Alice In Chains - Would (Official HD Video) THE WOLF HUNTERZ Reactions 

God damn 55 years old and still missing Layne's powerful voice. AIC was a huge part of my crazy days, many memories from years ago seem like yesterday listening to this legendary band. Thank you for the reaction.

Would? is a song written for Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone by Alice in Chains. Andrew Wood died right before MLB debut album was released. Sadly Layne was singing about Andrew's heroin addiction.... This song is beautiful and heartfelt written for their FRIEND Andrew. the sweater Layne is wearing belonged to Andrew Wood for he was a very flamboyant dresser and into fashion. He is passionate because of their friendship. RIP Andrew and Layne. The Irony is heartbreaking 😪

Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell have some of the best blending voices in rock. Their voices are so similar that they can exchange parts and it sounds almost the same.

IMO Layne Staley is one of the greatest rock vocalist of all time

This song just rips, truth be told, the whole album is killer

I'm a 55 year old man and I'm proud to say my generation spawned the Grunge movement....RIP Layne.... missed by many.....God Loves Grunge!!!

I absolutely love Layne and Jerry's harmonies, especially on no excuses

Layne and Jerry probably one of the best when it comes to harmonies. Jerry is also a great vocalist in his own right, stepping up when Layne was in a low place and could do some of their latter stuff.

The backstory with WOULD? ... guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote the song for Andy Wood, singer of Mother Love Bone after Andy died of an overdose in 1990 just as Mother Love Bone was going to hit big. After Andy died, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament dissolved Mother Love Bone and re-emerged as Pearl Jam. WOULD? as a title is a play on Andy Wood's name. Layne sang the hell out of WOULD? and ROOSTER on the album, official videos and concerts in 91-93. WOULD? appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of Heart and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used IT AIN'T LIKE THAT from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs ROOSTER and WOULD? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used WOULD? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how WOULD? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt. Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe between 1986 and 2010. Jerry was fine doing backing vocals on the early songs like the ones they played in their clubbing days and on Facelift like the Call and Return of the chorus on MAN IN THE BOX until one day when he was trying to write songs for the SAP EP and the Dirt album, Layne looked at the lyrics and encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all, they were Jerry's lyrics. He should sing them. When Layne and Jerry sang together they achieved the perfect pitch of two voices making one voice. Layne Staley's vocal range can run rings around any other grunge singer in my opinion. Layne could sing the phone book and never hit a wrong note. Even at the end of his life, with no teeth and a lisp, his voice, wit and humor were all still there. Layne's voice and vocal range was so powerful he did NOT need auto tune or pro-tools until he lost his teeth and had a lisp around 1998, and even then he still killed the vocals. Barrett Martin (who played with Layne in Mad Season) said that when he stood to the side of the stage, he could hear the sound of Layne’s vocal resonance come out of Layne's body LOUDER than it did coming out of the speakers, Layne's voice was that powerful. The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because he was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was other drugs). His liver was damaged from the years of drug use. He was just high enough to do the show so he didn't get dope sick and to chase away withdrawal symptoms. He was such a ghost of himself during Unplugged. (Of course, Jerry had food poisoning) All Jerry saw when he looked over at Layne was his best friend was going to die soon due to Layne's choices for his life. That show was filmed on April 10, 1996, premiered in May 1996. They did four shows with KISS in June-July 1996, after which Layne survived an overdose and became a recluse. After that, it was a 6-year-long slow suicide. Before the show, drummer Sean Kinney and bass player Mike Inez argued with guitarist Jerry Cantrell about whether Layne could even pull off the high notes in some of the songs, which is why Jerry gave them that “I told you so” smirk after Layne hit that long, high note in DOWN IN A HOLE. He did the same thing again when he hit a high note in ROOSTER. The fact that Sean and Mike didn’t have any confidence that Layne could do the show and Jerry being the only one that knew deep in his heart that Layne could do it because Layne had done so many things against the odds over the years no matter how high he was at the time. When Jerry needed him to be there where it counted, Layne always pulled through. The entire show was a success because Layne did have a powerful performance despite his condition. He proved to his cynical bandmates that he could still sing the high notes and he pulled it all off beautifully while the same four guys (Metallica) who had mocked him for his addiction sidelining Alice In Chains from ever doing extended tours sat in the front row. The mistakes he made screwing up SLUDGE FACTORY 8 times even though the dvd only shows 1 time (and I think he screwed up GOT ME WRONG once or twice, but Toby Wright didn’t keep that in editing) were endearing, at least to me. They didn’t take away from the performance, it added something to the performance that, had it been removed after everyone had seen it, wouldn’t have made the show what it was. Knowing what Layne was capable of before, and what you see on Unplugged is the difference between night and day. Watch him sing DOWN IN A HOLE and knowing that this was the same guy who back in 1992 was hanging from the rafters of a low ceiling in a bar belting out LOVE HATE LOVE, that is what's heartbreaking. Knowing how he sang ROOSTER in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 1993 when his “yeahs” and screams were so loud and high I’m surprised the rafters didn’t come crashing down around him and then watch him sing the same song so low-key on Unplugged knowing he could do to the song what he did in Tilburg is heartbreaking. Knowing he initially sang the hell out of WOULD? on the official video and album and seeing the end of WOULD? on Unplugged . . . and knowing how deep into his addiction he had gotten by that point is heartbreaking. No one noticed Layne had died on April 5, 2002, 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 Alice In Chains manager Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911 on 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. Though I do applaud MoPOP including Layne Staley and Mike Starr when they inducted Alice In Chains in the MoPOP Museum of Pop Culture. It's more recognition of Layne (and Mike) than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (thanks to Rolling Stone's criticisms of Layne and his addiction) and the Grammys (who FORGOT him when he died) have EVER done. 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 kept his humor and wit even to the end of his life. All the information above has longer, deeper stories, and I could say so much more, but RU-vid has a cap on comment length. In the end, it all boils down to: Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote songs about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press.

