Yet Staley says hes reluctant to talk about his addiction not because hes embarrassed but because hes worried his fans will think hes glorifying drugs. The only thing more relaxing is fishing. Staley had a similar experience with a woman he was engaged to a few years ago. I had a great time, but I cant physically or mentally live that lifestyle constantly., In reaction to the avalanche of attention that accompanies fame, Staley moved into a house in the suburbs and now spends much of his time behind closed doors. Staleys frail frame is swallowed up by a blue warmup jacket and white T-shirt embossed with the scribbly design of his first watercolor self-portrait. My dad was trained to be a fucking killer, says Cantrell. I used to wig out on him all the time just out of being worried about him. Layne wasnt the only guy to go do some stuff on the side. that song could be on Dirt. Hes fucking Meat Loaf. 1994 - 1996 Great Eastern FX Co. Focus Fuzz review: The best of all possible fuzz worlds in a single box? Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice In Chains performing on MTV Unplugged in 1996. Last night, Alice in Chains were honored as the recipients of the 2020 Founder's Award from the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop). Its a great spot to buy local crafts, fresh vegetables and drug paraphernalia. Cantrell picks up a simple brown wood stash box with a one-hit pipe, and Staley spends $141.42 on a Quantum compass and lighter set, a clear Graffix long-tube bong, three glass pipes and a bowl that looks like a perfume bottle. I just believe that Im not the greatest power on this earth. Nutshell 02. 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Most of the supporting acts listed here joined Metallica only for a part of the whole tour. Alice in Chains may have given up their spot on the Metallica tour, but they weren't quite over yet. Alice in Chains talked about receiving the Founders Award from MoPop, and seeing Metallica and many others cover their songs at the event. But the members of Metallica were in the audience when Alice In Chains taped their MTV Unplugged special two years later, and AICs Mike Inez lightly clowned Metallica for getting haircuts. But Im not in the bathroom getting high, either. 1994 should have been a huge year for Layne Staley. Also, Hammett was shirtless, with a giant straw hat over his headphones. And I dont go to sleep until Ive watched all my cartoons, and thats usually not until 9 in the morning. That writing on Inez's bass about "friends don't let friends get friends hair cut" is a jab at Metallica, who had recently gone with the clean short hair look for the band. For Staley, music provided an escape from the monotony of school and the frustration of being unpopular. Six months later he found out his mother was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. The group landed an opening slot for Metallica's U.S. tour which ran from June through September . Again he refuses to say whether the incidents were drug related, but he willingly and vividly describes the experience. Alice in Chains were set to tour with Metallica in the summer of '94 as well. For those fans wanting to see Alice in Chains open for Metallica, the band would end up being replaced by Candlebox instead. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ROCK ON THE RANGE 2018 CONCERT POSTER: Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice In Chains at the best online prices at eBay! 1994 - 1996; 01/07/94: . Its so tough when youre so used to being hard. Over on the band's YouTube channel, they have decided to upload a behind-the-scenes look into how the "Screaming Suicide" music video was made. Required fields are marked *. When we first got together as a band, we were all brothers. I went hog wild for a while. Before enduring the grind of formal interrogations, including Staleys first major interview in more than two years, the band wants to have a little fun. One night at a party in 1987, he ran into Alice in Chains future guitarist, Jerry Cantrell. They play three back-to-back shows at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium,[51] Blind Man's Ball in Germany,[52] and Reading Festival in England. [93], First gig was at Radio City, Anaheim on March 14, 1982, other gigs during 1982 and early 1983 as a band were not played as a tour, as the new band released several demos and went through a couple of line-up changes, as Dave Mustaine lead guitarist and backing vocalist was replaced by Kirk Hammett, and Ron McGovney was replaced by Cliff Burton as bassist. 09/12/95Hollywood, CATower Records; Layne played with band Second Coming The concert was at Donington Park, England, in front of 70,000 people. Were like the Monkees or something.. Then, Jerry Cantrell was Metallica's guest to sing 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' during one of their concerts as a part of the tour. Then he floors his car back to center court, where he passes the ball to Alices guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, who is waiting under a small goal. Concert Archive. Last month, Metallica released the second single off their upcoming studio album 72 Seasons, that song being "Screaming Suicide.". Korn also appeared on the show, and they also covered Would? That seems appropriate, since Would? itself is a tribute to a fallen comrade. [68], Another tour supporting album St. Anger, in which most shows were made available later for purchase as a digital download. Im scared of death, especially death by my own hand. The entire stream is available to watch, and Metallica's performance starts at the 2:07:48 mark. My strengths and my talent are my title.. In response, Kinney vowed to never play again with Staley. Wow. , During their time apart, Staley recorded an album with Mad Season, his side project with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin; Inez