WOW!| FIRST TIME HEARING Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole REACTION
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- WOW!| FIRST TIME HEARING Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole REACTION
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The entire Dirt album is really dark. But, it is pure genius. Layne and Jerry's voices in harmony are amazingly haunting and beautiful. RIP Layne Staley and Mike Starr.
True one of the best rock albums ever
Incredible album and you are spot on about Layne and Jerry's harmonies, they will never be duplicated.
AIC’s entire catalog is incredibly dark.
I saw Jerry Cantrell in a concert a few months after Layne's passing. They played this song, but all stepped back from their microphones for each chorus to let the crowd sing it for Layne. Was amazing.
Yes more Alice in Chains!!
I agree!
Love Hate Love or Bleed the Freak live at The Moore 1990.
The Unplugged version is perfection
the best version
MTV Unplugged was made for these grunge bands.
Yeah, I agree. For first-time listeners like Jay and Amber, I prefer they experience the full power of the studio version first. Later on they can appreciate the unplugged version for what it is.
@@AlltelJohnny12 exactly right
Perfection
This is my favorite Alice In Chains song! Dirt was such a good album. Layne is one of a list too long of amazing talents lost to drugs and depression.
'Dirt' is a masterpiece. Every track rates a listening to.
Yes!!!
This song has some of the best lyrics I've ever heard.
"See my heart, I decorate it like a grave"
"I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned by the taste"
Those are only 2 examples, but every line has to be unpacked. Not just a mood, but a DEEP introspection.
And I identified with every syllable for such a long time...which is why its my favorite song by Alice In Chains.
The most expressive band of their era, top ten band for me.
Sound Garden will give them a run for most Expressive Band .
Top One for me ; )
As a person who suffers from depression similar to Layne’s, I assure you that this description is hauntingly accurate to what a dark hole feels like. It’s so bad. It’s so scary. It feels so useless and hopeless and everything feels like you’ll never be happy again.
So many lose their battle to it. Every day we wake up is a victory, and a new fight. The enemy can’t be hurt or killed, and it never rests.
I hear you brother
ur not alone theere are many off us battling this and this is only place i can even say anything about my battles, i wont fail at suicide forever
"Every day we wake up is a victory and a new fight. The enemy can't be hurt or killed & it never rests"
You spoke the truth that so many of us live with every day.
Keep up the fight my man!
@@derekjohnson4186 you do the same. I’m glad you’re still here.
Jerry wrote it
Everyone has their own favorite grunge artists, but like Jay I LOVE Layne Staley's voice!!! Talk about emotional!! Grunge was kind of necessary, but couldn't last forever, it was so dark and raw. I still do thank God it was there when it was needed!!
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee Funny how Hair Metal reactions are super popular, nowadays. But yes, as soon as Kurt belted out Smells Like Teen Spirit, Aqua-Net took a hit. 🤘💀🤘 Great Channel....grew up less than a mile from Bridge Creek 🤟
Alice in chains is the best of the era,hands down Nirvana not even close
Agreed
The lyric about kicking yourself in the teeth has deeply resonated with me since my teen years (90s).
Amen to that, brother... BOY is that true...
We've all been guilty of that
Same. The line before it is amazing; “I’ve eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste.”
Now after hearing the studio version, the unplugged versions will hit you very hard. It is just heartbreaking to see a dying Layne sing it. Only nutshell from unplugged is more haunting
Dying is a strong word as he didn't OD until 5 days short of 6 years to the day they recorded it. 4/10/96-4/05/02.
Frogs is also heartbreaking. The unplugged version really hits home that feeling of loss.
Exactly… he was dying right in front of us and he was singing about exactly how he was going to go the whole damn time
It's as if Cantrell's lyrics were Layne's script, sadly.
@@jameshagan2268 Very uncomfortable watching a man die.
Layne's voice was incredible ........... Layne & Jerry's harmonies are legendary !!!
The combo of Layne and Jerry is amazing. With Layne’s voice, you can feel what he’s singing and with Jerry’s guitar, you can hear what he’s saying
You can see Amber listens with reverence for the music and the lyrics. Jay really getting into it as well. Such a deep song. Good hit. R.I.P. Layne and Mike
The lyrics hit so hard now that I'm older and bring me to tears. Lane is down in a hole now, sand reigns down and there he lies, hold rare flowers in a tomb. I got the impression that same feeling hit Amber later in the song.
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Layne’s voice was one if a kind, you definitely hear the pain he was going thru. RIP.
