Did You Know? Random facts and rumors.

  • According to SoundScan, Alice in Chains' Unplugged album has has earned more than 1.24 million in sales - one of just six Unplugged albums that have sold more than a million copies. (The others are: Eric Clapton, Nirvana, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey and 10,000 Maniacs)
  • Layne Staley was found dead in his Washington home on April 20, 2002.  Details of his death have not yet been released.
  • AIC to relaesed a live retrospective on December 5, 2000
  • VH-1 listed Layne Staley as their #35 Bad Ass in a recent top forty Rockshow.
  • Jerry was interviewed on the 4 hour MTV special Buzzworthiest: MTV'S Buzz-Clip Countdown.
  • Alice In Chains had three "Buzzworthy" videos: Man In the Box, Them Bones and Would?
  • Layne Staley is featured on The Faculty soundtrack, as part of the "Class of '99" performing a version of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)." Soundclip: "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
  • Jerry played guitars and rythym on Pigeonhed's 1997 release "Full Sentence"
  • Jerry is credited as "composer, producers and vocals" for Circus of Power's 1993 release "Magic and Madness"
  • Cut You In (the video) was been nominated for for Best Hard Rock/Metal Clip and Best New Hard Rock/Metal Artist Clip in the 1998 Billboard Music Video Awards. Although he did lose, how many people can do a few solo projects and stay with a band for over a decade then release a solo album and be called a "New Artist"? :)
  • Alice In Chains had a bassist before Mike Inez. Michael Starr was his name and he left the band to join up with another band called Sun Red Sun in 1993. However, the lead singer died and the band pretty much broke up.
  • On Sap, Right Turn is performed by "Alice Mudgarden" standing for Alice In Chains, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden.
  • On the last song of Sap, Layne plays drums, Jerry plays bass, and Sean uses the megaphone.
  • Alice In Chains was previously known as Diamond Lie, Mothra, and Fuck, and later changed the name to Alice 'N Chainz (after a previous project of Layne's) and was later changed to just Alice In Chains. The band initially set out to be a glam band, but later switched over to the well-known "grunge" look. Layne was one of the first people in Seattle to sport a goatee.
  • The dolls from "I Stay Away" are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.The museum also holds several original hand-written lyrics sheet and other personal items of the band members.
  • Alice In Chains appears in the movie "Singles" as the bar band.
  • The band used to call themselves "Fuck", and word says they handed out condoms to the audience with the phrase "Fuck the band" on the wrappers.
  • Jerry was president of his high school choir
  • Layne was also in a band called Mad Season. This picture is from Live at the Moore.
  • Layne Staley drew all the animations on the Dirt c.d. booklet.
  • The cover of Tripod symbolizes Layne as the missing leg. Jerry says they didn't do that on purpose, but he says it fits.
  • Sean is responsible for much of teh Tripod album artwork.
  • On Mike Inez's bass on the Unplugged video it says, "Friends don't let friends get Friends haircuts." New explaination: Jerry was quoted in VH-1's "Behind the Music:Metallica" as saying that he wrote it because the Metallica guys came to the show sporting their new short hair-look.
  • Every Alice in Chains album has made it to the Number 1 spot on the Top 200 cd's
  • At some of Alice in Chains' earlier gigs, Layne had to wait outside of the clubs in the freezing cold until the band starting playing because he was a year younger then all them. The guys would piss him off and drink in front of him and have a good time while he had to go back outside and wait for them.
  • Man in the box has been said to be about censorship by Layne and about veal by Jerry and Sean.
  • Would? is about Andrew "Landrew the love god" Wood's death.
  • The unmentioned song at the end of Sap was unscheduled and according to Sean, "due to acid." Sean sings, Layne plays drums, Jerry plays piano and bass, and Mike Starr plays the guitar.
  • Layne was tired of Jerry writing almost all of the songs and he having to perform them so he finally convinced Jerry to sing lead-ins on Would? And thus began Mr. Cantrell's singing career.
  • There were two versions of Unplugged, one for the c.d. and one for the video. The one on the c.d. is a mix of the two however. On the c.d. version, the boys were dressed up wearing their leather jackets and expensive sunglasses.
  • Jerry started growing his hair long in the eighth grade to rebel against his clean cut school and starting to play guitar after he got into the music of the sixties and seventies.