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JK Entertainments LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Audio Visual Equipment Hire Company and DJ service. We also specialise in lighting, based in Leicester. For a number of years, we've been providing event services to the Leicestershire area and now cover the UK. From adult parties to full scale stage productions plus audio visual equipment hire and installations, we're available to provide an engaging and mind blowing experience! We stock a wide range of latest audio visual hire equipment based in Leicester, which we hire out on a short term and long term basis. We will deliver within the Leicestershire area free of charge. Additional charges apply outside Leicestershire. We will install and collect as requested within the cost. Here's just a few of the items we hire: sound & lighting, smoke & fog machines, fireworks, LED star cloth back drops, drapes stage hire. **NEW StageDex (Prolyte) Staging Now in Stock. Contact us for a quote** We also offer a dry hire service where AV products are available for clients who wish to carry out their own small meetings and events.
DISCOMANIACertificate of Excellence 2019
Here at Discomania we hire DJ's, Disco's, Silent Disco's, Lighting, Projector and Screen's, Karaoke hire, Retro Arcade machine's and many more essential party hire items. Please visit our web site hire page for more information but if you don't see what you require please get in touch as we may still be able to help, we are updating our hire stock on a regular basis. Established by Sara Payne in 1988, Discomania have supplied hire to clients such as The BBC, FIFA, Radio 1, NSPCC, Cancer Research, The Scouts Association, Gatecrasher, The Ministry Of Sound, Blend, Head Kandi, Alea Casino, Lloyds Bank, Sainsbury's, Nottingham & Loughborough University & The Holiday Inn to name just a few of our customers... We now supply the whole of the U.K and have two offices, one in the Midlands in Nottingham and one in Cornwall in Hessenford.
Corporate HireCertificate of Excellence 2019
Corporate Hire are a group dedicated in ensuring you have the best audio visual equipment available for your next event, whether that be at your wedding, corporate event, party or cinema showing. We are here to help ensure the event runs smoothly, so you and your guests can enjoy themselves throughout the event. We combine the latest technology and equipment along with our dedicated staff, provide the highest of standards which are sure to blow your spectators away. We have equipment available for events of all sizes whether that be a small family party or large outdoor cinema event; we can turn your vision into reality, all with a high level of professionalism unrivaled in the business. We look forward to hearing from you and can't wait to start planning your next event.
Playback Events
Based in Mansfield near Nottingham we work throughout the UK providing a range of event production services including stages, sound, lighting and technical services. Covering events ranging from corporate & charity events through to small festivals, We pride ourselves in offering a professional, reliable and friendly service to all of our clients how big or small. At Playback Events we understand the need for quality and reliability. We pride ourselves on our service, with over 15 years of experience and enthusiasm, we are always happy to go the extra mile for our customers. From basic equipment hire through to full technical production services, we make sure your event looks and sounds outstanding. We are the number one supplier of Disco & Karaoke in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and surrounding areas. Whether you're planning a wedding, a birthday celebration or any other kind of party, we can provide a high quality disco or entertainment. We have been supplying discos and DJ's to the region since 1998, we have built and outstanding reputation which we are proud of. Working along side our sister company, whom provide large scale events we can cater for a variety of parties regardless of size, whether it be a small gathering of close friends and family or a large wedding of up to 1500 guests, we have got you covered. We are fully insured, all our equipment is PAT tested and service by our engineers regularly for peace of mind.
RJL Events
RJL Events is a bespoke events company with over 12 years experience supplying DJ's room uplighting Dancefloors and giant LOVE letters. We go out of our way to ensure you have he best event no matter wha the occasion. Our DJ team is professional, punctual and experienced.
Rainbow DJ's
We are based in north Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. We believe that our Customers needs are of the upmost importance. We have ten years experience in the mobile entertainment industry. We are very proud that a high percentage of our bookings are from repeat customers and recommendations. We are committed to providing a high quality service and customer satisfaction. We can cater for all tastes of music with our digital music library spanning from the 50's to current tracks. We are fully insured with public liability insurance and all our equipment is P.A.T tested annually for safety. All our DJ's are DBS checked.
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Mcproductions (Nottingham) Limited
With over 30 years' experience in the trade and based in Nottingham in the midlands, MC-Productions prides itself on providing a professional service at a reasonable cost. We cater for any events ranging from PA and Lighting for conferences and fashion shows, car launches and disco's, we take great pride in our work and always do everything possible to ensure your event goes as planned. Any Enquiries please feel free to contact us via email or phone, we are happy to cater to any needs you may have. We take great pride in providing PA and Lighting for Miss England pageant shows, where we supply staging lighting and full sets to fit any size room in any building. We travel nationwide and Europe to supply these shows and are happy discuss any needs you have.
Mc Productions
With over 30 years' experience in the trade and based in Nottingham in the midlands, MC-Productions prides itself on providing a professional service at a reasonable cost. We cater for any events ranging from disco's to PA and Lighting for conferences and car launches, we take great pride in our work and always do everything possible to ensure your event goes as planned. Any Enquiries please feel free to contact us via email or phone, we are happy to cater to any needs you may have. To keep updated with our latest events, or to see more photos of our set ups, please like us on Facebook or take a look at our website.
Boxset Media Ltd
We create award-winning films for corporate, broadcast and charity clients across the globe. With in-house experts in project management, scriptwriting, casting, filmmaking, editing and animation, we take care of all aspects of video production, which is why agencies love us too.
GASP Creative LimitedCertificate of Excellence 2019
Who we are... GASP Creative was founded by Glyn Allen in 2001. Since then our team has grown; we are a group of creative, passionate, knowledgeable and experienced filmmakers, videographers and photographers. We use our skills intelligently, sensitively and strategically to produce emotive imagery that provokes action. We have a broad range of experience across a range of creative broadcasting disciplines. We have an understanding of our clients needs and their individual markets. We have proven track record in creating and developing brand content across a wide range of industries.
Stage Connections
Stage Connections provides sound, music, audio visual and video equipment for live events. You can either dry hire the equipment from our Nottinghamshire warehouse, or employ our team of technicians and sound engineers to install and operate the equipment on the day. We also offer full event production services, build custom sets for events like conferences and offer video production services too.
Babylon BandCertificate of Excellence 2019
Babylon Band specialises in middle eastern music and had earned its fame amongst the community in the Northwest and still receive lots of credit and fame in the rest of the country thanks to their great performance throughout so many events and private parties held all over the UK with full liability insurance.
SOUNDTIME. PA, Stage and Lighting Hire
Everything an event or band needs for a truly great sound and light show and disco! We supply top quality sound systems up to 10,000 Watts, lighting equipment and indoor and outdoor covered stages with monitors, backline, drums, 32 channel mixer and whatever a band may need to travel light and focus on the gig! We also provide music for events with a choice of DJ's that specialise in music across 6 decades!
