The bus driver was the driver for Alice in Chains during that last round of dates. I was on tour with Hatebreed for a little while, riding the bus when they were doing the Ozzfest thing. These words were a really intricate series of SOS's. I've always been into the lyrical side of songwriting and I could really tell from "Down in a Hole" that Layne wasn't playing a role. It was only a couple of years after Dirt came out that I started going down the drain and started getting fucked up. Pretty much the only time I touch a bass is to play that. I heard that song and was like, "Holy fucking shit." It's crazy that after a million listens and 25 years later, when you hear that bass line coming, it's just like, "Oh my god." Actually, I play that "Would?" riff every time we soundcheck. The first song I heard from Dirt was "Would?" which was also on the Singles soundtrack. So it was strange to me that all of a sudden it was so mainstream in music. I was watching a lot of family, friends and people around the neighborhood fall into it, and I learned at an early age what it's ugly potential was. In the Nineties, Philly was the heroin capitol of the country. Dirt was the complete opposite of what my brother was trying to mold me into. So I was completely against the grain of heroin-addicted long-hair hippies. At that point, I was mostly listening to a lot of hardcore stuff - NYHC and youth crew, and Oi! stuff, a lot of skinhead music. For me, it was hard not to like that record. It was weird that bands like Alice in Chains attained pop status, but it made sense that punks hated it. He made fun of me whenever I listened to any popular bands back then. My brother was bummed out that I liked that record. I bought Alice in Chains' Dirt when it came out. Domenic Palermo is the singer, guitarist and founder of the band Nothing.
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