Iconic band. Staley left us way too early.

RIP Layne Staley and Mikey Starr

Layne Staley was and is still my all-time favorite singer, what a huge lost.

Ok, next, Angry Chair!

so much talent in this band , Jerry and Layne trading vocals

Jerry Cantrell and Layne together was a super duo

I'm a huge Alice in Chains/ Layne Staley fan. Always have been and will be. The loss still is painful after 20 years, hasn't lessened any for me

I saw Layne in a three piece suit at the start of their set on Lollapolooza in 93 and it was like 95 degrees that day! Needless to say he took the jacket tie vest and shirt off after playing Would the first song to start the show! Very charismatic singer and great stage presence! His voice very unique and an unbelievable range! RIP Layne!

also Jerry Cantrell is an excellent singer and has several solo albums. ❤

Layne has the most beautiful haunting voice! And Jerry "the riff lord" Cantrell... ufff. Goosebumps.

I am loving the deep dives into Faith No More and Alice In Chains. My 2 favorite bands of all time.

Laynes's voice is life!

Bleed the Freak.....Junkhead 1993 MTV video only!!

I can’t find the reaction to Love Hate Live you referenced. Favorite performance hands down

Man, that dude could sing!! Such a sad life 😢

Lance looks like something from the H.Gaiger's nightmare

A great example of Layne's power is in this live video: Alice In Chains - Man In The Box (Live at Moore Theatre) (1990). His vocals, especially after the guitar solo, are impressive.

What a shame Layne passed away in my opinion one of the greatest voices of all time if not THE greatest

Layne Staley... favorite vocalist from the "grunge" era... really unique, powerful voice. And an absolutely fantastic, talented band. They were dark (as "grunge" bands tended to be), but their catalog is full of great tunes like this one. Jerry Cantrell was the mastermind behind it all.