scuba dived and worked with Guns n Roses guitarist Slash on his album Its Five OClock Somewhere; Kinney snow boarded and recorded a track with Krist Novoselic, Kim Thayil and Johnny Cash for the Willie Nelson tribute album, Twisted Willie; and Cantrell, who writes most of the bands music, holed himself up at his rural home outside of Seattle and wrote riffs initially intended for a solo album. Its not something I think about. The band played in 51 shows in North America, including a performance at Woodstock '94, which had an attendance of over 300,000 people. It was really hard on us.. Metallica debuted a new song, called "Lords of Summer". Last year one of Cantrells cousins, suffering from deep depression and on Prozac, shot himself between the eyes. Having just woken up, hes unshaven and wearing a Suicidal Tendencies jersey and blue sweat pants likely the same outfit he wore to bed last night. I didnt know him real well, but I just saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn, introverted person who could hardly get a hello out. Shortly after he learned how to write, he documented his goal in a Dr. Seuss book called My Book About Me, filling in the sentence When I grow up I want to be a with the words rock star in sprawling cursive letters. It was at about this time that he first connected sex and drugs with rock & roll. We were like four plants trying to grow in the same pot., Things got worse when Staley, who, according to Kinney, had just returned from drug rehab, came to practice high. Im not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. Its "Metallica" album has been on the Billboard album chart for 150 weeks and has sold 7 million copies. Its just quiet fucking peace., Jerrys a very complex person, says his sister, Cheri. At the time, his father was a soldier fighting in Vietnam, and his mother, an amateur organist and melodica player, was raising Cantrell, his older brother and younger sister. In the summer of 1994, the day before the start of a tour with Metallica, Alice nearly reached the end of their chain. I read my first article about [a major 80s rock star], and he was in a limo doing lines of blow on a mirror, and he had babes under each arm, says Staley. Their manager was encouraged to actually put them on the road because even though they had their own drug problems. One of the first memories I have was my dad coming back from Vietnam in his uniform when I was 3 years old, says Cantrell, and my mom telling me that he was my dad.. my concerts; login; Alice in Chains . You have 25 songs on the album, each day you can pick one song. [94] The year 2001 was the first since the band's formation when Metallica played no shows at all. [23], The tour consisted of several European festivals and stadium shows, as well as a private gig at The Marquee under the name The Frayed Ends. There was a time when we played out everything we ever dreamed of, Staley continues. My cats always knock em over and bust em, says Staley, who started smoking pot and drinking as a teen before experimenting with and later becoming hooked on heroin. After high school, Staley moved into a local rehearsal studio called the Music Bank. Heres that performance. By January 1995, he was working on some of that material with Kinney and Inez. He sang with a number of garage groups, including one that practiced at the home of a band member whose mother was a devout Christian woman. Find the latest news, tour updates, merch, and more here. Im not sure what they are because theyre still that fresh., One of the most emotional songs on the record, Heaven Beside You, was written solely by Cantrell as a way of coping with his recent split from his girlfriend of seven years. We had a lot of problems and occurrences because of that. On Dirt, Cantrell wrote about his fathers Vietnam experiences in the song Rooster, which sparked a new bond between Cantrell and his estranged dad, who agreed to appear in the video and later traveled with Alice in Chains on the road to introduce the song. In 1994, AIC were supposed to open for Metallica on tour, but Layne Staleys drug problems forced the band to drop out. [50], Metallica plays at European festivals to fulfill earlier contractual obligations. Jerry Cantrell, guitarist and co-frontman of Alice In Chains, said of the honour: It feels truly special to receive the MoPOP Founders Award in our home town of Seattle. According to a Rolling Stone piece on Layne, a lot of heroin addicts will sometimes inject their hands so thats why maybe some people think he was wearing gloves to hide any kind of puncture marks on his hands. We lived in the same house and partied together and drank as much as each other. Cookie Notice Here are their ten finest songs to date. Thats a drag because I really love them all.. If I sat here and said, Im 90-days sober and easy does it, stay the course, Id be full of shit, because Im not 90-days sober. Metallica and Alice In Chains have a long and checkered history. Mike Inez worked with Guns N Roses guitarist Slash on his first Snakebit record, Its 5 Oclock Somewhere but he wouldnt end up touring with Snakebit. If you gotta feel pain here, you gotta feel it somewhere else, he continues. Since then, addiction has been the malignant force that has made Alice in Chains songs so gripping and has become the destructive power that constantly threatens to do the band in. On the last date of the tour in Miami, the famed lead vocalist of Judas Priest, Rob Halford (who at the time was the lead vocalist for Fight), sang guest vocals on stage for a performance of "Rapid Fire" from his band's 1980 album British Steel. Privacy Policy. It was often depressing, and getting it done felt like pulling hair out, but it was the fucking coolest thing, and Im glad to have gone through it. [40] At the Donington Park concert, Metallica joined the Monsters of Rock for a fifth time. Layne performed with them on stage at Seattles Colorbox in 1994. Staley along with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Peter Klat of Candlebox were elected to Playgirl Magazines Rock N Roll Hall of Hunkdom but Staleys appearance had already begun to deteriorate. He figured that if they were all on the same tour bus together, they were all sharing the same space as a manager, it would be a lot easier to keep a handle on these guys and stop them from doing harm in themselves but in this case, Alice in Chains management decided, Hey we got to keep these guys off the road and they got to get better.. 