LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 7, 2019…TWENTY FOUR YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THE SELF TITLED ALBUM ‘ALICE IN CHAINS’ WHICH WAS THE FOLLOW UP TO THEIR DEBUT ‘DIRT.’ THE ALBUM WAS ALSO COMMONLY CALLED THE ‘DOG ALBUM’ OR ‘TRIPOD.’ THE LP DEBUTED AT #1 AND WAS FUELED BY FOUR SINGLES ‘HEAVEN BESIDE YOU’ ‘GRIND’ ‘OVER NOW’ AND ‘AGAIN.’ DESPITE THE FACT THE BAND NEVER TOURED IN SUPPORT OF THIS RECORD, ‘TRIPOD’ SOLD MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES. HOWEVER THEY DID PLAY MTV UNPLUGGED IN APRIL OF 1996, AND OPENED FOR KISS FOR FOUR SHOWS ON THEIR SUMMER TOUR BEFORE LAYNE STALEY OVERDOSED ON HEROIN. HE RECOVERED, BUT IT FORCED ‘AIC’ OFF THE ROAD AGAIN. THIS ALBUM ALSO MARKED THE END OF AN ERA FOR THE BAND AS IT WAS THE LAST STUDIO RELEASE WITH STALEY ON VOCALS. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘HEAVEN BESIDE YOU.’
