Music Bank

I was in high school when AIC first made it big and since then, my love of their music has only grown stronger. The current version of the band is awesome (much love to William DuVall) and I love the newer stuff as well. But in my opinion, nothing comes close to what Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell created together. I consider them among the greatest musical duos of all time. If only it could have lasted longer......

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Alice In Chains React To Fans Trashing William DuVall For Replacing Layne Staley  >

Alice In Chains bassist Mike Inez discussed William DuVall replacing Layne Staley in a new Chicago Sun-Times interview.

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Alice In Chains Member Calls Out Layne Staley Falsehoods  >

Alice In Chains member discusses the mischaracterization of Layne Staley by people.

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Alice in Chains returns to Seattle to find its new sound......>

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now the body of one soul I adore wants to die…

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Music Bank

The Music Bank, in Seattle, WA, was a warehouse that was used as living and practice spaces for several Seattle bands in the 80’s. Alice in Chains and Mother Love Bone were both said to have formed at Music Bank.

“At the dawn of the grunge movement centered in Seattle in the mid- to late-'80s, Alice In Chains came together in 1987, when singer and songwriter Layne Staley (who was fronting a different band called 'Alice 'N Chains') met up with guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell at the infamous Music Bank, a Seattle warehouse-cum-practice facility. Cantrell brought in a recent bandmate, bassist Mike Starr, who in turn brought in his friend Sean Kinney on drums.”

“The Music Bank was open 24 hours. You could go there and knock on the door at 3 in the morning and the guy that was working the keys would come, look through a peephole, let you in if you had a room there, walk you to your room, unlock it with the key—he had a huge key ring with probably 150 keys on it—and you were good to go.     "Layne [Staley] was one of the key guys, and he usually worked the graveyard shift. Jerry [Cantrell, pictured] was living in our jam room, so in the middle of the night, Jerry would be in the office with Layne, watching TV with his guitar in hishand saying, ‘Hey, dude, check out this riff. I got this idea.’ That’s quite a big catalyst to that incredible connection those two had.” —former Alice N’ Chains/Second Coming bassist Johnny Bacolas, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

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Alice in Chains' Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, San Jose, California, April 11, 1993

10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ALICE IN CHAINS' 'DIRT'

From drugs, firings and broken bones to mayhem of L.A. riots.....

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Layne Staley funny moments...

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Layne Staley.

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Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Emotionally Reveals Song He Wrote At Chris Cornell’s House

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Alice In Chains Are Doing Something Incredible With Pearl Jam

Alice In Chains, Tame Impala, Franz Ferdinand, Portugal. the Man, FIDLAR, Glass Animals, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Frankie Cosmos, Rival Sons, Gang of Youths have been added to the Mad Cool Festival lineup.

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Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Reveals Why He ‘Never Hung Out’ With Kurt Cobain In Seattle

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Alice In Chains - It Ain’t Like That

Here I sit writing on the paper Trying to think of words you can’t ignore

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NOW PLAYING ..........BITCH!!!!!!

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