07/03/96Kansas City, MOKemper Arena; opening for Kiss The band assembled in Seattle to finish up an EP that took about a week to write and record called "Jar of Flies". Im gonna be here for a long fuckin time, Staley asserts. by Michael Pementel. He met her at a Guns n Roses concert while he was trying to hand Axl Rose a band demo, and Cantrell still describes her as the most beautiful girl Ive ever seen in my life. The two parted ways last year because Cantrell was unable to remain faithful to her. Metallica was at the AiC unplugged in '96. Its also humbling to be joined by so many of our friends, peers and heroes to rock some AIC tunes. [15], Metallica went on the same festival tour, the second year in a row, and played in front of crowds numbering 40,000 to 53,000 people. The title track of AIC's debut EP, with a foot in both the alternative rock and heavy metal camps . I had no control over my muscles, and it scared the shit out of me because I experienced what I guess could have been hell or, you know, purgatory or whatever. Why do you eat so much? [] News [2]. There was a time when I couldnt deal with that, and I couldnt go places by myself. The January 13 and 14, 1992, shows in San Diego were later released in the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge,[23] while the tour and the album were later documented in A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica. Staley talks about a childhood acquaintance who wrapped a kittens legs with twine and threw it into a lake: I screamed, No, man, take it out, but he was bigger than me, so I just watched it drown. But the coup de grce comes when Cantrell recalls the exploits of a neighborhood sicko: Hed carve up these frogs and turtles and stuff on one side, but the other side would look completely normal. The crowd wasnt too pleased. Related [79] The band played at Ozzfest for the first time in their history, being featured as headliners and playing right after Ozzy Osbourne. [30], The tour supported the fifth album, Metallica (also known as "The Black Album") which included a performance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, with the band performing a short set list and Hetfield performing with Queen and Tony Iommi. The album rightfully made Alice in Chains one of the most famous bands in the world, and revealed them as one of the most gifted, capable of shifting from the B movie jump-scare screams of. Metallica played this charity concert to raise money for the North Bay fires. Theyre too concerned with whether theyre going to be mentally and physically healthy enough to tour (no dates have been scheduled yet) and what force may next threaten their existence. [70] Before the show in Download Festival, Lars Ulrich was rushed to the hospital after having an anxiety seizure and was unable to perform, and Metallica played in that gig with guest drummers Dave Lombardo and Joey Jordison, and Ulrich's drum technician Flemming Larsen. If anything, it was helping her because I was playing for her, and maybe she could hear me just a little bit while she was down there., A few months later, Cantrell got into a physical confrontation with his uncle and was kicked out of the house. Mother Love Bone and The Tragic Death of Andrew Wood, Pearl Jams Disastrous Fight With Ticketmaster, The Cults Making of Love and She Sells Sanctuary. TAPROOT's sophomore release, "Welcome", their first pairing with legendary producer Toby Wright (ALICE IN CHAINS, METALLICA, KORN, PRIMUS) which Rolling Stone called "a self-preserving transition . The Shit Hits the Sheds was a concert tour by the American heavy metal band Metallica, which took place in 1994. After they finish with Whirlyball, Alice in Chains return to downtown Seattle and stop at Umbertos, the kind of family-style Italian restaurant where, if you drink enough cheap wine, you wont care whats under the blanket of red sauce. [10] It was plagued with misfortune for the band, as the guitar technician John Marshall had to fill James Hetfield's place at the rhythm guitar twice due to wrist injury. Overview [ edit] We Die Young (1990) The song that introduced Alice In Chains to the world was written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell about gang violence after he observed 9 and 10 year old kids dealing drugs in Seattle. Im going to work 9 to 5 now. That shit scars you forever. This tour is also known for the debut of the song "The God That Failed", and Lars Ulrich's down-scaled drum kits. A few years later, Cantrell moved back in with his mother and began vandalizing his neighborhood with friends egging cars and smashing mailboxes with baseball bats. Kinney had been couch surfing since the age of 17, when his mom kicked him out of the house for being disrespectful. Alice In Chains wrote it for Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood, who died in 1990. According to one person who was at the show, Layne looked sickly and wore a wool ski mask to hide his face during the performance. The band also kicked off 1994 with a benefit show at the Hollywood Palladium where they played some of the tracks off of their latest EP as well as some songs from SAP. When he returned from a trip to the bathroom, his sleeves were unbuttoned, exposing what