Alice In Chains - Get Born Again (Official Video) 

Absolutely

most definitely. He was a god.❤️

No teeth, completely smashed, hadn't bathed in weeks.

Without any doubt..

​@@chriseason2785 and yet, possibly the greatest vocalist of all time, especially when compared to contemporaries

Exactly!

ther's a there there

Thats one if the best descriptions ive ever heard of this band. Im constantly drawn to them as the years go by. Amazing group.

I've heard their music described as " hauntingly beautiful"

Especially when you're still doing heroin

I almost see Colonel Parker with Elvis in your description...

Actually, Jerry and Layne weren’t getting along and barely spoke during these sessions. This was the result of Layne and their producer, Toby Wright working together when Jerry wasn’t there.

@@ronfields4484this is accurate. Also kinda weird to be like, “Jerry is so talented he squeezed a performance out of a dying man”

I love him 2

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Love you forever, sweet Layne 😢

+Tina Marie ditto that

Susan Staley-Simpson How are you??? well all Im gonna say is that my stuffing went flying cause I threw it across the room... that's how my Thanksgiving was!! I can laugh about it now but boy I was sooooo fucking pissed... well at least I didnt throw the turkey... see you cant fuck with an Italian from NY.. everything goes flying..but damn it feels good when you do it. LOLLOLO

Tina Marie lol lol

+LordSear1982 yeah it all sucked good for you

+Tina Marie Its... just worse nowadays..

mroll1000 same with Kurt man

same way I feel about Bill Hicks....

mroll1000 We've all met him..

me too I have felt that way about Layne for so long it's just the power of his music and voice simple as that

it shouldnt it only shows respect for such a being that even not knowing them you feel the loss that is the void they left in their wake.

It can't, but William Duvall does one hell of a job

@@ebronson78 because Will never tried to dublicate him

Listen to Chout and Skorned band

There's one fella out of Detroit he comes close but lacks his lyrical ability so he covers all of aic

@@ebronson78 Nah, duvall sucks.

Who will deny, all in time, all the lies

+Kenny B you mean Cantrell wrote the music/melodies and Layne came up with the words? interesting

+Kenny B I read they had to change the lyrics multiple times because Layne kept slurring the words due to tooth loss :(

He did one more song after these...Another brick in the wall...with class of 99

Yeah, they had to avoid words with "s" because you can clearly hear Layne's lisp

Megan O'Brien There's an article a few years back that details the recording of these last two songs. The band recorded all their stuff early and waited for Layne to come in. He was very late and arrived at 3am. It was his birthday and they brought out cake for him. At one point Layne made an excuse that he needed to go back to Seattle for his sister's wedding. Jerry knew he was lying and he said, “Laaaaaayne,” in an exasperated tone of voice. Turns out Layne was lying, his sister was already married for 2 months. Something may have happened there, maybe Jerry made one last effort to get to Layne because after that they recorded all their stuff separately and never talked for the duration of the session.

Sullivan Reed Yeah. The amount of crack cocaine he was doing let that happen.

And still better than any current pop singer today, amazing

absolutly yes

He was missing all of them. One or two tops at this point. It was heroin(plus speedballing with coke) that got him. I could go on but he was hurting bad from his girl dying and then the drugs turned on him.

amen brother greatest vocalist i ever heard plant dio axl on vinyl not live tony harnell michael sweet phil alsemo i have his unscarred tattoo across my stomach geoff tate queensryche great singer another tat i have layne i dont know him randy rhoads what a band bonham

That other worldly tone he had toward the end of his life was more like a warning of things to come. I hear it too..you're right.

his voice would be overdubbed up to 16 times, each track a slightly different harmony, that's what gives the otherworldly sound.

Especially since this is the last music video of him before that incident. Same with Scott Weiland..but Layne's was way more traumatic imo

@@duncan3998 this music video was actually made after he passed away. The guy hooked to the wires at the end is just a look alike, and the footage of him singing was taken from various live shows and other videos,they just edited really well.

this song almost sounds like his suicide note

@The Caped Critique yea I agree!!

spread it round

Yeah, man. I noticed how many of times there’s boobie traps that come along with the Easter eggs video wise. So, many of the rebuttals and riffing regarding beefs, rivalry and plain old competing flys under the radar.

Its ok thataway. Savor the sweet. Most of their gems ARE slept on. Radio/popularity will never have the integrity to match.

