaf.

  1. For the length of Alice in Chains’s tour with Extreme, see Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 263.

  2. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 263.

  3. Patrick MacDonald, “Screaming Trees: A Band with Bark Has a New EP,” Seattle Times, October 12, 1990.

  4. John D’Agostino, “Rock in the Reptile House: Iguanas in Tijuana Is a Bizarre, Almost-Anything-Goes Venue Just 15 Minutes from San Diego but Light-Years from Most Other Clubs,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-14/entertainment/ca-3235_1_san-diego.

  5. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 44.

  6. Patrick MacDonald, “Word,” Seattle Times, December 7, 1990.

  7. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, 44.

CHAPTER 12

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Kathleen Austin, Johnny Bacolas, Randy Biro, Duane Lance Bodenheimer, Jim Elmer, Rick Krim, Paul Rachman, and Aaron Woodruff.

  1. On the dates of the February 1991 West Coast tour, see Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 52; for the food fights on the freeway, see Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 274.

  2. For details about the show, including date and set lists, see http://www.metalsetlists.com/showthread.php?t=10581.

  3. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 274.

  4. Patrick MacDonald, “It’s a Concert for Peace at the Paramount,” Seattle Times, February 22, 1991.

  5. Patrick MacDonald, “Established Acts Take Big Awards,” Seattle Times, March 4, 1991.

  6. For the start of the European tour featuring Megadeth, the Almighty, and Alice in Chains, see the “History” section of Megadeth’s official Web site: http://www.megadeth.com/history#1991.

  7. The clips are available on Aaron Woodruff’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/OBSSMEDIA; comments from Mike Starr memorial service DVD. A copy of the DVD was provided to the author by Gayle Starr.

  8. Kyle Anderson, Accidental Revolution: The Story of Grunge (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007), 99.

  9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 234.

10. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340; Music Bank liner notes.

11. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX06Qiqv-E0.

12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 385.

13. Ibid., 277–78; Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 180–81. The information about the location of the Alice in Chains Singles shoot is from an e-mail to the author from Michelle Panek, dated September 23, 2011. At the time, Panek worked at Cameron Crowe’s office. Crowe declined to be interviewed for this book.

14. Regarding Death Angel’s bus accident, see Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal (New York: HarperCollins, 2013), 264–65. For the dates of the Clash of the Titans tour, see http://www.slayerized.com/ontheroad/tourdatabase/1991.html.

15. Alice in Chains, interview, Headbangers Ball, 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9w9aQhtbyc.