Love Hate Love live at the Moore will show you why Layne is considered one of the best vocalists in rock history. The band as a whole are incredible and they sound absolutely AMAZING live
This song's origins start with a lunch the band had with some A&R woman who was a vegan (no animal byproducts of ANY kind), who proceeded to tell them how animals were penned up in small crates and killed for steak, etc. So, Layne wrote Man in the Box from the perspective of a penned up calf. It was loosely based around Layne's idea of media censorship. Sean Kinney (the drummer) said it was about veal. LOL. Layne met Jerry Cantrell ONE TIME, found out he had no family in the area, he had little money left and Layne (drunkenly) offered Jerry a place to live, money, food, clothes, guitars and gear he needed, Layne set Jerry up with a life that could NOT fail unless Jerry let it happen. He set him up with a band when he gave Jerry the number to Sean Kinney's girlfriend and found out that the girlfriend was Mike Starr's sister. He encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all they were Jerry's lyrics, Jerry should sing them. I'm sure Jerry would have made it on his own without Layne, but it would have been the long scenic route to get there. Jerry wrote ROOSTER about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows, Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play Rooster and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist who showed back up in Layne's life AFTER Layne got famous and had money and did drugs with Layne.) Phil Staley was NOT the father Layne expected when he came back into his life. Layne had tried rehab 13 times, but he could never completely give it up. He tried quitting cold turkey on two of the last attempts at rehab, but that didn't work either. Mad Season is made up of Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and John Baker Saunders and they all went through rehab. They all got together and dragged Layne out of his condo, got him excited about doing ABOVE album, thinking if he was creative he wouldn't want the drugs, and for the length of time it took to do that, Layne was excited about the project, but it didn't curb his drug habit. Layne wrote the lyrics to the songs he sang on the ABOVE album and he drew the cover art for the album. Layne was an amazing singer. Very few singers sound better live than they do in a studio version. Layne was one of the few. From what I’ve read and researched, heroin is the worst drug to be addicted to. You don’t want to do anything other than be there and nodding out. The fact that he agreed to do the KISS shows and performed them like he did shows the strength he had. From what I read, when you have the level of addiction Layne had, it is incredibly difficult to function at the intensity of performing a stage show in front of an audience as well as he did. He could have stayed home and stayed high, but Jerry wanted to do the shows. Somewhere, somehow Layne found the strength to do those shows despite what his addiction wanted him to do even though he survived an overdose after the last KISS show in Kansas City, Missouri, became a recluse, and the addiction got him in the end. Mike Starr was the last one to see him on April 4, 2002, for all anyone knows and what I took from that was that while Layne was telling Mike that he (Layne) was sick, he still tried to get Mike to give up his own prescription drug habit. After that, no one noticed he had died because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911. He died on April 5, 2002, but his body wasn't discovered until April 19, 2002. And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show. At the age of 34 (when he died), he looked more like an 80-year-old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it. Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12 year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne wrote songs that gave a normal person insight into the mind and journey of an addict. The pain and depression he endured to write the most brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings on his own addiction and the emotional and physical strength he had to perform those songs live when all he wanted to do was curl away and lose himself in the drug haze I can’t imagine what it was like for him. He was hounded by the press about his addiction. He was ridiculed for his addiction. The music industry blackballed him for his addiction. The Grammys forgot about him when he died. As far as MTV and Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music. Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press. Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He stacked his own vocals. He knew enough to know that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and Mike Starr. He wrote the lyrics for the songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He still was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons. Layne's whole situation from his drug addiction, to how he died, to how he was found only weighing 86 pounds and the drug paraphernalia, etc is tragic and haunts me when I think about it (and I didn't even know the guy personally). "Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be." -- Layne Staley "My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title." -- Layne Staley "When I tried drugs they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me- and now I'm walking through hell and this sucks. I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want my fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen." -- Layne Staley
It was revealed that the phrase “Man in the box” came from when Layne was being harassed by Scientologists on the streets of LA. They were trying to get him to sign up for an auditing session, and to buy their book Dianetics. They kept saying to him, “if you don’t join Scientology and understand how the world works then you’ll always just be a man in a box“. Crazy cult members. It’s not what this song is about but it is where he got the line from
This song was the BEGINNING of the wave that changed the whole world!!! 💯💯💯 This and "Outshined" by Soundgarden told the world shit was gonna change 2 years early...
You really need to see Alice in Chains live. Check out their performance of Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore or any of the songs from their MTV Unplugged set.
