I didn’t want that to be the pinnacle of my musical career.
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I still have it, but I’m never… They invited me to do a TV show or something like that, and I was kind of like, “I’d rather not,” because I didn’t want to be known as the guy that embarrassed himself on “Star Search” or whatever the hell it is they had. I always kept in touch with them, and I think I kind of earned their trust I didn’t share none of the stuff that we recorded together or anything like that. Of course, they got the other guy that sold 40 million records (late Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland). Word kind of got around and when I first met, he asked me to do the Velvet Revolver thing, so I went down there and recorded some songs with them. Some of those guys started to see us, so we would have these people that were fans of our band, like Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols and Duff, and those guys would come out and see us play in L.A. We did a lot of van tours and stuff like that we toured with Queens of the Stone Age and Dee Dee Ramone and The Bell Rays and Nebula and a bunch of kind of small tours. JA: I had a band called Post Stardom Depression in the early 2000s, and that’s when I started really singing and kind of figuring out what my thing was, and so people around town kind of noticed. TMM: How did you meet Duff McKagan and Barrett Martin and start playing with them? First, I just wanted to be a guitar player, but then I had trouble finding a good singer, so eventually I had to do that too.
I did get started in the ‘90s, but nothing that was worth mentioning. I was able to see them doing their thing, but I was just 14 years old or something at the time, so I didn’t have my own vision yet. JA: Yeah, I was just starting when they were leaving and things were starting to happen for them. TMM: But you didn’t really get started as a musician until after their run?
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Quickly, they were on to being big stars, but I was just a kid trying to figure out how to play and put a band together, but they did show me the blueprint of how one should go about it. Of course, they changed my perspective on a lot of things. Those were the first local bands I’d ever seen, and I was just a kid, so I saw them at (former Bellevue skating rink) Skate King. JA: That’s the first band I ever saw as a local band, was Alice in Chains with Mother Love Bone. TMM: You’re from Tacoma originally- what was your relationship to the 1990s Seattle scene which Alice in Chains came from? We kind of just made friends and stayed in touch over time, and when they had some dates they reached out to us to jump on some of them, so, lucky us. I’ve toured with them before Walking Papers toured with them in Europe, we did a festival tour with them and Jane’s Addiction about three years ago. Jefferson Angell (JA): Well, we’re Seattle folks, and they’re the kind of guys who would like someone in their universe before complete strangers, I suppose, but I also think they try to introduce their audience to bands who they think are worthy. Tastemakers Magazine (TMM): How did you end up getting the opening slot for this tour with Alice in Chains? They’ll be opening for Alice in Chains at the House of Blues this Saturday, but before then Tastemakers had a chat with Angell about growing up in the Seattle area in the ‘90s, the noir influence in his lyrics, and that time he almost joined Velvet Revolver. The rock stars are bassist Duff McKagan (Guns ‘n’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) and drummer Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), and the band is Walking Papers, who released their second album WP2 back in January. Jefferson Angell might not be a well-known rock star, but he’s got a couple in his band.
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