Does anybody have a reference for the radio show with that Hagar interview?(which show, when, etc.) The chick kinda sounds like Jenny McCarthy but, I don't think that's what her set looks like....
August 31, 1991. My buddy and I were 15 years old and went to this show in Milwaukee (Shout out to JM if you come across this). To this day we still talk about the guys in front of us who kept asking who the hell AIC were, even joking saying they thought they were there to see Madonna. I was an MTV junkie so I knew Man in the Box, but didn’t realize at the time I was seeing one of the great bands to come out of Seattle. I didn’t like a lot out of the Seattle movement, but AIC and Stone Temple Pilots always struck a chord with me. I’ve always been thankful that I can say I saw them as newcomers and of course with Staley at the helm. Saw em a couple years ago live and they still hold up. William DuVall is an incredible singer and doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
Watching AIC open for Van Halen was a surreal experience. Layne hung off the mike stand, missed a few lyrics, and looked comatose. But, man, when he sang, it was unreal how powerful his voice was. It was like witnessing Death and Life unfold simultaneously and *everyone* in the crowd could feel it. RIP Layne
According to the late assistant to Alice Cooper, Brian "Renfield" Nelson, when Alice was in Seattle on a promo tour for TRASH in 1989, there was a little weird dude that kept following them around town. Finally this guy gets the gumption to go up to Alice and hand him a tape. It was Layne Staley handing Alice Cooper a demo of Alice In Chains.
I saw this tour, December '91, Baton Rouge, La.. Have an unbelievable story to tell, in two parts. Part 1: You have to remember the musical climate of the time. Nirvana hadn't blown the musical doors off the hinges for alternative quite yet, so an alternative band opening for a glam band was highly unusual for the time. Alice In Chains would have their breakthrough with next album "Dirt", were mostly unknown at this point, so nobody was there to see them. My friend that I went with and I had great seats: first-level pullouts, stage right. Except for the first few rows in front of the stage, the entire arena was sitting down, my friend and I included. As stated, nobody was there for this(at the present) unknown band. My friend told me:"When they do 'Man In The Box', I'm goin' nuts!" I wanna' say they played it 4th. True to his word, he stood up(we were right in back of the railing), started stomping along and headbanging in place. THE BAND NOTICED HIM. Jerry Cantrell was on our side of the stage. He headbanged with my friend. Then, he walked across the stage, to where Mike Starr was playing on the left. He pointed over to my friend, they both walked back over, to headbang with my friend. Layne Staley was center stage, at the lip, singing in a crouch. He kept the position, but turned in our direction, singing to my friend. Sean Kinney pointed his drumstick at my friend. Part two: I don't remember how much later it was, but Layne addressed the crowd between songs. "So, this is Duke country, huh?".(Or something to that effect. To those who don't know, former KKK head David Duke was running for governor of Louisiana. Fortunately, he lost.) The crowd ERUPTED in applause. For the first time all night, the crowd was behind AIC. Then, he replied:"Well, fuck Duke!" Just as quickly, the crowd turned on them. They were booed offstage, with butterfingers, to match. One moron was even heard to yell:"Go back to California!" Layne risked(and lost) the crowd's approval by standing up for what was right. I didn't become an Alice fan that night, but they had my respect from that point on.
I believe it! My sister caught this same tour, but in Mountain View , Ca. She was actually there to see "Alice" . Most of the crowd hated seeing AIC! Layne, egging them on pretty much throughout the entire set. Sounds like a hell of a good time though. The Van Hagar fans were literally trying to "Boo" them off the stage. No encore, sadly.
“Eddie Van Halen liked to hang out more with us than his own band!” Well, considering just how troublesome Eddie was with his own band, it comes as no surprise...”
How tragic indeed! A garage full of Amps and Guitars from Eddie Van Halen, and Amps and Bass Guitars from Michael Anthony, and then becoming friends with the members of Van Halen.
I saw AIC at university of MD back in the early (way early) 90’s. I was maybe 14 or 15 and was with a male friend who went to school there. Somehow I got tossed up for a crowd surf right as a huge mosh pit opened up. I lost my breath and had a massive panic attack!!!! Then, I lost my friend. It was insanely scary at the time but damn did they put on a good show in the TINY TINY auditorium. It was absolute magic. I was so devastated when Layne passed. Great channel ♥️
I borderline worship original AIC. Like, if I think about it, my mom kinda owes them child support... Listening to them was all I did was a child. Edit: Sammy Hagar might look like a hairy fire truck, but he has taste and is honest, and self aware. Good for him!
All I wanna see is 'Layne Staley returns from the dead and the depths of the dark abyss in a fiery rage of glory and light to save the world from mediocrity and bullshit'. 🙏
Incredible to learn about. I never even knew AIC and VH were associated! Alice is perhaps my favorite band, and I've got a photo with Sammy Hagar when I saw him at a restaurant in southern California. So this video was so great for me to see! BTW this channel does some of the best work I've seen anywhere around RUclips. Keep it up, brother!
