Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

  1. King County assessor records, accessed online by the author. Author review of Alice in Chains album liner notes. Articles, court cases, addresses, and various legal and public-records information accessed on the Nexis database by the author.

  2. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohpVPsELRA.

  3. Author review of recordings of “The Things You Do,” by the Despisely Brothers. The recordings, which are not publicly available, were made available to the author by Jason Buttino.

  4. Patrick MacDonald, “Soundgarden’s History: One of Seattle’s First and Loudest Grunge Bands Calls It Quits After 12 Years of Setting the Pace for Alternative Rock,” Seattle Times, April 10, 1997; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 427–36; Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 515–21. It should also be noted that, after a twelve-year split, Soundgarden reunited in 2010.

  5. Patrick MacDonald, “Internet Dominates Talk at Music Conference,” Seattle Times, October 20, 1997.

  6. Lip Service, The Rocket, November 5–19, 1997.

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

  8. Marc Weingarten, “Unchained,” Guitar World, June 1998, http://web.archive.org/web/20090731074835/http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/guitarworld_6.html; http://www.guitarworld.com/archive-jerry-cantrell-his-first-solo-album-and-state-alice-chains.

  9. Gene Stout, “Cantrell Seeks Out a Solo Identity on First Tour Away from Alice,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 30, 1998; Rocky Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

10. Rex Brown, with Mark Eglinton, Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013), 156–57.

11. MTV News, “Cantrell Solo Nixed for October,” September 15, 1997, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424862/cantrell-solo-nixed-october.jhtml.

12. Troy Carpenter, “News on Jerry Cantrell, Richard Ashcroft, Waylon Jennings,” Billboard, 2002, http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/76876/billboard-bits-cantrell-ashcroft-jennings.

13. Weingarten, “Unchained.”

14. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”

15. For the lineup of Jerry’s touring band in the summer and fall of 1998, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Sets Headlining Tour,” September 18, 1998, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424857/jerry-cantrell-sets-headlining-tour.jhtml. For Jerry’s tour dates opening for Metallica, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Takes ‘Boggy Depot’ Online,” March 30, 1998, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424858/jerry-cantrell-takes-boggy-depot-online.jhtml.

16. Jerry Cantrell MTV online chat, July 22, 1998, http://archive.today/7CPBH. A live bootleg video of the cover can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skHETecWxO4.

17. The description of Layne’s physical appearance is based on an author review of photographs taken during the Music Bank recording session by Annette Cisneros.

18. Blair R. Fischer, “Malice in Chains?” Rolling Stone, September 4, 1998, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/malice-in-chains-19980904.

19. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 416.

20. Tom Morello, Twitter, May 25, 2013, https://twitter.com/tmorello/status/338497113958805504; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 416; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 534.

21. For the dates and venues of Jerry’s headlining tour in October 1998, see MTV News, “Jerry Cantrell Sets Headlining Tour.”

22. Author review of photograph of Layne Staley and Jimmy Shoaf taken backstage at the Showbox on October 31, 1998, as first published on Alternative Nation, http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=10483. Shoaf verified the authenticity of the photo.

23. Johnny Bacolas, e-mail to the author, dated December 5, 2013. The Mike Starr quote comes from Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 174. A photo of Layne and Mike performing in drag can be seen at http://grungebook.tumblr.com/post/11443878907/mike-starr-on-diamond-lie-becoming-alice-in-chains.

24. Alice in Chains, interview, Rockline, July 19, 1999, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz21GO4ASA&list=PL764A777926D8EF70.

25. 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), 210–11.

26. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 535; Kara Manning, “Chris Cornell Feels ‘Euphoria’ with Newborn Daughter,” MTV News, July 6, 2000, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1427500/chris-cornell-feels-euphoria-with-newborn-daughter.jhtml.