A Guide to the Unreleased Layne Staley Material
The subject of unreleased Layne Staley material received renewed attention today after this post at Alternative Nation. I covered this subject in my book Alice In Chains: The Untold Story and thought it would be worth going into some detail here: Are any of the unreleased tracks from leftover Alice in Chains material? No. When…
Read MoreLayne Staley vs. the PMRC
A few months ago, I wrote about the thirtieth anniversary of the PMRC hearing, as well as Layne Staley’s public comment on a local television program in opposition to any kind of censorship. I’m revisiting the subject today because someone found an image of Layne on that show and posted it on an Alice in…
Read MorePrince Remembered
I was absolutely devastated to find out that Prince died in his home this morning. It seems as if lately people have been writing a lot of obituaries and tributes for musicians in the not too distant past, and it’s only April! At the rate we’re going, this is going to be the worst year…
Read MoreThanks For The Memories
There is a widespread cliche about journalism being the first draft of history, and in my experience there is an element of truth to it for me, personally. I was a history major in college, but also lived and traveled abroad extensively growing up. The impact that had on me was showing that people and…
Read MoreDave Grohl and Axl Rose's Long and Winding Road
THEN: NOW: UPDATE: Rolling Stone has compiled a pretty good account of the Nirvana/GNR feud.
Read MoreUnplugged 20
Today is the twentieth anniversary of Alice in Chains’s performance on MTV Unplugged.
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Mike Starr
He would have been 50 today.
Read MoreRequiem for a Dream
Marco Rubio’s presidential dreams crashed and burned last week after being swept by Donald Trump in his home state of Florida. (Trump won every county in the state except Miami-Dade, where Rubio lives and has a large Cuban population) There have been several post mortem stories about Rubio’s presidential campaign, often juxtaposed by his life…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Jerry Cantrell
He turns the big 5-0 today.
Read MorePresidential Election – The View From Abroad
There’s a great story in the Washington Post citing anonymous current and former foreign ambassadors posted in Washington D.C. offering their take of a possible Trump presidency: Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign is causing growing anxiety over how U.S. trade, military and diplomatic policies would change if he were elected president, according to ambassadors from six…
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