@@drewroycroft Motley crue tells a story of David Lee Roth hanging out with them and fans at the Motley house in 81 after a motley gig at the whisky in which David was doing coke without sharing (as usual, according to them) and suddenly the only mirror they had in the house fell on top of DLR' head while he was talking to a girl. The mirror breaks in his head, spreading all around him and DLR continued talking normally because he was so high he didn't realized what happened
no.... but.... like kurt, he may have despised it early on, only to be turned on by it through sheer curiosity. i once slanged merch for a local punk band here in el paso YEARS ago... these guys would open up for all types of people. from agnostic front, ring worm, supersuckers... either way, the band may be clean... but there are LOTS of drugs floating around the crew, the fans, anywhere. and here's layne touring with hundreds of crew playing shows with tens of thousands of fans every night. it's easier than you think falling victim to that shit.
I seen Van Halen 3X's before the1990t tour but was the 1st time seeing Alice In Chains & been a fan ever since. Sadly we lost a very talented & unique singer but who left us some awesome music thst imo is still better then most music released today. ~RIP Layne Staley~
Glad I was there. Saw the Van Halen/AIC and AIC/Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax Clash of the Titans tours both at the Coliseum Hampton, Virginia and both in 1991.
I hate the word junkie. Addiction is more preferable but that just my opinion. You don’t see a morbidly obese guy and say “ah he is just a junkie”. Sugar is just as devastating as heroine in the big picture of world wide disease.
Just a tip for future videos, if these videos are meant to be enduring chronicles of stories, don't say "a couple of weeks ago" when referencing things like EVH's death. Use the actual date so your video doesn't seem dated to someone watching it in 2025. I'm not trying to be mean; I just thunk the stories told here are cool and deserve a wide audience.
Saw this tour in Albany NY the night before I signed up to go into the ARMY back in November 1991. Amazing show!!!! How was this almost 30 frigging years ago???!
For all the awful things that might have happened, this story was pretty wholesome. I'm glad to hear about a bond between two bands from different generations instead of having bitter rivalries that go until the grave.
AIC did great on this tour. I saw them. They were getting huge. When they played “ Man in the Box” people went nuts. It was the only song everyone knew. But Nashville loved them. No boos . Nothing thrown at them. Great show .
I got to meet Jerry back in 1997 (I believe) when I was 14 when he was solo touring and opening for Metallica on the Re-Load tour. Super nice guy, but I wasn't listening to AIC way back then. They're my second favorite band ever now, but back then, I didn't really fully appreciate the opportunity. 😔
I recall a great fan reaction to AIC in the Miami Area on the Van Halen Tour. Certainly there was a buzz and curiosity around AIC and their unique heavy sound at that time. Man in the box video just hot MTV not too long before I caught them in '91. Their '91 setlist was balls to the wall with heavy distortion guitars but you couldn't hear much because it sounded like razor blades being chucked at your ears. I think this tour was an eye opener for them because they stripped down their sound and became a much more dynamic band going forward.
I was front row for that tour. 1st night in the bay area at Shoreline. My chair was 1of 7 chairs. Crazy and so good. Stil one of the best shows I ever saw.
Really enjoying your content, great channel! Your covering of the humanity of so many individuals that many of us grew up/ came of age to worshiping as gods of rock and roll is refreshing and wonderful to see! Another great vid. Thank you :)
I saw the first night of this tour. This tour started in Atlanta at Lakewood Amphitheater. Layne sat down on the front of the stage for almost the entire set. There was a weird funk in the air for the rest of the night, almost all the way through VH’s set even. Kind of a “WTF was that?” Layne had chopped all of his hair off so he looked completely different than he did in the Man in the Box video. He and Jerry Cantrell were practically motionless the entire set. I thought it was weird for VH to have such a great band opening up for them because most of the time their openers are either terrible or washed up.
I saw the Van Halen "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" tour with Alice and Chains opening. I was stationed at Barksdale AFB and they stopped in Shreveport, (Dec. 1991). Layne Staley punched some dude in the crowd during their set. Lights went off. Lights came back on. Show continued. Layne told the crowd "you guys are all right." Then he pointed at someone and yelled , "But You! you make me sick!" Good show.
I saw AIC live for the first time on The Clash of The Titans tour. My friend and I left that concert with their songs hammered into our brains. People in the grandstand were shouting Slayer over and over during the first song of their set and Layne just said "Shut the fuck up you losers". I immediately had respect for him.
