10 Things You Didn't Know About Alice in Chains' 'Dirt'

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Nirvana's Nevermind may have been more seismic, Soundgarden's Superunknown more experimental, and Pearl Jam's Ten more successful. But when it comes to the bands that make up the Big Four of grunge, none ever unleashed an album as monolithic and downright harrowing as Alice in Chains' 1992 masterpiece, Dirt . The band's second full-length overall, it built and expanded upon the template they had laid out on their 1990 debut, Facelift , in the process jacking up the intensity and raw emoting to incredible, and at times uncomfortable, extremes. Jerry Cantrell's riffs were darker and sludgier; drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr's rhythms lumbered like an elephant trudging through molasses; and Layne Staley's raw-throated wail was agonized in a way that was almost painful to listen to. Furthermore, the album's second half boasted a five-song "mini-suite" of sorts about the ravages of heroin addiction, a topic that at least half the band had firsthand knowledge of at the time.

Despite its darkness, Dirt proved to be a massive mainstream success, spawning five hit singles, including the Andrew Wood ode "Would?" (recorded prior to the rest of the album, and featured in the Cameron Crowe movie Singles ), the rampaging leadoff track "Them Bones," and the ballad "Rooster," which Cantrell wrote about his father's experiences as a U.S. Army man during and after the Vietnam War. Furthermore, the album sold more than four million copies in the U.S. and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200.

But the turbulence captured on the album would soon overtake Alice in Chains. Starr was dismissed from the band during the Dirt tour due to issues with drugs, and Staley's vices proved to be an ongoing and worsening problem, resulting in the band canceling shows and even breaking up for a period. Both musicians eventually succumbed to their addictions, with Staley passing away in 2002 and Starr in 2011. Alice in Chains continues on today, having released the impressive The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here in 2013, and also opening some early dates on Guns N' Roses' current reunion tour. But Dirt  still stands as the band's magnum opus. Here are 10 things you may not have known about the 1992 album.

1. Alice in Chains struggled dealing with the success of breakout debut album, Facelift Dirt was produced by Dave Jerden, who had also helmed 1990's Facelift . He recalled the sessions for that first album to Music Radar : "They were hot and ready to go. They did some drinking, but there were no drugs. It was funny: They wanted to know where the strip clubs in L.A. were. We were driving down Hollywood Boulevard, so I pointed to one called the Tropicana." By the time Jerden and the band reconvened for Dirt , however, things had changed. "They were a big, established band, and the vibe was different," he said. "They were getting jaded. Layne told me that he didn't like being famous. He told me flat-out, 'People look at you like you're a piece of merchandise.'"

2. Dirt was recorded during the 1992 Los Angeles riots Similar to Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction , Dirt was cut during the riots that erupted following the acquittal of four LAPD officers caught on camera beating unarmed black motorist Rodney King. In an interview with Guitarist , Cantrell recalled how that atmosphere of violence permeated the sessions, which took place at One on One Recording in North Hollywood, where Metallica had recently tracked their Black Album. "I was actually in a store buying some beer when some guy came in and started looting the place," he said. "I also got stuck in traffic and saw people pulling other people out of their cars and beating the crap out of them. That was some pretty scary shit to have to go through, and it definitely affected the overall feel of the album."

3. Layne Staley improvised one of Dirt 's most memorable moments The very first vocal sounds heard on Dirt are the series of " Ahh !" screams that begin "Them Bones." But while the song credits Jerry Cantrell as the sole writer, Dirt engineer Bryan Carlstrom says that not only did Staley come up with that vocal part, he also improvised it in the moment. Carlstrom told The Atlantic that Staley said to him, "Oh, I hear a little vocal part I want to stick in the song." He then listened to the playback of the song in his headphones and timed his screams to Cantrell's guitar riff. "He just made that up on the spot," Carlstrom recalled.