Elizabeth Grace Design Ltd.
Elizabeth Grace Design is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations. With a variety of offerings to choose from, we're sure you'll be happy working with us. Jodi has been working within the hairdressing industry for 13 years. Having started as an apprentice then continuing to train as a hair lecturer, assessor and quality assurer. This in turn ensures there is continuing professional development keeping Elizabeth Grace Design up to date with innovative designs, trends and colour pallets. The eye for colour and detail led Jodi to complete a floristry diploma, regularly getting lost in the tranquillity of flower arranging, complimenting hair styles and adding finishing touches to venues gave Jodi the opportunity to open her dream business Elizabeth Grace Design. Bridal Hair We love weddings, we are committed to making your day personal to you. At Elizabeth Grace Design we style your hair to suit you, your dress and personality. Floristry Due to high demand Elizabeth Grace Design now offers Floristry. We have all occasions covered, and design each and every arrangement personally to you. We use only the freshest flowers and the best of artificial too. Bespoke Head Dresses We love designing our very own head dresses whether it be for brides, bridesmaids or the summer festival your going to. Our florist is in demand with both fresh and faux flower head dresses. Event Design & Planning Finishing touches, table decoration and anything else you require is all designed to your specification and taste. Table linens, Centre pieces, Lighting and Effects. Whether you are looking for a Photo booth, Candy Cart, Cake, Photographer, Stationer we have a talented team ready to give you exactly what your looking for. We dress venues for both Weddings, Engagements, Birthdays, and Corporate events alike.
Beats and BassCertificate of Excellence 2019
When an evening simply has to be memorable.. As an experienced DJ I have been providing happy party memories for many years. I am based in Sleaford and cover Lincoln, Grantham, and all areas of Lincolnshire and beyond! I am happy to travel nationwide if required. I have vast experience playing at Weddings, Birthdays, Proms, Office Parties, and all kinds of events and am skilled at mixing music using my state of the art equipment. I am happy playing an evening of entertaining party music from across the decades, or if you would like something more unique then I can mix a set of well known tunes with a difference! We also offer the best karaoke in Lincolnshire, with more than 50,000 karaoke tracks, and a great sound with professional SHURE Microphones, mixers, and effects including reverb, and key correction (although im sure that wont be needed!)
Lite EventsCertificate of Excellence 2019
His interests run the full spectrum all genres of music, a seasoned Dj and the ultimate Party DJ for your Events , gigs in and around the London area . Professional services provided ,punctual and love the job at hand no matter how big or small. I combine special effect lighting to create that perfect party atmosphere, with an excellent ability to read the crowd to make your event one to remember. Available for hire Including private bookings in London and the UK. Professional services Include quality sound and lightening. Our Reviews : https://www.bark.com/en/company/dani-vibes/0A7Z/ Our Event Pages : https://www.liteeventsuk.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/426130994114925/?ref=bookmarks MUSIC ................... Enjoy a unique treck where I play a broad and diverse range of music Disco classics ,Funk ,Soul and Boogie 50's Rock n Roll ,60's and 70's Gems ,Irish Music & Country 80's Rock to the 90's House To the Latest Floor Fillers and Urban Anthems ( UK TOP 40 ) Playing everything from Ska ,Reggae, R/B , House , Latin and Reggaeton. INSURANCE : We have a Public & Product Liability Insurance cover of £10 million through the The Alliance of Mobile & Party DJs . Recently played at : -Kanaloa Club EC4A -University Of East London -Vinyl Bar EC4M -Fentiman Arms SE5 -Skylon ,Southbank London -Wimbledon Rugby Club -Goals Bexleyheath DA6 7EG -Metrogas Sports Club SE9 -J+A 1 Sutton Lane , London . -Holiday Inn , Sutton SM1 2RF -The Warren , Bromley BR2. - Le Chandlier ,Lordship Lane Dulwich. -Cineworld ,Hammersmith W6 -Boat Parties on River Thames -Man of Kent SE15 -The Cuckfield, E11 2AA -Park Plaza, Wesminster Bridge SE1 -DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel, London -The Brazen Head , Lisson St NW1 -The Crown ,Victoria -Club Mystique, Ruby St SE15 , Oldkent Rd. -Amersham Arms , Newcross Road. -Club 791 ,Croydon CR0
SA Event Productions Limited
We provide Production services to all scopes of live events, theatre & musicals. Offering professional services in all technical disciplines.
Hudson Creative Event Production
Hudson Creative Event Production are a vibrant production company who specialise in sound, lighting and visual systems for a range of events. We have a great team of in house technicians who are knowledgable, creative and passionate at what they do. Hudson Creative EP have a range of experiences including: Live Events Corporate & Private Events Conferencing Weddings Theatre
Supreme Sound & Vision
For all your event needs! Experienced Sound Engineer with sound systems tailored to your events needs and budget. Professional Lighting available to enhance event from up lighting to dramatic show lighting. State of the art video systems whether for a presentation or conference call or on a large scale we aim to enhance the whole viewing experience. Able to provide for small or large size venues for: Live Music, Shows, Fairs, Theatre, Concerts, Conferences, Shows, Presentations, Weddings, Festivals and lots more events. With our experienced team we will ensure that whatever the occasion, it will have a strong sound & visual presence.
Right Events LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
With our experience of working for and within large private and public sector organisations, we use our skills to get under the skin of our clients communications and infrastructure. And our goals are simple. To provide: Effective communications World Class Event Management Worthwhile on-line presence Engaging marketing Working and future proof infrastructure By sourcing the most relevant and effective solutions for your business we bring in the expertise to make any organisation blossom and grow. Website Design & On-line An on-line presence has become a prerequisite for establishing businesses. It is imperative that businesses present themselves on-line in the right way, with the most effective message that stands out from the crowd, Right Communication provides on-line solutions tailored to your business needs and we are not afraid to buck the trend when the effort and costs out-way the benefits. By providing an holistic approach to your on-line presence, Right Communication look to utilise tools that will positively impact your business. From creating a fresh, new website, providing a managed organic SEO campaign, Pay Per Click model, a social media push or a combination of all of these solutions, we promise to provide guidance on the most suitable options for your organisation. Global Events Management With over 15 years' experience in managing events, venue finding, event consultancy and project management, Right Events is the vibrant, results driven agency that offers more. With our extensive knowledge of marketing & managing events across Europe and the US; Right Events provides the perfect global solution with our venue sourcing and bespoke technology for events. With our partner organisations we deliver an array of event services to the highest of standards, and we pride ourselves on our ethics too, offering donation opportunities and profit sharing with local organisations. The Right Events team have delivered thousands of events across the UK and overseas; large scale events, corporate entertainment, incentives and conferences and exhibitions for both private and public sector clients. A winning combination of logistical proficiency, technological know-how and a lightning bolt of creativity makes sure that we deliver world class events. Marketing & Advertising The Marketing and Advertising options available to businesses and organisations of all sizes are virtually infinite. Right Communication specialises in targeted marketing campaigns and social media whilst also delivering and managing alternative online and offline campaigns for our clients. There is never a "one shoe fits all" option; and this is where we come in. Providing bespoke, results driven solutions for our clients.
