The whole 'Live at the Moore' show is a must see. Even the unpopular songs, such as "real thing" is awesome....it shows off Layne's different singing abilities. Something about AIC - very mesmerizing.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! One of my fave bands growing up and still are

@klanceyshane6275

2 жыл бұрын

Did Alice In Chains ever make a bad song? At least while lane was there.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

@@klanceyshane6275 Love Song from Sap

Layne Staley hands down has the most powerful, well controlled and unique voice I've ever heard. He was one of a kind, cannot be duplicated. RIP Layne! Love Hate Love from Live at The Moore and Bleed The Freak are really amazing. So much better than the studio versions. Also, they did a MTV UNPLUGGED session that was one of the best. It's an acoustic session and they killed it. Songs such as Nutshell, No Excuses, Rooster and Down In A Hole is a must from this performance. You don't just listen to Layne, you feel him. Jerry and Laynes harmonies are phenomenal along with Jerry's masterful riffs, Mike and his badass bass and Sean on drums are underrated. 🤘✌❤

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Their MTV Unplugged session is my favourite one. We did a reaction to Down In A Hole from it, so check that out if you haven't yet. We've also done Mad Season - Long Gone Day, Live at the Moore.

I saw AIC in 92. In Tampa ,Fl. They played a smaller venue. They were awesome. I wasn't even into grunge at the time. I was more into metal. But these guys blew the place up

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, sounds amazing, so sore that I never got to see them!

"Love, Hate, Love" live from the Moore is a must see.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks it’s on our request list

Best band ever, Layne one of the best voices and Jerry Cantrell one of the best songwriters to ever live. Good stuff guys.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I won’t disagree with you!

@unacceptablecodyberg1402

Жыл бұрын

100%. So good.

I have to give you credit you've really perfected the craft of screwing up a good song by pausing right before the lead break, way to go dude

nice sharing my new buddy, here with a support for you......

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, we appreciate it 😃

Great job reacting to AIC! I lived in Seattle from 89 - 99, watched a lot of lived local bands and these guys blew most other acts away live. Love Hate Love live at the Moore showcases Laynes live vocal power, that floored me the 1st time I heard them. They were the perfect band IMO.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a great time to be there. I spent the early 90s wishing I was there too! I wish I could have seen Layne live, but at least we have some footage. Thanks for watching!, I’m sure we’ll react to more AIC soon.

@tonyhao9344

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarriedtotheMusic2010 There is a movie called Singles, I watched it back in the day at the theatre but wasn't paying much attention to it. I bought the dvd recently, AIC are playing live in that movie, and some of the Seattle bands are in it as well, like Pearl Jam members and Soundgarden.. Worth a watch just for the 90s Seattle vibe.

@BradCross1982

2 жыл бұрын

You can find those full live performances on KZread.... Would and It Aint Like That, Singles Pro Shot. I believe those performances were shot in April 1991 at the Desoto Nightclub

@tonyhao9344

2 жыл бұрын

@@BradCross1982 Thanks for the info! Those were good performances of AIC in their hay day, Good to know the full performances are around.

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

One of Daz’s favourite movies. He has the soundtrack on vinyl too. Carrie x

Best live vocal take in history.

Would and It Aint Like That live Singles Pro Shot Love Hate Love live at the Moore Sea of Sorrow live at The Moore Bleed the Freak live at The Moore We Die Young Miami 91 Rooster Glasgow 93 Sickman Glasgow 93 or San Jose 93 Some great live ones to check out 🤘🏽

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, all added to the requests list, we'll definitely do more AIC and good to hear some of their live versions that I might have missed.

@BradCross1982

2 жыл бұрын

I love their live stuff. I’ve probably listened to it all, all that’s out there in KZread land anyway 🤘🏽

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’re here to give us the best suggestions! 😊

