Man In The Box - The Alice In Chains Story ┃ Documentary

Seattle, Washington, 1984. A group of kids attending Shorewood High School formed a group called Sleze. And as the name suggests, they were a band of Motley Crue Wannabe’s mostly playing cover songs from some of the notable glam metal artists of the time. Sleze were looking for a singer and although Layne had already taken up playing the drums, his step-brother Ken Elmer thought he should audition so he spoke to the band’s drummer to see if they would be interested. #AliceInChains #ManInTheBox #Documentary Layne Rutherford Staley was born on August 22nd, 1967 at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue to his father Phillip Blair Staley and mother Nancy Elizabeth Layne. They lived in Kirkland, a suburb East of Seattle. The pair had only been married 6 months prior, with Phil being 29 and Nancy was just 19 years old. Phil was a car salesman and Nancy was competing in Beauty Pageants. Just a few years later, when Layne was only 7, his parents would divorce and Nancy would remarry in 1975 to Jim