DJ Ed SullivanCertificate of Excellence 2019
A very experienced Club and Mobile DJ having played at some of London largest clubs including XOYO and Tiger Tiger and over 100 events as a mobile DJ. I specialise in Birthday parties of any age, weddings, Engagement Parties and various corporate events. I own my own professional lighting rig , PA System and over 41,000 songs at my disposal from the 60s right up until last week! I can play most genres however I specialise in Progressive House, EDM/Pop and Club Classics. I specalise in songs from the 90s and 00s and I currently host the take me back to the 90s event at Trinity Harrow and Atik Windsor. To find out how I can make your night perfect, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com or call me on 07857 429492.
HMR Entertainment
HMR Entertainment offer professional entertainment services for all occasions. We are totally committed to ensuring that your wedding or party function is a success. We have the finest personality DJ's and experienced staff to provide a flawless experience. To complement our staff skills we have invested in computer controlled lighting to create the finest light experience you have ever seen! We blend in to any occasion and tailor the whole package to suit your function, we provide what you want, play what you want, when you want! We are available for private & corporate clients for special occasions such as: •Weddings •Birthdays •Anniversary •Themed Nights We have varying sound systems from 800 watts to 2000 watts to ensure your function is filled with quality sound (depending on the amount of guests). We have over 9 years experience in the entertainment industry. Our areas of coverage are as follows: We will travel anywhere within Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester as well as other areas, for more detailed information about where we travel feel free to give us a call or email us. Why not try filling out our booking enquiry form for a competitive quote about hiring one of our DJ's for your event. Your Entertainment is our Entertainment!
Alpharel Ltd
TMS AV Hire
We offer bespoke AV solutions for all types of events. From sound systems to lighting rigs and plasma displays to projection screens we have it all. All the equipment we hire is in stock. If you are unsure of what you need we can guide you through the selection process and will never try to hire you something that is unsuitable or doesn't give your event the wow factor. We are not a middle man company so your prices are direct to you. Our experienced multi-skilled technicians can set up and operate your hire for you, leaving you to enjoy your event. We offer dry hire - where you pick up and return the equipment to us. Wet hire - We provide a comprehensive audio visual solution for your event, party or wedding. Contact us today and we can help you with your project.
Experts in Corporate Video Production and Social media Advertising. We create engaging content for your business to get you noticed and increase sales. We offer everything from a Full Video Marketing solution to Video Editing, Animated films, Drone footage and Social media advice and management.
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Elite entertainment
We at elite have only the best Djs with a wealth of experience many who have played in the pubs and clubs across the uk and Europe, even now we often supply Djs in destinations such as, Mallorca, Cyprus and other European destinations for private functions and parties. We are fully insured and all our equipment carries all the relevant pat testing certificates, we only use the best quality lighting and sound systems. Mainly chauvet lighting and EV (electro voice) or Mackie (Rcf) speakers, quality in audio and lighting where it really matters.
GaleForce Music
Solid state uk
Venue decoration specialists located in Leicester Solid State UK are a Leicester based company, serving areas near and far with competitively priced venue decoration services for a wide range of events and special occasions. We are a proactive team who are consistently developing our range of services to provide you with new and upcoming ideas, keeping everything all under one roof.
Tim Smithies
Creative entertainment specialist. Tim is available to perform as a musician - as part of an act called 'Dead Mans Uke' nominated for Best Live Act in the UKE magazine awards and performing around Europe as well as smaller venues and events. There's also a larger swing band called 'The Anything Goes Orchestra' who are a 5 piece suitable for events and corporate dinners etc. He also performs as a magician and street performer too... Tim is creative director at Redtooth - one of the UK's largest suppliers of entertainment to the licensed trade, specialising in quizzes, poker nights and other events. They are event planners and specialists in AV rental too.
creative io limitedCertificate of Excellence 2019
Professional, friendly and independent video production company. We produce effective and eye catching video / communications media for our clients. Promoting their business, their products, their services and their offers. Communicating their messages, getting them seen and heard to a world wide audience. We offer good value and individual service. Please contact us to discuss your requirements. Creative io - Making you look good and sound great!
Ehre Producions
We are London based Photography and Cinematography company. We specialize in capturing beautiful memories for your weddings. We are trusted by our clients for our style, creativity and attention to detail to capture, document and recreate their treasured moments. For booking inquiries please call/Text us on: 07958713898. We are just a call away. All queries will be answered ASAP. We are capturing Asian( Pakistani, Indian & Bengali) , Persian, British, European weddings from 7 years. A variety of offers and packages are available which can be personally tailored to suit your individual preferences. Our packages starts from £299. We have some exciting offers if you book a complete package with us. Contact us to book your Wedding Photography, Cinematography, Magic Mirror and on the spot photo printing with us. Our services includes: ✔ Weddings/Event Coverage (Photography and Video) ✔ Magic Mirror Photobooth for hire ✔ Urgent/on the spot photo printing ✔ Wedding Photo books, Lay-flat Albums & Premium albums WHY US? ✔ Professional, Affordable, Friendly, High Quality & Value for Money ✔ Qualified & Experienced Team(Male and Female Staff) ✔ Cloud backup for your photos and videos. ✔ UK registered Company & CRB Checked
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QL Discos
QL Discos is a full time business and one of Lincolnshire's leading companies supplying bespoke mobile disco and DJ services. We can cater for any event, age group and mainstream music tastes and have our entire music catalogue available online to view. With over 25 years in the entertainment business our team of DJ's have the experience it takes to make your next big event a resounding success. We believe in providing a comprehensive service so will liaise with you regarding your entertainment and music requirements in advance to make sure we have all the finer details just how you would like them. Any requests which are not in our music catalogue will be added. We have various different disco rigs available to best suit your event size or requirements. We also hire out PA equipment, full disco setups, lighting rigs, uplighters (mood lighting). Our sister company, QL Entertainment provides bands, singers, harpists, string quartets, guitarists, caricaturists, magicians etc. All of whom are based around Lincolnshire and and surrounding area.
F-Sharp Moments
At F-Sharp Moments we specialise in capturing life changing moments. We are story tellers, creative heads and loving people.
