Alice in Chains: Their Forgotten Glam Era With Layne Staley (Sleze)

Alice in Chains: The Band's Forgotten Glam Past

Alice in Chains: The Making of Facelift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShifZejOW_I

Alice in Chains: The Making of SAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLsGm4bR9o&t=65s

0:00 - Introduction/Sleze History
3:30 - Alice N' Chains Beginnings
4:49 - Jerry Cantrell's Beginnings
6:15 - Layne Meets Jerry
7:57 - Layne Joins Jerry's Band
9:20 - Alice In Chains Early Days

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People often forget that Alice in Chains was the first so called grunge band from seattle to have a record go gold with 1990’s Facelift. In fact, i’ve done a whole video on facelift and the making of that album, the link is down below. But one other thing people often forget about alice in chains is that their roots were a glam metal band. In today’s video lets explore the glam history of Alice in Chains.
The history of alice in chains really started in 1984 when singer when Layne Staley successfully auditioned for a band named Sleaze thanks to his brother who had an in with the band. Originally a drummer, Layne had transitioned to a singer. The audition would happen in the basement of one of the members of Sleze with the Atlantic writing "before playing together, the band members noticed his tall stature, soft-spoken demeanour, and that he was very much dressed for the part of a rock musician, with band names like "Ozzy" or "Mötley Crüe" written on his pants in bleach. This audition was said to have taken place sometime in 1984. The lineup of Sleze was made up of drummer Carl Bergstrom, guitarists Johnny Bacolas, Ed Semanate as well as bassist Byron Hansen. The first song they played with Layne was a cover of the Motley crue song “looks that kill”
The members of Sleaze were blown away by Layne’s audition, not just because he could sing in key, but because he had his own unique style as well. He would get the job as the singer of the band. Sleze mostly played cover songs and was a glam rock band. Sleze's live shows mostly attracted women and it saw them hrowing roses into the audience to the women and a friend would even come on stage with a mirror so the members could freshen up. Layne would come on stage riding a big wheel that had the word the “Laynemobile”written on it, which was a spoof of Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford riding a motorcycle on stage. The band’s wardrobe was inspired by a friend of there’s named Lisa Rammell who told David De Sola in the book 'Alice in Chains the Untold Story.' “They would wear my pink and black spandex pants. I had a huge collection of belts and lace globes and tank tops and necklaces and sarves. I did their hair, taught them how to do their makeup and they looked like Poison out there.” The band would even meet ahead of gigs at a local Denny’s and plan their onstage moves.
By 1985 Layne had gotten a job at a place called the Music bank, which was a building that housed a number rehearsal spaces that were open 24/7. In addition to that it was pretty common for musicians to live there as well.
And by 1986 Sleze felt confident enough to record their first demo. That dem o would feature glammy songs include 'lip lock rock' and 'fat girls.' Tim Branom who produced Sleze first demo recalled working with Layne on his vocals telling david de sola
“”I worked with layne for months on his vocals. I was able to afford to go to maestro david kyle for lessons, but layne wasn’t so he would come a few times a week to my house to my house and we could go over the cassette tapes of my vocal warm ups. After he had done this for six months, the notes just flowed out effortlessly. Layne took a serious interest in working on his vocals as well because according to Branom it would save the band money in the studio. “ later on in layne’s career he would study under david kyle who also taught Geoff Tate of Queensryche, as well as Ann Wilson of Heart.
By 1986 the group soon had discussions about changing their name to It is said that credit for the name Alice in Chains goes to Slaughter Haus 5 singer Russ Klatt. At a party in 1986 Johnny Bacolas ran in to Klatt. And according to De Sola the pair chatted about changing Sleze’s name and Layne and Bacolas had previously designed backstage passes for their band that read “Sleze Welcome to Wonderland Tour.” Soon enough the pair were ta

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