This is a contributing factor to why Alice In Chains has remained my favorite of the 90s Seattle bands. Yeahhhh, they “started out glam” but who cares? So did Pantera for godsake...we were all kids once and to be perfectly honest, why is that some sort of sin in the eyes of rock and roll? Alice In Chains have remained DUDES up until this day. They never took up some phony, political, PR soapbox about this or that like some of the other groups of their era. I only remember a few instances of them bashing glam (which is pretty good, considering they came from Seattle). When you combine all that with Facelift, Dirt, JoF, Tripod, Black Gives Way, DPDH and Ranier Fog, their record is almost spotless. There aren’t many bands who remain *that* good for *that* long...
Can you do a segment on the rift between the Jane's Addiction guys in the original Lollapalooza tour? The first fight on stage, Navarro puking from heroin, etc..Anything Janes Addiction would be great, besides the one you have already. Thanks.
Hey I'm so glad these interview things are back on and talking about rockstars and dead rock stars and everything else that I miss. It seems like I'm always testing myself and daring myself to do something so fantastic like to sing for Alice in chains audioslave or Stone Temple by that someone major because I've had so many years of experience playing in bands a lot of bands and seeing a lot of bands. I still listen to their old music in the 70s 80s and 90s it really seems like it was the best of times of music. I don't care what anyone says it would be so fun and so honorable to be playing for a band yeah maybe the work gets tiresome but you're an artist you know? Nowadays it seems like these younger kids are like superhuman they know how to play all this in their sleep God where does that put us I just sit at home all the time wanted to be a rockstar I sing pretty good at least I know I don't have to do a lot of takes and I live my life like a fairy tale chasing dreams I'm going again to Italy to chase someone I've never met I'm going on a whim and I wish it was so true this time I'm not out of my mind but I just believe in this stuff I don't know what else to do. I need an endless supply of money to do what I want I don't want to just travel to another country and be out of money because that's what I'm going to do I'll be stuck and I know it. I really hope she picks me up this time and kidnaps me the love of my life and then she takes me and drops me off so I can go on and do my career singing coming back home to her. I dream like this all day and I get mad if it doesn't happen blame it on everyone LOL. My dream woman so bad I dream of her every night thank you for the great stories 😻😹🙏👍
I saw this tour in California on the September 11 date and it was only my second concert ever. The crowd treated Alice In Chains well, despite, like me, probably only knowing "Man In The Box". I liked the other material I heard and thought they definitely had something there. I went out and bought "Facelift" on cassette, my first purchase of music ever.
I saw this tour in January 1992 in Tacoma, Washington, my first concert ever. The original tour date was supposed to be in October or November 1991, but Sammy Hagar was sick when they left Portland so they postponed the date to January. I was familiar with "Man in the Box" but none of Alice in Chains' other stuff. I was very well aware of Alice in Chains because they played all the stoner house parties and keggers in the area when I was in high school--but I wasn't part of that scene, I just heard everyone talking about them in school. I was of course there to see Van Halen, so I didn't pay much attention to Alice in Chains....I wish I would have been more into them since they were a local band that had just gotten national recognition. I never got another chance to see Alice in Chains again.
That’s a killer first concert! My first concert was Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult on the black and blue tour. But you’re concert rivals mine for classic lineups!
@kingbennyb+ I saw them at Red Rocks during a snow storm in the early 2000s. Eddie looked over the crowd as the snow was dumping saying we were all crazy sitting through a snow storm to hear them play. LOL.. It may not have been great weather, but the guys just played through the storm and did a great show.. :)
kingbennyb ....that just proves what we all know about folks in Denver: people there are so stupid it's as if they're parents are all directly related, cuz Van Halen is soft rock crap....
Did you reupload this or something? I'm 99% sure I seen this video on here bc I remember Hagar saying he hired them out of fear and that Cobain shirt he has on
I saw this tour, but AinC did not open. They had come through Colorado and played at Red Rocks in Boulder. KBPI, the Rick Station in Denver wanted them to play in Denver, so they paid for Van Halen to come back to Colorado, paid for everything, Venue, travel, hotels, everything. Alice in Chains could not make that date and so Baby Animals opened. Since the radio station paid for everything, tix were only $11.65. That was my first concert and the first of three times that I saw Van Halen. I missed Alice in Chains that time, but they opened for Ozzy Osbourne on the No More Tours tour. They were the first band before Sepultura and Ozzy, so need less to say, the Grunge sound didn't fly with the heavy metal crowd and they were nearly booed off stage. They funny thing was they were heavily booed their whole set except when they played Would and Man In The Box, so at least they weren't completely hated lol
I saw the Clash of the Titans tour at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland Maine. At the time nobody knew who AIC was, sadly, the place left the house lights on the entire time the band played.
The story, probably too good to be true, is that one day after Eddie V had sobered up, he listened to one of the Hagar-led VH records, and called up Hagar and fired him on the spot.
