Of the "Big Four" of Seattle Grunge, Alice in Chains was the most heavy metal. Soundgarden was kind of bluesy in their own way. Pearl Jam was more 60s/70s rock influence. And of course Nirvana was very punk inspired. Each had their own sound and flavor, even being part of the same "scene".
With soundgarden and pearl jam, I think PJ is the bluesy and SG influenced by 60s music such as black sabbath. Listen to dirty frank, ten was bluesy as heck.
Is anybody gonna mention the fact that Jerry Cantrell wrote one of the best riffs of all time on this song? The wah pedal, used properly is an amazing tool.
I saw them in December of 91 open for van Halen in Shreveport Louisiana....they blew the freaking roof off the arena! Layne was so freaking loud! And crystal clear! Everyone was talking about AIC walking in the parking lot after the concert...Man in the box was playing on the radio just for a few weeks around here back then.
@@clownchaostime3024for sure, se them open for Van Halen in upstate NY, became my favorite band of all time immediately!! Soo crazy good, best show ever that I can think of- though hit a deer with my mustang GT at 5am on my way home after that concert.. lol, Worth it now though
@@clownchaostime3024yeah I was thinking it was Dirt I bought the next day after seeing them play with Van Halen but it must have been Facelift❤❤ Either way, I listened to them non stop every day after and learned every single song on guitar 🎸🎸❤❤
That sound was his pain. That's why he's a legend. The best art comes from pain and suffering. It's raw realism. That can be recognized and remembered best through music.
@@lauramalizia9636 Just as I said: It's Just A Story!! I never saw him shoot up, did you?? I'd see him wherever, Pain in the grass, etc. etc. but he always looked super clean.
The 90's Rock renaissance was an epic time in music. And AIC was in a league of their own. They weren't quite grunge, but they also weren't metal or a hair band either. They just fuckin owned the show their way.
100% Accurate. I was 19 then a d went from listening to Zeppelin and Floyd straight to Grunge. This sound came out of nowhere and crushed the hair bands. Dam I miss this!!!
@@lanea397 Not even in same ballpark. Nirvana had catchy tunes for the masses, with a better than average singer at the helm. Alice had a top 3 best rock vocalist ever, imo
When Layne was in his prime vocally. Incredible performance and sound quality. Would be cool to see another early 90's or mid 90's official Alice in Chains live show released on DVD or Blu-Ray.
My fiancé and I (both Alice & Layne fans) picked up our marriage license at the county courthouse today and we were both kinda nervous about everything going okay. All of a sudden, from down the hall we hear a familiar bass throbbing and realize it's Man in the Box. I mean really, in a courthouse? We felt like Layne was talking to us and letting us know it was gonna be okay. Thanks Layne ! 💕❤
Everyone's always talking about Kurt Cobain but Layne was the best of all time. Even as tormented as he was he still put on a show for his fans. MTV unplugged he was a walking corpse and still put up the best performance that show ever had by far.
Cobain and nirvana are hyped because cobain was young and goodlooking when he died!! But he was the weakest of the bunch!! They were hugely influencially tho!! Staley is in a class by himself!! Only Cornell could do some sort of justice to staley's vocals. Cobain could not touch an AIC song on his best day!!
30 years passed I'm still here. This song is one of my fav from facelift. I remember playing my cassette tape with this music while driving on a hi-way on the way to vacation. Car windows down, defective AC, getting excited to my destination.
Mike Starr, wherever you are I just want to tell you that your bass sounded absolutely incredible and I can see in these video images how you also gave everything to sound spectacular, I hope you and Layne have a great band up there God bless you.
Oh my god! I just did the most killer comment but it was during a Seether song which I lovr BUT MY COMMENT WAS ON MY GUYS HERE! HOLY TOLEDO LAYNE JERRY REALLY! WOW! This NEVER EVER GETS OLD TO ME. F ING NEVER. Jerry. Uh,byour chest,arms hands jeans boots hair your fingers must harber some type of majestical powers solidified by electric impulses dude. Waaaah. Laynes voice No shit im getting chills going UPWARDS FROM MY FEET UP TO MY NECK STRAIGHT UP..NOW thats powerful
I grew up in this era I was a Nirvana kid. I do not know how I missed so much of them. I was in the South. But we had every kind of music!!! I'm 54 learning about to them from top to bottom. He is at top performance to me here! Like a Jim Morrison!!!! BEAUTIFUL ♥️
cara o layne tinha uma voz extremamente foda 100% o cara tinha uma voz poderosa que ate as pessoas ficavam doida com a voz do cara ele vai vazer uma grande falta ao fans do alice in chains...
@@claudioricardo2235 viúva é assim mesmo, desmerece o trabalho do cara e bota na conta do cara algo que ele não teve culpa. WD não é Layne e ele e os caras do Alice in Chains sabem bem disso. Ele não ser Layne ou não ter uma voz como a dele não diminui o talento e o bom trabalho que ele vem feito, agora saudosista, vai curtir o som e para viuvar nos comentários.
Kurt Cobain was my favorite sardonic poet of his era, but AIC were the best raw rock band of the period, and Layne was the ONLY vocalist who could give Chris Cornell a run for the money on vocal chops. Layne had such a gutteral, emotional to your core vocal delivery that still stuns over lowfi video. Crazy talent. Sean Kinney underrated drummer. He had such a great swing and groove to everything he did. Sorry, I don't put PJ in the running with the other three Seattle greats. STP, Pumpkins, Collective Soul were the other greats of grunge NOT from Seattle. Pixies and NIN and RHCP preceded grunge. Just lay down a straight gritty minor riff in the verse, and then some power chords for a chorus, and have one of the best singers in rock history to make a counterpoint screamed melody work. Layne loves to imitate a wah guitar. Hilarious. I'll never forgive him for throwing his talent away, though. Then again, opiates took Cornell also. I'm pretty sure Cobain was offed. Still, stay away from opiates and their ilk. One would think the 90s impressed that message on people. Now we're going through an opiates epidemic that makes that era look like amateur hour. WTF is wrong with people. Life sucks, yeah, it really sucks on opiates. Just make it quick and walk into the ocean instead. You'll realize the water is cold and the planet beautiful.
Today marks 19 years since layne passed away and I came here to rewatch for the gazillionth time the first live perfomance I ever watched of AIC. how little did i know that my life was about to change because of them. layne has been my force of nature for so long, it's impossible to put into words what i feel for him and his voice. all i know is that he introduced me to a whole new world and in very different ways, he did change my life. his main purpose was to help people through his music and i hope he knows how much he's helped thousands of people around the world. your legacy lives on layne, along with your kindness and great sense of humor. i hope you've found your inner peace.
I've seen each of the "Big Four" several times in the early 90's, including this one, except it was at First Avenue, Minneapolis. IMO, Alice in Chains was the best of the four. Had the most hardcore mosh pits as well.