4. There's a reason why Staley is wearing sunglasses in the "Rooster" video Jerry Cantrell wrote Dirt 's biggest hit, "Rooster," about his father, who had served two combat tours in Vietnam and whose nickname was also Rooster. The accompanying video featured Cantrell Sr., as well as real Vietnam news footage and reenacted combat scenes. When it came to shooting the band's performance, however, director Mark Pellington ran into a problem. "Layne was pretty high," he recalled in Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town . "His eyes were really fucked up. He was totally pinned." Pellington's solution? Put him in sunglasses. "I said, 'God, you look like a badass in those sunglasses.' And it was like, 'All right, let's go. Let's get a couple of takes.'"

5. When Alice in Chains went on tour with Ozzy, Staley performed some of the dates seated in a wheelchair In recent years, both Dave Grohl and Axl Rose have powered through performances while suffering from broken bones by sitting atop a throne onstage. But Layne Staley beat them to it by decades. Soon after the release of Dirt , the singer spent several of his band's fall 1992 dates opening for Ozzy Osbourne confined to a wheelchair, after a mishap on an all-terrain vehicle backstage at a show in Oklahoma City resulted in him riding over his own foot. An unusual way to start off the tour, but, as Staley reasoned in an interview at the time, "I didn't break my neck, so there's no excuse not to play." Nor did it stop Staley from giving it his all. "He jumped out in the crowd with his broken ... with his cast, so I thought that was kind of nutty," added bassist Mike Starr in the same interview . Overall, the band took a lighthearted approach to the incident, even printing up an official tour shirt emblazoned with an X-ray of Staley's broken foot under the band's logo.

6. In the lyrics to the album's title track Staley sings about being covered with dirt. One night on tour, he and his bandmates literally were. Rock bands that are on the road together have a history of pranking one another. But fellow Seattle-ites Gruntruck may have pulled one of the best on Alice in Chains during their tour together in late 1992. Explained Gruntruck bassist Tim Paul in Everybody Loves Our Town , "It was the Dirt tour, so we found a hardware store that was open late and bought these five-pound bags of potting soil." Just before the AIC boys hit the stage that night, Paul and his bandmates hit them hard. "Looking back," Paul admitted, "it was maybe ill-advised because the poor guys had to play a show with dirt down their throats."

7. Mike Starr was booted from Alice in Chains for drugs ... and then OD'd after his final show with the band During the Dirt tour bassist Mike Starr was kicked out of Alice in Chains due to his budding drug addiction. His final show with the band, before he was replaced by Ozzy Osbourne bassist Mike Inez, was at the Hollywood Rock festival in Brazil in January, 1993. According to Starr in a 2010 radio interview, he spent the night shooting up with Kurt Cobain. Indeed, in an interview, Cobain attested to as much, though slightly jokingly . Afterward, Starr said he went back to Staley's room and continued his drug binge. After passing out, he recalled, "I wake up ... and [ Layne ] had me in the shower and everything. I was flatlined. And he's crying and punching me in the face. I'm like, 'What's wrong? What did I do?' Layne's response? "[ H ]e's like, 'You were dead for 11 minutes, Mike.'"

8. Jerry Cantrell nearly bared it all on a memorable episode of Headbangers Ball Given how dark and often depressing Dirt 's music and lyrics could be, it was only natural that when Alice in Chains appeared on MTV's Headbangers Ball to promote the album in 1993, show host Riki Rachtman took them to ... a waterpark. Throughout the episode, filmed at Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey, the band members yukked it up as they went tubing, water sliding and even indulged in a bit of illegal fishing. And while the fat suits they donned for a few rounds of sumo wrestling were eye-popping, that was nothing compared to Cantrell's getup, which consisted of little more than a snorkel and a bright blue Speedo. "Don't film down there," Rachtman warned the cameraman at one point. "You don't wanna see his package."

9. Alice in Chains co-headlined the 1993 Lollapalooza festival … and never did a full-scale tour with Staley again In the summer of 1993 Alice in Chains and Primus co-headlined the third iteration of the Lollapalooza festival, topping an eclectic mainstage lineup that featured, among others, Arrested Development, Front 242 and Tool. The run would prove to be Alice's final full-scale tour; the following spring and summer they were scheduled as one of the openers on Metallica's Shit Hits the Sheds jaunt, but they canceled at the last minute, as Staley was in the throes of his heroin addiction. "If we had kept going," Kinney told Rolling Stone , "there was a good chance we would have self-destructed on the road, and we definitely didn't want that to happen in public." Their replacement on the Metallica dates? Candlebox.