My dad went to the show in Nashville and then drove to Chicago to see the one in Chicago! (Commenting before it’s starting) Edit: gonna ask my dad if he remembers seeing any pranks
Here’s the Man in the box video and throw suggestions for future videos below! ruclips.net/video/Gs-IM7uHABw/видео.html
Been some awesome content lately! Still waiting for Talk Show video
Cover the rise and fall of sublime and how Bradley nowell’s death impacted no doubt and the ska genre
Does anybody have a reference for the radio show with that Hagar interview?(which show, when, etc.)
The chick kinda sounds like Jenny McCarthy but, I don't think that's what her set looks like....
@@crimsonking8746 it's jenny mccarthy on sirius xm it's up on youtube if you search it
How about Betty Blowtorch and 7 Year Bitch stories ? Both founding members died a tragic death.
August 31, 1991. My buddy and I were 15 years old and went to this show in Milwaukee (Shout out to JM if you come across this). To this day we still talk about the guys in front of us who kept asking who the hell AIC were, even joking saying they thought they were there to see Madonna. I was an MTV junkie so I knew Man in the Box, but didn’t realize at the time I was seeing one of the great bands to come out of Seattle.
I didn’t like a lot out of the Seattle movement, but AIC and Stone Temple Pilots always struck a chord with me. I’ve always been thankful that I can say I saw them as newcomers and of course with Staley at the helm.
Saw em a couple years ago live and they still hold up. William DuVall is an incredible singer and doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
Watching AIC open for Van Halen was a surreal experience.
Layne hung off the mike stand, missed a few lyrics, and looked comatose.
But, man, when he sang, it was unreal how powerful his voice was.
It was like witnessing Death and Life unfold simultaneously and *everyone* in the crowd could feel it.
RIP Layne
Eddie sending them a "garage full of amps and guitars" God damn that's a heaven's sent
According to the late assistant to Alice Cooper, Brian "Renfield" Nelson, when Alice was in Seattle on a promo tour for TRASH in 1989, there was a little weird dude that kept following them around town. Finally this guy gets the gumption to go up to Alice and hand him a tape. It was Layne Staley handing Alice Cooper a demo of Alice In Chains.
Haha there was a story Jerry told of meeting Axl rose from gnr in late 80s and giving him a demo tape which he later threw away
@Melkor Morgoth he was an asshat!!
I saw this tour, December '91, Baton Rouge, La.. Have an unbelievable story to tell, in two parts. Part 1: You have to remember the musical climate of the time. Nirvana hadn't blown the musical doors off the hinges for alternative quite yet, so an alternative band opening for a glam band was highly unusual for the time. Alice In Chains would have their breakthrough with next album "Dirt", were mostly unknown at this point, so nobody was there to see them. My friend that I went with and I had great seats: first-level pullouts, stage right. Except for the first few rows in front of the stage, the entire arena was sitting down, my friend and I included. As stated, nobody was there for this(at the present) unknown band. My friend told me:"When they do 'Man In The Box', I'm goin' nuts!" I wanna' say they played it 4th. True to his word, he stood up(we were right in back of the railing), started stomping along and headbanging in place. THE BAND NOTICED HIM. Jerry Cantrell was on our side of the stage. He headbanged with my friend. Then, he walked across the stage, to where Mike Starr was playing on the left. He pointed over to my friend, they both walked back over, to headbang with my friend. Layne Staley was center stage, at the lip, singing in a crouch. He kept the position, but turned in our direction, singing to my friend. Sean Kinney pointed his drumstick at my friend. Part two: I don't remember how much later it was, but Layne addressed the crowd between songs. "So, this is Duke country, huh?".(Or something to that effect. To those who don't know, former KKK head David Duke was running for governor of Louisiana. Fortunately, he lost.) The crowd ERUPTED in applause. For the first time all night, the crowd was behind AIC. Then, he replied:"Well, fuck Duke!" Just as quickly, the crowd turned on them. They were booed offstage, with butterfingers, to match. One moron was even heard to yell:"Go back to California!" Layne risked(and lost) the crowd's approval by standing up for what was right. I didn't become an Alice fan that night, but they had my respect from that point on.
I believe it! My sister caught this same tour, but in Mountain View , Ca. She was actually there to see "Alice" . Most of the crowd hated seeing AIC! Layne, egging them on pretty much throughout the entire set. Sounds like a hell of a good time though. The Van Hagar fans were literally trying to "Boo" them off the stage. No encore, sadly.
To this day, I've never been to a concert where anything like that happened, before this show, or after. But, yes, good time, indeed.
LAYNE. MAY YOU REST IN PARADISE, AND MAY YOU FINALLY FIND PEACE! YOUR SO MISSED AND SO LOVED!
You damn right he is big influence on my singing style
& Eddie of course 💯
Alice in chains speaks to the darkest part of my soul. There will never be another band like them
I agree, I love both bands. I'm addicted to Layne Staley's voice
I agree I love layne I listen to him alot it's like therapy
I used to go and see him live in Seattle all the time all the bands Soundgarden Nirvana screaming trees Tad Pearl Jam those were the days
I am trying to carry on his dream on my music channel. I have a very unique voice and I sing my way
Two words...
