Thanks for reacting to this beautiful song. The bass player is an old friend of mine. He took over when their first bass player was kicked-out. Layne (singer) was still alive at that point and I had the great privilege of hanging with him twice. Although he was a haunted soul, he was super friendly and humble (in my experience). His death was such a huge loss on many levels. RIP. Request: I know you reacted to the studio version of Led Zeppelin's "Going to California", but the live version is 100 times more magical and I know you'd love it. Choose the version from "Live at Earl's Court, 1975). THANK YOU!!!!!
@@tokejones9278 Yeah, I remember asking him about that. Turns out it was a fun stab at Lars and James from Metallica who had recently cut their hair. Mike will probably keep his long his whole life. LOL.
Friends don’t let friends get ‘Friends’ haircuts is reference to Metallica cutting off their long hair and thus making them look like cast of the show Friends.
The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because he was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was doing other drugs on top of Heroin). His liver was damaged from the years of drug use and he knew it. He was just high enough to do the show to deal with the withdrawal symptoms and so he didn't get dope sick. 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 the path Layne had chosen for his life. That show was filmed in April 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. On Unplugged, Scott Olson was the second guitarist. He was there to boost the guitar sound on the stage. Layne was better Live than the studio version. LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore in December 1990 is UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION performed live by a rock band. Other rock bands should strive to have a live performance that perfect. 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 were 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. (He started losing his teeth in 1995 due to grinding) 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. I'm in the camp of No Layne/No Chains, because no matter which singer you put up there to sing those songs, it'll only be a cover. Layne had a unique voice you cannot replicate or replace. A lot of those songs were great because Layne pretty much wrung his entire soul out singing them, others were personal to Layne and to have someone else sing those, the songs lose their meaning because the new guy didn't go through the ordeals those songs are inspired by. William DuVall singing THEM BONES on the 2006 reunion tsunami gig.... William DOES NOT have the power in his voice that Layne had especially for that song. Maynard James Keenan could get remotely close to Layne's vocal range for that song (and many others). And Maynard would have the reverence for Layne's memory, he was friends with Layne, he KNEW Layne, had a history with Layne, and saw what Layne went through from Lollapalooza 93 until Layne became a recluse. Besides, Maynard already had 3 bands going on, why not join a fourth band? He 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 neither one worked 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 (minus the John Lennon cover song I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier) and he drew the cover art for the album. NUTSHELL was about how magazines like FOR EXAMPLE Rolling Stone only reported on Layne's addiction as if that were the only thing that defined the band as well as Layne's depression. Rolling Stone magazine has some unknown thing to do with the Hall of Fame, and after what Rolling Stone did to Layne and the band in the 1996 The Needle and the Damage Done article ("Oh no, it will be about the music" "Oh yeah, the band's picture will be on the cover" turns out it was only Layne on the cover and the article focused on Layne's addiction -- which Layne DID NOT want to happen -- and everything going wrong internally with the band.) that pissed off AIC management and the entire band to the point they threatened to kick the writer, Jon Weiderhorn's ass over it. I don't see Rolling Stone chomping at the bit to vote AIC into the Hall of Fame. Although if they do finally get in with William as the singer and NOT Layne. I'm going to be pissed. As far back as late 1992, Rolling Stone has personally had a bone to pick with Layne Staley, even though I can name a dozen bands who wrote about drugs in their lyrics that Rolling Stone never cared to target before or after Layne came along. Layne’s mentioned Rolling Stone hounding him in passing to Riki Rachtman during the New Orleans episode of Headbanger’s Ball in late 1992 when Layne and Mike Starr tour New Orleans and a Voodoo museum with Riki back then. There were other magazines and "reporters" BEFORE 1996 that hounded Layne over his drug addiction. Rolling Stone wasn't the only rag mag to do it. Spin Magazine and many other tabloid music mags only wanted to focus on Layne's addiction. It's why they stopped doing interviews for the longest time, and after the 1996 Rolling Stone interview, they closed ranks and as far as I know, while Layne was alive they never granted another interview. They DID do Rockline in 1998 (Layne called in while Jerry was promoting his Boggy Depot solo album) and 1999 (when the band was promoting Nothing Safe and the Music Bank box set). But for the most part, they closed ranks around each other. 