3 DOG LEGS EXPLAINED on Alice In Chains Self Titled Album

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3 DOG LEGS EXPLAINED on Alice In Chains Self Titled Album

The idea of using a three-legged dog for the cover of Alice In Chains' self titled album was inspired by a real-life three-legged dog named Tripod who used to terrorize drummer Sean Kinney during his childhood job as a paperboy. Unfortunately, Tripod was either unavailable or unwilling to pose for a photo-shoot, so Kinney hired photographer Rocky Schenck to do a three-legged dog photo-shoot near a playground in Downtown Los Angeles. However, none of Schenck's photos would be used on the album cover because the band decided to use an image of a three-legged dog received by fax because they felt it added an element of "grit" to the design.

This angered Kinney who was upset about wasting time and money on a photo-shoot. Fortunately, Kinney's intended image would finally get a chance to make an appearance in the 1999 box set Music Bank.

An entirely separate dog named Sunshine would appear in the music video for "Grind." So it essentially took 9 legs worth of dogs to create enough material for the band to work with.