Alice In Chains Didn't Want to DIE IN PUBLIC

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Alice In Chains Didn't Want to DIE IN PUBLIC

Alice In Chains' 1995 self titled album is the first full length album to feature Mike Inez on bass guitar, who previously performed with Ozzy Osbourne. The album would also be the last studio album to include vocalist Layne Staley as the band would fall in to an extended hiatus not long after the album's release, which was speculated to have been caused by vocalist Layne Staley's addiction to drugs. However, drummer Sean Kinney would later tell DRUM! Magazine that Staley wasn't the only reason that the band withdrew from the limelight following the release of their third album.

“He (Staley) was the focal point, like singers are... So they’d single him out. But the truth was, it was pretty much everybody. I definitely had my hand firmly on the wheel going off the cliff. And the reason we pulled back – you know when you stop when you have two #1 records, it’s not really the greatest career move – but we did that because we love each other and we didn’t want to die in public. And I know for a fact in my heart that if we were to continue that I wouldn’t be on the phone right now talking to you. I wouldn’t have made it. I just wouldn’t have.” - Kinney, Sean Kinney: From The Ashes, Drum Magazine (Jul 19, 2011)