First Time Listen | Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole (Reaction)
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"You don't understand what they thought I should be" always hit.
Perhaps you'd like to see the band in their prime. If so check out their live concert from Live at the Moore, the entire set is incredible my favorites from it are 'Love Hate Love' and Bleed the Freak'
He should just see the whole show at the moore bc theres not one bad performance
I thought I knew Alice In Chains, then I discovered Live at the Moore. Turned me upside down and inside out. Incredible performance!
I saw them in 1991, lol. They opened up for the Monsters of Rock Concert in Houston. Have seen them 6 other times. One of my fav. bands ever.
To me Alice and Chains are God's! I have to remember to breath when I listen to them. They just take my breath away. You should watch Bleed the Freak!!
Layne, Jerry, Shawn's best
Thanks for sharing.
Oh no bubba his voice was just as powerful when he died as when he started!!!! Try his album with Mad Season!!! It has a real strong bass intro!!!
Layne was saying goodbye ❤
Thanks you for covering AIC, Darin. I cry everytime I watch "Nutshell" and "Down in a Hole" Unplugged. You have to know Layne was barely even able to sit on the damn stool to perform the concert. What he did in that Unplugged, and how strung out he was, was incredible! Man, I am getting emo right now, lol
Thanks for the vids, man.
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).
Thanks for these comments, I really enjoy reading them
Thank you for this story. Have only heard bits and pieces. It's good to know that they were that close.
Love Alice In Chains.... The whole Dirt album is insanely good.... Rain When I Die, Would?!, Rooster, and Angry Chair, should be next for you on your Alice In Chains list..❤❤❤❤
This concert doesn't necessarily mark the beginning of any degradation in the quality of Layne's performances, but rather the last "major" performance of theirs before we lost him to a heroin overdose. Many of the lyrics on this particular album, especially Nutshell (also performed at Unplugged) deal with the private and public consequences of his addiction.
Do love hate love live at the Moore, see this absolute angel in his prime.. 🙏
He was sick becuase he was addicted to drugs he was withdrawing here, needing of a fix probably then he relapsed and, he died of overdose this was his last live performance...if im not wrong
He hadn't played live in a long time while he was isolating doing drugs. He came back to play this. I think this was his last, if not second last live performance before he passed away. Pretty sad but a legend. Generational talent. A voice you'll never replicate.
it's his best raw his soul burnt out just making it this far
what a gift
Passed 6 years later but had become very reclusive
Growing up in that time. So sad how like many of my friends Lance was strung out. Heroin is nothing to play with. It is a death sentence.
Try Them Bones. Awesome
Nothing wrong with your headphones ;) I like m
appreciate you 🖤
Your audio is unreal it’s on point
sounds good ?
@@ImDarin its perfect
Bleed the Freak!!
You should check out Rooster the Unplugged MTV version
Its like watching him singing at his own funeral 😢
Nutshell is also one of them ❤
Love Hate Love Live at the Moore is without a doubt one of the greatest live performances of all time, definitely check that one out next. That is peak Layne at maximum power, by the time of the MTV unplugged he has lost the edge, as well as was missing numerous teeth at this point. Also live at the moore, Bleed the Freak is another absolutely flawless performance from the whole band you should check out at some point.
You should check out “Rooster” the official video NOT the unplugged version to get a better idea of their sound.
Love hate love love at the Moore by Alice In Chains…Layne was a lot healthier :)
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The headphones look good, but don't worry about that, we are here for you and your thoughts, not the superfishal stuff.
I was a kid when i heard this song for the first time, and it fills me with comfort too see someone try out new music for the first time and continue the conversation (good or bad) with the music I love.
keep it up.
Side note, you should drop one of your favorite childhood songs in the comments so we can check it out.
You should react to Rooster and also Would are really good songs!!
Which one should I do first?
@@ImDarin I think would even tho its pretty short but is a song many say is the definition of the grunge genre
Woohoo
Do Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. I double dog dare ya.
The studio version of this song has a different vibe...check out that version
Live is always better with Alice in Chains.
@kimberlyestes3978 I like both...never said one is better than the other...only said it is a different vibe which it is
This song was written by guitarist/vocals Jerry Cantrell. It was about a breakup with an ex girlfriend of his lol
Listen to WOULD, by them but the video. Layne kills it
Yes this was this last good performance. He died in 2002 of a drug overdose. RIP LAYNE STALEY
Try sludge factory unplugged!!
You look fine 😂
Low so much this band. But in this show Layne was already dead. This is the closest you will ever see of someone singing in his own funeral
It ain't like that Singles Pro Shot.
This was pas his prime. He was lost at this point. Layne had one of the most powerful voices in all of Rock history. Imagine these notes, being screamed, in perfect putch.
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