Hello B-E-A-U-TIFUL People!! SPECIAL QUESTION FOR YOU: What/who should I react to next?! __________________ In today’s video, I show you my reaction, as a Juilliard trained opera singer and vocal coach, to Alice In Chains - Man in the Box. Help make these videos possible: www.patreon.com/MaggieRenee Free Vocal Course for you: skl.sh/3aHdSuy Follow me on Instagram: @MaggieReneeMusic Thank you for your support! 🤘💖

"Love Hate Love" live at the Moore for his insane live vocals. Would love to see that one next. Keep up the great work!

Alice In Chains was one of the few bands that were better live than on record 🔥 ✌❤🇨🇦

When an opera singer can’t even understand how Layne had so much power in his voice!

No talkbox on this one. The guitar has a wah wah and he's just singing along the guitar's melody. It sounds amazing. Great react, keep em coming :)

Natural, God given ability. What could have been if he really worked on his gift. Listen how GREAT he sounds with minimal effort😎🖖🏼

That hits different while driving on the freeway

Losing Layne Staley to heroine addiction was such a great loss. When his 6'2" body was found, he weighed less than 90 pounds. His demons made his music poignant and powerful, but ultimately took his life. He remains one of my favorite vocalists ever.

Layne was a special talent that unfortunately came from screams from within himself and his demons 😔 even in the live performance where you saw Down in a Hole he was 20% battery life on heaps of heroin... yet singing he was on point still.... that's all soul

I can't tell you how much fun it is to watch an opera singer appreciate grunge! Talent is talent; genre doesn't matter.

Vocals were always on point with Layne. "Them Bones" is also great song by Alice in Chains and one of my favorites

It's been said that you could hear Lanes voice coming out of his chest over top of even the monitors If you haven't checked out any of AIC's live performances other then the MTV live You've robbed yourself of hearing one of the greatest most powerful vocalist of all time

Alice in Chains on MTV Unplugged. In fact all of the Unplugged series in great.

ICONIC TUNE

I never tire of highly trained and skillful singers getting completely blown away by a rock/ metal singer , and layne really lets it fly 🤓

layne staley was insane. great singer. RIP Layne.

Also “Bleed the freak” live at the Moore is a great vocal

Obviously you've read the comments that are telling you to seek out their live performance at the Moore Theater of several songs including this one. Their live performance of this song is AMAZING.

Love Hate Love is one of their best songs. Listen to the live at the Moore version. Epitome of vocal power!!!

Bleed the Freak; Would; Rooster; Love Hate Love; Sea of Sorrow. There are so many. Have fun.

In the "Down in a Hole" or that entire MTV Unplugged performance, Layne was a shell of what he once was, drugs had taken a heavy toll on him by then.

The live performances is where you see the vocal ability 🔥🔥🔥

I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s and started with the Beatles (I had two siblings somewhat older), then in the 70’s I came into my own, and listened to Pop, Rock, and into the 80’s the hair bands, more Rock, then when my son was in his teens, I was exposed to music like this, and loved it! This one and “Rooster’ were two of my favorites. I love some Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Sound Garden, and others. Shocker: I also come here for Home Free reactions! Rock is my favorite, but I do love other genres. Loved watching you get into this one! It was a blast!

I SO ENJOYED YOU ENJOYING THIS SONG!!! YOU, ME AND LAYNE WERE ALL SINGING THIS GREAT SONG TOGETHER! WOW! THANKS FOR GIVING THEM A NEW LIFE AGAIN - DEFINITELY IN MY HEART!

Alice in Chains Love Hate Love live at The Moore, never disappoints.

Layne was a fucking MONSTER when he was healthy! Anything live at the Moore is a must watch. "Unplugged" is an unhealthy Layne, missing teeth, unmotivated and didn't want to be there, and still delivers.

Love Hate Love is a must!!!!

The tragedy of grunge music is, is that out of all the legendary grunge singers Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Layne Stanley, and Eddie Vedder only Eddie Vedder is the one who still alive. All of these guys were essentially childhood friends who toured together and hung out together imagine your Eddie Vedder and you get a call that all your best friends are gone. Would? Is my personal favorite from Alice in Chains

Man In The Box was the very first video & song to hit it big for the Seattle groups. Layne is actually signing waa, waa over Jerry's talk box. Mark Lanegan said that when he stood on the side of the stage, Layne's voice was so powerful, he could hear it over the instruments.

Your reactions to these songs I grew up with are absolutely priceless.

His lips never touch unless he pronounces an M. It’s always open. His inner articulation skill was incredible.

I see Alice in Chains i press like

The beginning was a combination of guitar and Layne Staleys voice. Layne's voice has been described as what happens when a guitar string learns how to sing.

