Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

  8. Different theories about the sound at the beginning of Tool’s “Intolerance” are explored in question F9 at http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html.

  9. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 409–10.

10. The Nona Tapes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poCIt4KfDBo.

11. For the release date of the album, see http://allmusic.com/album/alice-in-chains-r227636/review; Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

12. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

13. Wiederhorn, “Alice.”

CHAPTER 21

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Randy Biro, Alex Coletti, Ken Deans, Rick Krim, and Toby Wright.

  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 412.

  2. The release date for the Unplugged album and its position on the Billboard chart is from http://www.allmusic.com/album/mtv-unplugged-mw0000183677. The airdate for the show is from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276768/.

  3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 411.

  4. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview with MTV News, circa June–July 1996, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5rWmq7UTc.

  5. Joe D’Angelo and Jennifer Vineyard, “‘An Angry Angel’: Layne Staley Remembered by Bandmates, Friends,” MTV News, April 22, 2002; Billy Corgan, Twitter, October 15, 2012, https://twitter.com/Billy/status/257902596906446848. Regarding the Alice in Chains dates opening for KISS in the summer of 1996, see http://www.kissasylum.com/ReunionDatesArchive.html.

  6. Blair Fischer, “Alice in Chains Frontman Talks about Band’s Spectacular Second Act,” Lowcountry Current, April 30, 2014, http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/04/30/3086859/alice-in-chains-frontman-talks.html?sp=/99/543/.

  7. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 486.

  8. Author review of bootleg video of July 3, 1996, Kansas City show, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDYr9dbwIQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYrBqO45PTk.

  9. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 411.

10. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 412.

CHAPTER 22

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Michelle Ahern-Crane, Kathleen Austin, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, James Burdyshaw, Jason Buttino, Jim Elmer, Jeff Gilbert, Nanci Hubbard-Mills, Karie Pfeiffer-Simmons, Nick Pollock, and Jon Wiederhorn.

  1. 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; Jon Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words,” Revolver, http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art114.html.

  2. Russell requested and was granted anonymity out of concern that any of the information attributed to him might complicate his application for a visa if he should ever have to travel to the United States again. Some biographical information, such as his nationality and the name of his band, has been withheld to protect his identity.

  3. Wiederhorn, “Famous Last Words.”

  4. King County Medical Examiner’s record, October 29, 1996, obtained by the author through a public records request; Demri Parrott death certificate, November 4, 1996, obtained by the author through a public records request. Demri’s death certificate misspells “meprobamate” as “meptobamate.”

  5. Regarding Susan saying this was one of the last times she saw Layne, see Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 416.

CHAPTER 23

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, Kim De Baere, Dan Gallagher, Henrietta Saunders, Joseph H. Saunders, and Evan Sheeley.

  1. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 487.

  2. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  3. Barrett Martin, Above reissue liner notes; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  4. King County Medical Examiner’s record, January 15, 1999, obtained by the author through public records.

  5. Martin, Above reissue liner notes; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 487.

  6. Mike McCready, “Mike McCready Remembers Seattle Bassist John Baker Saunders, 1954–1999,” The Rocket, January 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 24

Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Jason Buttino, Bryan Carlstrom, Annette Cisneros, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Dave Jerden, Matt Serletic, Jimmy Shoaf, Elan Trujillo, and Toby Wright.