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Layne met Jerry in 1987 at a party in Seattle, and invited him to stay at the Music Bank with him. After a while, Jerry asked Layne to be in his band, called Diamond Lie. They added Jerry’s friend Mike Starr on bass, and Sean Kinney on drums, who was dating Mike’s sister at the time. They started out writing and playing original material at clubs in Seattle, basically as a glam/rock and roll type band. The name Alice in Chains came from one of Layne’s former high school bands which was called Alice N’ Chainz. (They used to dress in drags and cover Slayer songs).
They released a demo EP entitled "Sweet Alice" in 1989, which were just demos from the up and coming Facelift album. They signed with Columbia Records in 1989, and in July 1990, they released their first official EP entitled We Die Young. The title track became a big hit on radio stations in Seattle. Ironically the song was about all the gang violence that was going on in Seattle at the time.
"We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity."
Layne Staley, 1991
They released their first full-length album on August 20, 1990, entitled “Facelift”. The video for the track Man in the Box became a huge hit on MTV. They quickly became recognized as one of the “big four” of the Seattle grunge music scene, alongside Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam.
To support this album, AiC toured with and opened for Van Halen and Iggy Pop. Facelift went gold by the end of the year.
Their first EP entitled “Sap” was released March 21, 1992. It was an acoustic one. It featured Ann Wilson of Heart on the chorus of Brother, Am I...
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