Posts Tagged ‘Alice ‘N Chains’
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 MorePMRC 30
Rolling Stone published an interview with Tipper Gore on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the infamous PMRC hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on the subject of explicit subject matter in popular music. I briefly touched on this subject in my book. A few weeks after the hearing, Layne…
Read MoreThe First Time Jerry Cantrell Heard Layne Staley Sing
On May 1, 1987, Alice ‘N Chains was the first act of a three-band bill at the Tacoma Little Theatre, a local community theatre in the neighboring city of Tacoma approximately thirty-five miles south of Seattle. Though they are sometimes confused with Alice in Chains, they were two entirely different bands who had the same…
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