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Sometime during the six hour drinking binge with Alice in Chains' drummer Sean Kinney in a Louisville, KY rock club, where Jerry Cantrell just finished playing in support of his first solo album, Sean asked us for our demo. He liked us, and wanted to help us get signed, but we didn’t have a demo. We were only focused on being a tribute band at the time. This was probably the turning point. After 18 months of touring the country in the national Alice in Chains tribute band , Dirt, vocalist Ryan Farrell and bassist George Paris decided to form a new group that would incorporate their own original songs. In 2000, a hastily written and recorded EP called “How the Otherside Lives” was completed and distributed regionally with very positive reviews from radio, press, and every live audience that the band played for.
Unfortunately, the momentum was short lived, as what happened next was reminiscent of something out of Spinal Tap. For one reason or another, the band went through four ...