Ouch the scream got me. lol. Love your reaction. AIC has " Rooster" , " Man in a box", Down in a hole". all great tracks. Keep up 😄your energy. Stay safe.

i'am a simple man, i see Alice in Chains i hit the like button :) If you want to go further on your AIC'journey, you got to react to "Rooster" and "Nutshell (MTV unplugged version)". You won't be disapointed :)

every time i hear old AOC I just wanna hug layne and say its gonna be alright... the pain this dude went through breaks my heart!!

Still my favorite group to come out of Seattle in the 1990s.

“It Ain’t Like That” is one of my favorite early AIC tunes.

Y’all have got to do “MTV Unplugged” “Down in a hole” 🔥🔥🔥 y’all have to see the live to see how good the harmonies are 👍🏼

R.I.P. LAYNE STANLEY. YOU ARE MISSED BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.

AIC are great, my favorite band of the whole grunge era.

Dirt is the album that will change your musical life, no matter what your life's like now. Give it a full listen one day, you'll dig it. 😎

People fail to realize how much Jerry Cantrell contributed vocally to A.I.C. Because Layne had such powerful vocals, is my guess.

Masterpiece

This is real music man. World needs more of this.

That was a tremendous song from that amazing era in Seattle when heavy, alternative, metallic Rock took over for the hair bands and sent them running for cover in the early 90s. For Alice in Chains try Down in a Hole. For Pearl Jam try the studio Garden. Amazing bands, Rock On and Enjoy! 🎸

I played this song for my friend when we were 16 and he had never heard AIC. This bass line hooked him immediately and he became a hardcore fan after the first listen. Jerry Cantrell has some awesome solo work yall should checkout. Cut You In and Solitude are two songs to suggest

Great reaction! Probably my favorite AiC song.

Layne's vocals alone was not the Alice sound it was Layne and Jerry's harmonies that made the iconic sound.

You both are so fun funny and entertaining so much great energy! LOVE IT!💯💯

Saw them live when they opened for Ozzy, Layne was wearing a cast on his leg

I was thinking They look so rad. When you jam you can pull anything off

the video is amazing as well, and the drumming and the look..I mean the whole package is just the perfect music video, it's as cool as a band could ever appear in a music video, but one thing I've always noticed is the chorus speeds up, never heard a song do that before, it's kind of annoying but they make it work..

this is talent big time masters of the universe

Back in 1991 I was given free tickets to see the band Extreme. I was not much of a fan of Extreme so I didn't plan on going, but it was a warm Summer night and I figured I'd take the Harley for a ride go check it out have a few beers and leave. Much to my surprise AIC was the opening act they were amazing. It was the only time I saw them in a small club, I saw them later at a huge festival concert but it was a short set and no where near the show at the club.

She knew it ahead of time.

Top10 Rock band of all times

Thank you for reacting to them❤❤

Their song Bleed the Freak from live at the Moore is another great song, one of many. Try reacting to Them Bones, Man in the Box, Rain When I Die, It Ain’t Like That Anymore, and Nutshell from the MTV unplugged version. Layne wasn’t in the best health but the way he walks out on the stage in his sunglasses & pink hair then sings so incredibly as soon as he sits down blows me away every time I see it.

The lead singer (with the short hair) i think his name is layne Stanley (well was) died from a drug overdose probably about 20 years ago.

Love alice in chains!! Love Jerry

Jerry Cantrell is why Alice In Chains was able to keep playing after Layne died. He did vocals on a lot songs but sounds so similar to Layne you miss them. There’s a song Grind were he’s lead and Layne does backup vocals but there’s definitely more Grind is the one that popped into my head

2:32 --- I like your wacky waving inflatable arm flailing Kermit the Frog cheer.

Please see AIC in concert. I've seen Queen 3 times, Rush, Foghat, the Moody Blues, Genesis, and I worked in a recording studio with Styx (did some work with Dennis DeYoung in his garage back in the late 70's) Chicago, and Alice Cooper. Glad to see people appreciate off the wall bands, Alice in Chains just rocked the alternative world. I'll see them again when I have the chance.

I hope one day you all react to their performances on MTV Unplugged.

This song is amazing and your band is also amazing and just followed your band on Spotify

EPIC song and one of the best breakdowns at the end in music. haunting to say the least.

