First Time Reaction | Alice In Chains " Nutshell " His Voice
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Layne didn't die for a few more years. But this performance is like someone singing at their own funeral. It's haunting.
Dude, you got it.
Dead man walking. God bless his troubled spirit
Layne was and IS one of the best vocalists of his time when this was filmed... he is respected and missed profoundly.
Sure is as is Chris, Mike and Mark 😢
Completely and totally missed as a vocalist! Amazing voice
So true I miss him and the music we missed out on with his passing.So glad he left behind so many great songs that I will listen to the rest of my life
He was very sick at this time. RIP my troubled brother
Most beautiful voice in grunge by far.
agree 100%
With many other greats as well
Nobody in grunge comes close at all. I consider Chris Cornell second best behind Layne grunge singers. But that's just me.
@@dillonsronce2583i thought the exact same ! Chris Cornell probably second best raw talent . But there’s few people on earth who could touch Layne .
"If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead." I think that line pretty much sums up what that song is about. In a "Nutshell", if you will.
The industry killed him in my opinion!
A cry for help
Layne also did a sober side project called Mad Season. Also an incredible underrated album!! RIP Layne!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Agreed ❤
Above! Love that album!!!
Mad Season was his group and another group. The only good song I remember from that album is River of Deceit. Real good albums I cannot recall any album that he put out that did not have a hit song.
For sure Above was a very good album
River of Deceit is just beautiful ❤
This song means he is just admitting he is struggling to fight his demons everyday. RIP Layne, you were thee GOAT lead singer ever.
Layne Staley doesn’t sing songs he creates feelings. Greatest vocalist ever. RIP Layne.
One of the really greatest MTV Unplugged albums ever released!
THE Greatest!
The first time I heard this song , shivers went up my spine
In a nutshell , this song is about Layne Staley's (singer) battle with drug addiction and the media plastering false stories (AIDS) about him.
Watching someone sing at their own funeral...makes me cry everytime
this comment here.
Yes😢💔
It seems that they all tried to tell us. Lane,Scott, Chris andChester😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
AIC had so many great songs! Layne is recognized as one of rocks all time best singers, easily in the top 20. RIP layne.. I hope your soul found the peace it was looking for! Ill give you a couple of their tunes that I personally like that wont be the ones everyone else mentions, “rain when i die” or “I stay away”
I've been addicted to their music for 30 years, enjoy man
Miss you Layne
He was a tortured soul and was far in heroin/cocaine addiction by this point. He performed here with almost no teeth. He has to shoot heroin before walking on stage because of withdrawals. This was their last concert and after went completely silent and passed away to overdose 5 years later.
Actually it was not their last concert.. they played 4 shows in 96 after unplugged then that was it ..
It was actually 6 years later when he died. He also, recorded 2 more songs with AIC. And did a cover of Another Brick in the Wall with Tom Morello called “Class of 99” for a movie.
An addict who knew he couldn’t ever kick his demons.. this is the song of that despair
It's been decades and this still hits me exactly the same way 💔🥺
I cry every time I watch this. Layne was in a bad state
Real nice guys got to talk with them for a bit when I worked as a stagehand at a gig in Dallas, Tx
that’s pretty cool, not even gonna lie
That’s awesome… how lucky you are!
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
Well said❤️❤️
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Enjoyed every word ❤️🤘🏼🙏
Perfectly put
One thing you said that I'd disagree with. And that's that Layne's vocal range is better than any other grunge singer. I will forever consider Layne the greatest frontman of that era, but as far as range, I don't think anyone could touch Chris Cornell. He could hit such high notes, and drop way down to a very low. I don't think Layne could hit those highs like Chris could. But I will always consider Layne the better singe overall.
The bass for this whole show was on point. Carried the back of the entire show
Maybe one of the best singers in rock history is all….
U need to have a listen to their 2nd album - DIRT. So many great songs, but special mention must go to: Them Bones, Damn that River, Down in a Hole, Rooster, Dirt, Would, Angry Chair…
He was an amazing vocalist, and I loved how he and Jerry would harmonise quite frequently…the vocal harmonies was the AIC thing!!
I rated him up there with Chris Cornell…so many greats gone way too early 😔
At this point unfortunately the lead singer, Layne Staley was heavily into drugs.
If you'd like to see him in his prime I suggest reacting to their live show from, Live at the Moore The song Love Hate Love.
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Best performance
This song makes me feel homesick for a place that no longer exists.. RIP Layne
I felt that! ❤️😭
You just said words what I’ve been feeling for the past decade, I just haven’t been able to find those words until now
RIP Layne Staley
He passed, nooo 💔
@@ImDarin yea he OD'd in 2002. Him and Chris Cornell were two of my favorite singers in grunge
@@mattwest9400 I think he actually died of organ failure due to his extensive drug use. Six of one...