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What type of event do you need AV equipment for?
Panel discussion
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Microphones, PA systems, Speakers
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Do you need an operator with the AV equipment?
No - but I need to be shown how to use the equipment
What date do you need the AV equipment?
Sunday 28th April 2019
How long do you need the AV equipment for?
1 day or less
Any additional details?
I need 5 handless mics that attach to the carrier
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What types of AV equipment do you need to rent?
DJ equipment, Lighting, PA systems, Speakers
Will the AV equipment be indoors or outdoors?
Under an open marquee
Do you need an operator with the AV equipment?
No - but I need to be shown how to use the equipment
What date do you need the AV equipment?
Saturday 6th July 2019
How long do you need the AV equipment for?
2 days
Any additional details?
We are having a beach wedding on July 6th with an open marquee and would like some music system in place. No power source available so would hire a generator
What type of event do you need AV equipment for?
What types of AV equipment do you need to rent?
Will the AV equipment be indoors or outdoors?
Indoors & Outdoors
Do you need an operator with the AV equipment?
No - but I need to be shown how to use the equipment
What date do you need the AV equipment?
Friday 19th July 2019
How long do you need the AV equipment for?
1 day or less
Any additional details?
We need a microphone and speaker for making the speeches in a double tipi.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sophomore lefty Justin Jacome delivered seven shutout innings and struck out out a career-high seven batters to lead UC Santa Barbara to a 9-1 win over visiting Princeton on a cold, wet Friday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
UCSB's players and staff worked tirelessly throughout the morning to prepare the field for the game. Storms throughout Southern California that cancelled many other games threatened this one as well, but the Gauchos (5-1) and Tigers were able to fit in a brisk two hour-twenty minute contest in between rainshowers.
With the forecast calling for more showers on Saturday, the two teams have elected to play a single game tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. local time instead of a doubleheader. Weather permitting, the Gauchos and Tigers will have a twinbill on Sunday beginning at 11:00 a.m. with the nightcap commencing approximately 30 minutes after the first game's conclusion.
Despite the nine-run outburst, Jacome was the clear star on Friday. The southpaw from Redlands, Calif. took advantage of a Princeton team that was playing its first game of the season, as he faced the minimum and took a no-hitter into the fifth inning. He struck out five of the first six batters he faced, ultimately ending the day with seven strikeouts, besting his previous career high of six.
Paul Tupper broke up his no-hit bid with a fifth inning single to right field. After allowing a two-out base hit later in the same frame, Jacome ended the danger himself by stopping a Peter Owens comebacker with his leg before retiring the runner at first.
Jacome received some help from his defense in his final inning of work. After a leadoff double, it looked like the Tigers were about to break through for their first run when Tupper lined another single into the right center gap. However, junior right fielder Scott Quinlan dove headlong to knock down the ball and prevent extra bases, then quickly recovered and fired the ball to cutoff man Tyler Kuresa, who relayed to catcher Jackson Morrow in plenty of time to catch the runner at home.
It was the second time in Jacome's career that he went through a start without surrendering any runs. He moved to 1-0 on the year and lowered his ERA to 1.38.
Offensively, the bottom third of the UCSB lineup was able to put a dent into Princeton starter Michael Fagan before the heart of the Gauchos order broke the game open by abusing the Tigers bullpen.
UCSB caught a bit of a break in opening the scoring in the third inning, as slippery conditions may have played a role in Princeton shortstop Billy Arendt's errant throw on a double play attempt. Instead of heading into the dugout unscathed, Andrew Calica scored on the error and put UCSB up 1-0.
The Gauchos scored the eventual game winning run two innings later in an extreme example of small ball. Quinlan opened the frame with a bunt single down the third baseline before Calica put the Gauchos in business with a base hit through the right side. Morrow and shortstop Peter Maris would then follow up with bunt singles of their own to plate Quinlan and go up 2-0.
Quinlan, Calica, and Morrow – UCSB's 7-8-9 hitters – combined to go 5-7 on the day with six runs scored and three runs batted in.
That fifth inning spelled the end of the day for Fagan, who dropped to 0-1 on they year after allowing one earned run and four hits with five strikeout in five innings.
The Gauchos were happy to greet the Tigers 'pen, as senior third baseman Joey Epperson led the Gauchos to seven runs in three innings against a pair of Princeton relievers.
Epperson smoked an RBI single through the left side to cap off a three-run sixth inning before hitting a laser-beam two-run homer to left field in the eighth inning to close the day's scoring. Calica and Morrow also collected RBI hits in the four-run eighth.
Despite going 0-3, left fielder Cameron Newell swiped three bags in the win. The Gauchos were busy on the basepaths as a whole on Friday, picking up six stolen bases, half of their season total.
Right-handed starter Shane Bieber is expected to toe the rubber tomorrow for the Gauchos opposite fellow freshman Keelan Smithers of Princeton. Bieber gave up two runs over five innings in his collegiate debut at San Jose State last weekend.


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The Lotus Esprit V8 offered excellent handling at high speeds, but could be cumbersome in street driving. The interior of the Esprit V8 was narrow and could be cramped for taller drivers. Options were limited; a sunroof and custom paint were the only offerings.
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In 1996, Esprit V8 introduced to replace Esprit. In 1997, GT3, GT and SE models introduced. In 1999, Sport 350 was introduced, offering a 350 hp engine and other improvements. In 2002, rear taillights were changed to a circular shape with a new front spoiler. Twenty-fifth anniversary decals were displayed on U.S. models with the twin exhaust modified for the U.S. In 2003, the logo changed.
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|An "old-school" metastructure proposal with "boot for being a slacker"
|2007/10/12 02:08:27
|Grant Goodyear <g2boojum at gentoo.org>, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm at gentoo.org>,
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Implemented. GLEP amended on 09 Feb 2006 to add the final bullet point to list B in Specification.
GLEP 4 is replaced with a new "metastructure" that retains established projects (and makes new projects easier to create), but adds a new "Gentoo Council" to handle global (cross-project) issues.
The Fosdem and subsequent reform proposals shepherded by Koon are thorough, extremely detailed, and somewhat complicated. They have a lot of good ideas. For many who have been with Gentoo a long time, though, there's just something about them that they don't really like. More than a few Gentoo devs are almost entirely uninterested in metastructure as long as it doesn't get in their way, and because the current proposals impose at least some order on our unruly devs these proposals are guaranteed to "get in the way" to some degree. For example, a frequent comment that has been heard is that many Gentoo devs don't know who his/her manager (or project lead) is, which is a clear indication that our current system is broken. The existing proposals solve the problem by requiring that each dev belong to a project. Perhaps the part that is broken, though, is the belief that every dev should have a manager. The history of Gentoo is such that traditionally big advances have often been implemented by a single or a small number of dedicated devs (thus our long-standing tradition that devs have access to the entire tree), and surely we do not want to make things harder (or less fun) for such people. So here's a minimal proposal for those who remembers the "good ol' days" and thinks things aren't really so different now.