This song's origins start with a lunch the band had with some A&R woman who was a vegan (no animal byproducts of ANY kind), who proceeded to tell them how animals were penned up in small crates and killed for steak, etc. So, Layne wrote Man in the Box from the perspective of a penned up calf. It was loosely based around Layne's idea of media censorship. Sean Kinney (the drummer) said it was about veal. LOL. The version you chose was Live at the Moore filmed on December 22, 1990. The concert became Live Facelift that was released in 1991 on a very rare VHS that costs 75.00 last I checked. The VHS included MAN IN THE BOX, REAL THING, LOVE HATE LOVE (which is UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION played live by a rock band), SEA OF SORROW, BLEED THE FREAK all live from The Moore 1990, as well as official videos for WE DIE YOUNG, MAN IN THE BOX, and SEA OF SORROW. Layne met Jerry Cantrell ONE TIME, found out he had no family in the area, he had little money left and Layne (drunkenly) offered Jerry a place to live, money, food, clothes, guitars and gear he needed, Layne set Jerry up with a life that could NOT fail unless Jerry let it happen. He set him up with a band when he gave Jerry the number to Sean Kinney's girlfriend and found out that the girlfriend was Mike Starr's sister. He encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all they were Jerry's lyrics, Jerry should sing them. I'm sure Jerry would have made it on his own without Layne, but it would have been the long scenic route to get there. Jerry wrote Rooster about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows, Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play Rooster and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist who showed back up in Layne's life AFTER Layne got famous and had money and did drugs with Layne.) Phil Staley was NOT the father Layne expected when he came back into his life. Layne had tried rehab 13 times, but he could never completely give it up. He tried quitting cold turkey on two of the last attempts at rehab, but that didn't work either. Mad Season is made up of Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and John Baker Saunders and they all went through rehab. They all got together and dragged Layne out of his condo, got him excited about doing ABOVE album, thinking if he was creative he wouldn't want the drugs, and for the length of time it took to do that, Layne was excited about the project, but it didn't curb his drug habit. Layne wrote the lyrics to the songs he sang on the ABOVE album and he drew the cover art for the album. Layne was an amazing singer. Very few singers sound better live than they do in a studio version. Layne was one of the few. From what I’ve read and researched, heroin is the worst drug to be addicted to. You don’t want to do anything other than be there and nodding out. The fact that he agreed to do the KISS shows and performed them like he did shows the strength he had. From what I read, when you have the level of addiction Layne had, it is incredibly difficult to function at the intensity of performing a stage show in front of an audience as well as he did. He could have stayed home and stayed high, but Jerry wanted to do the shows. Somewhere, somehow Layne found the strength to do those shows despite what his addiction wanted him to do even though he survived an overdose after the last KISS show in Kansas City, Missouri, became a recluse, and the addiction got him in the end. Mike Starr was the last one to see him on April 4, 2002, for all anyone knows and what I took from that was that while Layne was telling Mike that he (Layne) was sick, he still tried to get Mike to give up his own prescription drug habit. After that, no one noticed he had died because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911. He died on April 5, 2002, but his body wasn't discovered until April 19, 2002. And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show. At the age of 34 (when he died), he looked more like an 80-year-old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it. Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12 year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne wrote songs that gave a normal person insight into the mind and journey of an addict. The pain and depression he endured to write the most brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings on his own addiction and the emotional and physical strength he had to perform those songs live when all he wanted to do was curl away and lose himself in the drug haze I can’t imagine what it was like for him. He was hounded by the press about his addiction. He was ridiculed for his addiction. The music industry blackballed him for his addiction. The Grammys forgot about him when he died. As far as MTV and Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music. Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press. Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He stacked his own vocals. He knew enough to know that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and Mike Starr. He wrote the lyrics for the songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He still was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons. Layne's whole situation from his drug addiction, to how he died, to how he was found only weighing 86 pounds and the drug paraphernalia, etc is tragic and haunts me when I think about it (and I didn't even know the guy personally). "Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be." -- Layne Staley "My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title." -- Layne Staley "When I tried drugs they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me- and now I'm walking through hell and this sucks. I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want my fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen." -- Layne Staley

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! 👍

RIP Layne 😢

Great Reaction to Alice in Chains. I think you guys might like Tromonti - Marching in Time. Check it out. Mark Tremonti was a founding member of Creed and Alter Bridge

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks we’ll check it out

Check out Man in the box live from Brazil

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hank, will do

Love your reactions. Alice In Chains is deep rabbit hole with Layne. The media here definitely destroyed Layne's reputation printing lots of lies.. Another rabbit hole if you like guitar and blues is Stevie Ray Vaughan. " Texas Flood" at the El Macambo is a start. He'll blow you away. Edited: Love Hate Love From The Moore Performance Is A Must

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrus! I’m not sure where you’re from from but I feel like AIC were largely ignored in the UK at the time. I’m already well down that rabbit hole but Carries right at the start of that adventure! Thanks for the SRV suggestion too, I’ve heard great things!

@andrusmotto1257

Жыл бұрын

@@MarriedtotheMusic2010 I'm from the US. Phoenix Arizona since my teens. The media built Alice in Chains up because they are of course talented, but, they also tore down Layne Staley with rumors and lies. They care about mental health and addiction now, but Rolling Stone magazine was supposed to put the entire band on the cover. Instead it was Layne Staley looking sad,with the title, " The needle and the damage done ". Neil Young song of course, but he knew that he was only a commodity. Nutshell especially unplugged that's his cry for help. As for Stevie Ray Vaughn, he's a guitar goat who played blues and rock. He laid down the guitar tracks to David Bowie's album "Let's Dance ". SRV only had a 7 year musical career but his performances live on forever. I'd personally start with "Texas Flood" Live At the El Macombo. I haven't seen any videos recently and hope that you are both okay. You are the only ones who replies to my comments. Much love from across the pond in the desert of Phoenix Arizona

Dave drama pls xo

@MarriedtotheMusic2010

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion Natasha, so many requests for Dave tracks we can't keep up! 😅

LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore will change your life. And BLEED THE FREAK is a must watch as well.

Nobody picks up in the choros he goes high to low until the last one where he goes high to higher. Im not a musician lol. Go easy.