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December 24, 1990

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Ironically enough, Alice in Chains gave a better representation of the Seattle Sound than those that should have: opening band Mookie Blaylock. It features Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, who were in another seminal grunge band, Green River. Gossard and Ament were also members of Mother Love Bone, the Seattle band recently thought most likely to succeed before the heroin overdose death of singer Andy Wood earlier this year. However, the music leaned more towards bad '70s country rock (Bad Company comes to mind) than the punk-metal angst of Green River or the flamboyant grooves of Mother Love Bone. Not even a cameo appearance by Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron made Blaylock interesting.