10. The band didn't just cancel the Metallica tour dates — they actually broke up The cancellation of the Metallica run was just the beginning of a downward spiral — in fact, after Staley, fresh out of rehab, came to a band rehearsal high, Alice in Chains not only called off the tour, they also disbanded for a good six months. "At first I was dumbfounded," Staley told Rolling Stone . "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."

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Kurt Cobain's legacy is evident in the music from the year he died

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain on MTV Unplugged in 1993

Why is Kurt Cobain so important?

Variations of this question about the Nirvana frontman/grunge icon pop up regularly on the popular social forum Reddit.

Why did Kurt have such a cult following? What made Kurt Cobain stand out? Explain to me like I'm five the cultural significance of Kurt Cobain. What made Nirvana so special? Can someone explain Nirvana's influence and importance?

Typically the questions are asked by people who weren't alive when Cobain, who was 27 and at the height of his fame, died by suicide 30 years ago this week.

The three members of Nirvana pose for a photo.

The questions are worthwhile — in the time of Spotify, TikTok and Taylor Swift, it's hard to fathom how one singer-songwriter and his little rock band could have such a profound impact on music.

There are many ways to answer this question, but perhaps the best one can be found by examining the musical landscape from 1994, the year Cobain died.

Tear down that wall

But first, let's rewind back to the '80s.

Back then  the American music world was divided .

On the shiny, glittery surface, MTV-approved pop stars and poodle-haired rockers dominated the Billboard charts and radio playlists.

Beneath that, in the so-called underground of sweaty clubs and college radio, bands toiled away under the loose umbrella of "alternative music" — punk, metal, grunge, indie rock, shoegaze — rarely worrying the charts or appealing to the tastemakers at record labels and the mainstream music media.

The wall between the two worlds was rarely breached, but as the '80s went on, a handful of bands began to scale that wall.

A man with blue face paint stands next to a microphone.

Alt-rock band REM reached the Billboard top 10 in 1987 with their album Document, thrash metallers Metallica did the same the following year with …And Justice For All, underground acts such as Jane's Addiction and Soundgarden signed with major labels, and a previously unknown band named  Faith No More combined rap, funk and metal to score an unlikely top 10 hit with the track Epic in 1990 .

MTV began to pay attention, more so-called alternative bands caught the ears of the major labels, and suddenly the underground was creeping into the sunlight.

In 1991, the paradigm shifted even further.

REM, now signed to major label Warner Bros, went to #1 with their album Out Of Time, and in the months that followed  gangsta rappers NWA  and Metallica also topped the US album charts .

Then, on January 11, 1992, a scruffy Seattle trio named Nirvana scored a symbolic win for the burgeoning grunge movement when its album Nevermind deposed the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, from the top of the Billboard album charts.

"A record by a band no-one had ever heard of, which had hardly been promoted at all, had knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the chart," Craig Schuftan summarised in his book Entertain Us!: The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties.

"A revolt from below had taken place."

What followed was indeed a musical revolution — the alternative music scene that had been bubbling away beneath the mainstream suddenly came to a boil, sweeping like a tsunami across the US and the world, up-ending decades of traditional music industry thinking.

Bands that had previously only dreamed of getting their music on MTV or pay-to-play radio playlists or in prime positions in record stores were suddenly doing all that and more, finding new legions of fans and selling millions of records in the process.

Over the two years that followed Nirvana's symbolic regicide, major labels scrambled and ambitious indies rose, all searching for "the new Nirvana", the next unexpected success.

By 1994, these searches had made the music scene unrecognisable compared to a decade earlier.

The beginning of the end for grunge

The Seattle grunge scene had spurred the diversification and growing democratisation of the music industry, but Cobain's death in April 1994 was a sad signpost that the end of a short-lived grunge era was nigh.

Alice in Chains

Despite this, 1994 was still technically a banner year for the rock sub-genre.

