Bands like Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden turned their underground followings into lucrative record deals Alice in Chains, too, signed with a major label, Columbia, in 1989. During Alice ’s maturation, the “Seattle Sound ” -encompassing a wide range of styles but characterized by dense metallic guitars, post-punk attitude, and a certain experimentalism -took the record industry by storm. The band gigged on the Northwest music circuit “for about a year and a half, just playing, and then we finally started gelling, as far as what we wanted to do musically, ” Cantrell told Rip magazine. ” But Staley ’s band fell apart, so Cantrell ’s project ended up in sole possession of the name -originally Alice ’N ’ Chains -as well as the singer ’s achingly soulful and sinister vocals. “We were going to have this band that dressed in drag and played heavy metal as a joke. The name Alice in Chains originally belonged to “a side project of my old group, ” Staley informed Ressner. ” Cantrell wanted Staley to join the hard-rock band he had put together with drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr, but the vocalist was reluctant he had plans for his own group, a funk-influenced act Cantrell agreed to join if Staley would reciprocate by singing in the guitarist ’s band. Playing, chicks going in and out, beer and drugs everywhere, some really wild times. ”Īddresses: Record company -Columbia Records, 2100 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Group formed in Seattle, WA, 1987 signed with Columbia Records, 1989 released debut EP, We Die Young, 1990 released first full-length album, Facelift, 1990 appeared in film Singles, 1992 performed on Lollapalooza tour, 1993.Īwards: Gold record, 1991, and platinum record, 1993, for Facelift voted best new band by Rip and Guitar for the Practicing Musician readers polls, 1991 platinum record, 1993, for Dirt MTV Award for best video from a film, 1993, for “Would. Members include Jerry Cantrell (bom March 18, 1966), guitar Mike Inez (replaced Mike Starr, 1993), drums Sean Kinney (bom May 27, 1966), bass and Layne Staley (bom August 22, 1967), vocals.
“The place was open twenty-four hours, ” the guitarist recalled to Jeffrey Ressner of Rolling Stone, “and there were always bands For the Record … The singer was working with other musicians at the time but maintained his association with Cantrell by allowing him to stay in his rehearsal space. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell -a Tacoma, Washington, college dropout who picked up the guitar at age 17, influenced primarily by heavy metal innovator Eddie Van Halen -met Staley in the late 1980s. “At its best, live or on record, ” declared Ann Powers in Spin, “Alice in Chains hits the vein of the rock tradition that fearlessly confronts the most threatening end of the emotional spectrum.
” The Seattle group has made a career of musical exorcism known for its heavy, brooding sound and angst-ridden lyrics, Alice broke through in 1992 with Dirt, an album preoccupied with addiction and other trials of the soul. “We don ’t stuff our personal demons inside ourselves, ” explained Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley in a Rolling Stone interview.
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