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12. Live bootleg videos available on YouTube. There are two different clips of Metallica mocking Alice in Chains while doing the “Man in the Box” cover from this tour, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYnSEZKcVw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSq626zbMyk.

13. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

CHAPTER 19

Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Sam Hofstedt, Ron Holt, Henrietta Saunders, and Joseph H. Saunders.

  1. Michelle Ahern-Crane, e-mail to the author, October 15, 2011.

  2. Jeff Gilbert, “Alive: Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready Says Goodbye to Drugs and Alcohol and Is a Better Man for It,” Guitar World, April 1995; Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 146; Mike McCready, interview, source unknown, April 1995, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUAuwmxjyc.

  3. New York Times, “Paid Notice: Deaths SAUNDERS, BAKER,” January 26, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/26/classified/paid-notice-deaths-saunders-baker.html; author interview with Joseph H. Saunders.

  4. John Baker Saunders interview for EMP oral history project, October 20, 1995. A copy of the interview transcript was provided to the author by EMP senior curator Jacob McMurray.

  5. Mike McCready, “Mike McCready Remembers Seattle Bassist John Baker Saunders, 1954–1999,” The Rocket, January 27, 1999; McCready, 1995 interview.

  6. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 482; Gilbert, “Alive.”

  7. Charles R. Cross, “The Last Days of Layne Staley,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2002.

  8. Gilbert, “Alive.”

  9. Mad Season Facebook page, April 17, 2013, https://www.facebook.com/MadSeason/posts/286025078192141?stream_ref=10.

10. Author review of bootleg recording of the Mad Season October 12, 1994, show. Titled “Season of Myst,” a copy of the recording was provided to the author by Jason Buttino.

11. McCready, 1995 interview.

12. Gilbert, “Alive.”

13. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 483.

14. Darren Davis, “Alice in Chains’ Staley Remembered by Mad Season Mate & Rage’s Morello,” Yahoo! Music, April 23, 2002, http://music.yahoo.com/alice-in-chains/news/alice-in-chains-staley-remembered-by-mad-season-mate-rages-morello—12063858.

15. Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al. lawsuit, which was filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013. Obtained by the author through public records.

16. The complete set list and roster of bands that performed at “Self Pollution Radio” can be seen at http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/spr_set.shtml.

17. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 408.

18. Ibid., 408. Regarding the FTA acronym, see Paul Gargano, “Second Coming,” Maximum Ink, May 1999; http://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/second_coming; Steve Stav, “The Second Coming of Second Coming,” Rock Paper Scissors, 2001, http://www.stevestav.com/2001/09/second-coming-of-second-coming.html.

19. Undated letter from Layne Staley to Johnny Bacolas, circa 1994–95. Bacolas did not allow the author to review the letters, which he keeps in a safe, but he paraphrased the “black cloud” quote, which he attributed to one of Layne’s letters during an interview.

CHAPTER 20

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Gillian Gaar, Jeff Gilbert, Sam Hofstedt, Scott Rockwell, Rocky Schenck, Duncan Sharp, Jon Wiederhorn, and Toby Wright.

  1. For the timing of the demo sessions coinciding with Layne’s work on the Mad Season album, see Jeff Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice,” Guitar World, January 1996.

  2. Music Bank liner notes.

  3. Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice.”

  4. Alice in Chains recorded their third studio album in Studio X, which at the time was part of Bad Animals Studio. In 1997, Studio X split from Bad Animals into a separate entity. For consistency with its name at the time and the one that appeared in the album liner notes, Studio X will be referred to as Bad Animals in this book. For more information on the history of the studio, see http://www.badanimals.com/#/History.

  5. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 484–85.

  6. Gilbert, “Go Ask Alice.”

  7. Regarding the backstory behind “Grind,” see Music Bank liner notes; regarding Layne reading rumors about himself on the Internet, see 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.