Of the so-called big four of grunge  — Nirvana, Pearl Jam , Alice In Chains and Soundgarden — the latter was the first to sign to a major label but the last to score a blockbuster record.

Success finally arrived for Soundgarden in '94 with Superunknown, which sold nine million copies worldwide thanks to its rampaging riffs (Spoonman), brooding grooves (Fell On Black Days), haunting epics (Black Hole Sun), and Chris Cornell's incredible vocal range  which seemingly spanned from heaven to hell.

Not to be outdone, Pearl Jam's third album Vitalogy became the second-fastest-selling album in US history (behind only Pearl Jam's previous record Vs), and pushed the band forward sonically — it's a punkier, less grungy, more diverse album that also features Better Man, one of the band's biggest singles.

Meanwhile Alice In Chains followed up their massive 1992 record Dirt With Jar Of Flies, a largely acoustic mini-album that became the first EP to top the Billboard album charts.

For Nirvana, their Icarus-like career was over following Cobain's death, meaning the release in November 1994 of their MTV Unplugged concert recorded 12 months earlier served as a quiet epitaph for the band that had instigated a musical revolution.

The acoustic live album went #1 globally, has sold more than 12 million copies, and in Australia was among the top 50 best-selling albums for three years running.

Beyond the big four, enthusiasm for grunge continued — L7's Hungry For Stink, 7 Year Bitch's Viva Zapata, and Melvins' Stoner Witch all sold well, while Stone Temple Pilots' Purple is another highlight of the genre from 1994.

But one of the best grunge albums of all time landed just days after Cobain's death, and it came from Hole — the band starring Cobain's wife Courtney Love .

Live Through This is part ferocious feminist roar, part fragile confession, set to a barrage of barnstorming riffs and burning melodies that was long overshadowed by the widowing of Love, but has come to be re-appraised as one of the great rock records of the '90s.

The post-grunge wave begins

The term "post-grunge" began as a put-down — a sneering label hinting at a perceived lack of authenticity in the sound and attitude of the bands who rose in grunge's wake.

But for every terrible band that was tarred with the post-grunge brush, there were some great ones, and in 1994 they released some great albums.

Some, like Veruca Salt 's American Thighs and Weezer's debut self-titled record (AKA The Blue Album) were rightly revered upon release, melding the abrasive edges of grunge with the sweetness of power-pop.

Meanwhile albums such as Live's Throwing Copper and Bush's Sixteen Stone won devotees and detractors in equal measure.

The haters dissed both bands as corporate cynical cash-ins riding the coat-tails of Nirvana and co, but the fans couldn't get enough.

Live's big break scored three songs in the 1995 triple j Hottest 100 (I Alone amazingly appeared in both the 1994 and 1995 countdown) and Throwing Copper stayed at the pointy end of the ARIA album charts for four years.

Bush's Sixteen Stone had four songs in the Hottest 100 across the '95 and '96 countdowns, and slowly won over a huge following — released in December 1994, it took 16 months to crack the ARIA top 50, where it stayed for almost a year.

The return of punk

Punk rock's influence on grunge was evident, but as a standalone genre it had been languishing in the underground since its late '70s heyday, much of its potency as a movement seemingly long forgotten.

But two albums from the Californian punk scene brought spiky-haired power chords and snotty attitude back to the fore, selling about 30 million copies in the process — The Offspring's Smash and Green Day's Dookie .

Both records are fast, sweary, fun, honest and as catchy as a cold.

They also helped open the door for older punks such as Bad Religion and NOFX to enjoy more success and are two of the biggest albums of 1994.

The Offspring 's Smash remains the best-selling indie album of all time — its big singles Self Esteem and Come Out And Play spent six months each on the Billboard charts and were voted in at #3 and #4 respectively in the triple j Hottest 100.

Meanwhile Dookie, the bigger of the two albums, tapped into the angst and anxieties of teenagers the world over, and its popularity lingers — singles Basket Case and When I Come Around have just passed one billion and half a billion plays respectively on Spotify.

