Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

______. “Famous Last Words.” Revolver. http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art114.html.

TV AND RADIO

Fuse TV. Interview. June 1991. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDetqbTmbqM (accessed July 9, 2011).

Fuse TV. Interview. Date unknown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXesGWVCMg (accessed July 10, 2011).

KROQ. Loveline. February 17, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qywta9j6GXE (accessed July 2, 2011).

MTV. Headbangers Ball. 1991. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9w9aQhtbyc (accessed July 9, 2011).

MTV. Headbangers Ball. 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hIU9PAXyk&NR (accessed July 10, 2011).

Musique Plus. Interview. November 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ2aB2TVr0 (accessed July 9, 2011).

Rockline. Interview. July 19, 1999. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgIGhwlDeo&feature=related (accessed July 10, 2011).

YouTube. Interview. Source and date unknown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYt8mGFz8U (accessed July 9, 2011).

Resources

DISCOGRAPHY

ALICE IN CHAINS

Facelift

Sap

Dirt

Jar of Flies

Alice in Chains

Unplugged

Music Bank

Live

Black Gives Way to Blue

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

JERRY CANTRELL

Boggy Depot

Degradation Trip

MAD SEASON

Above

DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMS

Hype!

Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story

Pearl Jam Twenty

Singles

OTHER RESOURCES

Chris Cornell, Jeff Ament, and Stone Gossard. Interview. KISW 99.9 FM, April 14, 1991. http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/radio041491.shtml.

Metallica. Live cover of “Man in the Box.” Summer 1994. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYnSEZKcVw; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSq626zbMyk.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. “NIDA InfoFacts: Heroin.” http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/heroin.html.

University of Maryland Center for Substance Abuse Research. “Heroin.” http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/drugs/heroin.asp.

Wood, Kevin. Interview. Fullinbloommusic.com, date unknown. http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/kevinwood.html.

Photographs

Scott Hunt took out this ad announcing a new rehearsal space at a warehouse in Ballard in September 1984. This was the beginning of the Music Bank.

The Rocket

Sleze and Tim Branom at London Bridge Studios, circa 1986. (Standing, left to right) Unknown woman, Tim Branom, Peter Barnes, Johnny Bacolas, and Nick Pollock. (Kneeling, left to right) Layne and an unknown man.

Nick Pollock

Sleze practicing in their first room at the Music Bank, circa 1985. (Left to right) Layne Staley, Jim Sheppard, and James Bergstrom.

Nick Pollock

Layne and Nick Pollock performing at Kane Hall with Alice ’N Chains, circa 1987. Layne is wearing the purple outfit that had once belonged to Prince, loaned to him by his girlfriend Chrissy Chacos.

Nick Pollock

Nick Pollock joining Alice in Chains (who used the name Diamond Lie at the time) onstage for “Queen of the Rodeo” during their first-ever show, which took place at Kane Hall on January 15, 1988. Mike Starr is on the right side.

Nick Pollock

These photographs, circa spring/summer of 1988, were probably taken within a few weeks or months after Layne and Demri started dating.

Courtesy of Randall Hauser

Layne, Jerry Cantrell, and Sean Kinney at London Bridge Studios working on the demo that ultimately got them signed to Columbia Records in the summer of 1988.

Courtesy of Randall Hauser

Mike Starr and Rick Parashar during the demo recording sessions. In addition to co-owning and founding London Bridge Studios and working with Alice in Chains, Parashar worked with several bands from the era, most notably Pearl Jam.

Courtesy of Randall Hauser

Layne performing in his Mohawk look. This photograph was taken during the August 11, 1988, show at the Kent Skate King attended by Diana Wilmar, where she got the idea to shoot a story about the band for KING 5.

David Fox–Fox Wilmar Productions

Alice in Chains and director Paul Rachman on the set of the “Man in the Box” video shoot in Malibu State Park, December 1990. Within six months, the video would jump-start the band’s career thanks to heavy rotation on MTV.

© Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

Layne and John Baker Saunders performing with Mad Season at the Crocodile Café, April 22, 1995.

© Karen Mason-Blair/www.karenmasonblair.com

Despite difficulties during the preparations, the Unplugged show was a success. Randy Biro, Susan Silver, and Michele Anthony were in tears during “Nutshell.”

Frank Micelotta/Getty Images