Layne Staley, unfortunately, had demons he was unable to defeat in the end. It was a sad in 2001 when he was found dead to an heroine overdose. Layne wrote haunting lyrics that reflected his addiction. I am,quite frankly, tired of seeing my grunge heroes dying to drugs and suicide. Losing Chris Cornell hurt my heart. I highly recommend the song Black Gives Way To Blue from Alice in Chains from 2009. It was their comback album 8 years after Layne. The song is Jerry Cantrell's tribute to Layne Staley.
layne died in april of 2002
Great song. I hope they react to it ❤
@@charlotte5419 Correct; even 9/11 depressed Layne, as he stated in one of his last interviews afterwards; tough to depress Layne more than he is.
Its about time you did this one! Jerry Cantrell is a phenomenal guitar player!🤘😎🤘
Such a beautiful voice and sound... my favorite line is "I'd like to fly but wings have been so denied". Sighhhhh. It was good to see him looking so healthy and even more haunting since he's gone. 😥
I saw AIC play in a bar shortly before I left for Army basic training. My friends and I immediately knew they were something special. They were so much better than anyone else touring the Class A bar circuit at the time. A short time later, Man in the Box hit MTV.
Can we get a shout out for Sean Kinney? Such an amazing under-rated drummer. Such complex drumming patterns executed flawlessly.
"Man in a Box"is another great song by Alice in Chains.👍
I love listening to the bass and harmonies of Alice In Chains!
This is my favourite AiC song. Thank you for reacting to the studio version! Seeing Layne in the Unplugged version makes me sad.
Alice in Chains were HUGE in the 90’s. Up there with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots for the era of grunge! Speaking of Soundgarden (and the late, great Chris Cornell) you should really do their song Outshined! I think Jay will LOVE it.
I love Down In A Hole video, love at the ending when Layne sticks his arm and hand out like he's reaching for you!! Alice In Chains and Mad Season and Pearl Jam are the best grunge bands!! So real and so raw music and real lyrics. Thank You for sharing this awesome video 😊💓🤘✌️
do not forget the Great Sound Garden and Chris Cornell He sang many Great Dark Songs.
@@markvanderstelt8999 I love Soundgarden, Temple Of The Dog, Audioslave and his solo career too, incredible man incredible voice and incredible bands RIP Chris Cornell 😇💝🌹 Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Mad Season and Soundgarden are the best in my opinion. 😊💓🤘✌️ Thank You for responding.
Soundgarden says different
The lyrics in grunge were like they came right out of my journal as a teen. I couldn't believe someone was singing what was inside me. It was a powerful moment for me
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Layne Staley was also the singer for a band called Mad Season. There song River of Deceit is really good.
I've been on like a 3 hr. Alice in Chains reaction binge, and i love that every comment section is full of love n passion for the band. its really awesome
One of my favorites by one of my favorite bands of all time. This era of Alice in Chains was really special. I cried when Layne died, and still well up when I hear his voice. Someone once told me "When you cry when a singer or musician dies, it's not because you knew them. It's because they helped you know yourself." Layne (as well as many others) was that for me.
My favorite band. Layne Staley's deep lyrics and Jerry Cantrell's haunting guitar work. You just can't beat it.
7:56 hits so hard. We lost so many great artists from the 90's grunge era so tragically. We will never get to see them again and what they could have done, not just AIC, but many of the bands.
The song is about Jerry Cantrell's relationship with his girl friend, Courtney Clarke, the love of his life. The looks at being insecure and having self doubt of the their love life given Jerry's life as a touring / recording musician and how being away from one another makes things challenging. Layne sang it from his perspective of seeing his demise due to his drug use and other issues. A very deep song. 🎸😎
Nirvana might be the Face of Grunge but year by year you can see that top to bottom AIC is the overwhelming top. Singing, Writing and instrumentation + mood, undeniable.
Very well said Amber , a lot of the greatest music connects with those who are outsiders , disconnected , shunned or in the shadows of this world. In my view the greatest bands never shied away from raw pain and emotion. Alice in Chains are right there with Nirvana in this respect and draw upon the legacy of Joy Division as much as Jane's Addiction.
Alice in Chains is always so beautifully dark and broken..... Layne was one of the best vocalists of this generation and the harmonies he does with Jerry Cantrell are absolutely the best.
Yayyyy for more AIC!!!!
Guys, please, y’all simply HAVE to react to their performance of Love Hate Love live at The Moore from December 1990. Sheer perfection, and Layne delivers a masterclass in vocals far superior to studio recordings.
