CHAPTER 8
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Krisha Augerot, James Burdyshaw, Thad Byrd, Ken Deans, and Randy Hauser.
1. Jon R. Zulauf, “Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum,” July 15, 1991. The filing is part of the U.S. v. Randall C. Hauser case file and was obtained by the author through a public records request.
2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 177.
3. On Susan’s family, see the Boulger Funeral Home obituary for William Silver, http://www.boulgerfuneralhome.com/obits/obit.php?id=1929; Susan Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch,” Rip, January 1996, http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/rip_1-96.shtml.
4. Poki (Hugo) Piottin biography, http://pokibio.blogspot.com/; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47.
5. Patrick MacDonald, “‘Dry’ Club Hopes That Music, Films Will Keep Place Afloat,” Seattle Times, July 29, 1983; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47.
6. MacDonald, “‘Dry’ Club.”
7. Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch”; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47–48.
8. Jacob McMurray, “The Metropolis: Birthplace of Grunge?” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 2009, http://blog.seattlepi.com/emp/2009/11/19/the-metropolis-birthplace-of-grunge/.
9. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 44–47; Jim Walsh and Dennis Pemu, The Replacements: Waxed-Up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2013), 61.
10. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 48; the Fred Flintstone caricature can be seen in Walsh and Pernu, Replacements, 62.
11. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 49.
12. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 132–33.
13. Silver, “Silver’s Golden Touch”; Dr. Martens Web site http://www.drmartens.com/us/history; Charles R. Cross, Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (New York: It Books, 2014), 94–95.
14. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 72, 98.
15. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 47, 60.
16. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 105–6; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 157–58.
17. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 275; for Novoselic’s acknowledgment of Susan in his speech during Nirvana’s induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 10, 2014, see http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=46030.
18. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 100, 105–6; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 60, 64.
19. Alice in Chains biography, circa summer of 1989, copy provided by Ken Elmer.
20. Sean Kinney and Layne Staley, Guest List interview, circa 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRsZLGmJ0nw.
21. The Hard Report, February 17, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.
22. Pulse, April 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.
23. Seattle Times, “Alice in Chains Hopes to Link Up with a Major Deal,” May 19, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.
24. Don Kaye, Deathvine, Kerrang, July 15, 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.
25. Rip, September 1989, copy of article provided by Ken Elmer.
26. 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.
27. The estimated duration of negotiations between Alice in Chains and Columbia Records was conveyed to the author by Ken Deans in an interview and corroborated by Sean Kinney in a 2010 interview with Kinney and Jerry Cantrell on Faceculture.tv, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm511Gt3J0o.
28. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, interview, Faceculture.tv.
29. Sony Music press release, “Michele Anthony Named President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Music Label Group U.S.” December 2, 2005, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/michele-anthony-named-president-and-chief-operating-officer-of-sony-music-label-group-us-67493772.html.
30. Alice in Chains, contract with CBS Records, September 11, 1989. The document is part of the case file for Nancy McCallum v. Alice in Chains Partnership et al., filed in King County Superior Court on May 2, 2013, and was obtained by the author through public records.
CHAPTER 9
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Steve Alley, Bryan Carlstrom, Ronnie Champagne, Dave Hillis, Dave Jerden, Leslie Ann Jones, and Evan Sheeley.
1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 261; Music Bank liner notes; Jerden and Champagne interviews.
2. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 273–74; 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.
3. Layne Staley and Sean Kinney, interview, Fuse TV, 1991, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdaClCmFXw.
4. Evan Sheeley allowed the author to inspect and photograph the markings on Mike’s amp in August 2011, when it was being kept at his store, Bass Northwest; he later sold it at the request of Mike’s family, after Mike’s death.
5. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 261; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 273.
CHAPTER 10
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Bryan Carlstrom, Ronnie Champagne, Ken Deans, Jeff Gilbert, Dave Jerden, Jacob McMurray, Nick Pollock, and Rocky Schenck.
1. Leone Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry Revealed a Young Man ‘Angry Too Long,’” Seattle Times, March 29, 1990; Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story, a documentary directed by Scot Barbour, 2005.
2. Dawn Anderson, “Malfunkshun,” The Rocket, December 1986.
3. A. Wood, “Drugalog outline.” For the timing of the intervention and Wood’s rehab treatment, see Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 29; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 154–55.
4. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 231; Pope, “Andrew Wood’s Poetry.”
5. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, 32.
6. David Duet quote taken from the transcript of his interview with Yarm for Everybody Loves Our Town (Yarm provided the author with the excerpt featuring the complete quote).
7. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 231–33; Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 226–31; the times of Wood’s overdose and hospital admission are from Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story.
8. Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town, 228.