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.
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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Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Jason Buttino, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Morgen Gallagher, Jeff Gilbert, Mike Korjenek, Phil Lipscomb, Nick Pollock, Stephen Richards, and Toby Wright.
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.
CHAPTER 27
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Johnny Bacolas, James Bergstrom, Randy Biro, Chrissy Chacos, Jamie Elmer, Jim Elmer, Ken Elmer, Jeff Gilbert, Randy Hauser, Ron Holt, Dave Jerden, Nick Pollock, and Toby Wright.
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.