Layne had one of the most beautiful voices in all of music. So sad the drugs ate away at a legendary vocalist. RIP Layne and Mike

Gosh, that lead singer just sings so good and effortlessly. WOW. I really like the baseline and rhythm too.

@donaldjackson4959

3 жыл бұрын

Check out Would by Alice in Chains

@lasnochesking

3 жыл бұрын

Blasphemy!!!! Now you must go listen to the whole "dirt" album.

Layne Staley one of the best front man voices ever

One of the absolute best hard rock catalogs. Cant go wrong with any of it really!

2:35 That expression, that expression right there.

It aint like that live by Alice in Chains, i think you're going to like it.

AIC is my fav from the "Grundge" guys. Great vocals and guitars.

@guitarforfun2596

3 жыл бұрын

Mine also,

Your reaction to the sewn shut eyes at the end was by far the funniest lmfao

Great subtle use of the guitar voice box in this tune! Top two band of mine all time!🤘🎸👊

one of the best voices in music ever right there

Layne gives me goosebumps everytime I hear that chorus.

Layne Staley is amazing

Love hate love live is one of my favorites from alice in chains ❤❤🤘🤘

Please do more reactions to Alice In Chains!!!! You definitely won’t regret it! One of my all time favorite bands❤️❤️

Fantastic vocalist, so unique RIP Layne 🪦

This song is quintessential 1990s gold You should check out "Them Bones" by AIC, the song that made me an instant fan Rock on brotha 🤙

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. I'm in the camp of No Layne/No Chains, because no matter which singer you put up there to sing those songs, it'll only be a cover. Layne had a unique voice you cannot replicate or replace. A lot of those songs were great because Layne pretty much wrung his entire soul out singing them, others were personal to Layne and to have someone else sing those, the songs lose their meaning because the new guy didn't go through the ordeals those songs are inspired by. William singing Them Bones on the 2006 reunion tsunami gig.... William DOES NOT have the power in his voice that Layne had especially for that song. Maynard James Keenan could get remotely close to Layne's vocal range for that song (and many others). And Maynard would have the reverence for Layne's memory, he was friends with Layne, he KNEW Layne, had a history with Layne and saw what Layne went through from Lollapalooza 93 until Layne became a recluse. Besides, Maynard already had 3 bands going on, why not join a fourth band? I ran into Jerry doing Got Me Wrong with STP... that felt almost sacrilegious and off-key without Layne just watching it. Now Jerry has William singing Layne's vocals especially on something like Love Hate Love which Layne wrote about his relationship with Demri. No. Just No. Some of the newer AIC fans may like William. And he's probably a great guy in real life but -- it's hard to describe what Layne was...one thing is he was so much more than his addiction. Layne and Jerry were two of the strongest personalities in AIC, the heart (Jerry) and soul (Layne). 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

@malinjonsson615

Жыл бұрын

Sean... 🤣

Intro fire

Did yourself and Layne an injustice by not doing a live version. Speaks volumes of Layne and this band.

Childhood memories ☺️👍

RIP LAYNE🥲🥲🥲🥲DON’T DO DRUGS PEOPLE.💕💕💕💕

The reaction are pretty good but the real highlight is the intro it’s 💯💯🔥🔥

JAY AY AYAY SUS CHRIS!!!!

Jerry Cantrell for the win!

I have a feeling that you would love the band Yello... and not just Oh Yeah.

Hey Mike ya girl Sami's here ❤

@michaelcross4026

3 жыл бұрын

Hay Sami... I hope all is well.... peace and love always ✌

@samanthawalker4171

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcross4026 Hey there sweetheart, yes I'm ok for now. I've had a lot of goings on these past several months but I'm all good for now thanks. Thankyou for your reply and well wishes. You take care too. Love and light to you always ❤🙏😇

Got to love a song about heroin 🤯

@USMC-dm3ws

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@MissLauraRed

3 жыл бұрын

It's not about heroin

@maoraharon21

3 жыл бұрын

It's about censorship actually

@ashleynicole6692

3 жыл бұрын

“Junkhead” is about heroin this is about censorship!

@USMC-dm3ws

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleynicole6692 a direct quote from Layne Staley in 1995... “This song is about censorship, with animal cruelty used as a metaphor. The "man in the box" is like a veal calf trapped in confinement”. You are absolutely correct about which song means what!