"Mad Season'
“Eddie Van Halen liked to hang out more with us than his own band!”
Well, considering just how troublesome Eddie was with his own band, it comes as no surprise...”
it was most likely Those Retards from Seattle that got Eddie hooked on Heroin
@@MetalHeart8787
EDDIE...got Eddie
hooked On heroin.
@@MetalHeart8787 it's most likely that Van Halen introduced cocaine to those "retards" from Seattle.
@B luv Sims
I think it was Meth, not Heroin.
it probably helped jerry was a coke head just like eddie....
Your Alice In Chains videos are always a treat. Thanks
Thanks this is the last one in my backlog of aic videos, but I’ve got a bunch more stories planned and a very BIG release in 2021
hey do you think you'll cover Jerry's solo career? He's actually supposed to have a new solo record coming out soon.
How tragic indeed! A garage full of Amps and Guitars from Eddie Van Halen, and Amps and Bass Guitars from Michael Anthony, and then becoming friends with the members of Van Halen.
These goofs that make these don't know what they are talking about. Tragic.
I saw AIC at university of MD back in the early (way early) 90’s. I was maybe 14 or 15 and was with a male friend who went to school there. Somehow I got tossed up for a crowd surf right as a huge mosh pit opened up. I lost my breath and had a massive panic attack!!!! Then, I lost my friend. It was insanely scary at the time but damn did they put on a good show in the TINY TINY auditorium. It was absolute magic. I was so devastated when Layne passed. Great channel ♥️
Ending on a happy story with Eddie and Alice In Chains was a nice touch.
I borderline worship original AIC. Like, if I think about it, my mom kinda owes them child support... Listening to them was all I did was a child.
Edit: Sammy Hagar might look like a hairy fire truck, but he has taste and is honest, and self aware. Good for him!
Hairy fire truck! Lol. you sir are poet
Cringe
Love that pic at the end with Vedder, McCready, Cantrell, Kinney, and the two Van Halens. Thanks for making me aware of it!
Layne staley, the most unique voice in music, R.I.P man
the most powerfull too
You mis-spelled Chris Cornell? But they both kicks Hagar ass!
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Nope
Enters the chat 🤘
@@travzimmerman1340 yes
I see "Alice in Chains" or "Layne Staley" you know I'm clicking
Same
Same dude
All I wanna see is 'Layne Staley returns from the dead and the depths of the dark abyss in a fiery rage of glory and light to save the world from mediocrity and bullshit'. 🙏
YEAH!!!!
@@inbloom08 if that happens I'll be right behind you!
They were rock stars. If they didn’t discover H on this tour, it would have come eventually.
Incredible to learn about. I never even knew AIC and VH were associated! Alice is perhaps my favorite band, and I've got a photo with Sammy Hagar when I saw him at a restaurant in southern California. So this video was so great for me to see! BTW this channel does some of the best work I've seen anywhere around RUclips. Keep it up, brother!
Saw these guys open for VH on this 91 tour. Both bands kicked ass.
Same, it was a great show.
Me too, saw them in Biloxi, Miss. Great night
I saw them in Toronto. I was not impressed. Don't get me wrong; the music was great, but their look and stage presence was not what I was into.
It seems that in every single rock and roll story, Eddie Van Halen suddently shows up drunk.
Or David lee Roth is in the corner doing coke Lmaooo
@@drewroycroft Motley crue tells a story of David Lee Roth hanging out with them and fans at the Motley house in 81 after a motley gig at the whisky in which David was doing coke without sharing (as usual, according to them) and suddenly the only mirror they had in the house fell on top of DLR' head while he was talking to a girl. The mirror breaks in his head, spreading all around him and DLR continued talking normally because he was so high he didn't realized what happened
@@drewroycroft he wasn’t with VH in 92!
Eddie started drinking when he was 12, courtesy of his father suggesting it as a way of coping with being on stage in front of an audience.
LOL
Layne is from Seattle he didn’t need the VH tour to find heroin.
This is very to the point, And very true. Its very sad how Layne went out
no.... but.... like kurt, he may have despised it early on, only to be turned on by it through sheer curiosity. i once slanged merch for a local punk band here in el paso YEARS ago... these guys would open up for all types of people. from agnostic front, ring worm, supersuckers... either way, the band may be clean... but there are LOTS of drugs floating around the crew, the fans, anywhere. and here's layne touring with hundreds of crew playing shows with tens of thousands of fans every night. it's easier than you think falling victim to that shit.
Treeeuuuueeeeee true true true
@@joeyclemenza7339 Yep. That's exactly how it happened to Dewey Cox
I seen Van Halen 3X's before the1990t tour but was the 1st time seeing Alice In Chains & been a fan ever since. Sadly we lost a very talented & unique singer but who left us some awesome music thst imo is still better then most music released today.