How so? Singer is toothless and a heroin addict plus the band was not together and touring anymore because of that. Deserve has nothing to do with it, they should have cared more about their fans, you know the ones that made them what they were but no the drugs came first.

Hate cantrell... never been impressed with his conduct on or off stage,lane Staley is alice n chains even now

Jerry created the AIC sound. Layne wrote the lyrics and badass vocals but Jerry is the other half of AIC. No doubt.

Canttell is amazing

I just disagree,the blatant disrespect from Jerry after his death sickened me,till the moment may would have been more receptive too all your facts

Cantrell is a savage

You have a beautiful point, but I like to think Layne had come to terms with that portion of his legacy, hence 'Social Parasite'. I think it was the passing of his fiance that just made him give up. I don't think he really gave a shit what people thought of him or what he chose to do with his time.

Given the lyrical content of Layne's songs brother, it's hard to disassociate his demons from his music.....same can be said for Kurt's songs.

He put the addiction front and center in the music....he sang about it literally....so I think if that's the impression people have that's fair....and if people dont see laynes amazing legacy ...with all its insanity intelligence angst and pain...that he poured into his music ...and think it's the result of drug withdrawals....you are dead wrong...I personally think he suffered from a mental health disorder....borderline personality disorder.... Listen to "Love hate love" and then look up borderline personality on wikipedia.... That song is the apitamy of someone suffering from BPD BPD

It’s irritating when people tell you what other people would have wanted, even more so when said people have never met said third person.

@@felix200601 Yes, that is true, but you have to agree that great artists allow people to glimpse inside their world thru, in both Layne and Kurts' cases, their lyrical content.....I liken this to a Jim Morrison lyric, "I need someone who doesn't need me." The artists and philosophers allow us inside and from that point forward we apply our own worldview and empiricism to conceptualize what we see or hear. Please, I am not trying to come off as trite or pompous.....I guess I am trying to explain how I receive what both Layne and Kurt gave us. Does this make sense because I am not sure that I am accurately conveying into words what my mind is thinking.....I fucking hate that haha!

He does live on, agreed.

Through christ brother

truth MikeSyk604, would just loop their songs on my road trip to anywhere =) and full blast, with the roof down

Agree

Deftones

Micheal Style nah. Chino is cool tho

Real talk.

+nathantim For sure! Both make me cry, but Layne's death was so miserable. Poor guy.

the song itself is scary and sad and thinking about how layne was when it was made makes it even more

He was only missing some teeth but was gaunt and yes skeletal and because he was always slender the drugs destroyed his weight pretty fast. It's just terrible and it makes me so angry that music lost him. Him above all others!!!!

No he weighed 80 pounds when he was found dead and had rotted for 2 weeks.

aic greater than nirvana. period.

You can never be so sure any artist died as and when announced, due to the control of their lives the artist gives up in their contract with the label. There is a death clause in that contract, and that label has a 2-pronged financial incentive for the artist to die... 1) key man insurance policy and 2) Immediate and lasting bump in sales once the artist dies. AIC could not even headline a tour (inadequate demand due to lack of recent hits), serving only as a warm-up act for washed up 70's bands. They also apparently didn't care to work in studio anymore either after these 2 songs, so how is the label going to activate their "golden parachute". Some artists' deaths are probably authentic, but others are "staged". Unless you were personally there inside of Layne's condo, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH. Taking someone else's word for important events, is a sure-fire way to be conned and taken advantage of. For all we know, Layne could be enjoying life in Tasmania or Switzerland right now, 6'1", 190 lbs. and bulletproof. Just kicking back with Demri in their golden years and laughing at us peons for mourning their sad deaths... while they spend unlimited funds to their hearts' content. www.bitchute.com/video/x99CEKBhvmOG/

@@davidplonk3317 Give me a break. Layne isn't enjoying anything. He is gone. Forever. He was a unique and an incredible talent that managed to create something truly unique and priceless. and then he died. There will never be another Layne Staley in the history of the entire universe.

