The best thing you said is "We need to bring this kind of music back!" Amen sister.

I've been listening to Alice in chains for 20 plus years and I still get chills when Layne sings

The intro bass is what hooks you and then it all just comes together in mastery. What a band. 'Love Hate Love' live at The Moore is epic.

This is where my Gen-Xer pride comes in. I grew up as a kid in my late teens and 20s with this era of music and saw a ton of great bands live in the 90s.

During the Grunge era not even Nirvana or Pearl Jam could hold a candle to them, they were second to none!

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 KZfaq 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. All of this has longer, more detailed stories but KZfaq has a cap on comment length.

The riffs,The power in his voice, Their sound, Timeless. R.I.P LAYNE.

I was 26 years old and living the wildest days of my life when Dirt was released. The entire album is a monster that leaves you bruised and battered in a good way. My father actually picked up Dirt for me because I played Facelift constantly, he passed 5 years later, thanks dad, miss you.

It is normal. Shivers, goosebumps, chickenskin, whatever, the phantasmal, ethereal harmony between these two gives me the chills.

I was a high school sophomore in 1982 in Seattle, hanging in wildly-unsafe basement clubs and dropping acid with a wildly-unsafe group of people. Growing up with that scene.....this is totally the soundtrack of my childhood. Walking around downtown, waiting for the first bus, drunks in doorways and wild staggering figures in light rain......I was 15 when I found all this and it still hits hard these days.

In the early 90s, four bands emerged from the Seattle underground, and changed rock music, forever. They were: Soundgarden Pearl Jam Nirvana Alice in Chains Be sure you check them all out!

It’s tough not to get a little choked up listening to certain songs, just knowing how it ended for Layne, been such a huge fan of Alice In Chains for so long and unfortunately I know that pain all too well, I was lucky enough to get out alive after 14 years, I never thought I would make it to 37 let alone 27, I didn’t want to or think I could live without it, couldn’t function without it, I still remember the pain of kicking it for the last time, a year straight of never going without, my tolerance was incredibly high at that time and spending thousands every month, luckily I had a child and as cliché as it sounds, my kids saved my life, kicking it for the last time was incredibly painful, not only physically but psychologically, I had developed an emotional addiction as well as a mental and physical addiction, I legitimately loved it, never been so sick in my life, the awful tingling in my shoulders and arms, it’s something you don’t understand unless you have been through it, absolute torture, couldn’t sleep more than an hour or 2 from just being exhausted enough to fall asleep only to wake up an hour later literally pouring sweat, throwing up, just the flu times 10 but I let it get that bad, I had a pretty good handle on it for years; responsible, reliable, never went too long without taking a day off, kept it together for a long time.

"We need to bring this kind of music back!" Ive been wishing for that for years

Edit: YES. YES IT IS NORMAL to have shivers from listening to that song! If "Would?" is your first foray into AIC, then girl, you better hold onto your butt, cos it's gonna be a bumpy (but beautiful) ride!! And if/when you start digging deeper into their history, and into Layne Staley in general, and really read/study their lyrics...well, just keep a box of tissue at the ready (and more bottled water). And don't forget to check out "Mad Season" too. 😉💔 As well as the book "Alice in Chains: The Untold Story" by David DeSola. 👍

An amazing track from an amazing record! DIRT is a Must Hear MASTERPIECE!!!

Layne had such a unique voice there will never be another. RIP🙏🏻

I still think this is the most bad-ass song in history. I lures you in, and then punches you in the face with the chorus. AIC will always be one of my favorite bands, and this is one of my top-5 songs by them! Love it!

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!

Goosebumps! And i have heard this songs hundreds of times! What a voice , what a band!

That's how you're supposed to feel when you first truly experience Layne and Jerry. Nothing will ever top Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore.

His voice. Is. Unmatched. To this. Day. What. A legacy.

OMG the second you stopped it to mentions your "shivers", I was sitting here watching and listening to it with chills throughout my body as well. WTF is that? Never mind the fact that I've heard this song thousands of times. Still gets me. I saw them back in August and man, even thought Layne wasn't there, it still was beyond amazing.

I've been loving this song for many years and I get full-body shivers every time I hear it

I think Would? Is my favorite Alice In Chains song, next for me is Dam That River.

All that music of the 90’s is so good because at its core it’s soul music

To check out Lane Staley's best vocal performance, you gotta react to Love, Hate, Love Live at The Moore. His vocals on that are just top notch, powerful, and beautiful. RIP Layne!

As a huge fan of this band for many years, love seeing reactions like this one!

Is full body shivers normal? With this band, yes. They’re a level of their own 🤘🤘🤘

This is essentially my favorite song of all time. I first watched this music video when it had just been released, and I had no idea what I was in for. I came away wanting to look like those guys, have their rock musician style, and further explore dark music that dealt with such heavy themes.

1 of my favourites if theirs. And no matter how many times I hear it, I still get goosebumps.

