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[@frankromero5782]

Layne was a force to be sure, but Jerry doesn’t get enough credit for his backing vocals. They blend together so well.

[@Atlas_UK]

Not wrong!, Jerry has carried the band since Layne's passing amazingly and Alice in Chains is still an amazing band to this day, no shock to me that they never found a replacement for Layne though, his voice was so amazingly unique.

[@puppetmaster8551]

Jerry never gets enough credit in these reaction vids even for most of their hits that he wrote entirely by himself. Jerry’s backing vocals were always perfect and then the band only got better the more he started to sing. Love Layne he’s my favorite singer ever but Jerry is one of the best songwriters ever and a damn solid vocalist with absolutely stellar chemistry with Layne and even post Layne he and Duvall harmonize so damn good still to this day, not quite as good as Layne and Jerry but they AIC is still the kings of harmonizing, over 30yrs as a band and Jerry is still a flawless live performer and his vocals always sound as good if not better live than in record, like vocally down in a hole unplugged is GOATed and a big part of that is the dual vocals and Jerry’s vocals being even better live during they performance. Long live Jerry and AIC, the mastermind of one of the best bands of all time.

[@devinschwartz7596]

Jerry wrote half the shit too. The ying and the Yang one couldn’t be one without the other. Alice was so cool man😢

[@DuckdaringZ]

Layne, the once in a generation voice and Jerry, the once in a generation musical genius.

[@matchu.j]

Great song, they shoulda used this at the end of the movie "the prestige" (if u know u know)

[@shawnsford7071]

I'm 53 and it still bugs me out that there's a generation or 2 that doesn't know this. Makes my ass feel old!! So glad you're discovering this amazing music!!

[@OldSkoolDad23]

Layne Staley has one of the best voices in Rock!

[@SrbijaCG]

Probably, in the realm of Chris Cornell, Myles Kennedy, Andrew Stockdale, Scott Weiland, and such. I love these guys, but when it comes to greatest Rock singer, Axl Rose takes that trophy. Unfortunately, Axl Rose can't let go of the fact that he is no longer in his 20s with a 5 octave range. That's why he's making a fool out of himself.

[@stoneysopranoyukon9398]

Sean Kinney is a great drummer. Every member of AIC were and are great at their positions, Layne however made them legendary. RIP Layne and Mike.🤘❤️🇨🇦

[@jamiemacdonald436]

Definitely check out their song Love Hate Love. The live version from The Moore in Seattle is beyond great.

[@RedSpeedCo.]

PLS YES.

[@ALAN_COX]

Love Hate Love live at The Moore is simply incredible! I would love to see Millie react to it. There is something wrong if she doesn't get goosebumps from that one.

[@mymaynee5963]

layne at his best vocally for sure

[@kevincombs2486]

Yes! In my opinion the best live performance ever.

[@kimrollins7550]

He was on his best in that song don’t you think?

[@garylagstrom3864]

I saw Layne in a three piece suit at the start of their set on Lollapolooza in 93 and it was like 95 degrees that day! Needless to say he took the jacket tie vest and shirt off after playing Would the first song to start the show! Very charismatic singer and great stage presence! His voice very unique and an unbelievable range! RIP Layne! Layne’s mom said it best regarding his voice: it’s like Nails surrounded by marshmallows! I agree👍🏻 RIP LAYNE❤️

[@SIXX2772]

One of the greatest band and vocalists of all time

[@davidellis5141]

Layne Staley had the gift of a golden voice.

[@guitarplayerz4893]

Iconic voice. He was from Kirkland (Washington), in the pacific northwest of the U.S. Tragic that he's no longer with us, but a lot of the great lead vocalists from the pacific northwest left us too early - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Layne Staley (Alice in Chains), and Chris Cornell (Soundgarden).

[@deathtotruthers1]

Andrew Wood. Mark Lanegan. Mike Starr. Shannon Hoon. Scott Weiland. John Baker Saunders. They're all gone. And with them went real music.

