1. For the tour dates and itinerary of the Van Halen and Alice in Chains tour, see http://www.vanhalenencyclopedia.com/entries/for-unlawful-carnal-knowledge-tour.html. The stories about Mike’s high school yearbook and the phone call to Ken Kramer during the Van Halen tour come from the Mike Starr memorial service DVD, March 20, 2011. A copy of it was provided to the author by Gayle Starr.
2. Gene Stout, “Van Halen Frontman Fires Band’s Heavy-Metal Decibels to the Top,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 8, 1991.
3. For the date, nominees, and winners of the 1991 MTV VMA, see http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1991/.
4. Duff McKagan, It’s So Easy and Other Lies (New York: Touchstone Books, 2011), 4, 51.
5. Vanessa Ho, Linda Keene, Kery Murakami, and Peyton Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene’ and Heroin Use: How Bad Is It?” Seattle Times, April 20, 1994, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940420&slug=1906421.
6. Ho, Keene, Murakami, and Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene.’”
7. Hype! Helvey-Pray Productions, 1996. Information about Bruce Silver’s heroin addiction is taken from the author’s interview with James Burdyshaw; Susan Silver is quoted in Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340. According to records from the Denver coroner’s office, Bruce Silver died of hypothermia when he fell asleep in a parked car in Denver in December 1996. He was thirty-four years old.
8. John Brandon, Unchained: The Story of Mike Starr and His Rise and Fall in Alice in Chains (Evansdale, Iowa: Xanadu Enterprises, 2001), 61.
9. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 266. Bacolas verified the quote during an interview with the author.
10. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 399.
11. Ibid.
12. Jeff Gilbert, “Rain Man: Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Cleans Up His Act and Hits Pay Dirt,” Guitar World, January 1992; Jerry Cantrell, interview with Total Guitar, November 7, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3WAJ9L4hc.
13. Jerry Cantrell, interview with Jim Dunlop, June 3, 2013, http://www.jimdunlop.com/blog/dunlop-on-the-record-alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell/. The photo can be seen at http://loudwire.com/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-epic-prank-war-van-halen/.
14. Chris Gill, “Dirt,” Guitar Legends, issue 117.
15. 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. Release dates for Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind are from the RIAA’s searchable online database for gold and platinum certifications, as well as Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 60.
16. 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.
17. Author interviews with David Ballenger, James Bergstrom, Tim Branom, James Burdyshaw, Chrissy Chacos, Dean Noble, Nick Pollock and Darrell Vernon.
CHAPTER 14
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Chrissy Chacos, Dave Hillis, Ron Holt, Jonathan Plum, and Rocky Schenck.
1. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 340; for the date of the Sap recording sessions, see Music Bank liner notes. The November 1991 date was also corroborated by Rocky Schenck, “AIC Memories.”
2. Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, interview on YouTube, source and date unknown, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYt8mGFz8U; Music Bank liner notes.
3. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 340.
4. Schenck, “AIC Memories.”
5. For Nancy Layne McCallum’s estimate of how many times Layne went to rehab, see VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, episode 307, “Family Weekend,” February 19, 2010; Jim Elmer agreed with that estimate during an interview with the author.
CHAPTER 15
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Kathleen Austin, Randy Biro, Bryan Carlstrom, Annette Cisneros, Dave Hillis, Dave Jerden, Jonathan Plum, Rocky Schenck, Duncan Sharp, Evan Sheeley, and Josh Taft.
1. For information on Skywalker Sound, see http://www.skysound.com/about_ranch.html.
2. Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Toronto: ECW Press, 2009), 341.
3. Vanessa Ho, Linda Keene, Kery Murakami, and Peyton Whitely, “‘Seattle Scene’ and Heroin Use: How Bad Is It?” Seattle Times, April 20, 1994, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940420&slug=1906421.
4. Jocelyn Y. Stewart, “Addiction Specialist Worked with Celebrities,” Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/08/local/me-timmins8.
5. Marc Lacey and Shawn Hubler, “Rioters Set Fires, Loot Stores; 4 Reported Dead,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Richard A. Serrano and Tracy Wilkinson, “All 4 in King Beating Acquitted: Violence Follows Verdicts; Guard Called Out,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Amy Wallace and David Ferrell, “Verdicts Greeted with Outrage and Disbelief,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992; Stan Wilson, “Riot Anniversary Tour Surveys Progress and Economic Challenges in Los Angeles,” CNN, April 25, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/us/california-post-riot/index.html?hpt=us_t4.
6. Nick Bowcott, “Seattle Do Nicely: Jerry Cantrell,” Guitarist, April 1993.
7. Prato, Grunge Is Dead, 341.
8. For information about the city curfew during the riots, see Matt Moody and Brian MacDonald, “A Rapidly Expanding Curfew Area,” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2012, http://graphics.latimes.com/towergraphic-la-me-riot-curfews/.
9. 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.
10. 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; regarding Lou Reed, see Jim DeRogatis, Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic (New York: Broadway Books, 2000), 210.
11. VH1, Celebrity Rehab, episode 301, “Intake,” January 5, 2010.
12. Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 379.
13. Jonathan Gold, “Record Rack,” Los Angeles Times, September 27, 1992.
CHAPTER 16
Sources for this chapter include author interviews with Randy Biro, Martin Feveyear, Mark Pellington, Norman Scott Rockwell, and Jimmy Shoaf.