on such a binge tonight

Alice in Chains has always been something that you can't really put a label on. Sure...we call it grunge to put our minds at ease. I personally cant put a finger on what I like about AIC, but I'm pretty sure that my understanding of music would be quite empty without it.

Right now!

Yessir

Same!

Agreed they are killer together

+Samantha Catt 😎 🎶 💗 🎤 💗 🎶 😎

Totally soared....

they really did mesh together, an a really unexpected way, just amazing!

Totally beautiful! Jerry is the only reason I was able to listen to AIC after Layne died.

No doubt!

Legendary band!!!!!

seriously!

Well said my friend. I grew up on these guys music and I've just come back to it at 28, holy fuck these guys are on it

@@poopybutt12345 ditto...minus the age part LOL

I do agree

Probably because they were all basically strung out out on H throughout their entire existence. It’s amazing they were able to function & stayed together as long as they did.

I will certainly agree they are one of the darkest. I'm thinking top 5. There's alot of bands that could be considered dark, especially when you get into death metal and black metal. However, I'd argue the darkness that comes from AIC is because of the human condition. No satanic fireworks, just the virus that is being a human in this world.

@@S0RELOSER actually only Layne and Mikey Starr were on H. They both had periods of sobriety.

@@HildeAzul and Mike was a flash in the pan let's be honest

Agreed.

Agree

👍

TerroristNeutralizer agreed

"Holy fuckin' shit!" sang a Grunge band... Layne and Jerry sooo kool... i miss the 90's and i miss Layne...

I've never heard his look described as angelic and devilish before, but now that you say it, I definitely see that 😍💔😭

Hot!!!

@@starlightempress16 like Christ

@@starlightempress16 Lucifer looks angelic?

@@starlightempress16 Well, first off, there is no Lucifer. However, if there were, he wouldn't look angelic in the least. I don't know why'd you compare Lucifer (apparently looking angelic and devilish) to Layne Staley. Now , one could compare Layne to Christ in "Man in the Box", but perhaps I'm just saying that cos of his long hair, and the fact that he mentions Jesus Christ in the chorus. But strictly in a pure and good angelic Christ. No notes if devilish Lucifer. Well, that's my opinion. But, RIP Layne.

I'm pretty sure this is how it goes now somewhere there Can't be in another way😌

That's Jerry's dog Sunshine. The three legged dog that got that album unofficially titled "Tripod."

@@hollyw9566 none of the three legged dogs pictured or filmed in relation to that album were jerry's dogs, it's a common myth tho.

​@@hollyw9566no way!

It's a masonic staircase.

Same. I guess I was busy listening to Guns and Nirvana in the 90s. AIC is awesome!

@@slavianapeeva8216 In the 90s I was not even born yet. And often it makes me sad.

@@luvgrunge I used to be sad about not being born in the 60s :)

@@slavianapeeva8216 only if in America, not in Russia))

also and it became my favorite band, in my short life I had never heard such wonderful music, thanks aic

YEAHHHHHHHH!!! I absolutely LOVE IT. With the gravely voice in there....yeahhh!

Nobody yarled like Layne.

Layne Staley ♥️

yyyeeeaaaaaaaap...

"Yaaaaaaaaa" - Derek

That ability has never wavered. Even now Rainier Fog is amazing. You only have to listen to All I Am.

Grew up in the 90's and was more of a fan of the other bands of that era (e.g., Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), BUT.... always knew AIC had the best guitarist, hands down. Jerry's an incredible guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. The guy can do it all.

Corgan can shred too

Keenan Walsh of all time

@@marksalzburg6717 Mike McCready can rip as well.

2:56 Shredding

Jerry is king

Fun fact. Jerry made up the solo in the studio and recorded it in one take.

@@mr.mustang656he’s trilling, not shredding

Well said brother

I’m going through this right now.. can’t even describe the feeling. Can’t stop listening to them and thinking about Layne

Yeah, i remember when first got dirt when released. First track on that vinyl: them bones. Since i was a hardcore sabbath fan since childhood i was blown away with their sound

Christmas 1994 for me. No story to it but I remember that day better than I remember the person I was back then.

Not just Alice, there are so many I would love to hear again for the first time 😭😭

@@pliskenx51mm83 Soundgarden comes to mind :) But yeah, I agree, so many bands I'd love to be able to experience for the first time.

don't know that I'd go that far. he looked half awake and was clearly missing all his teeth, hiding track marks, etc

He was definitely not well around this time. In a music video you can expect them to look at their best but it doesn't paint the true picture.

@@Stuke51 You're repeating a story that is simply taylor-made for the riff-raff.

@@mackhomie6 He had teeth at that time. Probably was missing a couple as can be seen during MTV live but not all.

@@mackhomie6 that's a widespread myth. Layne wasn't missing his teeth during his AIC era

I think it's amazing when a person or animal over comes a tragedy that has happened to them in their lives. They don't give up. Shows a lot of strength. By the way, I think I dreamed about this dog and her barking. Lol!

I like how the gender of the dog changes like 6 times

I know that dog's meant to make all the thing look creepy, but being an animal lover myself and owning a rescued dog (even if mine has all her limbs), I actually like the fact that they didn't use a "perfect looking" dog, but instead, used one which looks like the majority of them out there... ❤❤❤❤

@@mrmrschorlton1153 yea, I was like "Is she or he someone else or the dog is a transgender?" hahahaha

@@lemursven9195 pretty much like humans and their gender changing :)

Like an 😇

What a beautiful song. Seriously.

I was thinking the same! The whole AIC discography makes me feel that way.

Dane Gonzales, yeah, but it is a false light in the true sense..just like the light of Lucifer, as in the sun..

A

A lot like Junkhead. Two of my favorite songs.

Chris Santiago hell ya

Fucking sexy

it ties into The Crucifixion, kind of a very obvious, but subliminal message..

Have you actually tried doing it? It's a lot harder than I thought!!!

He does that a lot in videos!!

Same here even tho nirvana and Alice In Chains came from the same place Alice In Chains just seems so much bigger and mature kinda like a political figure who knows what they’re doing

Well said. They have always latched onto something in my soul and still do all these decades later.

That Guitar Guy they harmonize so well

2+2=5

Yea his backing vocals went nicely with jerrys

Everyone thinks Cornell had the best voice from this era,I disagree, Layne was the best

@@bobbywhiteman9421 swear to god like Chris was good but ones touching Layne imo

Layne is irreplaceable. New singer bugs me. Can’t even...

К сожалению песни написанные Кантрелом мог петь только Лейн Стейли

Me.

Me too!!!

I’ve been on one for 25 years, LOL

I've been on a binge that has lasted about the last 4 years!! I don't see it going anywhere.❤

Tool is great too

mil y millon y mas los escucho a ellos

Aic was was favorite of all the grunge bands, Layne”s voice is so haunting and you can feel in every song, about his addiction his pain. In my book, one of the greatest singers ever. If you haven’t checked it out. Watch Aic live at the Moore, his vocals are so powerful, before his heroin addiction took hold of him.

Again and again and again and again (I think y'all get it)

True! Tripod is amazing! Cheers 🍻🍻

It's so fucking awesome loved it since I bought the cd the day it was released and still got the cd,Layne we get u

Not underrated by me I preferred this to pearl jam and soundgarden and nirvana actually.

was good but coming after facelift and dirt the bar was set unbelieveably high

@@AnnaLVajda I prefer AIC and Soundgarden. Nirvana and PJ are great, but they just don't do it for me, so to speak.

John Stifter why 4 billion?

@@MichaelMyers-po9je why not?

Keep watching, slim.

Your wish has come true

It prob does People downloading it and watching on different channels

con ellos empece este tipo de musica

Same with Stone Temple Pilots! So many great tracks. Love both❤

My daughter's favorite. Mine's Jar of Flies... and Mad Season...

It’s such a sad album though, especially when you know the extremely dark road Layne took after 1995.

Well yeah. Most of these Seattle bands are heavily influenced by sabbath. Sound garden is basically a sabbath cover band

@@morelife6508 Tad is also sick

Enjoy the key change.

Anyone with me?

Honestly thought it was a little cringe lol, love the song tho

Nobody would have known that unless you pointed that out!

@@bballjd7438 Weird IMDB obsession, more information than you'd expect on there. I guess it's not really notable though, nobody really knows Layne's death date, same as Cobain and a lot of other secluded deaths.

I recognized him from a movie

🤘🏼😎🔥

Yea and Layne appears laying in the video as if he were dead. It's foreshadowing...

Hope you're doing well. Get better. I bet I would love you if I knew you. Don't hurt yourself. Okay?

That must be the trippiest thing for all your loved ones around you to be planning for your death when you're still alive

@@Targeted_1ndividual It added to the shame I felt regarding unintentionally hurting others. I remember my mom crying and saying "A parent should never have to bury their child I understand why funerals were planned for me given the prognosis from my health care providers, hospice, constant relapses and hospitalizations, blood work, and vitals from how emaciated I would get. Now, after 3 decades, I have been physically healthy for a record 5 years. Mentally I still battle it. AiC helps me fight it and make choices that keep me physically healthy.

@@carolineroggenbuck9381 stay well and keep listening to Alice in Chains, doctor's orders

@@Targeted_1ndividual

+dolan dak exactly what I was thinking watching this video.

***** burden in my hand is perfect yes.

Einhander 151 well first of all there is no grunge anymore.second, really? All I see now is sluts shaking their asses and singing shit music. And third the atmosphere is very different. It reminds me nothing from the 90's

Einhander 151 No I'm not. Just stating facts. Definitely prefer MC Hammer over today's bullshit. And today's rock is just meh whatever the most boring thing

***** MTV in the 90's was pure music. I miss watching Beavis and Butthead and then Alice in Chains or Pantera. It was the best thing. Now it's complete crap I agree

Very kind of you... I hope that someone somewhere creates an HD version of this video. I wrote the concept for this video and also directed it - my original first draft is on IMDb, along with some "behind the scenes" photos.

​@@rockyschenck6811can you share more on this? It's very interesting!

@@rockyschenck6811why is no one talking about how you are literally the person who made the video

One of his best and that's saying a lot!

NOTHING SNEAKY ABOUT JERRY... ABSOLUTE MONSTER

* Stone Cold Business

Pratik Karki soooooo true!

Pratik Karki down tuning usually sounds heavier in my opinion opposed to some standard tunings used in like speed and thrash.

This riff is exactly why I prefer they dub AIC Sludge Metal, heavy metal, anything, anything, just not “grunge”. There are so many sub genres that it’s worse than the amount of college bowl games. But Jerry’s riffs kicks so much ass, that sludgy-ass, deathly thick tone.

Even Mick Thomson from Slipknot says the slowest riffs are the heaviest as apposed to the faster riffs.

Douglas Walsh yeah I also said they are not grunge, they are sludge.

Congrats! Glad ur still here

Stay strong and keep up the good fight brother.

Jerry is sooo underrated. People always talk about Layne but Jerry wrote the songs! Well 90% of them anyway. Layne wrote the lyrics.

agree

Not exactly. He wrote most of the stuff from Facelift and before, about 60-50% on Dirt, and about... 20% on Tripod. But yeah, he is a hell of a writer.

Blader He meant Jerry wrote 90% of the music. Layne and Jerry wrote 50% of the lyrics each

Amie SilentHill he also destroyed Alice in chains the new guy is awful he should have left it alone

I first saw this video in 1995.

It’s my favorite solo. When Jerry plays it live it sounds completely different though.

its sooo good

Jerry is a Legend

Amen my brother. I felt his soul through his music. I'd love to have met him. Off topic of AIC, I did indeed get to meet and hang out with another great soul. Mr. Ronnie James Dio. Our local band "Touch" had won MTV'S Basement hits back in the 90's. The singer of the band had a fantastic voice. We all were close friends. Ronnie had heard about them and invited us all to his upcoming RI, New England gig. We went, we saw and got to spend 5 hours with him and his band mates. Let me just say, for such a petite man, he had lungs of a giant. He and just talked and talked about my culture, Greek Mythology. He was into it. It was like talking with my friend of 10yrs. It was an honor to meet this great man. It was also refreshing that he was not into drug's, alcohol. No disrespect to Layne. I loved Layne's work.

That's awesome, rock on. RIP DIO!....There's a few bands I've seen live that I'll never see perform ever again like Pantera! I seen Pantera play 3 times here in NY. I wish I had seen AIC perform live but I was too young at the time and Layne wasn't healthy enough to tour. Waited and waited, then finally they do unplugged which was the only thing in the world that I wanted to see ( besides the opening gig spot for Kiss after unplugged). But who the in hell can get tickets for that? Anyway, I've heard so many great deeds Layne has done for people in general. He was a humanitarian at heart, and went out of his way to help people. After a gig in NYC '91 he befriended a homeless man on the street and brought him up to the suite they were staying at and hung out with the guy, gave him food and drinks. He was very polite in general and never ragged on people. Just a sweet guy with a huge heart, and to me outweighs the drug addiction.

Doug Prishpreed Oh nice. Pantera! ! Dimebag was explosive on his guitar. Very sad. I'll never forgive Phil. As for Layne. I heard that same story regarding the homeless man. It doesn't surprise me. Such a beautiful spirit. I hope he's at peace now. Some people are so pure that their time on earth is short. What breaks my heart is, he died alone. His actual death was April fifth. His body laid there for fourteen frigging days. Mike Starr was the last one to see him alive. Where were the others? That's just not humane. I remember the media coverage referring to his death as a gruesome discovery. I can't stand the media. I wept like a child. Now I'm going through this addiction from hell with another great young man. My son. He's a brilliant artist. I sent him off to college. He returned home with a bachelor's degree and a heroin addiction. My god I'm scared all the time...Sorry for the heaviness. Just came out..

I do. I had him quite young. He's my world! Thankyou hon. I'm 45.

Kat Hamilton Forgive Phil, none of us can know what it was like to be around them or be them. He has to live with it every day, that he left the band and that a lost soul took Dime from us. Hes a powerful human being who was going through a lot of things himself. I saw Pantera live once and its one of the highlights of my life. Peace.

Same here, my friend!

hell yeah this is heavy as shit

He is yah best heavy metal band of the 90s alongside Pantera great guitar player

He shreds....he shifted into more melodic guitar style later on but most of his AIC days he was more metal but with melodramatic overtones leading the shift from metal to grunge thus leading the new experimental grunge movement. A good musician changes over time. If one stays stagnant they basically are on the way out creatively and start to sound the same. A real musician grows for better or worse. As ones life changes their music must change to remain authentic and resonant.

@@FreeUrMindz such an underrated comment

Is he considered bad?

I always thought the Let me sleep so my teeth won’t grind Was Let’s sleep somewhere safe from time

@@brockdavid I like your version a lot.

Well stated.... .... American proverbs!

As someone who wakes up listening to AIC I totally agree

Always!!!!

5 am everyday 🤩😂

True

Let me just insert the name "Chris Cornell" right here

And Eddie vedder

Preach!

Peter Steele...?

Have you ever seen Damon Albarn?

Even though I wasn’t alive Dearing Layne’s prime, I can agree.

@@Artsqool I beleive it was the best time for Music: Grunge, Techno, Rap and Industrial and the best time to be young really.

Has one of the heaviest sounding verses in an Alice In Chains song and one of the most upbeat choruses in an Alice In Chains song.

It's an excellent habit!❤

there is no try, there is will

@@jayd1687a though I kinda understand maybe something in life prevents the ability to turn it on, or listen.

