The press would have a feast speculating and Sean, Mike and Jerry started to miss life on tour. The chains started to rust again and despite the very good reviews and acceptance that the album had, Alice in Chains fell again into a period of hibernation. That’s a career move I wouldn’t recommend repeating for anybody - stop touring with two number one records back-to-back” Still, I think it’s one of the great records that we put out. I was not in a good space, and Layne wasn’t either. That record took a long time to make, because we were all at a bad space. According to Jerry Cantrell: “That was another number one record. Layne just recorded this album, but he categorically refused to do a tour or promotion of it (See article by Charles R.
However, and despite it looked to be a very auspicious situation, it wasn´t like that. Jerry tried to reform the band in 1995 for this new album and suddenly, after all this time apart, Layne accepted to record with the boys a new studio album, and he was in charge of most of the lyrics. It was there where he dedicated to spend his days giving more importance to his other interests like poetry, clay sculpture and ink drawing.ĭuring this long gap, Alice in Chains members would wander around various activities that would keep them busy without really knowing whether they would keep themselves together after these events: Layne joined Mad Season in 1994 and recorded the album "Above" Mike Inez joined Slash's Snakepit in 1994 and recorded the album "It's five o'clock somewhere," Jerry would remain busy composing songs for a solo album, his debut, however, it would end up becoming the third full-length from the band: "Tripod" This provoked the retirement of Layne to his apartment in the U-District, recently acquired. The cancellation of the tour was like a bomb in the specialized media and every one of dedicated articles and reports to cover of the state of the band, and Layne in particular. Lost some trust in each other for a while.” After some rehearsals and watching how the situation was going, the band held a meeting in which they agreed to cancel the Metallica tour, despite the great opportunity it represented and the friendship that bound both bands. He just showed up, and there were bad circumstances. Nobody had talked to him-he’d been gone all that time. Layne was in a treatment place, and we’d been rehearsing ourselves. According to Sean Kinney: “We were rehearsing at the Moore Theatre to get ready for Metallica. When Layne finally came to the rehearsals, he didn´t come the way the other members expected. The tour started on and the cities where Alice in Chains would participate would be Vancouver (Canada), Seattle, Portland and San Diego, among others.ĭuring the prior period to the tour, the band was rehearsing at the Moore Theater in Seattle, with the exception of Layne, who was in a treatment center to overcome his illness, which increased during all dates that they had to do around the world during the exhausting 1993.
This tour involved a superlative leap in the band's career, since Metallica was the greatest heavy metal act on the planet since they put out on the streets the black album. After that, the disaster came.Īlice in Chains had been booked to Woodstock and to be part of Metallica´s summer tour in 1994 called "Shit Hits The Sheds" or simply "Summer Shit 94" that included bands like Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies and Fight as opening acts, just like Alice in Chains on different dates of the tour. Coincidentally, the last appearance was made in unplugged format where they performed four songs, including the only time they have performed Am I Inside live, in Layne Staley´s voice.
This last appearance took place at the Hollywood Palladium, on Januin a benefit concert for Norwood Fisher, Fishbone bass player, a band that Alice in Chains had established a very good friendship with, in the Lollapalooza tour II 1993. Two years and three months had been passed since the last public appearance of Alice in Chains in a concert.
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