Alice in Chains: The Dark History of Dirt, Layne Staley's Struggle

Alice in Chains: The Making of Dirt, The Dark History of the album and Layne Staley's struggles.

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Alice in Chains SAP

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Alice in Chains Van Halen Tour

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Alice in CHains would release their sophomore album Dirt in 1992. It would be one of the darkest albums to come out of the grunge movement. It would also be hailed as the band’s best work. While the album’s lyrics focus on several themes, the media and fans focused heavily on the theme of drug use. If the group’s debut record Facelift represented a hungry band wanting to prove themselves, then Dirt was a band coming to terms with success and the dark side of fame. Drummer Sean Kinney perfectly summed up the album revealing in the book Grunge is Dead [Drugs] were taking over,”. “We were doing whatever we could get our hands on — and as much. It definitely started working against us. That record, people could probably identify with it — it’s all right there. It’s laid out — explained exactly what we were doing, what we were going through. It sounds [like] what was echoing in our heads at that time. From then on, some of us continued further down in that direction, and some of us didn’t. That’s a tough album for me. People are like, ‘That’s your greatest record.’ It’s bittersweet.” Today, let’s explore the making of the album Dirt.

We can’t really talk about Dirt without discussing Layne Staley’s drug use. Several books including alice in chains the untold story and everybody loves our town documents Staley’s first run in with heroin as happening during the band’s 1991 tour with Van Halen. I’ve done an in-depth video on this tour, the link is down below.

Staley would even admit during an interview with the now defunct MEAT magazine “i was this f*ed up kid who didn’t fit in…” At the age of 14 he turned to drugs adding :”i experimented with a lot of them i like to say i’m a 13 year drug research analyst. He would jokingly say. It would be Facelift and Dirt producer David Jerden who first noticed a change in layne’s behavior when he visited the band during their van halen tour. Jerden would tell author david de sola in the book alice in chains the untold story. “Layne was definitely acting different at that point…. He wasn’t the same. Layne was usually gregarious and cracking jokes all the time. I went to their tour bus and saw the band before the concert and layne was really quiet. I didn’t know what was up with him….Jerden would ask layne ‘how does it feel to be famous’ to which the frontman replied according to the book ‘it’s freaking me out. People treat me like an object. I’m not a person anymore. I’m just a commodity to be be sold. People don’t don’t really know who i am. People grab things from me.’

Fellow musician David Duet who stayed with Layne and his girlfriend for a short time in the early 90’s would reveal in the booke everybody loves our town how he knew the end was near for alice in chains recalling “I went back to Houston, where i was working at a nightclub and the phone rangin the office. This was probably 91. It was layne and demri and they had to find me to tell me they started doing dope and how wonderful it was, and right then i knew they were goners. You can just tell when you talk to certain people, especially females. You can tell when their lifers, very seldom been wrong.”

Based on interviews to those close to Staley from the same book, it was sometime during the second half of 1991 or early 1992 that he went to rehab for the first time to kick his habit after his friends and family staged an intervention. Staley would admit to MEAT magazine that it was during the making of the group’s first EP SAP that he was in the throws of his addiction. Staley would head to Monroe, Washington and for the frontman he wanted to keep things quiet and keep a low profile, but those hopes would be quickly dashed. One of the other patients at the clinic bought a vhs copy of the band’s performance at the moore theater in seattle and had it playing on the televisions

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