appear to be red, round puncture marks from the wrist to the knuckles of his left hand. Then hed come up to you, and youd be like Oh, wow, a frog. Then hed turn it around, and all its guts would be hanging out. Needless to say, nobodys too hungry when the food finally arrives. Please disable your adblocker or subscribe to ad-free membership to view this article. And I binge, and I fucking gain 20 pounds. I needed to call up a friend to go to a 7-Eleven. According to Rolling Stone, Weve just been going full force, just running at top speed with our eyes closed, says Cantrell peering through half an empty glass of beer. Sean Kinney recorded a track with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Kim Tall and Johnny Cash for the Willie Nelson tribute record Twisted Willy. The concert of Alice in Chains, performed on the 10th of April 1996 in New York, was definitely one of the most significant in this series. The Secret Message Alice In Chains' Bassist Sent Metallica During Their Iconic MTV Unplugged Set January 13, 2023 3:47pm Metallica themselves were sitting front row at Alice In Chains' legendary MTV Unplugged show, and bassist Mike Inez used his bass to send them a message. Wed been going full force, just running at top speed with our eyes closed, says Cantrell, peering through a half-empty glass of beer. Like this story? The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn [32], The shows in Mexico City across February and March 1993 were later released as part of the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge. 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It was freezing cold, and I was spinning like I was drunk and trying desperately to take a breath. I ask this because I saw a video where the front man of Metallica was making fun of Laynes drug abuse but later saw Jerry calling Lars and the rest of the group friends. A good look! Before their food arrives the members of Alice engage in a primitive heavy-metal ritual: gross out the journalist. If you asked me to sing the lyrics to probably any one of them right now, I couldnt do it. [45], The tour supported the recently released album Load. In the summer of 94, the day before the start of the tour of Metallica, Alice nearly reached the end of their chain. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Not that I ever consider that, because I dont.. Are they on good terms or what. 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Things got worse when Staley who, according to Kinney, had just returned from drug rehab, came to practice high. 11/06/95Boston, MAWAAF studios; live radio performance They also held numerous concerts in stadiums, some of which featured crowds of over 100,000 people. Well, maybe not, but two and a half years ago, Staley might easily have taken his life had it not been for a couple of near-death experiences that he claims forced him to re-evaluate his lifestyle. After the unplugged performance in 1996 Alice in Chains would only perform live once more opening for KISS on their reunion tour. I was really angry with them for a long time, he says. We recorded a few months of being human.. Although WhirlyBall didnt catch on as quickly as the Hula-Hoop, today a dozen or so such facilities dot the country, including this one, which is about a half-hour outside of Seattle. Staley did another stint in rehab, where the band believed the frontman was getting clean; there was still a chance for Alice in Chains to pull together some day, except Staley couldn't stay clean for long. Starting out as a fledgling glam-metal outfit, Alice in Chains sudden move toward grunge after one album and one EP earned the derision of Seattle scenesters, some of whom dubbed the band Kindergarten, due to their sonic similarity to Soundgarden. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud She wasnt even conscious. Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu I remember sometimes wondering where my dad was, but most of the time I was too busy running around and playing., At 12, Staley started playing drums. I hope people watching enjoy the show as much as we did putting it together. [1] The Offspring (who had just released their breakthrough album Smash) were originally invited to replace Alice in Chains, but declined due to their desire to continue playing in clubs as well as logistical issues. Members of Metallica, Soundgarden, Korn, Foo Fighters and many more covered grunge legends Alice in Chains during a recent virtual tribute concert to celebrate the band being honoured by the . Metallica's only stop in North America was in Montreal for the Heavy Montreal festival. I learned I was dead. We were on welfare and food stamps. The thing that scared me most was that my grandmother had a fucking police scanner, and she used to listen to it every day and tell me when my friends got busted. The fans who attended the show were a little disappointed because it was a pretty short set and the band didnt really play any of their big hits. This was also the last tour that Metallica played in standard tuning before tuning down to E standard due to James Hetfield's deteriorating vocals from the recent large-scale tour in support of Metallica (commonly known as the Black Album). At the time, Staley was in the throes of heroin addiction, and Kinney was struggling with the bottle. I just couldnt approach people when I was alone. I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of where I was going to go if I did follow through with it, he says frankly. I take an ugly face and make it beautiful., Such levity occasionally finds its way through the cracks of the new record. His head is bound by a white spotted bandanna, and a small scab above his right eye sets off his pale skin. Read rules before posting. I wanted to do blow, and I wanted those babes under my arms. 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