Synopsis of the current system:
- There are 13-15 top-level projects (TLPs). Top-level projects are comprised of sub-projects, and the goal was that every Gentoo project would be a sub-project of one of the TLPs. Supposedly each dev therefore belongs to one or more TLPs.
- Each TLP has at least a "strategic" manager, and potentially also an "operational" manager. Only the strategic managers vote on global Gentoo issues.
- The managers of each TLP were appointed by drobbins, the other TLP managers, or elected by their project members. These managers have no set term.
- Within each TLP the managers are responsible for making decisions about the project, defining clear goals, roadmaps, and timelines for the project, and solving problems that arise within the TLP (see GLEP 4 for the specific list).
- The strategic TLP managers are also responsible for deciding issues that affect Gentoo across project lines. The primary mechanism for handling global-scope issues is the managers' meetings.
- Disciplinary action taken against erring devs is handled by the "devrel" TLP, unless the dev is a strategic TLP manager. In that case disciplinary action must be enacted by the other strategic TLP managers.
Problems with the existing system:
Here's a couple of additional problems identified by the current metastructure reform proposals:
A project is a group of developers working towards a goal (or a set of goals).
- A project exists if it has a web page at www.g.o/proj/en/whatever that is maintained. ("Maintained" means that the information on the page is factually correct and not out-of-date.) If the webpage isn't maintained, it is presumed dead.
- It may have one or many leads, and the leads are selected by the members of the project. This selection must occur at least once every 12 months, and may occur at any time.
- It may have zero or more sub-projects. Sub-projects are just projects that provide some additional structure, and their web pages are in the project's space.
- Not everything (or everyone) needs a project.
- Projects need not be long-term.
- Projects may well conflict with other projects. That's okay.
- Any dev may create a new project just by creating a new page (or, more realistically, directory and page) in gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en and sending a Request For Comments (RFC) e-mail to gentoo-dev. Note that this GLEP does not provide for a way for the community at large to block a new project, even if the comments are wholly negative.
Global issues will be decided by an elected Gentoo council.
- There will be a set number of council members. (For the first election that number was set to 7 by acclamation.)
- Council members will be chosen by a general election of all devs once per year.
- The council must hold an open meeting at least once per month.
- Council decisions are by majority vote of those who show up (or their proxies).
- If a council member (or their appointed proxy) fails to show up for two consecutive meetings, they are marked as a slacker.
- If a council member who has been marked a slacker misses any further meeting (or their appointed proxy doesn't show up), they lose their position and a new election is held to replace that person. The newly elected council member gets a 'reduced' term so that the yearly elections still elect a full group.
- Council members who have previously been booted for excessive slacking may stand for future elections, including the election for their replacement. They should, however, justify their slackerness, and should expect to have it pointed out if they don't do so themselves.
- The 'slacker' marker is reset when a member is elected.
- If any meeting has less than 50% attendance by council members, a new election for all places must be held within a month. The 'one year' is then reset from that point.
- Disciplinary actions may be appealed to the council.
- A proxy must not be an existing council member, and any single person may not be a proxy for more than one council member at any given meeting.
So, does this proposal solve any of the previously-mentioned problems?
1. There is no longer any requirement that the project structure be complete. Some devs work on very specific parts of the tree, while some work on practically everything; neither should be shoehorned into an ad-hoc project structure. Moreover, it should be easy to create new projects where needed (and remove them when they are not), which this proposal should enable.
2. By having the members choose their project leads periodically, the project leads are necessarily at least somewhat responsible (and hopefully responsive) to the project members. This proposal has removed the list of responsibilities that project leads were supposed to satisfy, since hardly anybody has ever looked at the original list since it was written. Instead the practical responsibility of a lead is "whatever the members require", and if that isn't satisfied, the members can get a new lead (if they can find somebody to take the job!).
3. If the council does a lousy job handling global issues (or has no global vision), vote out the bums.
4. Since everybody gets to vote for the council members, at least in principle the council members represent all developers, not just a particular subset.
5. An appeal process should make disciplinary enforcement both less capricious and more palatable.
6. This proposal doesn't help find inactive devs or projects. It really should not be that much of a problem. We already have a script for identifying devs who haven't made a CVS commit within a certain period of time. As for moribund projects, if the project page isn't maintained, it's dead, and we should remove it. That, too, could be automated. A much bigger problem is understaffed herds, but more organization is not necessarily a solution.
7. The metabug project is a great idea. Let's do that! Adding a useful project shouldn't require "metastructure reform", although with the current system it does. With this proposal it wouldn't.
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Alice in Chains may never make the WhirlyBall all-star squad, but they've managed to hang together, sometimes just barely, through almost nine years of hardship and continuing struggle. Starting out as a fledgling glam-metal outfit, Alice in Chains' sudden move toward grunge after one album and one EP earned the derision of Seattle scenesters, some of whole dubbed the band Kindergarten, due to their sonic similarity to Soundgarden. But Alice in Chains silenced most of their critics with the 1992 album Dirt, a brooding disc of slow, savage riffs and Staley's harrowing lyrics, which detailed his battle with heroin addiction. Released in November, the band's self-titled third album displays further growth, coupling improvisational jams with bleak rhythms and intertwining melancholy with menace.
Considering how dark their music is, you'd expect the members of Alice in Chains to brood offstage as well as on. Instead, they play off one another like a depraved comedy troupe. "Since our music is so depressing, everybody expects us to run around in black and whine about shit," says Kinney. "But that's such a misconception. We just get together and fuck around. We're like the Monkees or something."
After they finish with WhirlyBall, Alice in Chains return to downtown Seattle and stop at Umberto's, the kind of family-style Italian restaurant where, if you drink enough cheap wine, you won't care what's under the blanket of red sauce. Appropriately, the band is seated in a remote back room that doubles as a wine cellar. Before their food arrives the members of Alice engage in a primitive heavy-metal ritual: gross out the journalist. Cantrell brags about a girl he recently picked up who chewed tobacco, causing him to experience a peculiar but pleasurable burning sensation during oral sex. Staley counters with a story of a friend who received a blow job from an extremely drunk woman who vomited all over her partner midway through the act. Then we're on to the next topic: animal abuse. Staley talks about a childhood acquaintance who wrapped a kitten's legs with twine and threw it into a lake: "I screamed, 'No, man, take it out,' but he was bigger than me, so I just watched it drown." But the coupe de grace comes when Cantrell recalls the exploits of a neighborhood sicko: "He'd carve up these frogs and turtles and stuff on one side, but the other side would look completely normal. Then he'd come up to you, and you'd be like, 'Oh, wow, a frog.' Then he'd turn it around, andall its guts would be hanging out." Needless to say, nobody's too hungry when the food finally arrives.