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. Even though the music industry would like to have written him out of history, Layne DID exist. He was on this earth for 34 years. In that time he 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, his depression, and the tumultuous relationship with his former fiancee Demri. 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 music rag mags like Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music. Layne Staley WASN'T just some rock star junkie. HE DESERVED BETTER than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about drugs, his addiction, what he was feeling and what he was going through with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press. I remember a show in London on February 26, 1993 where a reporter who was based in London wrote about a concert they did in another part of Europe and got Mike Inez confused with Mike Starr. Layne got on the microphone between them finishing HATE TO FEEL and beginning ANGRY CHAIR and said, "I want to say um, I want to say hello to the guy who wrote the review on the show a few weeks back. You’re in London - an enemy. I want to introduce our bass player, MIKE INEZ, not Mike Starr, you fucking idiot! Fuck that prick! Fuck the press! We’re not playing for the fucking press, all right?” "Layne was just an incomparable talent. He was like a fucking myna bird. Any accent or sound or voice, he could just immediately repeat it. He just had a gift. And I’d like to think that I have a bit of a gift myself. One of the funniest descriptions I’ve ever heard, and I don’t know that it’s true, but it just sounds fucking great, was we sound like “the satanic Everly Brothers.” Together we were kind of a two-headed monster. It added a lot of depth to the material the way we worked together." -- Jerry Cantrell (Noisey, June 7, 2018) My Top 20 AIC songs... Love Hate Love (Live at the Moore, December 1990...Layne Staley in his prime and is UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION performed live by a rock band. All other rock bands should strive to have a live performance this perfect), Man in the Box (Live at Weedsport, NY 1991 - the Layne’s Pissed Version...though the original version may be better to react to, because Weedsport was during Clash of the Titans tour where Slayer fans were giving the band crap and Layne got pissed and changed the lyrics), Bleed the Freak (Live at the Moore, December 1990), It Ain’t Like That (if you need a video use Singles Pro Shot video), Queen of the Rodeo (Live in Dallas, TX 1990), Real Thing (Live ANYWHERE), Them Bones, God Smack (Live at Hollywood Rock, 1993), Grind, Again, No Excuses, Brush Away, Frogs, Sludge Factory (During MTV Unplugged 1996, Layne screwed up the 2nd verse like 8 times, though the show only included one of those times), What the Hell Have I, God Am, Got Me Wrong, Swing On This, Social Parasite, We Die Young
I got to see Alice in Chanis one time opening for Ozzy. My stone head buddies didn't even want to see Alice I Chains, but I drug their a$$e$ in there to catch the last couple of songs. Layne was in a wheelchair at the time with a broken leg and somebody threw a joint on the stage. Layne picked it up, lit it up and kept on going. FGN Legends never die. That man is a Legend.
This is really sad to watch, this was one of his last performances, and seeing him was SHOCKING and scary, but it was a prelude to his passing, in my opinion.
Alice In Chains .. I have to look up where the band got that name from. This song is very soothing and beautiful, and I don't want to think that the last sentence was due to depression, which shocked me a little.
"friends dont let friends get haircuts" was a diss to Metallica.. back in the day metalheads had long hair, and Metallic guys cut their hair short... also Metallica and Alice In Chains were supposed to go on tour, but Alice In Chains had to step down due to Layne drug problems, and Metallica made fun of that in that tour... great guys this Metallica fellows....
Great performance, but he became very reclusive shortly after this, and he was a BAG OF BONES, SHADOW OF HIS FORMER SELF, it's like him singing his own EULOGY
The song Just Hits on so many different levels. The caption on the guitar, the story apparently goes, that Metallica was in the audience and they had just cut all of their hair off and got short haircuts....
Altho the "Unplugged" performances of Alice in Chains and Nirvana are some of the best acoustic performances in history, they were also one of their last. It was forced and backstage the organisers literally brought "medicine" to make them perform. And by "medicine" I mean heroin. It's sad that this generation gave us 4 great singers and only one is still alive today.