I am the only Alice in chains fan in my school. I have no friends who like Alice in chains. My friends all make fun of me for liking them. So delusional. They are clearly the greatest band of all time. Keep on listening to them 🤘

"We need to bring this kind of music back!" Well, I have good news for ya. Alice in Chains is still going. And still just as strong as ever!!

Lane is a legend

These musicians deserve goose bumps.

Entirely normal to get the chills!! I have been listening to this song since forever, and still got the chills when it started playing =) Perfection.

This song came out in 92 and it's really cool that you enjoy it that much because; you happen to have the same early 90's style (clothes/makeup/hair style) AND YOU LOOK SO GORGEOUS!!!. I was 10-11 years old and, when I think about that era, sometimes it makes me cry.

I've been a big fan of Alice in Chains since 1990. I was 20 years old and I will always love AIC!

Layne Staley with Mad Season doing River of Deceit is freaking beautiful & haunting especially Live

Thanks so much for this reaction I LOVE THIS SONG. My favorite Alice in Chain song is always changing, but for now I will say "I Stay Away." If you react to it please watch the music video, IT'S ICONIC. If you would like to hear other great 90's grunge/alt. rock/metal bands, I would suggest Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Corrosion of Conformity, Rage Against the Machine. Candlebox and White Zombie. And of course you know my hidden gem..."Paw."

Would? is my first AIC song and suddenly loves it, I don't know how many times I've heard this song..

God it’s so hard to believe Layne has been gone 20 years now! It seems like it happened yesterday! Where does the time go?! Song still kills today though!

Yea you!!! Keen observation of this ode to the blissful suffering of addiction written by one friend to another

This song is dedicated to Andy Wood. He was this lead singer of the band mother Love Bone. Check it out it's amazing. He had a huge impact on a lot of people before his time expired and created a lot of bands such as Pearl jam Soundgarden and Alice in chains

Anyone who wants to hear & feel the power of Layne's true voice needs to watch the Unplugged session.

The beginning of this song is pretty good. For me it's at 4:22 . That is such a brilliant chord transition that at the time I had never heard anyone do and it just blew me away. It still does.

One of many songs written about Andrew Wood, former singer of fellow Seattle grunge band Mother Love Bone. He ODed days before the scheduled release of their debut full length album Apple. Andrew's former roommate Chris Cornell (RIP) of Soundgarden formed a one off bad called Temple of the Dog to record a tribute album for him. He brought in his drummer Matt Cameron and Mother Love Bone bassist Jeff Ament ad guitarist Stone Gossard. They were forming a new bad and brought in new lead guitarist Mike McCready and vocalist Eddie Vedder sang on tw songs while in town to audition for their bad, eventually named Pearl Jam. Ironically several Pearl Jam albums later after Soundgarden broke up, Matt joined on drums, making this an early version of the complete current line up.

I was born in 1970 and grew up on hard Rock and metal and when the '90s had and grunge and new metal hit the scene I was listening to all the stuff that people are now calling iconic and I was listening to it the moment it came out you name the group I was hearing it. The vibes that you give off on the channel awesome and cool personality and great reaction and you recognize good music it seems like

Imm 66 and have loved all forms of rock these guys are so awesome

For me, music died after the 1990's were over. The 1990's were a magic era for this sort of music. Alice in chains, Stone temple pilots, Soundgarden, Tool etc. I always find myself coming back to this sort of music :) To me this music is timeless - Hear something like AIC, Tool etc played today, I crank the volume and i am like "f*** yessssssssssss!!!!" :D

Glad you enjoyed. These guys are so good and that drummer is straight cuttin up.

Oh yes ...thank you so much for reacting to the absolutely brilliant AIC. It doesn't matter how many times I hear this song and all their albums ... the chills start. Looking forward to your next reaction. Peace and love from Liverpool UK 👍✌️🤘☮️

Out if every song in the world this is my all time favorite song. Get goosebumps every time I listen to it

Nothing beats that key change going into the bridge and it’s nearly the end of the song. Gives me chills every time.

80s and 90s music, just hits different. Especially if you lived it :D

It was fun seeing them live in like 92-93 for Free. Perks of a job

You said it…that is a great statement about it…they are still the same person inside, however addiction takes over and it is so hard for them to come back from it….I feel so bad for people who suffer from this…their friends and family suffer with them

1:22 that is normal. It's called frisson which is the phenomenon of chills or goosebumps that come from a piece of music (or from any other aesthetic experience)

If you wear a flannel shirt and listen to this song you are instantly hypnotized. That's just basic science. 😂

Criminal that this only has 218 views! That's lower than one of my songs lol. Great reaction

This and Deftones' Change (in the House of Flies) are in my opinion 2 of the greatest songs ever

The album DIRT and JAR OF FLIES are 2 perfect alblums. As well as S.A.P. and The self titled alblum everyone calls Tripod because it has a 3 legged dog on the cover.

