I actually only photographed Alice in Chains once live, and once for a posed session. I don’t know why that was - couldn’t do everything, and they were off my Sub Pop-centric radar. But the show I did shoot, at the small pivotal Central Tavern, was off the hook and close-in. I’m glad I got to shoot them as a ‘small’ band.

This is a proof, or contact, sheet as it was made originally in the darkroom at the time, by placing the negatives between photo paper and glass and shining light on it from the enlarger. Note the frame numbers don’t run sequentially to the time of the pictures taken. The film was bulk loaded to save money - it would come in 100 foot rolls that we put in a daylight loader and wind into reusable cassettes, and the numbering would drift.

You can see how Layne starts with a heavy plaid shirt at the top (I think this might have been January) and loses it by the third row. #40 is my favorite, but this is one of those rolls where just about every picture is some solid action. As evidenced by the only one (of Jerry Cantrell) that was marked with a grease pencil at the time being one of our other featured NFT’s in this Fury collection.