​@@davidplonk3317Yeah David, And Kurt Cobain Lives At a Vacation Resort In Turkey's Mediterranean Sea As A Dentist's Apprentice, wearing vintage striped shirts all the time, Where He Can Be Seen Handing Candy To Local Kids and Disappearing, And With Chris Cornell On The Opposite European Shore Of The Mediterranean Sea, With Each Waving To One And Other At Sunsets With The Help Of Flee Market Binoculars To Lurt. Alongside David Bowie Living In A Remote Farm In South Of England, With Bowie Regularly Having Tea Parties With Keithee Flint Of Prodigy At His Farmhouse. And Of Course Michael Jackson Is Now A Street Performer, Pretending To Be Of Many Street Performers Pretending To Be Himself. With Only His Faöily Knowing This. And Adolf Hitler Died In 1980's In Argantine Of Old Age. What A Load Of Bull, Be Rational David, Not Even Houdini Can Pull Off What You Are Suggesting For 20 Years Straight. I Believe You Are Suggestimg such bizarre conspiracies out of yout mç8😅 mate.

@@SludgeMan90 Unfortunately I’ll concede you are correct on all counts. I had NO idea how addictive heroin is for some people when I wrote that. He was wholly devoured by it without remedy, as was Demri. Heroin… the Grizzly Bear / Great White Shark of recreational drugs. Why go anywhere near? Layne will always be the musician who has the most influence on my approach to music from every angle. The team around him, especially Jerry and the studio guys, deserves the highest accolades for what they constructed together.

Same ❤

Rowan but who says it can't have two meanings? I believe that was done on purpose

@@laynestaley1871 Probably

If it makes you feel better Layne will be born again and make Alice n chain music again in the next universe we relive in :) this is the eternity :)

Is stands for reincarnation

That and being unable to appear in your last video.

True

Yeah but Layne wasn't murdered like Cobain

Khan James bruh kurt killed himself, i would too if i was with courtney

@@gordonthefreeman They should have just done diet heroin (Kratom)...sadly it was not well known in the U.S. back then.

@@khanjames2042 thats not what this is about tho?

Its like not even the music changed, the personality behind the music changed. You can detect the energy behind laynes voice that isnt melodic just emotional. Cuts deep as hell straight to the bone.

IntoTheHeartOfMusic You're needlessly torturing yourself. What could have been was not meant to be. Substance abuse is death on the installment plan. The persons I feel for are Llayne's band mates. They had to watch him die a little bit at a time. They could not do a damn thing about it. I hope that they have grieved Llayne and are creating new songs. AIC has done some nice work since Llayne died. My Dad and Bro were and are drunks. I have lived the "Could have been" game. It's pointless and painful. Spare yourself the grief and stop it. Celebrate what was and move on.

GeneHeim1 I understand what he's saying, but you're totally right. The past is the past. It cannot be undone as much as we wish it could be.

IntoTheHeartOfMusic Layne was amazing, a voice that comes once a million years.

+IntoTheHeartOfMusic Yes.

JIMMY.J REVIEWS Ok, calm down Mr. Salesman.

Sorry if it came off that way my AIC brother!:) I just love AIC and the book is AWESOME! just thought I would spread the word ...I don't own it , nor make a dime off of its sale:) just thought it was a good book;) sorry about coming off as a jurky sales man :( I come from Thailand so I am a little yellow and strange!;) tata!:)

Well I'm not sure of this but I readed a long time ago that it's related to Layne's father who left him when he was really little. So the wish to "get born again" is to be with him again and get to know him.

Ok, this is going to be a little lengthy 😊 I hope u dont mind , ok first off this was 1 of 3 last songs Layne did before he left us, so his state of being was not good 😔 'Healthy ' wise' so him sitting any length of time doing anything, was a challenge because he basically need a 'boost' of H or something of equivalent we will say, about every 3-4 hours.. so when recording vocals it a long task and he could just no leave to the bathroom to 'boost' himself while doing business. So the first line is 'sat suffering ' witch is him in withdrawal from opiates , the next line is 'I knew him when ' mean at one point while recording this song .he over heard Jerry talking to a guy named robert trujillo he was helping out Jerry with tracking this day . They where talking about Layne and Jerry said to robert trujillo ya man I knew him when he was clean & ext..ext.. .so Layne heard this BY ACCIDENT and changed what ever lyrics Jerry had down .and put that . Next line 'fare weather friends of mine ' meaning yea...that my so called friend Jerry? & robert trujillo talking crap about me....And the other lyrics you can kind of putt together. And so the othe lyrics like 'get born again ' meaning Layne coming out of seclusion 'his condo' witch in the last years he never left. HE EVEN HAD A RECORDING STUDIO BUILT IN THE MAIN BATHROOM SO HE COULD RECORD SCRATCH TRACKS !!!!! 😳 And a drum machine, and guitar paths , and some vocal paths ... stuff like that. And so the other lyrics like 'just repeat a couple lines" meaning the words on the lyric sheet. And the lyrics 'I pretend your still alive ' talking about his fiancé demri parrott . She passed away... and well there it is just so you know they asked Layne what this song was about on a phone call on some tv / radio show back in the day. And he said oh...it's about Hypocrisy.. as to not offend Jerry and others that where on the show... hope that helps✌️

No problem 👍 If you have any other questions feel free to ask!!😀

Both Dime and Layne

AMEN. Could not have said that any better.