In that performance Layne was unhealthy he had battling depression and addiction. That was his crying out for help abut also like saying that he was giving up.
Well, the writing was to Metallica who had cut their hair at the time and caused a big fuss in the metal crown. This song has to do with Layne Staley the singer and his fight with heroin and depression he died soon after this show.
@therealcobracommander8324 It’s sure been a long time. I’m doing good, thank you 👍 I’m so sorry about the bad times. I hope you’re better now? Good to have you back 🤍
Gut wrenching song and performance. If you'd like to have perspective on how far gone he was at this point, check out earlier performances. Love Hate Love is a good one. Layne was loved. You just can't solve some problems with love alone. If that's all it took he'd still be alive.
The closest you'll ever come to hearing a man sing at his own funeral. And the message on that bass guitar was for Metallica, who had just re-branded themselves and cut their hair and started wearing the stuff the hard core metal heads despised.
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The 90's really were a great decade for music ! We was spoilt with some amazing frontmen and great songwriting 😊x
Thanks for reacting to this beautiful song. The bass player is an old friend of mine. He took over when their first bass player was kicked-out. Layne (singer) was still alive at that point and I had the great privilege of hanging with him twice. Although he was a haunted soul, he was super friendly and humble (in my experience). His death was such a huge loss on many levels. RIP.
Request: I know you reacted to the studio version of Led Zeppelin's "Going to California", but the live version is 100 times more magical and I know you'd love it. Choose the version from "Live at Earl's Court, 1975). THANK YOU!!!!!
Aside from being a great bassist, the "Friends don't let friends get haircuts"
@@tokejones9278 Yeah, I remember asking him about that. Turns out it was a fun stab at Lars and James from Metallica who had recently cut their hair. Mike will probably keep his long his whole life. LOL.
If you see a man sitting alone, staring off into space, listening to this song. Ask him if hes okay and if he needs a hug.
Beautiful song!! Loved the acoustic bass guitar!! Nice reaction as usual!! 😊
Friends don’t let friends get ‘Friends’ haircuts is reference to Metallica cutting off their long hair and thus making them look like cast of the show Friends.
I always cry to this song , I remember my 20 year heroing addiction I had and I just want people to know we can get help
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Early 90's live performances are hom in his prime and HEALTHY
The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because he was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was doing other drugs on top of Heroin). His liver was damaged from the years of drug use and he knew it. He was just high enough to do the show to deal with the withdrawal symptoms and so he didn't get dope sick. 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 the path Layne had chosen for his life. That show was filmed in April 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.
On Unplugged, Scott Olson was the second guitarist. He was there to boost the guitar sound on the stage.
Layne was better Live than the studio version. LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore in December 1990 is UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION performed live by a rock band. Other rock bands should strive to have a live performance that perfect.
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 were 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. (He started losing his teeth in 1995 due to grinding)
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.
I'm in the camp of No Layne/No Chains, because no matter which singer you put up there to sing those songs, it'll only be a cover. Layne had a unique voice you cannot replicate or replace. A lot of those songs were great because Layne pretty much wrung his entire soul out singing them, others were personal to Layne and to have someone else sing those, the songs lose their meaning because the new guy didn't go through the ordeals those songs are inspired by.
William DuVall singing THEM BONES on the 2006 reunion tsunami gig.... William DOES NOT have the power in his voice that Layne had especially for that song. Maynard James Keenan could get remotely close to Layne's vocal range for that song (and many others). And Maynard would have the reverence for Layne's memory, he was friends with Layne, he KNEW Layne, had a history with Layne, and saw what Layne went through from Lollapalooza 93 until Layne became a recluse. Besides, Maynard already had 3 bands going on, why not join a fourth band?
He 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 neither one worked 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 (minus the John Lennon cover song I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier) and he drew the cover art for the album.
NUTSHELL was about how magazines like FOR EXAMPLE Rolling Stone only reported on Layne's addiction as if that were the only thing that defined the band as well as Layne's depression.
Rolling Stone magazine has some unknown thing to do with the Hall of Fame, and after what Rolling Stone did to Layne and the band in the 1996 The Needle and the Damage Done article ("Oh no, it will be about the music" "Oh yeah, the band's picture will be on the cover" turns out it was only Layne on the cover and the article focused on Layne's addiction -- which Layne DID NOT want to happen -- and everything going wrong internally with the band.) that pissed off AIC management and the entire band to the point they threatened to kick the writer, Jon Weiderhorn's ass over it. I don't see Rolling Stone chomping at the bit to vote AIC into the Hall of Fame. Although if they do finally get in with William as the singer and NOT Layne. I'm going to be pissed.
As far back as late 1992, Rolling Stone has personally had a bone to pick with Layne Staley, even though I can name a dozen bands who wrote about drugs in their lyrics that Rolling Stone never cared to target before or after Layne came along. Layne’s mentioned Rolling Stone hounding him in passing to Riki Rachtman during the New Orleans episode of Headbanger’s Ball in late 1992 when Layne and Mike Starr tour New Orleans and a Voodoo museum with Riki back then.
There were other magazines and "reporters" BEFORE 1996 that hounded Layne over his drug addiction. Rolling Stone wasn't the only rag mag to do it. Spin Magazine and many other tabloid music mags only wanted to focus on Layne's addiction. It's why they stopped doing interviews for the longest time, and after the 1996 Rolling Stone interview, they closed ranks and as far as I know, while Layne was alive they never granted another interview. They DID do Rockline in 1998 (Layne called in while Jerry was promoting his Boggy Depot solo album) and 1999 (when the band was promoting Nothing Safe and the Music Bank box set). But for the most part, they closed ranks around each other.
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.
Even though the music industry would like to have written him out of history, Layne DID exist. He was on this earth for 34 years. In that time he 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, his depression, and the tumultuous relationship with his former fiancee Demri. 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 music rag mags like Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music.
Layne Staley WASN'T just some rock star junkie. HE DESERVED BETTER than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about drugs, his addiction, what he was feeling and what he was going through with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press.
I remember a show in London on February 26, 1993 where a reporter who was based in London wrote about a concert they did in another part of Europe and got Mike Inez confused with Mike Starr. Layne got on the microphone between them finishing HATE TO FEEL and beginning ANGRY CHAIR and said, "I want to say um, I want to say hello to the guy who wrote the review on the show a few weeks back. You’re in London - an enemy. I want to introduce our bass player, MIKE INEZ, not Mike Starr, you fucking idiot! Fuck that prick! Fuck the press! We’re not playing for the fucking press, all right?”
"Layne was just an incomparable talent. He was like a fucking myna bird. Any accent or sound or voice, he could just immediately repeat it. He just had a gift. And I’d like to think that I have a bit of a gift myself. One of the funniest descriptions I’ve ever heard, and I don’t know that it’s true, but it just sounds fucking great, was we sound like “the satanic Everly Brothers.” Together we were kind of a two-headed monster. It added a lot of depth to the material the way we worked together." -- Jerry Cantrell (Noisey, June 7, 2018)
My Top 20 AIC songs... Love Hate Love (Live at the Moore, December 1990...Layne Staley in his prime and is UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION performed live by a rock band. All other rock bands should strive to have a live performance this perfect), Man in the Box (Live at Weedsport, NY 1991 - the Layne’s Pissed Version...though the original version may be better to react to, because Weedsport was during Clash of the Titans tour where Slayer fans were giving the band crap and Layne got pissed and changed the lyrics), Bleed the Freak (Live at the Moore, December 1990), It Ain’t Like That (if you need a video use Singles Pro Shot video), Queen of the Rodeo (Live in Dallas, TX 1990), Real Thing (Live ANYWHERE), Them Bones, God Smack (Live at Hollywood Rock, 1993), Grind, Again, No Excuses, Brush Away, Frogs, Sludge Factory (During MTV Unplugged 1996, Layne screwed up the 2nd verse like 8 times, though the show only included one of those times), What the Hell Have I, God Am, Got Me Wrong, Swing On This, Social Parasite, We Die Young
AIC is my favorite band and I didnt know some of this. Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for this.
From the land down under Bought the cassette tape when released One of the most beautiful songs ever
One of the best songs ever created.
Layne (R.I.P.) singing his own eulogy. I tear up every time I watch it. I love that dude.
I got to see Alice in Chanis one time opening for Ozzy. My stone head buddies didn't even want to see Alice I Chains, but I drug their a$$e$ in there to catch the last couple of songs. Layne was in a wheelchair at the time with a broken leg and somebody threw a joint on the stage. Layne picked it up, lit it up and kept on going. FGN Legends never die. That man is a Legend.
This is really sad to watch, this was one of his last performances, and seeing him was SHOCKING and scary, but it was a prelude to his passing, in my opinion.
Layne said :
Alice In Chains .. I have to look up where the band got that name from. This song is very soothing and beautiful, and I don't want to think that the last sentence was due to depression, which shocked me a little.
The message on the guitar is about friendship. People forgot about this.
The story of Lane is sad, but he left beautiful treasures for us.
Layne is the definition of beautiful tortured soul.
beautiful music
The raw emotions are so intense, life in the abis of addiction!
Good one, Empress
"friends dont let friends get haircuts" was a diss to Metallica.. back in the day metalheads had long hair, and Metallic guys cut their hair short... also Metallica and Alice In Chains were supposed to go on tour, but Alice In Chains had to step down due to Layne drug problems, and Metallica made fun of that in that tour... great guys this Metallica fellows....
Thank you for giving a proper explanation to the words on his guitar… Now it makes sense…
And I believe Metallica was actually in the audience that night.
Great performance, but he became very reclusive shortly after this, and he was a BAG OF BONES, SHADOW OF HIS FORMER SELF, it's like him singing his own EULOGY
@coreywickramasekera9968 Wow! That’s really sad to know 😞
The song Just Hits on so many different levels. The caption on the guitar, the story apparently goes, that Metallica was in the audience and they had just cut all of their hair off and got short haircuts....
Altho the "Unplugged" performances of Alice in Chains and Nirvana are some of the best acoustic performances in history, they were also one of their last. It was forced and backstage the organisers literally brought "medicine" to make them perform. And by "medicine" I mean heroin.
It's sad that this generation gave us 4 great singers and only one is still alive today.
Lol used to be same way on the haircuts
RIP Layne❤
Great song. lol, your baskets full
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Very nice
In that performance Layne was unhealthy he had battling depression and addiction. That was his crying out for help abut also like saying that he was giving up.
for those who do not know...the quote on the bass refers to 'Metallica's' new haircuts
In an interview, I read that Metallica was in the audience. They were poking fun at them.
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The writing on the bass guitar is a reference to the band Metallica all cutting their long hair short.
I'd love to hear your reaction to Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Well, the writing was to Metallica who had cut their hair at the time and caused a big fuss in the metal crown. This song has to do with Layne Staley the singer and his fight with heroin and depression he died soon after this show.
"Rooster."
I died little each day in addition but I'm unsure about my future even though I'm sober
Friends dont let friends get haircuts
Love your sweet face!!♥
@juse7185 Thank you so much 🤍
Its been a long time. I hope you are doing well. I've had a rough time since I last wrote a comment to you. 💔
@therealcobracommander8324 It’s sure been a long time. I’m doing good, thank you 👍 I’m so sorry about the bad times. I hope you’re better now? Good to have you back 🤍
Gut wrenching song and performance. If you'd like to have perspective on how far gone he was at this point, check out earlier performances. Love Hate Love is a good one. Layne was loved. You just can't solve some problems with love alone. If that's all it took he'd still be alive.
😢RIP my youth. RIP Layne, Chris, etc 😢
The closest you'll ever come to hearing a man sing at his own funeral.
And the message on that bass guitar was for Metallica, who had just re-branded themselves and cut their hair and started wearing the stuff the hard core metal heads despised.