re: Best band of the "Seattle Grunge Scene" In your opinion.

I remember back when the "grunge" tag was first being used. It certainly did not apply to a band like Alice In Chains. When KLSU had a show that would run a little section of it in the grunge theme, that was when I first heard Mudhoney. Other bands featured were Tad, The Fluid, Slovenly, Das Damen, Dinosaur Jr., etc. It was more based at that time (late 80s) on sound and not strictly geography, which makes far more sense. I mean shite, Queensryche were from Seattle and they didn't fit so why include Alice In Chains?

"Alice N Chainz" started out as a full-on hair metal band. It would have been laughable to lump them in back then. I don't think anybody has ever admitted it but Alice In Chains completely re-dressed their sound and image to come more in line with what was clearly going to be a "thing" back then. Nobody saw it coming in other parts of the world but the northwest had been grunge-happy for at least 4 years before SLTS hit. Hell, when "Man In The Box" was first put out as a single, it was strictly a Headbangers Ball thing, as opposed to 120 minutes, which wouldn't have touched it with a 10 foot pole.

Anybody remember the brief sub genre of "alt-metal" back around the turn of the 80s/90s? THAT was Alice In Chains.