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27. Bob Gulla, “Into the Flood Again,” Guitar One, June 2001; Jerry Cantrell, biography for Roadrunner Records, http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/JerryCantrell/.

28. Don Kaye, “A Long, Strange Trip,” Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 liner notes.

29. Gulla, “Into the Flood Again.”

30. Kaye, “A Long, Strange Trip”; Gulla, “Into the Flood Again”; Gene Stout, “Making Music Sees Cantrell Through Death and Dark Times,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 16, 2002, http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Making-music-sees-Cantrell-through-death-and-dark-1087394.php.

31. Tom Hansen, American Junkie (New York: Emergency Press, 2010), 245–48. Hansen declined to be interviewed for this book.

32. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 417; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 535.

33. Bob Forrest, with Michael Albo, Running with Monsters: A Memoir (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013), 213–16.

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  1. Adriana Rubio, Layne Staley: Get Born Again (Evansdale, Iowa: ARTS Publications, 2006), xii.

  2. Ibid., xii–xvi.

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

  4. Tom Scanlon, “Alice in Chains Singer’s Legacy Lives on Through Music,” Seattle Times, August 24, 2007, http://seattletimes.com/html/musicnightlife/2003850521_staley24.html; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 423.

  5. The information about Layne having seen Demri the night before was given to Kathleen Austin by Mike Starr after Layne’s private memorial service.

  6. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307.

  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.

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  1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 415.

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

  3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 421.

  4. Seattle Police Department computer-aided dispatch (CAD) record, April 19, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  5. Ibid.; Seattle Police Department incident report, April 19, 2002, published by The Smoking Gun, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/alice-chains-singers-death.

  6. Seattle Police Department incident report; King County Medical Examiner’s record, April 19, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request; Rick Anderson, “Smack Is Back,” Seattle Weekly, October 9, 2006, http://www.seattleweekly.com/2003-01-08/news/smack-is-back/. Layne Staley death certificate, April 20, 2002, obtained by the author through a public records request.

  7. Anderson, “Smack Is Back.”

  8. King County Medical Examiner’s record, April 19, 2002.

  9. On Sadie’s being adopted by Jerry, see the Jerry Cantrell feature on MTV Cribs, circa 2002–2003, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQCZ14f0Rs. Regarding Sadie’s death, see http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.

10. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010.

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

  2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 538.

  3. E-mail from Taproot’s bassist, Phil Lipscomb, to the author, April 7, 2014.

  4. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 282.

  5. Gene Stout, “Fans Mourn Death of Alice in Chains Singer,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 19, 2002, http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fans-mourn-death-of-Alice-in-Chains-singer-1085691.php.

  6. The complete statement on the old and now-defunct Alice in Chains Web site can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20020522235447/http://www.aliceinchains.net/.