Further down the spiral

Few albums exemplify how far Nirvana had pushed the boundaries in 1994 than Nine Inch Nails' second record The Downward Spiral — a noisy, violent slice of industrial rock that peaked at #2 in the US and #12 in Australia, and sold about 4.5 million copies worldwide.

Recorded in the Los Angeles home where members of the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate, the concept album follows a man on his path to suicide, and tackles themes such as religion, addiction, violence, depression, nihilism and more.

A grim yet immaculately produced record, The Downward Spiral spawned the songs Hurt, later a surprise hit for Johnny Cash, and depraved funk banger Closer, which incredibly reached #3 on the ARIA charts and #2 in triple j's Hottest 100.

This mainstream acceptance of the heavier and darker undersides of the alternative scene proved highly influential for generations of metal musos who followed.

Mind you, 1994 also spawned the first album of Marilyn Manson, so it wasn't without its downsides.

What is alternative?

The broad scope of what "alternative rock" was meant that you could walk into a record store in 1994 and find some pretty disparate albums sitting in the same section.

For example, you couldn't get musically further from Nine Inch Nails ' The Downward Spiral than Jeff Buckley's Grace , both of which are considered alt-rock masterpieces.

The only studio album released by Buckley during his lifetime, Grace is a spellbinding showcase for his remarkable voice, versatile guitar work, passionate songwriting and talent as an interpreter of other people's songs — while his originals Last Goodbye and Grace were the songs that made it into the '95 Hottest 100, it's Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah that has become his legacy.

Grace's esteem has grown over the past 30 years, but the album was largely ignored upon release except in Australia, where the album climbed into the top 10 in September 1995 and has sold more than half a million copies.

Alternative music wasn't just about guitars — Tori Amos took her heart-on-her-sleeve piano-driven rock songs to new heights on her second record, which remains her most successful.

Driven by the wonderfully cryptic lead single Cornflake Girl (#35 in the Hottest 100, #19 on the ARIA charts) and debuting at the top of the UK charts, the album sold about 2.5 million copies worldwide and cemented the American singer-songwriter as one of the most vital voices of the '90s.

The opening of the alt-rock floodgates meant that albums that sounded unlike anything that had come before suddenly had the potential to sell millions.

  • Exhibit A: the jangly/scuzzy imprecise science that is Pavement, who stuck with indie labels amid the alternative boom of the '90s and scored big with the "slacker" anthems on their second album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain , including Cut Your Hair, Range Life, and Gold Soundz.
  • Exhibit B: cult favourites Ween, who were never going to sell millions but stunned the world in 1992 with the most unlikeliest of hits, Push Th' Little Daisies — a song that never would have sold like it did without Nirvana upsetting the mainstream apple cart.

In 1994, Ween dropped Chocolate & Cheese , a cherished collection of genre-hopping absurdity that includes the singles Freedom Of '76 and Voodoo Lady and made it to #80 on the ARIA album charts.

  • Exhibit C: Kyuss, who were as cultish as Ween and just as influential, and who brought stoner rock to the world, reaching #53 on the ARIA charts with their '94 album Welcome To Sky Valley and paving the way for Queens Of The Stone Age .

So broad was the term alternative rock that it also included Hootie & The Blowfish, who were passed over by most major labels because they weren't grunge enough but who were lumped under the alt umbrella as a marketing ploy by their eventual signers Atlantic Records.

Their debut album Cracked Rear View, released July 1994, was the biggest-selling album in the US in 1995 and is estimated to have sold 21 million copies in the US alone.

Meanwhile, in Australia ...

Nirvana's success dramatically changed the American music industry, as well as Australia's, which was structured with a similar divide between the mainstream and the underground.

The first ripples of the alt-rock uprising reached Down Under in 1991 and bands such as Ratcat , The Clouds, You Am I and Cosmic Psychos began to make waves.

But as former triple j presenter Richard Kingsmill put it , Australia needed its own Smells Like Teen Spirit moment to "really stamp how great all this Aussie music really was".

"And that was Tomorrow by Silverchair."

Cheekily dubbed "Nirvana In Pyjamas" by some, the Newcastle teens' debut single, released in September 1994, was a rare worldwide hit for an Australian band and helped drag our own alt-rock movement out of the shadows.