Pablo Cano Rubio and Kurt!!!!!

no

I will take layne thank you

Sorry about your brother

@@Kinder_witch thank you it still doesn’t feel real. He was my twin and we’re just 21 and it was an accidental overdose. My mom was the one who found him. A twin is a bond i can’t describe with words. It just sucks losing him because i know he was the best relationship ill ever and could ever have period. I will never be as connected to anyone as i was with him, ever, and its just depressing knowing the best relationship ill ever have has already came and went. I’ll forever compare future relationships to him and that void wont ever be filled. Sorry im just alone rn and chose you to rant to lol but yeah its just a black void in my heart without my best friend. Thank u tho i do appreciate u just reaching out to me even as a stranger

im sorry about your brother my condolences, seems the best go young sadly. head up ❤

He's a true musical genius...

That’s a good dream to have.

One of the best songwriters ever, absolute genius

Wow interesting i didnt know that. And i can really hear his lisp now that you pointed it out. Interesting! Thank u fella! Love you

Lol good one XD

Haha

I think that every time I watch this!!

Daniel G the vibe of this song gives me Sith vibes too

i thought it was Davros.

me too. i feel the same way

I was born in 2001 so a year before he died but been listening to AIC since 2004 as them bones was on gta san andreas and I loved it so my older bro got me Dirt on CD as a gift, good to know the next generation is digging this shit too💯

@@RedIndicatoryou were playing GTA at 3 years old?

I love to see teens who can appreciate this music

@@docairline5016 we're out here, and more than you might think!

😃👍

I was 18 when this song came out. Little did I know that one year later, I'd be a kidney donor. Good to know that you're still here with us, hope that it was a good recovery with no complications.

What do you mean as born again?

Pretty trippy.

He didn't have teeth so he had to do something different

He's harmonizing with Jerry for a lot of the vocals

He was toothless so thats how.

over-dubbing his voice in many slightly different harmonies, sometimes 16 tracks for one verse, was his trademark sound.

Yea. My mom always says, "You should never have to bury your child. You should only bury your parents."

Henry Zarzicki I've been there , done it . I will never get one it. It's a pain and a hole in my heart that will never be filled.

"I'm the man in the box"

That's so sad rip layne and mike

She is a very nice and strong woman i had read many interviews on the Seattle times, saying how she has encountered many horrible people telling her to her face that “he got what he wanted” thinking that it’s a choice when it’s not, she responds in such a wise way. I even got the chance to talk to her via email and she says she misses him every day. Glad people like you not only think about layne but also about what his family went through

Thinking about the state of his physical condition when he recorded this song just blows my mind! Layne was still right were he needed to be vocally!! Damn, did he get overlooked a ton when people thought of the best vocalists! He is singing this damn song with no teeth!

This is chilling to the bone. Thank you loads for sharing! Mark Lanegan: I always hoped there would be some medical emergency that would put Layne in the hospital and give him a moment away from the routine of crack and heroin that might give him a break and some insight. That medical emergency ended up being his death. I remember Layne saying - I always just keep thinking I'm gonna get that same feeling I got the first time again.

Thanks for that mate. Sounds plausible to me. I was a heroin addict for 15 years. Such a sad way to exist (not live) it's not until someone you love or admire is gone that you wish you could have done more

Interesting. Thanks

Holy shit

@@misstembo2000 "I always just keep thinking I'm gonna get that same feeling I got the first time again." Yeah, that never happens. It just becomes trying to keep your head above water and not be sick.

Johny Law he liked junk

very sad...:(

Johny Law to be fair, his body was dehydrated after two weeks...if we're going there

Ricky G he was less than 120 pounds that last year or two of his life.

Damn he weighed as much as me

+Susan Staley-Simpson It seems you have as big of a crush on Mr. Staley as I do :P heheh you comment on every video!

