1. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 272.
2. Jeff Gilbert, “Love Hate Love: Alice in Chains Have a Gold Record and We Don’t,” The Rocket, October 1992.
3. The dates and itinerary of the Alice in Chains/Gruntruck tour are based on an author interview with Norman Scott Rockwell and a review of Rockwell’s commemorative jacket of that tour, which had the dates and locations.
4. The approximate date of Layne’s ATV accident is taken from an interview conducted by a Canadian TV host on Musique Plus in November 1992, during which Layne mentioned that it happened in September and made the statement about lacking an excuse to play. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ2aB2TVr0.
5. An author review of photographs and bootleg videos from the fall 1992 tour with Ozzy Osbourne shows Layne performing on crutches or sitting in a wheelchair or on a couch; the Mike Starr quote about Layne stage-diving while still in his cast came from the November 1992 Musique Plus interview.
6. Jeffrey Ressner, “Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass,” Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-rolling-stones-1992-feature-20110309.
7. Layne Staley and Mike Starr, interview, Musique Plus, November 1992, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ2aB2TVr0.
8. Ann Powers, “Misery Loves Company,” SPIN, March 1993.
9. Ressner, “Alice.”
10. Barrett Martin, eulogy of Layne Staley, April 28, 2002, http://www.layne-staley.com/?page_id=753.
11. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 385.
12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 384.
13. Lynn Hirschberg, “Strange Love,” Vanity Fair, September 1992, http://www.nirvanaclub.com/index.php?section=info/articles&file=09.00.92.html; Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion Books, 2001), 273; Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 286–87; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 365.
14. Author review of bootleg videos, available online at http://vimeo.com/26750014.
CHAPTER 17
Sources in this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, Johnny Bacolas, Lori Barbero, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Jason Buttino, Ken Deans, Jim Elmer, Maureen Herman, Nick Pollock, Rocky Schenck, and Toby Wright.
1. There are multiple bootlegs circulating online for the January 8, 1993, Alice in Chains show in Honolulu, which took place at Aloha Tower. A set list can be viewed at http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/alice-in-chains/1993/aloha-tower-honolulu-hi-73d65acd.html.
2. Al Jourgensen and Jon Wiederhorn, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen (New York: Da Capo Press, 2013), 96–97.
3. Unofficial Ministry fan Web site, “Ministry Tour Dates,” http://www.prongs.org/ministry/tour92-93.
4. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 399.
5. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 344–45; 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; Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117, 58.
6. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 345; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 398–99; Wiederhorn, “Alice”; Interactive Music Video, Behind the Player: Mike Inez, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyZeROPlt8.
7. Mary Kohl is identified as an employee of Susan Silver Management and an associate manager of Alice in Chains in two separate newspaper articles from 1993. See Don Adair, “Dark Dirges Mark Alice’s Local Return,” Spokesman-Review, September 17, 1993, and Associated Press, “So You Wanna Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star? Dozens of Entrepreneurs Eager to Lead Seattle Musicians to the Promised Land,” The Galveston Daily News, June 6, 1993.
8. John Brandon, Unchained: The Story of Mike Starr and His Rise and Fall in Alice in Chains (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2001), 88.
9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 399.
10. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 301, “Intake,” January 5, 2010; Mike Starr, interview on KROQ Loveline, February 17, 2010.
11. Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993. The newsletter is posted on the wall of the men’s bathroom at Feedback Lounge in Seattle; Daina Darzin, “The Real Dirt,” Rolling Stone, February 24, 1994. An archived version of the band’s original Web site can be read at http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091634/www.aliceinchains.net/bio.html.
12. Author review of January 22, 1993, Alice in Chains show in Rio de Janeiro. A complete video of the performance can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydz6tG06P9I.
13. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010.
14. Interactive Music Video, Behind the Player: Mike Inez, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyZeROPlt8.
15. For information about John Henry’s, see http://www.johnhenrys.com/; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 343–45; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 398–400. For the timing of the 1993 European tour, see the Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993.
16. Bootleg footage of Layne inviting the skinhead onstage and punching him can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91fz-cNgU8. The entire incident can be seen in context of the performance beginning at the 4:20 mark of the clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPAu_ge6_U.
17. A bootleg recording of the February 10, 1993, Helsinki show can be found at http://concertsgalore.net/file/alice-in-chains-at-tavastia-helsinki-finland-on-feb-10-1993-concert-bootleg-download-66673.php.
18. On the U.S. tour with Circus of Power and Masters of Reality, see the Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, spring of 1993. For the date of the first recording sessions with Mike Inez, see the band biography on the original aliceinchains.net Web site, accessed via the Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20000301091634/www.aliceinchains.net/bio.html; Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 345.
19. Mike Inez and Layne Staley, interview, Headbangers Ball, 1993, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW0CHy668w.
20. Alice in Chains Fan Club newsletter, circa spring 1993. Metallica’s European tour dates for the spring and summer of 1993 can be viewed at https://www.metallica.com/tour_date_list.asp?year=1993&page=2.
21. The dates and itinerary of the Lollapalooza 1993 tour can be viewed at http://janesaddiction.org/lollapalooza/lollapalooza-93/.
22. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 424.
23. Sandra Schulman, “Lollapalooza Lineup a Nod to Diversity: The Eclectic Summer Tour Adds Underground Acts on a Second Stage,” Sun-Sentinel, June 16, 1993, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-06-16/features/9301190016_1_lollapalooza-tour-second-stage.
24. Regarding the onstage collaborations among different bands on the Lollapalooza 1993 tour, see Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 423. There are multiple audio and video bootlegs of Layne performing “Opiate” onstage with Tool. On Layne’s friendship with Tom Morello, see Joe D’Angelo and Jennifer Vineyard, “‘An Angry Angel’—Layne Staley Remembered by Bandmates, Friends,” MTV News, April 22, 2002, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453544/layne-staley-remembered-angry-angel.jhtml.