Alice in Chains performing at the MusiCares Map Fund Benefit in L.A. last night. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell was one of the evening’s honorees.
Check out my review of Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge on MultiMediaMouth.com - with an exclusive interview with author Mark Yarm (visit his Tumblr site Grungebook)
Surviving Mad Season members Mike McCready and Barrett Martin perform “River of Deceit” at the Showbox in Seattle last night. Vocals by Loaded bassist Jeff Rouse. (Video by Guerrilla Candy.)
![Members of Alice in Chains onstage with Poison, early ’90s. (Photo via Metal Sludge; H/T MetalSucks)“In ’91, I got Alice in Chains to play a bunch of Northwest dates with [Poison]. All I knew was they were starting to break out big. I had a little studio at my house in Malibu, and in probably ’93, Jerry and those guys came out and we sang, wrote music, partied, had a good time. I was talkin’ to Jerry, and we both addressed how now there was supposed to be this anger and hatred between us. I said, ‘We don’t hate each other, right?’ We both laughed, and he goes, ‘I grew up on Sabbath and Kiss.’ And I said, ‘Me, too.’ And he said, ‘I know we’re supposed to not like each other, but you’re a cool dude.’ We were laughing about the media portraying us as such enemies. If you like somebody, you like somebody.”—Poison singer Bret Michaels, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zk5l8AAH1qctvzro1_500.jpg)
Members of Alice in Chains onstage with Poison, early ’90s. (Photo via Metal Sludge; H/T MetalSucks)
“In ’91, I got Alice in Chains to play a bunch of Northwest dates with [Poison]. All I knew was they were starting to break out big. I had a little studio at my house in Malibu, and in probably ’93, Jerry and those guys came out and we sang, wrote music, partied, had a good time. I was talkin’ to Jerry, and we both addressed how now there was supposed to be this anger and hatred between us. I said, ‘We don’t hate each other, right?’ We both laughed, and he goes, ‘I grew up on Sabbath and Kiss.’ And I said, ‘Me, too.’ And he said, ‘I know we’re supposed to not like each other, but you’re a cool dude.’ We were laughing about the media portraying us as such enemies. If you like somebody, you like somebody.”
—Poison singer Bret Michaels, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Check out the Everybody Loves Our Town–inspired Pinterest board my publisher put together.
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Are you a grunge fan? Check out our Pinterest board. We’ve curated the best images and videos of grunge to celebrate the paperback release of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm.
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Hear me talk about my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge on the Nights With Alice Cooper radio show (originally aired March 8).
Poster for Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged taping, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 10, 1996 (via Alice in Chains Chile)
Do I hear from [the surviving members of Alice in Chains]? No. Do I care about what happens to them? Absolutely. I have invited them to come to the house many times. As Layne’s friends, I would just want them to tell me funny stories that they remember, so for 10 years that has never happened. I’d love it if somebody picked up the phone and said Nancy, ‘I’ve got to tell you something funny that happened when Layne was in Berlin.’ I would love if that would happen. They were his friends first, and I think the industry keeps them from pursuing some kind of connection with their friend’s mom, and they’re moving on.
Pages from Layne Staley’s memorial service handout, 2002.
“How Alice in Chains Found the Most Memorable Voice in Grunge; appreciating the vocal style of Layne Staley on the 10th anniversary of the singer’s death” (TheAtlantic.com)
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