+Christopher Bishop how could you not he was gorgeous and amazing and he left us too soon rip

Ik i am a fan of anything that has to do with him myself

+Susan Staley-Simpson I totally agree.

u seem cool as shit and to love Alice as much as I do awesome

This song needs to be revisited. It certainly deserves more attention. Probably needs to be re-released. Especially now in 2023. It is more relevant than ever.

@@annwrogtruth!!!!!

its definitely "fairweather friends of mine"

"Just repeat a couple lines" There were more lyrics but Layne kept slurring them so they repeated "a couple lines".

I choose the day One damp and grey

heroin is bad, but methadone it harder to withdraw from!!!! :(

Heroin is safer than any pain killer except opium, morphine, morphine sulphate, and a few others. It is the strychnine, quinine, drain cleaner, paint thinner, surface cleaner, diacytal codiene, 6MAM, and possibly more dangerous substances that make it worse on the brain and body than tobacco or alcohol.

There's been a batch of photos from these recording sessions that've been widely distributed lately and Layne doesn't look that bad in them. A little frail and confused looking, but no worse than Jerry looked during this time. I'm pretty sure by this point, given the precarious state of this band, they probably knocked these tunes out and all involved parties were thankful to get the two songs recorded that were. As far as videos went, it was probably beyond their point of care at that point how they were handled.

Yea I have a couple of pics of layne that are supposedly after this I'm guessing?? It didn't even look like him. But all I can say is I just don't do drugs I really don't care what is safer it's all shit if ya ask me. I've seen it tear people up.

Chris Edwards seriously he didn't look that bad? The pics where he don't even look like layne and where he so skinny and possibly missing teeth? The one where he's blowing out candles and the one with the guys dressed up? He def looks worse than jerry those pics are depressing he was in bad shape recording this song and died.

Amen.

Hope all is well for u friend :)

saintdlee wish people would quit romanticizing his death. He died a broken man in the throes of an addiction he’d been struggling with for over ten years. As for those lyrics... JERRY WROTE THEM. He wrote almost all the lyrics and music for AIC except for maybe 4-5 songs. “Don’t Follow” that you quoted was written by Jerry because he was on tour in Europe missing his girlfriend.

Tse Tsa layne wrote more than 4-5 songs. he helped with almost every one. layne and jerry both wrote.

Tse Tsa - I counted 40 songs

Rich and growing sicker

In my opinion he didn t od accidently...he was fed up and tired to struggle in vain....he gave up for a long time and tried to suicide a couple of time ....that s why he was found dead with a plugged syringe of tar in the hand.....it s a suicide!if the first hit wasn t enough to kill him he was prepared to do an other one until overdosing......so so sad

What should not have neem possible, was made very possible. Amazing song.

It makes me seriously wonder about the music that they could have produced had Layne conquered his demons. Honestly? If you were to ask me what Layne and Jerry could have done if Layne had gotten clean and Jerry as well, with both of their talents unimpeded by the evil drugs, they would have created music that put everyone else to shame. They were the greatest duo in music, in my opinion. Those two would have been completely unstoppable

Nd Hickson probably would’ve sounded like some of Jerry’s solo stuff, degradation trip was a great and really dark album. It’s a shame Layne’s productive time in the band was really short, basically from 89-96 and that’s it, a few songs here and there but that’s about it, they probably could’ve cranked out a lot more great shit. Jerry is one of the best songwriters ever and Layne singer so the combo would probably always deliver.

@@puppetmaster8551 you're probably right. Imo it probably would be a mix of Jerry's solo work and AIC's last three albums with DuVall. DuVall is a great vocalist and guitarist but Layne was just one of a kind and had he been able to kill his demons once and for all, there's no telling the endless amount of mind-blowing music that would be here today

@Ty Shakur Jerry wrote 90% of the songs.

fatfender48 for a group that wrote some of the most heavy, depressing and dark songs about drugs and addiction... they were pretty goofy when they weren't playing or writing. they had a great sense of humor as evident from Nona Tapes and AIC23.

fatfender48 Dude, couldn't have said it better myself.

Source, link please

yeah, he was like 80 pounds... at 6 feet tall, can't even imagine that

Lorenzo James he was 80 pounds after he was found dead, he had decomposed already. as for the video, they used old video for everyone else as well, probably to portray the getting born again message in the video.

Steak & eggs > industrial strength chemicals

@@jaymz that wasn't even him in make up?