Jerry Cantrell recalls when Axl Rose threw the Alice in Chains demo tape in the trash

In a recent episode of the Appetite for Distortion podcast, Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell recalled a time when the band was in its infancy. At the time, Cantrell gave his band’s demo tape to Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses. What Rose did on the tape stuck in Cantrell’s mind.

“I met Axl after the show actually. I gave it to him, and as he was walking away I saw him throw it away.”

“I did speak to him about it at a club in New York. We had never really met before, other than just kind of meeting backstage at the show in Seattle at the arena where I gave him the demo tape.

“I can’t remember what was on it. They were an important band to us, and Appetite [for Destruction] is one of a handful of records that’s one of those epic things that transcends space and time and the band. It’s a worldwide massive record and it’s perfect.”