After dinner, Cantrell, Kinney and Inez return with Staley to his house, where they stay up until 5 in the morning, smoking pot and playing video games. Their camaraderie has helped the band mates endure the hardships of substance abuse and personal tragedy. Being so close has almost torn them apart.
In the summer of 1994, the day before the start of a tour with Metallica, Alice nearly reached the end of their chain. At the time, Staley was in the throes of heroin addiction, and Kinney was struggling with the bottle. "We'd been going full force, just running at top speed with our eyes closed," says Cantrell, peering through a half-empty glass of beer. "We had been way too close for too long, and we were suffocating. We were like four plants trying to grow in the same pot."
Things got worse when Staley, who, according to Kinney, had just returned from drug rehab, came to practice high. In response, Kinney threw down his sticks and vowed never again to play with Staley. Cantrell concurred, the tour was canceled, and the band parted company for six months. "Nobody was being honest with each other back then," admits Kinney, seconds after exhaling a cloud of marijuana smoke. "If we had kept going, there was a good chance we would have self-destructed on the road, and we definitely didn't want that to happen in public."
In the months following their breakup, the band members went through the stages of grief that accompany loss: denial, anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. "At first I was dumbfounded," Staley recalls, mumbling like someone awakened by a late-night phone call. "I just sat on my couch staring at the TV and getting drunk every day. When we first got together as a band, we were all brothers. We lived in the same house and partied together and drank as much as each other. But then we started to split apart and went different ways, and we felt like we were betraying each other."
Rumors ofa permanent breakup and worse began to circulate. "I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS," says Staley. "I learned I was dead. Where else would I find out these things? I don't see a doctor regularly. I was in San Francisco at Lollapalooza, and this girl walked up to me and stopped like she'd seen a ghost. And she said, 'You're not dead.' And I said, 'No, you're right. Wow.'"
During their time apart, Staley recorded an album with Mad Season, his side project with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin; Inez scuba dived and worked with Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash on his album It's Five O'Clock Somewhere; Kinney snow boarded and recorded a track with Krist Novoselic, Kim Thayil and Johnny Cash for the Willie Nelson tribute album, Twisted Willie; and Cantrell, who writes most of the band's music, holed himself up at his rural home outside of Seattle and wrote riffs initially intended for a solo album. By January 1995, he was working on some of that material with Kinney and Inez. Four months later, Staley was invited back into the fold, and the band began working together on Alice in Chains. If Dirt was a diary of the pain and animosity caused by addiction, betrayal and hypocrisy, Alice in Chains chronicles the bitter aftereffects of conflict, seeking to reassemble the shattered pieces. "We let shit come straight out on this one," says Cantrell. "It was often depressing, and getting it done felt like pulling hair out, but it was the fucking coolest thing, and I'm glad to have gone through it. I will cherish the memory forever."
"I'll cherish it forever, too, just because this one I can remember doing," says Staley. He's only half joking.
It's the day after the WhirlyBall adventure, and Staley is seated at a corner table of Cafe Sophie, a quaint Seattle jazz restaurant that served as a morgue in the early 1900s. After ordering a root beer, he peers out the window at the sun, which is burning a hole through the darkening clouds and reflecting on the sparkling water of Puget Sound.
Staley's frail frame is swallowed up by a blue warmup jacket and white T-shirt embossed with the scribbly design of his first watercolor self-portrait. His pants are decorated with Sesame Street characters. His head is bound by a white spotted bandanna, and a small scab above his right eye sets off his pale skin. A pair of black gloves covers his hands. Yesterday he wore the same gloves. Last night at dinner the gloves were gone, but the sleeves of his white oxford shirt were buttoned between the thumbs and forefingers, revealing his uncut, dirt-encrusted fingernails. When he returned from a trip to the bathroom, his sleeves were unbuttoned, exposing what appear to be red, round puncture marks from the wrist to the knuckles of his left hand. And as anyone who knows anything about IV drugs can tell you, the veins in his hands are used only after all the other veins have been tapped out.
Despite the evidence, Staley won't acknowledge that he still battles with heroin. "If I'm staying busy, and if I'm getting my job done, and I'm doing things I think are great, then I don't have a problem with anything, you know?" he asks. "If I live on just a strictly sugar diet, hey, I like it." He laughs weakly and nervously, then continues. "Nobody ever asks Meat Loaf, 'What do you eat? Why do you eat so much? Shouldn't you lose some weight?' No, he shouldn't. He's fucking Meat Loaf. He writes songs, and he has a great time, and none of your fuckin' business. Maybe he eats meatloaf every fucking night, you know?" He laughs a bit harder.
"People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you," Staley continues. "But when I haven't talked to anybody in years, and every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this -- that ain't my title. Like 'Hi, I'm Layne, nail biter,' you know? My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
Staley's argument might carry more weight if he didn't write about using drugs. Five songs on Dirt were about heroin, and several tracks on the new album feature lines like "Things go well, your eyes dilate/You shake, and I'm high?" ("Sludge Factory") and "No more time/Just one more time" ("Head Creeps"). Yet Staley says he's reluctant to talk about his addiction -- not because he's embarrassed but because he's worried his fans will think he's glorifying drugs.
"I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them," Staley says. "Here's how my thinking pattern went: When I tried drugs, they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me -- and now I'm walking through hell, and this sucks. I didn't want my fans to think that heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen."
Although Staley won't go into any details about his past or present drug use, he admits to having an addictive personality. "When I'm not doing drugs, I eat," he says. "And I binge, and I fucking gain 20 pounds. And I work out. And when I start working out, I go crazy on it. I can't do anything in small doses. If I sat there and said, 'I'm 90-days sober and easy does it, stay the course,' I'd be full of shit, because I'm not 90-days sober. But I'm not in the bathroom getting high, either. And two years ago I would have been. It's not something I think about. It's not something I wake up and have to go find."
Staley was born in Kirkland, Wash., in 1967, and was raised with two sisters in a middle-class family. His first memory is of looking up at a musical carousel hanging above his crib. At 5, he joined a preschool rhythm group that met once a week. When he was 7, his parents divorced, and his mother remarried, adding a stepbrother to the family. "No deep, dark secrets there," Staley says. "I remember sometimes wondering where my dad was, but most of the time I was too busy running around and playing."