~RIP Layne Staley~
Glad I was there. Saw the Van Halen/AIC and AIC/Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax Clash of the Titans tours both at the Coliseum Hampton, Virginia and both in 1991.
Saw that tour in Toronto.
Layne's dad was a junkie. He knew about heroin way before the Van Halen tour.
“All these times I swore I’d never be like my old man “
The bass players dad also I think? Was addicted to H as well.poor guys don't stand a chance.
I hope the person who introduced it to him & all those who supplied him are ridden with guilt to this day ..if they are still alive that is.
I hate the word junkie. Addiction is more preferable but that just my opinion.
You don’t see a morbidly obese guy and say “ah he is just a junkie”. Sugar is just as devastating as heroine in the big picture of world wide disease.
@@J13-h6y Very well stated friend.
Just a tip for future videos, if these videos are meant to be enduring chronicles of stories, don't say "a couple of weeks ago" when referencing things like EVH's death. Use the actual date so your video doesn't seem dated to someone watching it in 2025. I'm not trying to be mean; I just thunk the stories told here are cool and deserve a wide audience.
Nice hint for sure!
Saw this tour in Albany NY the night before I signed up to go into the ARMY back in November 1991. Amazing show!!!! How was this almost 30 frigging years ago???!
GREAT GREAT GREAT, Oh man that was HILARIOUS. You really did an outstanding job on the video.
For all the awful things that might have happened, this story was pretty wholesome. I'm glad to hear about a bond between two bands from different generations instead of having bitter rivalries that go until the grave.
Eddie and Layne are sorely missed
Me being a product of 80s rock, but also loving the new sounds of the 90s, seeing VH and Alice on tour was heaven.
Nirvana, Alice in chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and The Cranberries lost their voices too soon.
Blind Melon as well.
Limp Bizkit too
Who did cranberries lose
@@OGGOAT23 lead singer Delores O’Riordan....drown in a tub from alcohol poisoning....sad
@@OGGOAT23 Is it a serious question?
Please do as many AIC videos as you can. I love this band so much ❤
I saw them on that tour. Alice in Chains were great. Still have the ticket.
AIC did great on this tour. I saw them. They were getting huge. When they played “ Man in the Box” people went nuts. It was the only song everyone knew. But Nashville loved them. No boos . Nothing thrown at them. Great show .
Glad to Dave Jerden is still doing ok...thanks for helping me with my car in Malibu Dave ! Never forget ya ! Phil
I got to meet Jerry back in 1997 (I believe) when I was 14 when he was solo touring and opening for Metallica on the Re-Load tour. Super nice guy, but I wasn't listening to AIC way back then. They're my second favorite band ever now, but back then, I didn't really fully appreciate the opportunity. 😔
Was days of the new also on the bill? I saw the three bands in summer slam
@@CoreyT127 It's been forever, so I can't remember. I do believe there was a band with a badass female violin player that opened the show?
I saw Alice in Chains open for VH on the F.U.C.K. Tour in 1991 at Pine Knob, I wish I knew how big Alice in Chains would go on to be🤔
I recall a great fan reaction to AIC in the Miami Area on the Van Halen Tour. Certainly there was a buzz and curiosity around AIC and their unique heavy sound at that time. Man in the box video just hot MTV not too long before I caught them in '91. Their '91 setlist was balls to the wall with heavy distortion guitars but you couldn't hear much because it sounded like razor blades being chucked at your ears. I think this tour was an eye opener for them because they stripped down their sound and became a much more dynamic band going forward.
Much respect to Jerry Cantrell, Who wouldn’t be nervous in the presence of the greatest rock guitarist that has ever lived!
Jerry met Randy Rhoades?
I was front row for that tour. 1st night in the bay area at Shoreline. My chair was 1of 7 chairs. Crazy and so good. Stil one of the best shows I ever saw.
That was a great video, brother. Been loving these stories. Keep it up. All the best! :)
What a line up! Van Halen and Alice in chains! Both groups had some really cool guys and they all we're amazing artists!!! 🎸
Love Jerry Cantrell. He’s got such a great personality and attitude.Love Sammy ❤️Sammy warms my heart
Really enjoying your content, great channel!
Your covering of the humanity of so many individuals that many of us grew up/ came of age to worshiping as gods of rock and roll is refreshing and wonderful to see!
Another great vid. Thank you :)
I saw the first night of this tour. This tour started in Atlanta at Lakewood Amphitheater. Layne sat down on the front of the stage for almost the entire set.
There was a weird funk in the air for the rest of the night, almost all the way through VH’s set even. Kind of a “WTF was that?” Layne had chopped all of his hair off so he looked completely different than he did in the Man in the Box video.