[@metalmark1214]

One of the bands from the 90's I got into. I especially like Layne's vocals. The song started out being about censorship alone, but then Staley and AIC went to dinner with some Columbia Records executives. Some of the executives were vegetarians, and the conversation turned to the way calves were raised in tiny boxes to be slaughtered for veal. As explained in Alice In Chains: The Untold Story by David De Sola, Staley incorporated thoughts inspired by that conversation into the song he was working on. In its final version, "Man In The Box" is written from the perspective of a calf in a box waiting to be slaughtered. The censorship aspect of the song is basically indecipherable and would probably be lost entirely if not for the fact that Staley mentioned it in some interviews. Source: Songfacts

[@darkkhalwb]

Comically, they censor the lyrics on the song that was supposed to be about censorship.

[@darkkhalwb]

Comically, they censor the lyrics on the song that was supposed to be about censorship.

[@kenlawless7247]

"Would" is monumental.

[@past6882]

Truth and nothing but the truth!

[@coreywickramasekera9968]

My favorite band of all time, they blew me away seeing them open for OZZY, NO MORE TEARS/ TOURS, LAYNE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR AND CRUTCHES, but sang his ASS OFF!!!

[@rich6113]

"Rooster" is another good Alice in Chains song.

[@nikolah.8472]

The effect you mean is a Talk Box. Its like a modified WahWah Effect but you control it with a tube in your mouth. You shape the sound with your mouth, so you can play wild riffs with that. The song that made this effect very famous was "Do you feel like we do" by Peter Frampton. He inspired many bands later, but its rarely used. Slash from Guns'n'roses use it sometimes for solos. Tool also by the way, the cool solo lines in "Jambi" and other songs.

[@louisvilledave]

I saw Frampton in 1976, however Joe Walsh was the true inspiration, 1973 and "Rocky Mountain Way"......

[@dignan4]

You’ve GOT to check out ‘Love, Hate, Love’ live in Seattle. Great vid and you get to see Layne rip it up vocally!

[@VintageWanderer]

This is the first song I heard of the Grunge movement and it changed my life ! Great song.

[@sumonjamal1653]

Jerry Cantrell (guitar) of Alice In Chains used a "talk box" w/ his guitar as an effect on this track, yes... Richie Sambora (guitarist of Bon Jovi) used it on Bon Jovi songs "Livin' on a prayer" and "It's my life"... Mick Mars (guitarist of Motley Crue) also used it on the song "Kickstart my heart"... Even Kirk Hammett of Metallica used it on a few songs like 'The house Jack built"...🔥

[@suesmith7968]

AIC - one of the best bands in a crop of outstanding bands at the time!!!! Plugged, unplugged - no matter! Listen to Jar of Flies and hear their diversity. Great reaction! ☮️❤️

[@Roh_Echt]

You do want to react to 'Love, Hate, Love' - Live - at the Moore 1991. I still have every AIC CD, I had the cassettes first, and I do enjoy every one of their songs. So you can't go wrong reacting to any by them: Junkhead_Again_Would_Rooster_It Ain't Like That_Nutshell_Rotten Apple_Rain When I Die_and many more.

[@BayouBloods]

“Bleed the freak” live at the Moore or “Junkhead” by Alice In Chains are both great 🔥

[@trumbell]

Layne was the best singer in the 90's. he and Cantrell trading back up vocals made then the best grunge band of all time, so metal and so fucking good

[@coreywickramasekera9968]

They opened for Ozzy in 92 and it was being filmed by MTV for the HALLOWEEN 🎃 HEADBANGERS BALL

[@lancerx1759]

Hell to the Yeah Layne Staley still crushing it how freaking Awesome it is that he is being heard in 2023 by new ears i suspect Layne is smiling about now i know i am

[@coreywickramasekera9968]

You have to see him LIVE, LOVE, HATE, LOVE from FACELIFT LIVE video, MAN IN THE BOX live, SEA OF SORROW, WHAT THE HELL HAVE I

[@mattblatchley2061]

💯💯💯

[@JoshRein9]

Next you should do Oktaf Kanis - Come On, let's do this Millie 🙏🏻🔥

[@pendragnx]

this and "Rooster" are my favorite Alice in Chains songs from back in the day.. reminds me of high school days

[@davidstick9207]

Got to love a girl that gets into the grunge

[@BKPrice]

Rooster, Love Hate Love, Again, Rain When I Die, just to name a few others to check out. Even the post-Lane Staley stuff can be good, like Last of My Kind. Layne Staley also sang in a side project called Mad Season. River of Deceit, Wake Up and I Don't Know Anything are a few good songs from that project. Alice In Chains has probably been the single most inspirational band for my fiction writing. