More AIC REQUESTED PLEASE

His name was Layne Staley. And he was phenomenal. This band is the epitome of a 90's Grunge band. Hence the grunginess on the voice and music. Unfortunately, we can now only listen to his already recorded stuff. He passed a few years ago. His addiction got the better of him. RIP Layne💔

This is a very deep rabbit hole full of good tracks mostly dealing in anger sorrow regret loss and addiction with a handful of masterful musicians two great lyricists who harmonize beautifully and Layne is definitely one of the best singers to come out of a decade that was full to bursting with great singers

Layne Staley has one of the best voices in Rock.AIC-Don’t Follow

This performance is a vocal masterclass! 🔥

I saw these guys live when they opened for Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer at the aphmitheatre in East Troy, Wisconsin (Alpine Valley). The crowd wasn't there for them so not too many people witnessed how freaking powerful they were live. I don't remember the year but it was very early on in their career. But, I can tell you, Britt, I watched that whole concert and what I remember most was Alice In Chains. For a band to blow away the three iconic headliners of that tour (those other three bands chose to switch possitions as headliners throughout that tour) AIC honestly blew them out of the water with only their music and no stage theatrics. What I remember most was how Lane's vocals traveled up and down the valley and the mountainside. It was like a natural reverberation. It was like the first generation of surroundsound. I'll never forget it. I witnessed greatness that day.

Rip to Layne Staley , one of the best voices ever whether it was live or in the studio he could always make you feel thru his voice

He vocally took it from 10 to 100 QUICKLY!

AIC is one of those bands that you'll get stuck in a rut with. You can feel Layne in every line he sings, and you get addicted to hearing it. Its a love hate relationship, that i love.

When I bought "facelift" I was immediately drawn to this track. This live version, early on shows Layne and his power. RIP my brother.

This is one of my favorite Jerry Cantrell guitar solos as well as Layne's killer vocal

This has always been at the top of my list for best live performances of the 90's. Their Mtv "Unplugged" is on that list too.

Love your heavy music reactions!❤️🤘🏻 AIC was such a huge band. The change from the 80’s to the early 90’s in heavy music was a great time to be alive.

Bleed the freak from this same show in 1990 is also insanely good. There will never be another Layne Staley RIP.

My favorite band ever! Awesome reaction 🙏

A true legend gone WAY too soon!! RIP Layne...

I love seeing people discover this performance for the first time!

AIC has been a staple of my mental health therapy

The first time I heard Man in a Box on the radio, I was driving at work. I had to go to a mall and find a Music store to immediately buy the album to hear more. Was NOT disappointed!

Such a deep song. Thanks for reacting to it Britt!

Layne was one of the greatest vocalists to ever grace the stage!

I literally just watched your reaction to "Down in the Hole" yesterday (and subsequently subscribed). I posted a comment to react to this song, and voila! here it is! Thank you!

This song and "Confusion" are my favorites from their Facelift album. God stuff!

Yes thank you for reacting to this.. this song hits me hard plus I feel every reactor should do this song his voice. R.i.p

His voice is only every generation a man born for this he can bring you on a ride not just music but can comfort one all know pain in time it creeps into are lives

A few suggestions... Man In The Box Rooster Would Down in a Hole Them Bones No Excuses Heaven Beside You Angry Chair

Such a beautiful song, and love the rendition, they are such a staple in the music world!!! And means a lot that you appreciate it as well! Love you girl!!!

Yours may be my favorite reaction of many I've seen of this song . Glad you liked it !

I love that song.🤟

For all of us of that age...of everyone we've lost from our youth, Layne hurts the worse.

Truly incredible

Do you remember your first reaction video of Alice with the singer (Layne Staley with pink hair) harmonizing with the guitarist (Jerry Cantrell), well this is the same band at their beginning. First albums, "Facelift," and "Sap," put out a year apart, and would be the case for future albums to come. Layne at his most raw with a serious addiction with heroin which led to break-ups with women, and was the driving theme of most of their tunes. Oddly enough Jerry wrote most if not all the lyrics for the band, as well as his part musically. Layne slipped deeper and deeper into his addiction until it got the best of him and he died. Bass player Mike Star would later also pass away from the same drug. That pink hair show was Mtv Unplugged, and the last time Layne would sing live with the band.

This whole concert was 🔥

Back in the early 90’s i guess it was, you had the grunge era, with groupls like Nirvana, AIC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots. For whatever reason Nirvana gets the most love, but by far wasnt the best, song wise, vocal wise. Just my opinion. Layne the lead singer of AIC was just special.

On your way to 100k girl! You deserve it. You're reactions are great. Keep up the good work. This song is one of my favorites by AIC. 🤘

Damn I love Layne (R.I.P.)!

Another outstanding vocal performance is Queensryche "Take hold of the flame" (live in Japan 1984)🤯

Loving the intelligent reactions. R.I.P. Layne and Mike. Whole band PDC! For a new band try Steelheart "I'll Never Let You Go"

So glad you finally reacted to Alice in chains, they were one of my favourite bands ever. Saw them many times, and even got to meet Layne, a night I will never forget.

Let us not forget this performance was LIVE. His was also before Layne got into heroin.

We see you grunge girl 🤘 to bad he didn't love himself half as much as the rest of us did ~ tortured artist personified ~ R.I.P~

As many will mention, Layne (the singer) is no longer with us. BUT...Alice in Chains the band is still rockin' it hard and they've produced some great albums with new singer William DuVall, and guitarist Jerry Cantrell taking up more singing duties as well. Maybe check out their song NEVER FADE, which is a tribute dedicated to frontman William DuVall's grandmother, Chris Cornell, and Alice in Chains' original singer Layne Staley.

Thank you for your reaction to this Britt

I have been listening to music since the late 1960's and Alice in Chains grabbed me in a way only Zeppelin has. They are the only two bands that I like over 95 percent of their songs

this is a crazy performance.

My favorite group since my teens

Very similar song to this in regards to how the music supports the lyrics and is live is the Tool song Sober. The music is very ominous and fits the lyrics very well.

This song is about the music industry,,, It's what took LAYNE'S life, He overdosed alone in sorrow, He was a tortured soul who hated Stardom.. As fans he was beloved, His vocals and lyrics spoak to the misfits in all of us.. You are missed brother, RIP😭😭 #Nutshell

Should check out there song Would, the official video...

Check out Long gone day by Mad Season. Same singer on vocals. (Layne Staley RIP) also river of deceit.

"Go have the day you deserve"...That is God love mixed with God truth. I won't steal it but I'd like to pass it on 😊

Hell yeah. More AIC!

The music is setting the tone for the song

Omg Britt I absolutely ADORE YOU The stank faces during this song, omg I bet you’re a blast to hang out with

Awesome reaction!!! Thanks 🙏 ✌️❤️🎸

I think Demri drove him crazy! He was singing to her.

Lyane (singer) had a way to ripping out your soul and stomping on it before putting it back. And you don't even realize he had it till it's back and bruised from the pain and emotion in his voice.

Layne Staley- the best, unique,amazing voice of all time ❤ RIP angel, he had beautiful, kind and good soul.. gone too early..

I found you through your Black by Pearl Jam reaction, then watched your 8 Mile ending reaction and now this Alice In Chains - all so good! New subscriber here!

I love Alice in chains! They have SO many more! Keep exploring ☺

LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore December 22, 1990, is LAYNE STALEY in his prime and UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION. All other bands should strive to have a live performance this perfect. Layne is better live than studio version. One of the very few singers who are better live. The entire Live at the Moore concert from December 22, 1990 was turned into a live vinyl album and VHS called Live Facelift. It cost about 75.00USD last I checked. The VHS has live concert footage from December 22, 1990 of: MAN IN THE BOX, REAL THING, LOVE HATE LOVE, SEA OF SORROW, BLEED THE FREAK, bonus footage of IT AIN'T LIKE THAT live and official videos for WE DIE YOUNG, MAN IN THE BOX and SEA OF SORROW. Jerry Cantrell is the guitar player. He's a certified Riff Lord. He respects any musician who KNOWS their instrument. Layne wrote the song about his tumultuous relationship with Demri Parrott (pronounced Per-roh). There was cheating on both sides. Listen to the song from the mindset of a sociopath. How many times did Layne come back home from being on tour to find another guy just so smitten-puppy love-tattoo-you-on-my-chest in love with Demri at first sight. But the Demri fans think Layne should have lain down and taken that because he deserved it for screwing groupies on the road? There a few stories of her on the road with him where the first thing she thought of was scoring junk before anything else. I've come to the conclusion that apparently to Demri fans the Layne/Demri relationship is a sacred, hollowed relationship and NO ONE is allowed to side with him against her for what she did to him with the drugs and cheating on him, but he was lower than a snake for what he did to her with the drugs and cheating on her. She was so independent, she DID NOT even want to be recognized as his girlfriend (God-forbid that ever happen). Even though the second he told her he wouldn't get her any more drugs, she just turned around and shacked up with the next guy who would do what she wanted. Her family called Layne back home from GERMANY where he was on tour for a damn intervention with her. Layne never thought interventions worked, but he did it for her. There was one instance where Layne sent her out for coke or something, and she came back with heroin. Hell, it wasn't like Demri was headed for a life in a convent when she met Layne and on the day she was to take her holy orders, Layne corrupted her. She already knew how to get drugs when they met. Layne could have wished upon a star a million times over that she would have married him, but she wasn't going to give up the drugs any more than Layne would have, so there was no way in hell she was marrying him. She had such a feminist independent streak. When they were making the SEA OF SORROW video, the girlfriends were all invited down to participate in the video. Every girlfriend showed up EXCEPT Demri. She didn't even show up to support him let alone be in the video. Discussing the title track "DIRT", Cantrell stated that "the words Layne put to it were so heavy, I've never given him something and not thought it was gonna be the most bad-assed thing I was going to hear." Staley said he wrote the song "to a certain person (Demri) who basically buried my ass". In an interview with the Canadian magazine M.E.A.T. in December 1992, Layne Staley said about the Dirt album cover: "This album cover... I like to refer to it as "revenge". The woman on the album cover is kinda the portrayal of that person being sucked down into the dirt (laughs), instead of me. The picture is the spitting image of her, and that wasn't even planned. Actually, I was pretty angry about it when I first saw it - she's not happy about it either (laughs). It was real eerie. The girl on the album cover is really Mariah O'Brien NOT Demri. She had two heart surgeries that Layne paid for and two lung surgeries (that Layne also paid for) all stemming from endocarditis that she contracted through intravenous drug use. She passed away on October 28, 1996, from a bacterial infection that was a complication from the last overdose she had. Even though they had broken up for good by 1994, he still loved her and she was still hanging around in 1995 and 1996 before she hooked up with someone else a few months before her death. Demri’s death devastated Layne. A few months later, Layne asked her mother for the teddy bear Demri had with her in the hospital and a few other things. It took another few weeks and an accidental meeting on a busy street to exchange the items. The consensus was that Layne never got over Demri’s death. He used her death as the catalyst to go into a drug-induced tailspin in which he would take his addiction to lengths few could imagine or sustain. (This is coming from a Layne fan who was NEVER a fan of Demri and the many times she strung him along)

Great reaction!

Yes, the silhouette. Thank you for saying that. Everything that can be said about Layne's vocal performance has been said, but no one ever mentions the Layne/Jerry visual dichotomy. I actually have a screenshot of it that I use for my FB background photo.

Beautiful young lady!

I think you would love Nutshell from their MTV unplugged session

I'm so glad I never got in a toxic relationship.

I believe Lane is Church's fav vocalist.

G.O.A.T!

Yep; "Wow!". There wasn't really many words that could describe Layne Staley...

❤Layne

Guitar solos...let em be :) 🤘

Great performance. You definitely don’t need him to tell you it’s about pain.

Man in the box reaction!

Nice reaction. They were good

Check out Halestorm.Lizzy Hale got a good scream.

he was real!

Love me some Britt ❤ Another great reaction 💯

Idk if you normally do this kinda stuff but I think you should totally check out “the writ” from Black Sabbath it’s one of ozzys best vocal performances and it’s also a jam

If you hear the base and drums mealt together it will help you enjoy the heart of love and hate it is a thin line

hold you

Peace homie

It's the same singer with pink hair that you reacted in "down in a hole".

Please do the unplugged version it hits different trust and believe

The world did end in 2012. You young people, enjoy and listen to everything before that time, when you could still see original things. Mainly 70's, 80's and the first half of the 90's. Really when all the originality in music and then in culture in general was gone. The refarm remained, creative and nothing else. Now it's the territory of bubbles and zombies, brain eaters... poor disembodied souls... too late. Escape to the hills...and focus on what we never were, ourselves in that other world...no cynicism, alright...Bub!

If you want a comparable performance watch “Pearl Jam - Release (1992 Holland) live”. I was blown away by the passion behind Eddies voice.

you need to check out Jerry Cantrell solo

Btw love your voice just had to mention

You need to check out Michael Bolton.. how am I supposed to live without.. when a Man loves a woman

so glad you reacted to alice in chains. Cheers.

bleed the freak and queen of the rodeo next

I have a song suggestion 🙋🏻‍♀️ Nine Inch Nails “Something I can never have and the ORIGINAL “Hurt” 👋🏻 Johnny Cash DIDNT WRITE ✍️ THAT SONG! Lol as always love to all from Memphis!❤

Hold you I'm sure.

Mental instability is obvious in some, and not others.

He was crying out for help in a lot songs

Yeah he’s imo, better than Cornell…….. cue the arguments, I get it.

Alice in Chains - Would?

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Not sure there has been a better singer since Layne yet.

The "she" he is singing about is heroin.

its gross