Alice In Chains

Layne Staley performing at the Lollapalooza Festival, Mountain View, California

Layne Staley performing “Love, Hate, Love” at the Moore Theatre, Seattle  

Alice in Chains at an in-store promotion event in Los Angeles, California

Alice in Chains performing in New York 

Layne Staley performing in Hollywood, California 

Layne Staley and Mike Starr being interviewed on Headbanger’s Ball

In the months following their breakup, the band members went through the stages of grief that accompany loss: denial, anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. “At first I was dumbfounded,” Staley recalls, mumbling like someone awakened by a late-night phone call. “I just sat on my couch staring at the TV and getting drunk every day. When we first got together as a band, we were all brothers. We lived in the same house and partied together and drank as much as each other. But then we started to split apart and went different ways, and we felt like we were betraying each other.”

Layne Staley performing “Down in a Hole”  

Alice in Chains photographed for Rolling Stone Magazine

Alice in Chains performing ‘Junkhead’ at Lollapalooza in Vancouver, Canada

Alice in Chains

Seattle, WA, US 1990

Alice in Chains

Layne Staley

Alice in Chains

Layne Staley performing on “Later with Jools"

Layne Staley