This needs to be top comment. That performance ALWAYS gives me goosebumps
@@Genesisrequiem Thanks, Pal . I’ve been listening AIC and LHL live for over 30 years, and it STILL BLOWS MY MIND and MAKES EVERY HAIR ON MY BODY STAND UP.
Somehow I keep coming back to AIC and never tire of it. Jerry Cantrell is amazing.
Great reaction Jay and Amberl AIC remains one of my favorite bands to date, just an unmistakeable sound and no doubt, pioneers of Grunge in the 90s. You would be hard pressed to find a such another painful and expressive voice that is Layne Staley's. After Layne tragically passed, AIC went into a hiatus for a few years while Jerry Cantrell was both coping, and figuring out what direction he wanted to go. There are some articles that say Jerry at first was leaning toward what bands like Led Zeppelin did and simply, disbanding. I don't think anyone can find fault in that thinking of course.
Some years after that, Jerry brought in a new vocalist William Duvall - who reportedly the other band members liked after just one audtion because "he wasn't trying to be Layne Staley." There are a few videos of them teaming up with their good friends Ann and Nancy Wilson (who you might have heard of lol) doing some AIC songs, and eventually venturing out to 3-4 new albums in the last several years. Jerry's genius shows I think, as they are still able to maintain that grunge AIC sound.
Of the songs you haven't reacted to, I'd try "No Excuses" (you'll LOVE the bass line) and "I Stay Away." If you venture to something more recent, I'd try "All Secrets Known", "Voices" and "Scalpel."
Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and the Grunge movement weren't the first type of music that focused on the depths of the darker sides of human emotions, but I can honestly say I've never in my 58 years, listening to ALL types and genres of music, heard anything else that epitomizes it so well. The vocals and distortion of the music simply fits the mood better than any other could.
Blues comes close, but even it lacks some of the depths of emotion capable of being reached simply because it's so pure in its musicality. The distortion of both music and vocals of Grunge is symbiotic with pain.
My absolute favorite Alice in Chains song - so glad you FINALLY got around to this reaction! Love it Love it Love it!!
'Would'. And 'rooster'. Those are the money songs. 👍
The Unplugged version is way better, this is too over produced.
They reacted to those two! Good reactions!
The thing is they're not talking about someone else's grave. They're talking about feeling so lost and dead inside that your own heart is a grave. Almost inescapable self-defeat.
"I have been guilty/ of kicking myself in the teeth"
The feeling of loss and regret here is at having sunk so low that you're not sure even your loved ones can save you from yourself or even relate to where you're at
(Full disclosure, this album came out just a few weeks after I got clean from a drug problem of my own along the same lines of what took Layne and already being depressed when I started, the added bummer of detoxing and coping with the physical and emotional fallout of not having the crutch of the dope to fall back on makes this super relatable)
Alice in Chains was my absolute favorite Grunge band. Layne Staley's death was heartbreaking & painful gut punch. RIP
I LOVE THAT YALL DID THE STUDIO VERSION 😊
I love that you guys feel the pain they’re putting out. I’m still grieving all of them and at the same time grateful for what they contributed to my college years
Back in my teenage years, Alice In Chains was always jamming in my truck speakers
Alice In Chains are the "grunge" era GOATS!!! Layne is my favorite male vocalist of all time and is sorely missed. R.I.P. brother!
Beautiful song. AIC has always been mesmerizing, even for this old 64 year old dude. Yep, old people can love this genre too. 🤘
Hey this was music of our time and I have a few years on you.
Dude, I'm close to 78 and love this genre, too.
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Wow! You both nailed it 100% during this reaction.. so so many of us just connected on a such a deep level to this genre and these bands that it still sits with us now. Perfectly described. Id love for you to get back to Pearl Jam.. Eddie is amazing and one of the only OG grunge bands still together and touring. Would love to see you react to Release, RearView Mirror or Given to Fly. Much love! 🖤
They may be my favorite band from the grunge era.
The more you listen to this song the more youll love it!
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Been a fan of your reviews for just a short time but I love them! I've discovered a lot of music new to me so thank you. Also, both of your T-Shirt games are strong!!!
Jay you rock. I couldnt have said that better myself. The Grunge era is my fav era that ive lived through. Amber you're great too. Good reaction to an Awesome song ☺
Nice reaction guys. Isn't this a great song? You'll love the unplugged version too! Speaking of unplugged and you asked for it, Nirvana: "About A Girl" or "All Apologies". But I think their covers of "The Man Who Sold the World" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" are even more popular given the number of RUclips views.