Your reaction made me so happy, thank you.

Yes shivers are normal. It’s been over three decades, I still get shivers.

That whole album is amazing. Dirt, Sickman, Rooster.

Perfect song from a masterpiece of an album

There were no computers back then, no AI, no gaming, no computer mixing, when you messed up you started singing again. lol

WoW! I think I'm in love...with your taste in MUSIC!

I was lucky enough to see AIC on their first tour at the club 1st Ave in Minneapolis.

Hands down my favorite AIC song! The buildup at 4:01 before the "into the flood again" lyrics always gets me. Such a powerful song and each member shines on this one. So sad Layne's gone! Also, not sure it's possible to look cooler in the 90's than Layne with the slicked back hair, goatee, and shades! :)

"What the hell have I?" Alice in Chains

prolly my favorite song by these guys

Would? is my favorite alice in chains song

The Dirt album came out in 92 I bought it on CD and I jammed it all the time and it still holds up, the whole album is a ride that just makes you know it’s real RIP Layne and Mike

Been listening to this song since the day it came out (was already a huge AiC fan). As soon as the woo started I got those chill bumps all over just like the first time. So yeah it's supposed to do that lol.

Welcome to my teens in the PNW. I'm a grungy lil garden gnome and this makes me so happy 🌲🌊🖤

The interplay between Layne Staley and Jerry Cantell's vocals in always hauntingly beautiful.

Rock is dead it will never be back. The peak of rock started in late 80s with hard rock and metal and it went off after the grunge rock period ended in mid to late 90s. The rock stars and their performances will forever stay in our memories. It will never ever come back be happy with your Taylor swifts and Miley cyruses. 😂😂

This is music from a better time where musicians wrote their own songs , played their own instruments ,paid their dues , you cared who was number 1 in the charts and it actually meant something

'Rooster'!!!

YAY got it to go through. Always liked AIC. A shivering body is normal. Lush has been your word. -YourBiggestFan

Im So glad that you can appreciate good rock music 🎶❤️🤘 Rock will never die!!

Alice in Chains have been my favorite band for the last 30 years. They get better with time. I love your reaction. Would love to see you react to Rain when I die, or What the hell have I. Or them bones. All 3 songs are great!!

AIC.....Nutshell, I stay away, rooster, down in a hole, Love hate love............Saw them in concert after Laine passed, Laine was so good. Love them.

This song is amazing and, will stand the test of time, check out (Man in The Box) live at The Moore Theater. I challenge you to not headbang to this one 😎. RIP Layne we miss you.

Yes it's normal to get the shivers that's the effect Layne Staley's voice has on people

A lot of music has the instruments creating the sound with vocals added in. For some reason, with Alice In Chains, it always feels like the singing is the music, not added to it.

The 1st song on my playlist when i go riding.

Your first reaction to AIC hooked me to your channel. This one has been a long time coming.

As someone who's intro to music came about as a kid in the sixties. I started out with the Beatles, early Stones, the Hollies and those types of bands. Into the seventies, while I still listened to those bands, I ventured into more Stones and Beatles, but moved into Zeppelin, Sabbath, Bad Company, Pink Floyd, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, ZZ Top and Aerosmith to name a few. The eighties brought on more Queen, Journey and the intro of the hair band, or hair metal. Then the nineties hit and grunge kinda took over. I wasn't a die hard grunge fan, but some of it was a great listen and the radio got turned up.

The song is about their friend Andy Wood ....Jerry Cantrell wrote it

Just one out of my high school kegger playlists. It sucks getting old but at least we have the memories. Gen-X

Love that speaking voice! And " Chains " for more than 30 years!

Yes it is absolutely normal to get the chills.

"We need to bring this kind of music back!" Rarely have truer words been spoken, but does today's current crop of musicians have the talent, drive and lyrical philosophy to pull it off?

Thank God you GOT it!

I hesitate to call any music genre real music, but I agree more music like this is needed . Others probably suggested these Alice In Chains videos to react to are Love Hate Love (Live at the Moore), Them Bones, and Man in the Box, Nutshell (MTV Unplugged). Other great songs by them that don’t have an official video is Rain When I Die, Godsmack, Shame in You, Junkhead, and a ton more those are just some of my favorites. Fan’s will most likely mention Layne’s death because it affects so many of us but try listening to the music before reading about their personal lives. For me personally knowing a lot about a celebrity changes the effect of their music/movies, etc. I couldn’t listen to Nirvana for a few years after Kurt’s suicide, but that may just be me.

I agree with you, this music should be brought back. 90s were the peak of many genres, since then it seems like it's been in a decline.

Shivers are the best thing when listening to music! You know you got something better than good, it's special.

The most 90's music video ever! Love it!

I Love Me Some AIC, I live in Seattle and they are still huge in this city.Please react to Alice in Chains live at The Moore Theatre. I would check out (Man in the box) first, talk about mind being blown. YOUR WELCOME.