In 1995, Alice in Chains released their final studio album with frontman Layne Staley. Alice in Chains: A Wounded Animal While Dirt served as a warning sign, their self-titled album was a sonic farewell. The album cover was graced by a three-legged dog, which some say represented Alice in Chains, who by this point in […]
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Alice in Chains established themselves as the first band out of Seattle’s “grunge” movement to have a gold record. Addiction and infighting led to the band stop touring in any major capacity by 1993. Frontman Layne Staley’s addiction to heroin would be the group’s achilles heel and it wasn’t something that the singer really hid.
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“Writing a cover story on Alice in Chains at the height of Layne Staley’s drug addiction was exciting, harrowing and ultimately sad.”
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Dirt had at least four songs that dealt with Layne Staley’s struggle with drugs. Staley wrote all of the lyrics and followed the typical story of a junkie.
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1994 should have been a huge year for Layne Staley. Alice in Chains completed a pretty extensive tour in late ’93 to support their 1992 album, “Dirt” which was a huge hit. The band assembled in Seattle to finish up an EP that took about a week to write and record called “Jar of Flies”.
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