He and Jerry Cantrell were practically motionless the entire set. I thought it was weird for VH to have such a great band opening up for them because most of the time their openers are either terrible or washed up.
"The Seattle Post"? He must have meant the Seattle PI (Post-Intelligencer -- what a name!) Anyway, really good mini-doc. We still miss Layne so much.
I saw the Van Halen "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" tour with Alice and Chains opening. I was stationed at Barksdale AFB and they stopped in Shreveport, (Dec. 1991). Layne Staley punched some dude in the crowd during their set. Lights went off. Lights came back on. Show continued. Layne told the crowd "you guys are all right." Then he pointed at someone and yelled , "But You! you make me sick!" Good show.
Thanks for this amazing vid! Love Alice in Chains , and Van Halen's a great band. The photo in the end is everything!♥️
I saw AIC live for the first time on The Clash of The Titans tour. My friend and I left that concert with their songs hammered into our brains. People in the grandstand were shouting Slayer over and over during the first song of their set and Layne just said "Shut the fuck up you losers". I immediately had respect for him.
This tour was the one and only time I got to See AIC live. It was at the Skydome (now the Rogers Centre) in Toronto. What a great show.
This is a contributing factor to why Alice In Chains has remained my favorite of the 90s Seattle bands. Yeahhhh, they “started out glam” but who cares? So did Pantera for godsake...we were all kids once and to be perfectly honest, why is that some sort of sin in the eyes of rock and roll? Alice In Chains have remained DUDES up until this day. They never took up some phony, political, PR soapbox about this or that like some of the other groups of their era. I only remember a few instances of them bashing glam (which is pretty good, considering they came from Seattle). When you combine all that with Facelift, Dirt, JoF, Tripod, Black Gives Way, DPDH and Ranier Fog, their record is almost spotless. There aren’t many bands who remain *that* good for *that* long...
Can you do a segment on the rift between the Jane's Addiction guys in the original Lollapalooza tour? The first fight on stage, Navarro puking from heroin, etc..Anything Janes Addiction would be great, besides the one you have already. Thanks.
I saw that show at the Cap Center “DC”. It was right before Dirt came out. They played Would as an encore
Oct 17th...1991..Missed Alice though
Got to see them on this tour. August 25, 1991. This opened my world up to the music of Alice In Chains!
I would've loved to have seen that show! 2 extremes of Rock in one concert. Sounds fun.
That photo of the band in pigtails & G-strings is priceless! Skinny boys! 😆❤❤❤❤😂
These videos are awesome keep up the good work
AIC is the most attractive rock band to a man that I've ever seen! All flu guys were hot in they're own way.
saw this tour in Denver @Fiddler's Green...outstanding...
The Facelift/Dirt line up of AIC was the best...🦎
Great video as always, man!
I've seen both of these bands live - saw AIC at Lollapalooza '93 and VH in 2012. Really wish I could have seen THIS tour.
I was at that show in Phoenix,Arizona..."Blockbuster Amphitheater"...
I said it before Eddie's guitar work inspired 3 generations This is one of the best stories you've done.
He will inspire every generation after him.
@@mumbles215 which are 3 now 4 generations of guitarist
That end story.... Made me smile!
Rip layne and eddie
And former Alice In Chains bassist Mike Starr.
@@kylehegedus5498 yes
I’m not a fan of AIC’s music, but I respect Layne, and Jerry very VERY much. Just straight up solid dudes and talented musicians!
Hey I'm so glad these interview things are back on and talking about rockstars and dead rock stars and everything else that I miss. It seems like I'm always testing myself and daring myself to do something so fantastic like to sing for Alice in chains audioslave or Stone Temple by that someone major because I've had so many years of experience playing in bands a lot of bands and seeing a lot of bands. I still listen to their old music in the 70s 80s and 90s it really seems like it was the best of times of music. I don't care what anyone says it would be so fun and so honorable to be playing for a band yeah maybe the work gets tiresome but you're an artist you know? Nowadays it seems like these younger kids are like superhuman they know how to play all this in their sleep God where does that put us I just sit at home all the time wanted to be a rockstar I sing pretty good at least I know I don't have to do a lot of takes and I live my life like a fairy tale chasing dreams I'm going again to Italy to chase someone I've never met I'm going on a whim and I wish it was so true this time I'm not out of my mind but I just believe in this stuff I don't know what else to do. I need an endless supply of money to do what I want I don't want to just travel to another country and be out of money because that's what I'm going to do I'll be stuck and I know it. I really hope she picks me up this time and kidnaps me the love of my life and then she takes me and drops me off so I can go on and do my career singing coming back home to her. I dream like this all day and I get mad if it doesn't happen blame it on everyone LOL. My dream woman so bad I dream of her every night thank you for the great stories 😻😹🙏👍
Van Halen and Alice in Chains. That would be such a fun tour. I can only imagine
I saw them in CT in 90-something? I know I was there but couldn't tell u what happened? Have a hard enough time remembering last week.