At 12, Staley started playing drums. It was at about this time that he first connected sex and drugs with rock & roll. "I read my first article about [a major `80s rock star], and he was in a limo doing lines of blow on a mirror, and he had babes under each arm," says Staley. "And that's when I decided I wanted to be a rock star. I wanted to do blow, and I wanted those babes under my arms. I didn't know what blow was, and I didn't know what sex was, but it looked impressive to me because it was written in the magazine."
During high school, Staley switched from drums to vocals, swapping his drum gear for a PA. He sang with a number of garage groups, including one that practiced at the home of a band member whose mother was a devout Christian woman. "I had a pentagram on my jacket, so I usually had to sneak into band practice," Staley recalls.
For Staley, music provided an escape from the monotomy of school and the frustration of being unpopular. After high school, Staley moved into a local rehearsal studio called the Music Bank. One night at a party in 1987, he ran into Alice in Chains' future guitarist, Jerry Cantrell.
Almost 40 miles outside of Seattle, past a network of twisting roads surrounded by emu and llama farms, is an old dirt road better suited to horse and buggy than automobile. Just off this road is Cantrell's house, a modest three-bedroom dwelling that sits on 20 acres. When he's home, Cantrell spends much of his time on the rec-room couch, staring at his 57-inch projection-screen television, which is hooked up to a satellite dish in his back yard. "We definitely know how to lounge around here," he says as he fires up his first bowl of the afternoon. Having just woken up, he's unshaved and wearing a Suicidal Tendencies jersey and blue sweat pants -- likely the same outfit he wore to bed last night. "The only thing more relaxing is fishing. That's the one thing I can do where I don't think about the band or my bills or nothing. It's just quiet fucking peace."
"Jerry's a very complex person," says his sister, Cheri. "He's very guarded about himself and especially of those whom he cares about. It's very hard, because he has so many different sides to him, and it just depends on what side you get in the morning. I never, ever thought he would be as big as he is today. I thought he would end up working for Safeway or a video place or something."
Adds a close friend of Cantrell's, Metallica's drummer, Lars Ulrich: "He's a lot like me. There's always something going on in his head. In terms of mood swings, I think we're both like a VU meter, bouncing back and forth between being really happy and an asshole and being really into something and not."
Cantrell, whose great-grandfather was a Wild West train robber, was born in Tacoma, Wash., in 1966. At the time, his father was a soldier fighting in Vietnam, and his mother, an amateur organist and melodica player, was raising Cantrell, his older brother and younger sister. "One of the first memories I have was my dad coming back from Vietnam in his uniform when I was 3 years old," says Cantrell, "and my mom telling me that he was my dad."
After the war, Cantrell's father bounced from one Army base to another, including stints in Germany and Alaska. But three years in Vietnam took their toll on his father, and when Cantrell was 7, his parents got divorced. "My dad was trained to be a fucking killer," says Cantrell. "After that, you can't just come home and say, 'OK, everything's cool. I'm going to work 9 to 5 now.' That shit scars you forever. We had a lot of problems and occurences because of that." On Dirt, Cantrell wrote about his father's Vietnam experiences in the song "Rooster," which sparked a new bond between Cantrell and his estranged dad, who agreed to appear in the video and later traveled with Alice in Chains on the road to introduce the song.
After his parents seperated, the Cantrell family moved back to Tacoma to live with his grandmother. "We had some rough times," Cantrell says. "We were on welfare and food stamps. We'd have like one jar of tomatoes that we grew in our fucking garden, and my mom would try to make dinner out of that by buying noodles from a next-door neighbor. It was really hard on us."
Despite the hardships, Cantrell knew from an early age what he wanted to do with his life. Shortly after he learned how to write, he documented his goal in a Dr. Seuss book called My Book About Me, filling in the sentence "When I grow up I want to be a . . ." with the words rock star in sprawling cursive letters.
A few years later, Cantrell moved back in with his mother and began vandalizing his neighborhood with friends -- egging cars and smashing mailboxes with baseball bats. Soon after, he discovered sex. "I was busted by the cops, trying to get a blow job in a park when I was 17," he says. "The thing that scared me most was that my grandmother had a fucking police scanner, and she used to listen to it every day and tell me when my friends got busted. But that night one of her crystals went out for that channel, so she couldn't hear anything. That was a godsend."
By that time, Cantrell was jamming regularly with friends and acting in lead roles in high school plays. At the age of 20, he suffered his first great loss when his grandmother died of cancer. Six months later he found out his mother was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. "She and my grandmother both spent mostof their time in the house in the medical bed doped up on morphine and wasting away daily," he remembers, his voice cracking slightly. "My other relatives would come over, and there were some pretty tense times between us because they didn't understand me at all. I played the guitar ten to twelve hours a night. It was a way of escaping the pain that was right in front of my face. I wasn't playing loud or anything, but they said it was probably bugging my mom, which was bullshit. She wasn't even conscious. If anything, it was helping her because I was playing for her, and maybe she could hear me just a little bit while she was down there."
A few months later, Cantrell got into a physical confrontation with his uncle and was kicked out of the house. A few days after that, Cantrell's mother's life support was shut off, and he wasn't able to be with her on her deathbed. "I was really angry with them for a long time," he says. "It was stupid childhood anger, but it caused a lot of distance between me and my family. That's a drag because I really love them all."
Shortly following his mother's death, Cantrell moved in with Staley at the Music Bank. The seeds of Alice in Chains were planted a little while later when Cantrell met the first Alice bassist, Mike Starr, after the two joined a local metal outfit, Gypsy Rose. They decided to form their own band with Staley, who was tiring of the glam group he was in. Starr introduced them to Kinney, who was dating Starr's sister.
Kinney had been couch surfing since the age of 17, when his mom kicked him out of the house for being disrespectful. Kinney may have lacked a home, but he had a good drum kit and plenty of talent. The original Alice lineup stayed together until 1993, when Starr quit the band. He was replaced by Inez, who had been playing bass with Ozzy Osbourne. "I was working on the demos with Ozzy, and I told him that Alice had asked me to go to Europe with them," remembers Inez. "I asked him if he thought I should go, and he said, 'If you don't go, you're going to be in the hospital for about seven days.' And I asked, 'Why?' And he said, 'It's going to take them that long to get my foot out of your ass.'"
Seattle's Pike Place market is more than just a stop for the city's tour-bus companies. It's a great spot to buy local crafts, fresh vegetables and drug paraphernalia. Right now, Staley and Cantrell are less interested in macrame and zucchini than they are in pipes and bongs. Cantrell picks up a simple brown wood stash box with a one-hit pipe, and Staley spends $141.42 on a Quantum compass and lighter set, a clear Graffix long-tube bong, three glass pipes and a bowl that looks like a perfume bottle. "My cats always knock `em over and bust `em," says Staley, who started smoking pot and drinking as a teen before experimenting with and later becoming hooked on heroin.