This song's origins start with a lunch the band had with some A&R woman who was a vegan (no animal byproducts of ANY kind), who proceeded to tell them how animals were penned up in small crates and killed for steak, etc. So, Layne wrote Man in the Box from the perspective of a penned up calf. It was loosely based around Layne's idea of media censorship. Sean Kinney (the drummer) said it was about veal. LOL. Layne met Jerry Cantrell ONE TIME, found out he had no family in the area, he had little money left and Layne (drunkenly) offered Jerry a place to live, money, food, clothes, guitars and gear he needed, Layne set Jerry up with a life that could NOT fail unless Jerry let it happen. He set him up with a band when he gave Jerry the number to Sean Kinney's girlfriend and found out that the girlfriend was Mike Starr's sister. He encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all they were Jerry's lyrics, Jerry should sing them. I'm sure Jerry would have made it on his own without Layne, but it would have been the long scenic route to get there. Jerry wrote Rooster about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows, Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play Rooster and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist who showed back up in Layne's life AFTER Layne got famous and had money and did drugs with Layne.) Phil Staley was NOT the father Layne expected when he came back into his life. Layne had tried rehab 13 times, but he could never completely give it up. He tried quitting cold turkey on two of the last attempts at rehab, but that didn't work either. Mad Season is made up of Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and John Baker Saunders and they all went through rehab. They all got together and dragged Layne out of his condo, got him excited about doing ABOVE album, thinking if he was creative he wouldn't want the drugs, and for the length of time it took to do that, Layne was excited about the project, but it didn't curb his drug habit. Layne wrote the lyrics to the songs he sang on the ABOVE album and he drew the cover art for the album. Layne was an amazing singer. Very few singers sound better live than they do in a studio version. Layne was one of the few. From what I’ve read and researched, heroin is the worst drug to be addicted to. You don’t want to do anything other than be there and nodding out. The fact that he agreed to do the KISS shows and performed them like he did shows the strength he had. From what I read, when you have the level of addiction Layne had, it is incredibly difficult to function at the intensity of performing a stage show in front of an audience as well as he did. He could have stayed home and stayed high, but Jerry wanted to do the shows. Somewhere, somehow Layne found the strength to do those shows despite what his addiction wanted him to do even though he survived an overdose after the last KISS show in Kansas City, Missouri, became a recluse, and the addiction got him in the end. Mike Starr was the last one to see him on April 4, 2002, for all anyone knows and what I took from that was that while Layne was telling Mike that he (Layne) was sick, he still tried to get Mike to give up his own prescription drug habit. After that, no one noticed he had died 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 Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911. He died on April 5, 2002, but his body wasn't discovered until 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. At the age of 34 (when he died), he looked more like an 80-year-old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it. 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 wrote songs that gave a normal person insight into the mind and journey of an addict. The pain and depression he endured to write the most brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings on his own addiction and the emotional and physical strength he had to perform those songs live when all he wanted to do was curl away and lose himself in the drug haze I can’t imagine what it was like for him. He was hounded by the press about his addiction. He was ridiculed for his addiction. The music industry blackballed him for his addiction. The Grammys forgot about him when he died. As far as MTV and Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music. Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press. Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He stacked his own vocals. He knew enough to know that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and Mike Starr. He wrote the lyrics for the songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He still was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons. Layne's whole situation from his drug addiction, to how he died, to how he was found only weighing 86 pounds and the drug paraphernalia, etc is tragic and haunts me when I think about it (and I didn't even know the guy personally). "Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be." -- Layne Staley "My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title." -- Layne Staley "When I tried drugs they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me- and now I'm walking through hell and this sucks. I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want my fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen." -- Layne Staley

Amazing as always. You always make my day a little better. The world need more people like you. Love you and have a amazing day!❤️

Layne is just the best! Thank you for covering this

I always loved Laynes voice

I love seeing new Alice in Chains fans being born and vicariously reliving my first experiences with this band. 😊 Best band there ever was and will be.

Please please please watch their live performance of “Love Hate Love”

"Nutshell" live Unplugged, just pure emotion

The power he uses in this song is a drop of what he was capable of.

Layne looked so beautiful and so healthy here. ❤️

I know I’m super late but I just found your channel. If someone hasn’t already commented but it’s said that sometimes when they played this song live you could hear Layne’s voice over the PA system…from the balcony during the chorus. When he hits that feed my eyes line. Incredible talent. Addiction is a terrible disease.

Love Hate Love Live At The Moore The Man In The Box version At that show displays the range and power

A once in a lifetime talent

R.I.P. LAYNE😢 WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU

Alice In Chains’ Love Hate Love live at The Moore

this is one of my fav songs by them...I think it is awesome how you rock out to the guitar solos as well as the songs.

You aren't even close to this voice but I LOVE LOVE your reaction

Songs Rooster, Would, and Rain When I Die are also good showcases of Layne's voice.

Love AIC! Check out Rooster and Never Fade. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote Rooster as a tribute to his Vietnam veteran father (who also appeared in its music video) and Never Fade as a tribute to his mother and grandmother whom he lost both to cancer nine months apart from each other.

Love love your reactions keep up the good work! ⚡

The effects on the vocals are just a Vox "wah" pedal. It's used with guitar all the time. ♡ It creates that opening and closing of tones. Not a lot of musicians use it with vocals. You just push the pedal down with the rhythm, and that's how you get it.

So much fun watching you rock out!

Great reaction! Thanks!

Jerry is an absolute beast.

I love how are enjoying the music :) :)

Love Alice in chains, memories of dancing to these guys in the late 80s& 90s. Thanks again Maggie, so wonderful to relive my youth. Rock voices have range and alot of power! Pearl Jam is also great power in the lead vocal. We called that kind of guitar riff "widdley" when in Edinburgh, Scotland clubs xx

I loved your reaction to this Alice and Chains

Sounds like a talk box but if you watch (or saw) live performances, Layne didn't use one. It was the "wah" pedal on the guitar and his voice. That's it.

No matter how old I get whenever I hear that “feed” hit my mind still gets blown, even after 30+ years.

Such a masterpiece so beautifully haunting

Layne has a hurricane in his throat.

"Love Hate Love" Live version, say less

Layne is twice as powerful on the live version at the Moore than he is on the studio version!

love your reaction. lane was a beast

I really can't believe that this is the first time you've heard this song.

Not you falling in love with this classically trained grunge man! 🤣💅😜🥰 Layne has my heart, too, it's okay.

I really enjoy you showing us how my favorite metal and grunge bands make their vocals work. I enjoy your reaction to Dave Draiman of Disturbed so very much. I chuckle when you throw up the horns chica. Keep up the great work Miss Maggie.

God I love your reations, makes me smile!

I think that the reason why Layne was so good is he actually never forced or tried for that perfect clean timbre....It was relatable to the human emotion as obv its not perfect either

I love your attitude you're awesome and very easy on the eyes too🥰

Well done, you are tons of fun!!! 🤘😲

A good example of a talk box (or similar effect) is used by Steve Vai when he played with David Lee Roth in the song Yankee Rose. Check that one out. Good song.

Check out Love Hate Love

Good lord I just had a 90’s mtv flashback

R.I.P. Layne...besides Chris Cornell he always was my Nr One Grunge Singer....check out ROOSTER!

Alice in Chains was such a amazing tremendously terrific cool a masterpiece of a group Jerry Cantrell was so young then still got it now

Hi Maggie it's great to see you again another great video its called a talk box if you ever listen to Peter framton comes alive album he uses a talk box in some of his songs. This is great song I remember this song

From when this video was made and the recording of down in a hole on mtvs unplugged he was at his worse in his drug addiction. The how show was a man singing at his own funeral

By the way loved this. More Alice In Chains please 😊

Still hoping for Queensryche Take hold of the flame live in tokyo...😊

The base lines would define this as early heavy metal.

At the intro, it's a guitar pedal called a Wah, Layne is just singing along to it

Come on Layne Staley and Mike Starr! You never had to die an early death

Love hate love” live at the Moore is one of the best vocal performances 👍🏼

1990 they got a live version of this that will blow your mind right away it's 10 times more Is power then studio track

Rip Layne Staley 🎤

masters of the universe

peter frampton did this also with the voicebox

"Talk box" see Peter Frampton "Do you feel" live video

And he's not using a talkbox This guy had magical shit in his vocal chords and lungs

Back in the day everyone here in Seattle wanted to take lessons from Maestro David P. Kyle, who taught lane,Geoff Tate,Ann Wilson’s, Chris Cornell, and even Kenny G (breathing technique). He was an amazing teacher but sounded allot like Elmer Fudd in his later years.... it was 1000 dollars for every three lessons so I couldn’t afford lessons but he would let you record the session so that you could practice over the week so i would listen to my friends tapes 😝. I have the pleasure of singing in a band around Seattle and on tour with some insane bands at the time. Best memories aside from the drugs😉 RIP Lane PS.... They Used a Wah Pedal to get that affect. They were huge back then.

Girl you gotta listen to Angry Chair by them!!! Highly recommend👍

thats Layne just singing and Jerry using a wah wah pedal

if there's a rock en roll heaven you know they got a hellava band

Love you, Layne! RIP

Only Layne could make a pancho look moody

Hey Maggie, this sound is from the guitar with Vocoder, a synthesizer used with the guitar, it makes this wha wha effect... It's common to use it, Peter Frampton, Richie Sambora (ex-Bon Jovi)... etc... See you, Guto Blues Boy, from Brazil! 🎸🎸

Always enjoy your analyses. Would love to see what you think of Club for Fives version of Brothers In Arms and their Basso, Tukka. Be well!