This song is about how lonely and depressed Layne really was
no it isn't. layne was loving life when jar of flies was recorded. he didn't start his depressed spiral til after demri died in 96. the whole jar of flies ep was written and recorded in 7 days and started out as just a jam session to see how mike inez fit after they'd fired mike starr.
Layne was spiralling years before Demri died. Her death was just the nail in the coffin so to speak, he truly gave up after that
Poor Layne. My heart breaks to see him like this. Balls deep in heroin/cocaine addiction. Gloves to hid track marks, glasses to cover his eyes , hardly any teeth. But his voice , his voice still perfect. I hope you found your peace Layne.
You should listen to I stay away if you haven’t already. An orchestral mix that will send shivers up and down your spine. Or Love Hate Love to show the strength in Laynes voice.
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Love Hate Love at the Moore's he displayed how powerful his voice was.I wish he could have fought his addiction so he and Jerry could continue to make great music together
Everyone says “F*ck Cancer”…although I agree but F*ck Drugs” too!!!
More AiC please!
DC?
Like he's singing at his own funeral 😢 this was him near the end of his life.
I'm 51 and had the privilege of seeing them twice before Layne passed. He was a genius just like all good musicians. But he also went through addiction so if you know what I'm talking about he was fighting demons that he eventually couldn't overcome. God rest his soul. Gone but never forgotten
This song is about Layne Staley's very public battle with heroin addiction, which eventually ended his life not terribly long after this show, and how the media leveraged it, violated his privacy, and made it a tabloid affair for the sake of readership and ratings. Layne was and always will be one of the greats, and his death was a terrible loss not just for rock but for music as an art form.
The singer had a bad heroin addiction and died nearly 20 years ago, but he is considered one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
Beautiful, kind and good soul gone too soon… Rest Layne I hope you found peace and happy wherever you are…. You will be forever missed and loved… The most amazing unique voice of all time❤
This song brings tears to my soul. We wasted a lot of years on that shit and it took alot of good people. R.I.P LAYNE AND ALL THE ONES WE LOST TO THAT MONSTER❤❤❤❤
We miss you so much Layne, so much ❤ your ethereal voice lives on and continues to touch new hearts and souls around the world. Sleep peacefully now, sweet, sweet soul. ❤
Layne Staley's voice is on of a kind. You will never hear another voice like his.
This song is even so much more haunting since his death. It is almost a premonition.
I am a 30 year card carrying member of the Grunge Era! AIC, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana. They sang the angsty soundtrack to my high school years. Unfortunately Eddie is the only one still alive. They were all taken from us too soon. Layne makes it look so easy.
I mean just do Love Hate Love live at The Moore and you’ll be absolutely hooked on their music.
This was acoustic Layne, listen to him in his absolute prime.
It gets even better. Move right on to Down In A Hole from same concert next. Watch the official video for Rooster.
Brutal gut punch. Makes me feel like I’m talking to my future self about being on an inescapable path. Knowing what needs to be done, yet unable to change course. The pain of recognition.
To him this is his goodbye song. One of the most saddest songs of all time. Thats depression right there. An invisible killer which hunts many of us. Stay strong fellas 💪
This hurts me to this day to watch. I was a fan from the beginning and seeing Layne 💔 and his band. They were so influencial and impactful to me in my youth. RIP Layne
I've been listening to AIC since their inception and this song still makes me emotional. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks fir getting right into it….so many channels have long long intros.
I know what we are here for, thank you for stopping by
The pain of life lives in their music, bleed the freak is another strong song, take a pick they are all great, a song called right turn is another, peace!
I've watched 5 reaction videos in a row to Nutshell. Chills! Every! Single! Time! Haunting..
In short as an Alice in Chains fan from 90's Layne's battles was depression from his life as a kid and addiction. The song at the first verse is Layne's cry out for help but the second is like saying I give up. Is like Layne sung his own goodbyes. Rest in peace Layne and Mike Starr (basist) also Mike starr had the same battles with Layne
The greatest rock song from the 90s, and laynes voice lives on, even though he’s gone
Fun fact, Layne Staley was sober when he wrote this. That’s the nightmare of addiction, once you kick the habit then you’re left to face your emotions head on instead of numbing yourself from them. That’s the true battle.
Totally agree bruh,the bassist is on point 👉☝️🤘🤜🤛🤘
My favorite song ❤️ I love the bass intro and his voice is irreplaceable
❤ Layne was iconic.
He cannot be topped, and to me it’s about my daughter’s heroin addiction. She discovered it at 34 and would be dead in a year. A year of feeling like this. I just discovered the song a few days ago.
@86crud...☮
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One my fave.R.I.P. Layne
My older brother is named Darin and his first child is named Layne. We both grown up loving Alice In Chains
RIP Layne ❤
this is probably one of the best unplugged songs ever
I see no lies
Layne struggled with addiction and the sudden death of the love of his life Demeri i believe this song was and his struggle with depression and addiction
He was also lead singer of a band called Mad Season. ❤ U Might like river of deceit or long gone day.
I also think this song was about the music industry and the bullshit that musicians go through w them.
Bangers is all you're gonna get from this band my dude.
I like the sound of that
If sorrow was a song. The struggle is real. RIP Layne
Best Unplugged song ever. Thanks Darin.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoying this with me
I love Layne, he is so missed,
Alice In Chains - “down in a hole” from their unplugged performance. “Would”, “rooster” and “man in a box” are their hit songs. You should check them out!
RIP THE GREAT LAYNE STALEY
Great video and content.
Right on. Thanks for sharing your reactions.
I appreciate you for stopping by
Its about whatever you need it to be about. Thats the point of music.
They were destined to be legends.
This was his suicide note to the world. In the most beautiful way.
This whole set is so beautiful. My personal favorites from it are "Down in a Hole," "Brother," and "Would."
just finished down in a hole.. waiting for that to clear.
Down in a Hole is the best one on Unplugged I reckon
RIP Layne Demri Mike
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Layne Staley, one of the greatest vocalists of all time. One black guy said if you're gonna give me white people music, give me this. Don't give me that other crap. 🤣
Alice In Chains has many great songs.
They hadn’t played together in 2.5 years. Their rehearsals were a disaster. Layne was going through serious withdrawals and Jerry had food poisoning. Yet they pulled off the best MTV live performance ever!
Beautiful
This song was about Layne's addiction to heroin. It not only killed him, it also killed another band mate. I can't listen to this for long without tearing up. He was literally singing at his own funeral. A more upbeat song by AIC would be "Would" or "Man in the Box."
There is a paperback book on Amazon called Alice in Chains.....the Untold Story...... but this was Layne`s song about his drug use
peace be with you
I play this song on guitar, such a sad song. Aww I wish he was still with us, 😢
For a while Alice took a break and Layne sang with Mad Season..... And he sang River of deceit with them... Please check it out.
He still sounds incredible even tho he's clearly at one of his lowest point health wise, he was just high enough to go through the show without getting sick from withdrawal
you just had to be there brotha, it cant be explained only experienced. i watched this back in 93 im 38 bro i was 8 then lol it was just as amazing then as it is now. its about his isolation,
My favorite band
Dope song 🎧 😮
LAYNE = GOAT
Layne unfortunately was a shell here, but his voice was still remarkable…such an incredible and emotionally driven singer…entirely unique…wish he could have shared his talent for many more years…
Forget about heroin or any other bullshit that is a stigma to his name. F that. Pure soul . He breathes it. Doesn't get any more pure. Wow!
And remember....THIS IS LIVE....
He was just a shell of himself at this point. I named my son after this man because of how important he was to me as I was becoming a man.
I have been listening to Alice in Shane's back around when they first came out. Digital song from their album called jar of flies. This was a very good album and this song was depressing; however, it was one of the greatest songs during that time when they had other artists such as Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails Etc. Every one of their albums was very good and they had a lot of Good Hits that are still getting played on rock stations today here in Cincinnati Ohio. It was obvious he had some issues at that time but maybe he didn't. Maybe it was a song for everybody to listen and not hear. Unfortunate news is we will never know that for sure now. Either way it was a very good song
The loss of Demtri ....when his heart was broken..... listen to "down in a hole "
Masterpiece
There is a lot of self reflection here around his drug use and the slow erosion of hope. They are sad songs ultimately but true to what he lived
Listen to their sing "Would" Its awesome
I think its a mix between addiction and privacy invasion from fame and all the weight from everything in between
Depression was singing this song. Its incredible beautiful but sad.
IMO the best of all the MTV unplugged series. Every song they performed in the set is loads cooler than the studio recordings. Shame they couldn’t do more.
I was always a huge fan of Alice in chains and I've been told by alot of people that i can match Lane Staleys tone perfectly. Then i found out recently that we have the same birthday just 27 years apart and now Im 29. Not sure what to make of all of it but i do believe in life gives you signs for a reason and in reincarnation.
They had a lot of good hits from their album Dirt which was right before jar of flies. For example, rooster, would an Angry Chair. They have another good hit off of this album that you're listening to it is called I'll stay away. They also had another head call Man in box. I personally do not think that that song was for him it was a song for what American High School kids go through daily. For example, the last verse when he says gift of self is raked followed by his privacy is raped. Moreover, he says if he can't be his own he feel better dead. It might be about the pressure he's going through as an artist. There are so many outcomes you can think of what this song. However oh, it's kind of like reading a book it makes you think and then you come out with your own outcome of what you giving relate that song to and your personal life
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The Bass was Mikey Starr. RIP