Since then, addiction has been the malignant force that has made Alice in Chains' songs so gripping and has become the destructive power that constantly threatens to do the band in. "Layne battles all the time with that shit," says Kinney. "He probably will for the rest of his life. I used to wig out on him all the time just out of being worried about him. But then I'd be fucking drunk all the time. What's the difference, you know? Everyone's got to be allowed to live his own life. We try to keep an eye on each other, but you can't tell someone what to do."
Alice in Chains was recorded in four and a half months, but few of the songs had actually been written when the band entered the studio last April. Using the riffs that Cantrell had written as beacons, Alice in Chains jammed until they had a framework for the tunes. Then they handed the tapes to Staley, who cobbled together most of the lyrics. "I just wrote down whatever was on my mind," says Staley, "so a lot of the lyrics are really loose. If you asked me to sing the lyrics to probably any one of them right now, I couldn't do it. I'm not sure what they are because they're still that fresh."
One of the most emotional songs on the record, "Heaven Beside You," was written solely by Cantrell as a way of coping with his recent split from his girlfriend of seven years. He met her at a Guns n' Roses concert while he was trying to hand Axl Rose a band demo, and Cantrell still describes her as "the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my life." The two parted ways last year because Cantrell was unable to remain faithful to her. "I still love her, but I'm too much of a fucking wolf -- kill, attack, move on," he laments. "It's so tough when you're so used to being hard. You can't tell an oak tree to be a pine."
Staley had a similar experience with a woman he was engaged to a few years ago. "I can definitely say rock & roll was a huge factor in us breaking up," he says. "When you're in a relationship, the girl usually instigates the big idea that you were born joined at the hip. So when the fighting comes, it's really painful.
"This isn't a dig on women," Staley adds before launching into a sexist theory, "but I think women are so different chemically from men, and that makes it hard to sustain a relationship. They have periods, they go through horrible, awful emotional swings, and trying to be logical with a person that's got a whole different logic running around in her brain is just impossible."
But Cantrell and Staley have been consumed with more than just relationship woes recently, facing an even more painful and frightening prospect: death. Last year one of Cantrell's cousin, suffering from deep depression and on Prozac, shot himself between the eyes. Five of Staley's friends also have died during the last two years. He won't say whether the deaths were drug related.
"I'm gonna be here for a long fuckin' time," Staley asserts. "I'm scared of death, especially death by my own hand. I'm scared of where I would go. Not that I ever consider that, because I don't."
Well, maybe not, but two and a half years ago, Staley might easily have taken his life had it not been for a couple of near-death experiences that he claims forced him to re-evaluate his lifestyle. Again he refuses to say whether the incidents are drug related, but he willingly and vividly describes the experience. "I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of where I was going to go if I did follow through with it," he says frankly. "That makes me sad for my friends who have taken their lives, because I know that if your time is not finished here, and you end it yourself, then you gotta finish it somewhere else. There was a time when things seemed desperate, and I thought taking my life might be a way out. I made a couple of really weak attempts, mostly to see if I could do it, and I couldn't.
"I was sitting with a friend one time," Staley recalls, "and I blanked out for about a minute. I had no control over my muscles, and it scared the shit out of me because I experienced what I guess could have been hell or, you know, purgatory or whatever. It was freezing cold, and I was spinning like I was drunk and trying desperately to take a breath. There was chest pain like I was gonna explode.
"If you gotta feel pain here, you gotta feel it somewhere else," he continues. "I believe that there's a wonderful place to go after this life, and I don'tbelieve there's eternal damnation for anyone. I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didn't create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job."
For all the agony that went into Alice in Chains, there's a stark beauty to the way the buzzing guitars spiral around the pulsing beats. "Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful," Cantrell explains.
"I do that every day when I'm dressing," jokes Staley."I take an ugly face and make it beautiful."
Such levity occasionally finds its way through the cracks of the new record. "For a long time I let problems and sour relationships rule over me instead of letting the water roll off my back," says Staley. "I thought it was cool that I could write such dark, depressing music. But then instead of being therapeutic, it was starting to drag on and keep hurting. This time I just felt, 'Fuck it. I can write good music, and if I feel easy and I feel like laughing, I can laugh.' There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. It was just what was going on in my head right then. We had good times, and we had bad times. We recorded a few months of being human."
These days, that's all Staley longs for. He doesn't want to be a rock god, and he certainly doesn't want to be a martyr. "I'd hate to be stuck up here," he says. "I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I didn't know him real well, but I just saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn, introverted person who could hardly get a hello out.
"There was a time when we played out everything we ever dreamed of," Staley continues. "After I got my first gold record, my friend came over and pulled out a couple lines of blow, and I pulled the gold record off the wall, because that was a dream of mine. If I ever got a gold record, I was going to do my first line of coke on that. I had a great time riding around in limos and eating lobster and getting laid. I went hog wild for a while. I mean, sex is not something I crave so much anymore. I had a great time, but I can't physically or mentally live that lifestyle constantly."
In reaction to the avalanche of attention that accompanies fame, Staley moved into a house in the suburbs and now spends much of his time behind closed doors. "At the end of the day or at the end of the party, when everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself," Staley says. "There was a time when I couldn't deal with that, and I couldn't go places by myself. I needed to call up a friend to go to a 7-Eleven. I just couldn't approach people when I was alone. Getting a place on my own was a step toward learning how to do that."
Troubled and withdrawn, Staley views himself as a little kid who won the lottery and moved into his own private fun house. "I run around and play all day long, and I don't have to come in and wash my hands and face," Staley says proudly. "And I don't go to sleep until I've watched all my cartoons, and that's usually not until 9 in the morning. When I first got a credit card, I maxed it out for the first three months at Toys "R" Us. I bought a lot of video games and Star Trek phasers and Batman dolls."
While aspects of Staley's conduct are endearing and childlike, the marks on his hands suggest that he hasn't beaten his addiction. "I don't know anything about the puncture marks on his hands," says Alice's manager, Susan Silver. "All I know is that this sort of journalism creates an environment that is dangerous to the youth who read it."
With their new album, Alice in Chains may have triumphed artistically, but they haven't had much time to celebrate. They're too concerned with whether they're going to be mentally and physically healthy enough to tour (no dates have been scheduled yet) and what force may next threaten their existence. The more records that Alice in Chains sell, the less they understand everything around them. "Fuck, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, man," admits Cantrell. "I never took Rock Star 101 in school. I never even saw the textbook. The way I view it, the only way to find out what's going on in life is to go through it full force with your head down and to smack into a few walls on the way. That's the only way to learn. Then, hopefully after a while, you figure out which ones not to keep hitting."
(February 8, 1996)


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