Was just listening Alice in chains today
Classic change of the seasons in music. The transition was incredible and due. It will never be more than the hangover from the party that was the 80's, but it served its purpose and changed the landscape.
People got tired of glum alt rock pretty fast though.... I'd say Green Day hitting big around 1995 was a sign of people wanting a bit more energy and attitude in their music.
Yes, Jay and Amber! Love some AIC. Brings back memories from college.
The drumming in this is a masterpiece
Gotta say I love you guys and you do a great job of lifting me up when life gets me down. It's rewarding watching a younger generation appreciate and enjoy the music I grew up with. Good music crosses generations.
Yes! So glad you got back to AIC!
Good observations, Jay...There was a remarkable level of sincerity in this genre...
Go my brother and sister. I been a Bengals fan since I went to see them their first season in 1967. And Alice in Chains are always at my top of music list and I am 67 yrs young!!
My friend group in high school were all obsessed with Alice in Chains. We requested them at bars (not the US, so we got in at seventeen), covered them in our crappy band, and listened to them as we fell asleep.
I grew up with this band in my 20's back in the 90's. LOTS of sad stories about rock legends from those days.
My favorite grunge band by a mile. So many great songs. I think grind gets overlooked.
Grind is awesome!! 😊💓🤘✌️
Metal band, but yes
OK KIDS !! my ex wife , Lisa Quinlan went Mt lake terrace high with Lane, North Seattle, Oh My , my cousin and his buddies were boarders , there was a nice ramp behind the grandmas house up there right before you cross over to Brier, The chains we could here them rehearsing all the time there stuff, we never bothered them, i did not skate i just listened to them while my cousin and buds skated the ramp, and yes we were always stoned :) i was the guy with the cool trucks and money . i was self employed at 19 scrap metal business.
Amber is so right at the end, Alice In Chains songs are just dope, always leaving us craving for more.
By far the best band of the whole "grunge" movement. By an absolute mile!🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
NEVER can this song be played too LOUD!!!
Finally someone does the studio version. I understand the unplugged is great, but the original recording is just superior to me.
I agree
Right
Yes!!!!! More, more, more Alice in Chains ❤❤❤❤❤❤
My favorite alice in chains songs, almost a duet basically.
Pearl Jam's "Black, unplugged version " is a must for some 90s grunge. Please!!!!
So many great tunes by AIC. "Love Hate Love", "Sickman", "Sea of Sorrow", "It Ain't Like That", "Rain When I Die", "Again", "Junkhead", and "Bleed The Freak".
This song will get you through rough times, its a masterpiece! Great Reaction!
Jay cracking me up every time the neighbors dog starts barking the anger on his face is priceless! 😂
Good pick, love AIC, love to see others get to experience em too... u know I've heard this song like 1000+ times and STILL will get goosebumps at the line "i have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth" DAMN
Rain When I Die, Dirt, Sickman, Angry Chair, Love Hate Love, are some great Alice In Chains songs
“Junkhead” is probably top 3 for me on that album
Rain When I Die. Junkhead. Angry Chair. Bleed The Freak. All these are amazing.
More Soundgarden, Alice in chains,Pearl jam and Nirvana
You are, absolutely,right! What grunge did, was express what people, actually, feel and NEVER talk about. We all suck and we all hate living, sometimes.
I agree.... the unplugged version is at the top of the charts!
Overrated
This song is a love song from guitarist Jerry Cantrell to the love of his life Courtney Clarke. Early pressings listed this as the 12th track on the Dirt album. Later pressings listed this as the 4th track on the Dirt album supposedly to fit better with the band’s desire to have the album loosely tell a story from song to song. On the Unplugged album it's the 5th track.
Songwriter and guitarist Jerry Cantrell said of the song in the Music Bank box set liner notes, “Down in a Hole’s in my top three, personally. It’s to my long-time love. It’s the reality of my life, the path I’ve chosen and in a weird way it kind of foretold where we are right now. It’s hard for us to both understand…that this life is not conducive to much success with long-term relationships."
Once Layne got his voice where he wanted it, it stayed there with little effort. He was always better live than studio version. Layne'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 was 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.
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.
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 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 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.
With MTV Unplugged, when Layne finally gave the Okay to do it. They were supposed to rehearse in Seattle but NO one showed up. Sean, Mike and Jerry would show up at different times but Layne would be MIA or Layne would show up for one or two songs and then leave. When they finally got to New York, Sean and Mike had an argument with Jerry because they thought with Layne's condition and addiction, he wouldn't be able to hit the high notes. Jerry was the ONLY ONE who was confident that Layne could do it. When you watch DOWN IN A HOLE Unplugged, and Layne hits that high note, you see Jerry look over at Sean and Mike with this "I TOLD YOU SO!" smirk. Layne did it again on ROOSTER Unplugged and Jerry did that same smirk.