A List of Alice In Chains songs to react to : We Die Young Bleed the Freak It Ain’t Like That Love Hate Love Would ? Them Bones Dam That River Rain When I Die Angry Chair Rooster What The Hell Have I I Stay Away Nutshell No Excuses Got Me Wrong Again Grind Get Born Again These r more in chronological order than how I would rank them ..Bleed the Freak , It Ain’t Like That , Love Hate Love all live performances from the Moore r better than studio version ( imo ) ..Also Down in a hole , Nutshell and Got Me Wrong should be both studio and unplugged versions * most popular reactions Man in the Box Would ? Rooster Them Bones Love Hate Love ( at the Moore ) Nutshell ( unplugged ) Down in Hole ( unplugged ) Rain When I Die I Stay Away Bleed the Freak ( official video) Junkhead ( live MTV )
@@dimitriodee can’t list every song .. I like the songs listed better and better for reactors who know nothing about the band / sound .. just my opinion .. I didn’t list Sunshine ,Hate to Feel or God Am and I think all 3 r hugely underrated songs in their discography
Unfortunately, Lane lost his battle with heroine addiction. Very sad. He was 6' 2" and weighed 87 pounds when his body was found. A great talent from a tortured soul.
I don’t know where you got the story about the origins of the song, but it wasn’t a record lady. Layne told me himself when it came out that it was his view of cruelty of animals. The band hadn’t done hardly anything with record labels at the time.
Love Hate Love live at the Moore will show you why Layne is considered one of the best vocalists in rock history. The band as a whole are incredible and they sound absolutely AMAZING live
Totally agree!
Agree! Please check it out. 😉
100% agree
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Also this one lol
I still love the official music video to this, his eyes are so piercing they go right to your soul.
This song's origins start with a lunch the band had with some A&R woman who was a vegan (no animal byproducts of ANY kind), who proceeded to tell them how animals were penned up in small crates and killed for steak, etc. So, Layne wrote Man in the Box from the perspective of a penned up calf. It was loosely based around Layne's idea of media censorship. Sean Kinney (the drummer) said it was about veal. LOL.
Layne met Jerry Cantrell ONE TIME, found out he had no family in the area, he had little money left and Layne (drunkenly) offered Jerry a place to live, money, food, clothes, guitars and gear he needed, Layne set Jerry up with a life that could NOT fail unless Jerry let it happen. He set him up with a band when he gave Jerry the number to Sean Kinney's girlfriend and found out that the girlfriend was Mike Starr's sister. He encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all they were Jerry's lyrics, Jerry should sing them. I'm sure Jerry would have made it on his own without Layne, but it would have been the long scenic route to get there.
Jerry wrote ROOSTER about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows, Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play Rooster and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist who showed back up in Layne's life AFTER Layne got famous and had money and did drugs with Layne.) Phil Staley was NOT the father Layne expected when he came back into his life.
Layne had tried rehab 13 times, but he could never completely give it up. He tried quitting cold turkey on two of the last attempts at rehab, but that didn't work either. Mad Season is made up of Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and John Baker Saunders and they all went through rehab. They all got together and dragged Layne out of his condo, got him excited about doing ABOVE album, thinking if he was creative he wouldn't want the drugs, and for the length of time it took to do that, Layne was excited about the project, but it didn't curb his drug habit. Layne wrote the lyrics to the songs he sang on the ABOVE album and he drew the cover art for the album.
Layne was an amazing singer. Very few singers sound better live than they do in a studio version. Layne was one of the few. From what I’ve read and researched, heroin is the worst drug to be addicted to. You don’t want to do anything other than be there and nodding out. The fact that he agreed to do the KISS shows and performed them like he did shows the strength he had. From what I read, when you have the level of addiction Layne had, it is incredibly difficult to function at the intensity of performing a stage show in front of an audience as well as he did. He could have stayed home and stayed high, but Jerry wanted to do the shows. Somewhere, somehow Layne found the strength to do those shows despite what his addiction wanted him to do even though he survived an overdose after the last KISS show in Kansas City, Missouri, became a recluse, and the addiction got him in the end.
Mike Starr was the last one to see him on April 4, 2002, for all anyone knows and what I took from that was that while Layne was telling Mike that he (Layne) was sick, he still tried to get Mike to give up his own prescription drug habit.
After that, no one noticed he had died because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911. He died on April 5, 2002, but his body wasn't discovered until April 19, 2002.
And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show.
At the age of 34 (when he died), he looked more like an 80-year-old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it.
Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12 year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002.
Layne wrote songs that gave a normal person insight into the mind and journey of an addict. The pain and depression he endured to write the most brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings on his own addiction and the emotional and physical strength he had to perform those songs live when all he wanted to do was curl away and lose himself in the drug haze I can’t imagine what it was like for him. He was hounded by the press about his addiction. He was ridiculed for his addiction. The music industry blackballed him for his addiction. The Grammys forgot about him when he died. As far as MTV and Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music.
Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press.
Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He stacked his own vocals. He knew enough to know that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and Mike Starr. He wrote the lyrics for the songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He still was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons.
Layne's whole situation from his drug addiction, to how he died, to how he was found only weighing 86 pounds and the drug paraphernalia, etc is tragic and haunts me when I think about it (and I didn't even know the guy personally).
"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be." -- Layne Staley
"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title." -- Layne Staley
"When I tried drugs they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me- and now I'm walking through hell and this sucks. I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want my fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen." -- Layne Staley
It was revealed that the phrase “Man in the box” came from when Layne was being harassed by Scientologists on the streets of LA. They were trying to get him to sign up for an auditing session, and to buy their book Dianetics. They kept saying to him, “if you don’t join Scientology and understand how the world works then you’ll always just be a man in a box“. Crazy cult members. It’s not what this song is about but it is where he got the line from
Wow great comment
This song was the BEGINNING of the wave that changed the whole world!!! 💯💯💯 This and "Outshined" by Soundgarden told the world shit was gonna change 2 years early...
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Yup. And Alice was the best by far of the era.
You really need to see Alice in Chains live. Check out their performance of Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore or any of the songs from their MTV Unplugged set.
Not the same without Lanye
This
5 words...
"Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell"
💯💯💯💯😎😎😎😎💯💯💯💯😎😎😎😎
Perhaps my fav rock song of alllll time!!!!! Never gets old. RIP Layne, AIC current members, much love and long rock life!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Them Bones, I Know Something, Heaven Beside You, Angry Chair
Love Hate Love(Live at The Moore)
Dirt
Rain when I die
Junkhead
Nutshell
Got me wrong
Black gives way to blue
Over now
thank u brother lets get it!
People forget all the Seattle grunge bands were in a movie called Singles. It's hilarious
Yo ,Rooster.... walking tall machine-gun man...
Man you might not get it but this song helped me out of depression and its soo nostalgic
I definitely do
Down in a hole MTV unplugged. Must listen
A List of Alice In Chains songs to react to :
We Die Young
Bleed the Freak
It Ain’t Like That
Love Hate Love
Would ?
Them Bones
Dam That River
Rain When I Die
Angry Chair
Rooster
What The Hell Have I
I Stay Away
Nutshell
No Excuses
Got Me Wrong
Again
Grind
Get Born Again
These r more in chronological order than how I would rank them ..Bleed the Freak , It Ain’t Like That , Love Hate Love all live performances from the Moore r better than studio version ( imo ) ..Also Down in a hole , Nutshell and Got Me Wrong should be both studio and unplugged versions
* most popular reactions
Man in the Box
Would ?
Rooster
Them Bones
Love Hate Love ( at the Moore )
Nutshell ( unplugged )
Down in Hole ( unplugged )
Rain When I Die
I Stay Away
Bleed the Freak ( official video)
Junkhead ( live MTV )
Where’s Dirt ?
@@dimitriodee can’t list every song .. I like the songs listed better and better for reactors who know nothing about the band / sound .. just my opinion .. I didn’t list Sunshine ,Hate to Feel or God Am and I think all 3 r hugely underrated songs in their discography
@@jayheins6148 thanks for the reply. hopefully he’ll do a few more AIC reactions
@@dimitriodee yeah …any AiC is cool with me 🤘
Get born is so underrated and died also they are probably the two most powerful songs
Great reaction man, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed
Yes ❤ do Alice In Chains Rain When I Die
Layne's voice was the beautiful darkness
I love his reaction!
thank u
Unfortunately, Lane lost his battle with heroine addiction. Very sad. He was 6' 2" and weighed 87 pounds when his body was found. A great talent from a tortured soul.
See what i mean? Three live shows is not enough.
ROOSTER or WOULD next
facts lol
I have been a fan of AIC from the beginning I am 58 now
58 and young
Thanks mentally I feel 18 it's just the physical part of getting older..
Peace ✌
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus christ
I don’t know where you got the story about the origins of the song, but it wasn’t a record lady. Layne told me himself when it came out that it was his view of cruelty of animals. The band hadn’t done hardly anything with record labels at the time.
@@nancymjohnson I Think you replied to the wrong comment
Please react to their MTV unplugged set. Pretty please?
yea ima try
Nutshell!!!!!!
Rooster
Check out We Die Young
La p... qje lo parió, cómo mierda se puede ser tan bueno???
Check out their performance of Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore