kandi burruss wrote don't follow by alice in chains.
kandi burruss wrote don't follow by alice in chains.
who wrote don't follow by alice in chains?
kandi burruss
bullet::::- alice in chains — the name was taken from lead singer layne staley's previous group, the glam metal band alice n' chains. staley shed some light on the subject in a rolling stone article in 1992: "the name came from a side project of my old group [alice n' chains]. we were going to have this band that dressed up in drag and played heavy metal as a joke." alice n' chains' bassist johnny bacolas explained the name in the 2011 book "everybody loves our town: a history of grunge". bacolas and russ klatt (the lead singer of slaughter haus 5), were at a party in north seattle talking about backstage passes. one of the passes said "welcome to wonderland", and they started talking about that being an alice in wonderland-type thing, until klatt started saying, "what about alice in chains? put her in bondage and stuff like that." bacolas thought the name "alice in chains" was cool and brought it up to his sleze bandmates and everyone liked it, so they changed the name of the band. since three of the members had very christian mothers, they thought spelling it "alice n' chains" made it not sound a bondage name. after staley left alice n' chains, he contacted his former bandmates and asked for permission to use the name with his new band with guitarist jerry cantrell.
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in 1988, silver met music manager kelly curtis. curtis and his friend ken deans owned a company, and deans was the manager of the band alice in chains. deans gave silver a cassette tape of alice in chains and she liked it. silver then went to an alice in chains concert and thought they were fun and very energetic. when curtis became interested in working with the band mother love bone, deans decided that he didn't want to work with alice in chains anymore, so he offered the managing job to silver and curtis, who started co-managing the band. curtis and silver passed on the alice in chains demo tape "the treehouse tapes" to columbia records' a&r representative nick terzo, who set up an appointment with label president don ienner. based on that demo, terzo signed alice in chains to columbia in 1989. some time later, curtis started managing the band pearl jam, and silver became the sole manager of alice in chains.
susan silver