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17. A bootleg recording of the February 10, 1993, Helsinki show can be found at http://concertsgalore.net/file/alice-in-chains-at-tavastia-helsinki-finland-on-feb-10-1993-concert-bootleg-download-66673.php.

18. On the U.S. tour with Circus of Power and Masters of Reality, see the Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, spring of 1993. For the date of the first recording sessions with Mike Inez, see the band biography on the original aliceinchains.net Web site, accessed via the Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091634/www.aliceinchains.net/bio.html; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 345.

19. Mike Inez and Layne Staley, interview, Headbangers Ball, 1993, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW0CHy668w.

20. Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993. Metallica’s European tour dates for the spring and summer of 1993 can be viewed at https://www.metallica.com/tour_date_list.asp?year=1993&page=2.

21. The dates and itinerary of the Lollapalooza 1993 tour can be viewed at http://janesaddiction.org/lollapalooza/lollapalooza-93/.

22. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 424.

23. Sandra Schulman, “Lollapalooza Lineup a Nod to Diversity: The Eclectic Summer Tour Adds Underground Acts on a Second Stage,” Sun-Sentinel, June 16, 1993, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-06-16/features/9301190016_1_lollapalooza-tour-second-stage.

24. Regarding the onstage collaborations among different bands on the Lollapalooza 1993 tour, see Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 423. There are multiple audio and video bootlegs of Layne performing “Opiate” onstage with Tool. On Layne’s friendship with Tom Morello, see Joe D’Angelo and Jennifer Vineyard, “‘An Angry Angel’—Layne Staley Remembered by Bandmates, Friends,” MTV News, April 22, 2002, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453544/layne-staley-remembered-angry-angel.jhtml.

25. Lollapalooza 1993 tour dates at http://janesaddiction.org/lollapalooza/lollapalooza-93/.

26. Darzin, “The Real Dirt.”

27. Footage of the Alice in Chains and Les Claypool pranks appears in Primus’s Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, DVD (Santa Monica, CA: Interscope Records, 2003). The clip can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5c1KQ9Ne4.

28. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz21GO4ASA&list=PL764A777926D8EF70; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 423.

29. Darzin, “The Real Dirt.”

30. 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), 209–10; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 538–39.

31. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 378.

CHAPTER 18

Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Dave Hillis, Jonathan Plum, and Toby Wright.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 405.

  2. Jar of Flies liner notes.

  3. Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 322–25.

  4. For the call from Courtney Love to Susan Silver, see Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 383. For more details on the March 1994 intervention, see Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 331–35.

  5. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 340–56.

  6. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 387–88; Cross, Heavier Than Heaven, 360; Charles R. Cross, Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (New York: It Books, 2014), 147.

  7. 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.

  8. Everett True, Nirvana (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007), 460.

  9. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Staff and News Services, “Rock Singer Lay Dead for Two Weeks,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2002. There are multiple bootleg audio recordings on the Internet of Layne performing “Opiate” with Tool at Rockstock in May 1994.

10. Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 407.

11. Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Gene Stout, “Cancellations Raise Questions about Future of Alice in Chains,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 22, 1994; Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 470–71.