Their best song. Hits on so many levels.

Greatness! 😎

Watch the live version of bleed the freak. Laynes best vocal performance.

Alice In Chains has always secretly been one of my favorite grunge bands of all time. I am always inspired as a vocalist in a musician to write songs deep and has affecting as them. No one can ever have a Voice Layne Staley. And no one can write those gray guitar lines like Jerry Cantrell. And no one harmonizes quite like these guys. This song always gives me the chills when I listen to it every single time. I knew from the first time I heard this when I was 14 years old that I would never look back with such admiration as I do now for these guys. Damn I miss this lineup! You guys always kick such great ass in your reactions and I always am entertained and love the positive energy and vibe that you guys both give off. And let me tell you young lady, you have quite the eyes and smile. It never hurts to have a pretty face and a handsome guy giving us these great reactions. Keep it rockin and keep it have you guys! I would love to hear you guys react to a Soundgarden song that not many people have reacted to which I think doesn’t get the appreciation it deserves…their song “Limo Wreck”. Would love to see you guys do a reaction to that song! Cheers to both of you🤟🤟🤟

Bad ass song 🎸🎸🎸💯 love this shit

Angry chair and we die young are some of my favorites.

I would say there a heavy metal band then a grunge band it set them apart with there heavy songs kick ass

The song is done for the movie Singles. Filmed in Seattle.

Alternative rock. Nutshelll, I stay away.....songs you wouldn't believe....Then switch to Genesis.......In the air tonight...have fun

Hard to say but this may be my fav AiC song. and that's saying something

One of my top bands of all time!!!!!

There is a live version when James Hatfield sings Layne's parts.

Respect the Seether Tshirt! AIC and Seether can't miss.

Seattle ....

An absolute masterpiece...and that bass intro!

literally the first live music i ever heard , 33 yrs ago, before they were signed, wow i'm old, but they were pretty great even when they were just kids themselves.

I love Me Some AIC, in the 90's when this came out my 13 year old Daughter would sit on the floor next to a speaker and p!ay this song over and over. I didn't mind cause I loved it as much as she did. She still loves this song, the only difference is she now has headphones. RIP Layne you are missed by so many.

Bye Layne :( miss ya homie

The 1st time I saw them live, I was going to see OZZY, NO MORE TOURS/ TEARS tour, and They literally Blew me away, THEY WERE EXCELLENT, and this song live, was JUST LIKE THE HIGHPOINT, and Layne was switching from a wheelchair to crutches throughout the show from a broken ankle. That night ALICE IN CHAINS ⛓️ BECAME MY FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME

Rip lane Stanley 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶

“Yeah you know let’s try to sound like Skillet, we’ll just go with the wolf hunters lmaooo

RIP Layne ❤️❤️Almost 20 years gone now.

This song has such an amazing funky rolling groove to it - I ‘would’ say it’s one of my fav AIC songs…..but they are all so amazing….ya cant’t just pick one!

Would is a top notch song not sure if yous have heard ‘Grind’ that’s another Alice in Chains song. You look like a great couple it’s my first time watching your channel. All the best hope you’re staying safe with all the covid stuff 👍 Matt from Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you so much for this, I love this band! It's a real shame that Layne died when he was still so young 😥 PS. Could you please react to Tailgunner: Guns for Hire? It's a great new British band 🤟🔥

Miss you Lane so much. These kids today just don’t know…….

Into the blood again.

Definitely legendary name

Me encantan estos dos ❤

This was my first introduction to Alice in Chains and it is still awesome.

Hes talking about Andrew Wood. Thats where the title comes from....

Check out Man in the Box, Them Bones, Down in a Hole, We Die Young, Again, Rooster

Rip Layne Staley

✌🎸🤘❤❤👍🙏

So .. just incorporate this into a new album by you all... Cause when you all go hard ...

One of the best grunge band of all times

RIP LAYNE STALEY RIP MIKE STARR

You have to listen to korn covering. Would it's awesome 👌