Anarchy in the UK

The grunge band's influence on the UK was less profound — the British music scene was already open to harder-edged sounds.

For example, American alt-rockers Pixies, who had a profound influence on Nirvana, had three top-10 albums in the UK before they even cracked the Billboard top 60.

But the rise of Nirvana and grunge ended up having an oddly inverse effect in England by 1994.

While American guitar music was embracing its abrasiveness, the British equivalent leaned into its Englishness almost as a direct response to the grimness of grunge.

The band Blur pose for a promo photo

As Blur frontman Damon Albarn told Melody Maker in 1993 upon the release of their album Modern Life Is Rubbish: "Our last album killed baggy — this one will kill grunge."

And so rose Britpop , a burgeoning alt-rock sub-genre that would go on to dominate the mid-'90s much like grunge had dominated the first part of the decade.

The Seattle sound was out and Cool Britannia — led by Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Suede, Elastica, Manic Street Preachers and Radiohead  — was in.

The end, but not the end

Nirvana's legacy extends beyond 1994, of course.

The number of kids who picked up a guitar because of Cobain, or drumsticks to emulate Dave Grohl, or a bass to play the loping lines of Krist Novoselic is innumerable, and continues to this day.

You could argue that if it hadn't been Nirvana, it would have been another band that stood on the shoulders of giants such as REM and Pixies and The Replacements and Sonic Youth, and dived over the wall that kept the underground away from the mainstream.

But in the end, it was Nirvana.

Their influence wasn't just created by their sound or their industry impact though.

The underdog status of Nirvana — the band no-one had heard of who dethroned the King of Pop — made them the band that other up-and-coming bands looked at and went "maybe we could do that".

But 30 years on from Cobain's passing, the music industry is such a different place that it's hard to understand how profound an impact he and his band had.

But listening to the music from the year he died isn't a bad place to start.

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  1. Alice In Chains's 1992 Concert & Tour History

    Alice In Chains's 1992 Concert History. 72 Concerts. Alice in Chains is an American grunge/ alternative metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who then recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley. Starr was replaced by Mike Inez in 1993.

  2. Alice in Chains Concert Chronology 1992 ((c) 2005, Dionysian Home Page)

    Last Updated February 1, 2006 Welcome to version 5.1 of the Alice In Chains Concert Chronology. I welcome any additional dates or setlists you can provide by email. 1992. 01/22/92. Tacoma, WA. Tacoma Dome rescheduled date.

  3. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Alice in Chains' 'Dirt'

    Here are 10 things you may not have known about the 1992 album. 1. Alice in Chains struggled dealing with the success of breakout debut album, Facelift. Dirt was produced by Dave Jerden, who had also helmed 1990's Facelift. He recalled the sessions for that first album to Music Radar: "They were hot and ready to go.

  4. Alice In Chains (live concert)

    Alice In Chains (live concert) - December 20th, 1992, Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WAPlease support this artist. Buy their records and merchandise. If band...

  5. Alice in Chains Concert Setlist at Roseland Ballroom, New York on

    Alice in Chains Gig Timeline. Nov 21 1992. The Boathouse Norfolk, VA, USA. Add time. Nov 22 1992. Ritchie Coliseum College Park, MD, USA. Add time. Nov 24 1992. Roseland Ballroom This Setlist New York, NY, USA.

  6. Alice In Chains Concert Chronology

    Concert Chronology page from Again: An Alice In Chains Home Page, which is the longest running and most comprehensive Alice In Chains site on the 'Net. Home to the original and most complete concert chronology, with set lists, gig posters, and information on available recordings. ... 1992: 1993: 1994 - 1996: 2005 + (upcoming tour dates)

  7. Alice in Chains Concert Setlist at Seattle Center Arena, Seattle on

    Alice in Chains Gig Timeline. Dec 16 1992. Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles, CA, USA. Add time. Dec 18 1992. 86 Street Music Hall Vancouver, BC, Canada. Add time. Dec 19 1992. Seattle Center Arena This Setlist Seattle, WA, USA.