The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because Layne was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was doing other drugs on top of Heroin). His liver was damaged and he knew it. He was just high enough to do the show to fight off withdrawal symptoms and 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 six-year-long slow suicide.
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.
The friendship between Jerry and Layne was unbreakable. Jerry NEVER once thought of replacing Layne as the singer while Layne was still alive. He always wanted Layne to sing whenever he had AIC do something. If there were ever cosmic soulmates ... Layne and Jerry would be it. (And by that I mean, they were Sympatico with each other. The way they sang together was a perfect pitch where two voices make one. What you hear and see between Jerry and Layne was a genuine friendship. They looked after each other. When one had problems with a song, the other picked up the slack. They were a team.
Jerry was doing a solo concert in Charlotte, NC when he heard that Layne was found two weeks after he died and Jerry was trying to get through the concert and crying. He did shows between the time he found out about Layne until Layne's funeral because if he had taken a break then, he didn't think he'd want to continue anything later after the mourning period.
Alice In Chains was a band, but they were also a family. They had internal issues just like any family. When Layne died, it was like losing a loved one, a family member, you don't think of the fights you had with the person who died. You defend their memory. There is a reason Jerry wrote NO EXCUSES about Layne and the line "You, my friend, I will defend / And if we change, well, I'll love you anyway."
"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
"My grandmother and mother were such huge losses, but I got Layne, the guys, and I got this.” - Jerry Cantrell, Kerrang! (December 1, 2018)
“Jerry really loved Layne [Staley]. They had a bond I haven't seen before,” Jerry’s former manager Bill Siddons, April 19, 2002 (the day Layne was found two weeks after he died).
Comments section. Not article section. No one wants to read all that 🤦♂️
You really need to react to their MTV Unplugged performance of "Down in a Hole"... And as great as they sound. It's also really sad to watch knowing that Layne Staley is sick and suffering from withdrawals from his heroin addition during that Unplugged performance. In fact he was so sick the band didn't think he was going to be able to perform at all. But he did and he sounded great. And if you watch their Unplugged performance. There is a moment where after Layne Staley hits one of his key notes. Jerry Kantrel looks over at the other members and gives a little wink and a nod, as if to say he still got it. So I really hope you watch and also catch that moment. Which is moment that stands out to me the most.
Overrated. Studio version is better. The original sound
Alice in Chains are just a great band all-round.... also love their music here.... good stuff. :)
This version is amazing; however, the Unplugged version gives you goosebumps; you almost feel it in your soul.
This song unplugged version will give you colossal feels.
It adds so much to the song to hear Rob and Amber explain the heart of it.
Interesting story my Husband was hangoing out in a bar in the Seattle area in the 90's and the bar tender told him that one of the paterons of the bar had told the bar tender to give my husband a beer. Turns out that guy was lane staley ( he was not in the bar at the time) but had bought my husband a beer just because
“Dirt” is an epic album
Great band and great song. The unplugged version is worth hearing also.
I absolutely love Layne and Jerry's voice blending together. No Excuses is another great song from them!
Best grunge band... I was lucky enough to see them live with Layne twice.. he was amazing.. RIP Layne and Mike
One of my favorite songs of all time. Thank you guys.
I live in Seattle, Layne used to have a condo in the University District and my buddy worked at a coffee shop into which Layne would sometimes visit. By the end of his life he was almost a complete recluse, but he would come down for a coffee sometimes. He called my buddy "Tor Tor", that was his nickname for him. He had lost most of his teeth due to addiction, he definitely was not well at the end. According to Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan, who was good buds with Layne, the pair started a crack-dealing business out of Lanegan's apartment on First Hill. When Layne came home from rehab, he went right to Lanegan's place from the airport and shot-up, throwing-up in Lanegan's sink because he wasn't used to the heroin. It's all documented in Lanegan's memoir, "Sing Backwards and Weep"
I also fell in love with grunge because I had a major battle with depression too. It was like quicksand - the more you tried to fight it or "act normal", the worse it got. Also like being Down In A Hole
Hello beautiful people! Love your reaction from music not from your time. It makes me so happy to see younger people enjoy the music. Stay listening it's amazing what you can learn from these musicians. 💜🙏💜🕊
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Layne Staley was also in a band called “Mad Season” with Mike Mcready from Pearl Jam. “Wake Up” and “River of Deciet” are a must.