Lol..
That was an uplifting vid, great job!
This tour was my first concert i attended. Alice in Chains for my first live performance, no complaints 👌
I saw this tour in California on the September 11 date and it was only my second concert ever. The crowd treated Alice In Chains well, despite, like me, probably only knowing "Man In The Box". I liked the other material I heard and thought they definitely had something there. I went out and bought "Facelift" on cassette, my first purchase of music ever.
I saw this tour in January 1992 in Tacoma, Washington, my first concert ever. The original tour date was supposed to be in October or November 1991, but Sammy Hagar was sick when they left Portland so they postponed the date to January. I was familiar with "Man in the Box" but none of Alice in Chains' other stuff. I was very well aware of Alice in Chains because they played all the stoner house parties and keggers in the area when I was in high school--but I wasn't part of that scene, I just heard everyone talking about them in school. I was of course there to see Van Halen, so I didn't pay much attention to Alice in Chains....I wish I would have been more into them since they were a local band that had just gotten national recognition. I never got another chance to see Alice in Chains again.
That’s a killer first concert! My first concert was Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult on the black and blue tour. But you’re concert rivals mine for classic lineups!
@@meangenedrlove I was at that show too! Still have the ticket stub. Excellent show, I was on the floor about 30 feet from the stage🎸🎶
I saw this tour. It was awesome. 91 Nashville TN. Nothing looked to tragic to me. They fucking rocked.
Another great vid! Thank you so much!
Alice In Chains left the stage saying "Fuck you, Denver!" after a savaged booing in '91. Van Halen had a stellar show! Fiddlers Green!
@kingbennyb+ I saw them at Red Rocks during a snow storm in the early 2000s. Eddie looked over the crowd as the snow was dumping saying we were all crazy sitting through a snow storm to hear them play. LOL.. It may not have been great weather, but the guys just played through the storm and did a great show.. :)
kingbennyb ....that just proves what we all know about folks in Denver: people there are so stupid it's as if they're parents are all directly related, cuz Van Halen is soft rock crap....
Did you reupload this or something? I'm 99% sure I seen this video on here bc I remember Hagar saying he hired them out of fear and that Cobain shirt he has on
I saw the show on this tour when they came to Shreveport, La. Some people actually booed, but AIC really rocked, of course.
For someone who has played rock n roll. There were some funny stories there. All good stuff
I saw this tour, but AinC did not open. They had come through Colorado and played at Red Rocks in Boulder. KBPI, the Rick Station in Denver wanted them to play in Denver, so they paid for Van Halen to come back to Colorado, paid for everything, Venue, travel, hotels, everything. Alice in Chains could not make that date and so Baby Animals opened. Since the radio station paid for everything, tix were only $11.65. That was my first concert and the first of three times that I saw Van Halen.
I missed Alice in Chains that time, but they opened for Ozzy Osbourne on the No More Tours tour. They were the first band before Sepultura and Ozzy, so need less to say, the Grunge sound didn't fly with the heavy metal crowd and they were nearly booed off stage. They funny thing was they were heavily booed their whole set except when they played Would and Man In The Box, so at least they weren't completely hated lol
I saw the Clash of the Titans tour at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland Maine. At the time nobody knew who AIC was, sadly, the place left the house lights on the entire time the band played.
I saw them on this tour in Shreveport, Louisiana. I remember Layne jumped into the audience to fight someone. They were killer that night.
great vid, really had me smiling. needed that. thanks!
One of the most entertaining videos yet good stuff
The story, probably too good to be true, is that one day after Eddie V had sobered up, he listened to one of the Hagar-led VH records, and called up Hagar and fired him on the spot.
Great content as always.
That tour sounds like it was a blast!
Awesome, thanks for sharing
Jerry Cantrel became friends with everybody. He seems like such a great guy to hang out with. I'd like to be friends with him.
All I gotta do now is search "Tragic" and all you're videos pop up lol
Or Creepy
Alice and chains True Rock,Roll that darkness is so True rip Layne
I saw this lineup in St. Louis. The only tragic thing was half the audience wasn’t in their seats for AIC.
The Path That Life Put in front of Us, Sometimes We take the wrong turn! And that turn We can never go back and take a Different Road!!
My dad went to the show in Nashville and then drove to Chicago to see the one in Chicago! (Commenting before it’s starting)
Edit: gonna ask my dad if he remembers seeing any pranks
Honestly that prank war was pretty fun!😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love this channel...anything on saigon kick or emo dashboard confessional or TBS???
Layne Staley, Steve Marriott,Tom Jones and Maynard Keenan had the strongest voices I've ever heard in concert
Awesome vid, can you do one on Paul Kossof from the band Free?
Thanks for another interesting video