No he wrote the music and was credited for the lyrics despite lane writing most if not all

bs17warrior wrong. he wrote almost all of the lyrics.

bs17warrior that’s so false, Jerry wrote the music and him and Layne basically split the lyrics 50/50. They didn’t just credit Jerry for a bunch of lyrics Layne wrote

That’s just not true. Early on in the band Jerry was responsible for writing the music and most of the lyrics. Around Dirt Layne started writing more of the lyrics and occasionally writing the music. By the time of their last album with him, Layne was writing almost all of the lyrics. Had Layne lived on, he probably would have continued being the main lyricist in the band while probably helping out more and more with the music as well. Either way, to say he wrote most lyrics is just not true.

The fact that there’s always people like you guys arguing this proves that no one actually knows anything for a fact

their stuff was always background music to me until I recently heard Angry Chair on the radio and wow, it really grabbed me and now Im reevaluating their music.

​@jerrycantrell6672TROLL

Is this really Jerry Cantrell? What's up bro, love your music!!

stupid is as stupid does...1.3k people that voluntarily clicked on it....nuff said

Oh the claymation is fabulous too. 90s were a real trippy time.

Layne would not care.

omg Layne could t have been more wrong has he seen Sea of Sorrows video?? .. he could have been a model as well .. also here very charmig,very charismatic

Their opinion matters not

I think their most underrated song is iron gland

@@connorthegoner5502 Iron Gland isn’t a single

Baphomet in video = This video is illuminati Demons in video = This video is illuminati

monstros gigantes very true.. and Layne ended up being the one sacrificed..but by this point he knew he was there.. and I think had Mike Starr never gone on Dr. Drew's Celebrity rehab and sought help elsewhere being the last to see him alive and publicly saying how he felt years after Layne's death, he'd be with us too. John Lennon said it right. This world is run by insane people..

where is he?

derek farmer both Layne Staley and Mike Starr passed away in April 2002, then March 2011and.. well no offense, but unless you live under a rock, don't know music or aren't 40 like I am, going on 41in a few months, John Lennon has been dead since December 8, 1980. The former Beatle was shot by a derranged fan Mark David Chapman in front of his New York home with his wife Yoko Ono and second son Sean. As for Layne Staley and Mike Starr they died of heroin overdoses basically. Layne really of a speedball of cocaine and heroin and Mike of opana an opiate like heroin.

i know he died i was asking where Baphomet is

kids need to ask their parents what they listened to, only my dad is the reason i heard of donkey kong jr.

I'm 13 and I love this stuff

mats severe crippling depression I couldn't agree more these poor deprived youngsters have no Idea I truly miss this music those were the days when pure talent was required to even be heard before auto tune and not just anybody could do what these guys could did now any Tom, Dick and douchbag can make a record !!!!!! Oh well at least we can enjoy what was real art RIP Layne Staley !!!!!!

mats severe crippling depression same love them

now your becoming a man :)

btw not Layne's song. Music and lyrics written by Cantrell.

also Jerry wrote most of their songs. Layne main contribution was lyrics.

Hahahahah

@@shoshoncaligula5512 what’s so funny bruh

@@shoshoncaligula5512 yeah y r u laughing

I was recently diagnosed with autism and I listened to AIC so much growing up. The resulting lack of hope, depression, and being so obviously different definitely drew me to this band. Especially the poetic lyrics and rawness of the music. It was so comforting to listen to during my adolescence.

@@AH-ov1pe why do you think autism cases are like 1 in 54 when it used to be in the tens of thousands ? think about it .

@Jerry Cantrell Hello Jerry, it's very nice to meet you too. I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. How are you?

+Alexia Armstrong so are you :)

+Alexia Armstrong It was Sunshine, Jerry's dog. Jerry loved animals he always had dogs, cats and horses!

poor dog

What? It was a happy dog, it wasn't dead and could enjoy hanging with a great pack. Even though some of the pack only had two legs.

You are gorgeous and you like aic!