  8. Alice in Chains Tour Statistics: 1992

    View the statistics of songs played live by Alice in Chains. Have a look which song was played how often in 1992! setlist.fm Add Setlist. Search Clear search text. follow. Setlists; Artists ... Alice in Chains (4) American Tour 2022 (35) Asia/Australia Tour 1993 (12) Black Gives Way to Blue (40)

  9. Alice in Chains Concerts/Tour 1992

    Tour 1992: Full Concerts, Partial Shows & Live Songs

  10. Alice in Chains

    Alice in Chains - Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles CA, Dec 15. 1992 - Tour: "Dirt" Setlist:01 - Dam That River02 - We Die Young03 - Them Bones04 - Would?05 -...

  11. Sep 04, 1992: Alice In Chains at U of I Sub Ballroom ...

    Alice In Chains info along with concert photos, videos, setlists, and more.

  12. Dirt (Alice in Chains album)

    Staley performing with Alice in Chains in Boston in 1992. Alice in Chains were added as openers to Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tours tour. Days before the tour began, Staley broke his foot in an ATV accident, forcing him to use crutches on stage. During the tour, Starr was fired following the Hollywood Rock concert in Rio de Janeiro on January 22 ...

  13. Alice in Chains~ Oakland 1992 Full Show

    Alice In Chains performing in Oakland on 10-8-92. This is my fave AIC concert. Enjoy. I also have the Blind Melon show on my channel from this night.

  14. Alice in Chains

    Alice in Chains was nominated for a Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy Award in 1992 for "Man in the Box" but lost to Van Halen for their 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Following the tour, Alice in Chains entered the studio to record demos for its next album, but ended up recording five acoustic songs instead.

  15. Alice in Chains Setlist at The Channel, Boston

    Get the Alice in Chains Setlist of the concert at The Channel, Boston, MA, USA on November 27, 1992 from the Dirt Tour and other Alice in Chains Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  16. Sap (EP)

    Sap is the second studio EP by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on February 4, 1992, through Columbia Records. Sap is mostly acoustic and marks the first time that guitarist Jerry Cantrell sings lead vocals in an Alice in Chains release, with the song "Brother". The EP was produced by Alice in Chains and Rick Parashar and features guest vocals by Ann Wilson of the band Heart ...

  17. Alice in Chains Concert Setlist at Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland

    Get the Alice in Chains Setlist of the concert at Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA on January 23, 1992 from the Facelift Tour and other Alice in Chains Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  18. Alice in Chains @ The WOW Hall Eugene Oregon 8-26-1992

    This video shows a time lapse set up of The WOW HALL Then the entire show of Alice In Chains. This footage has never been released and can only be seen here...

  19. Kurt Cobain's legacy is evident in the music from the year he died

    Meanwhile Alice In Chains followed up their massive 1992 record Dirt With Jar Of Flies, a largely acoustic mini-album that became the first EP to top the Billboard album charts.

  20. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour

    The For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour (often abbreviated as the F.U.C.K. Tour or simply The Fuck Tour) was a concert tour by American rock band Van Halen in support of their studio album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.It was one of the band's longer tours, divided into 99 dates. It featured shows in Hawaii and Mexico, places Van Halen rarely played in their history.

  21. Alice in Chains

    Alice in Chains - Concert Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada, Nov 29. 1992 - Tour. "Dirt" - Opening Band(s): Gruntruck & Screaming TreesSetlist:01 - Dam That River 02...

  22. Kurt Cobain Forever

    Kurt Cobain, live at Reading in 1992 (Credit: Mick Hutson/Redferns) And he's right. Whenever there has been a major anniversary (most recently, the 30th anniversary of In Utero), a Nirvana box ...

  23. Alice in Chains Concert Setlist at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo

    Get the Alice in Chains Setlist of the concert at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY, USA on November 5, 1992 from the Dirt Tour and other Alice in Chains Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  24. Alice in Chains Setlist at The Concert Hall, Toronto

    Get the Alice in Chains Setlist of the concert at The Concert Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada on November 29, 1992 from the Dirt Tour and other Alice in Chains Setlists for free on setlist.fm!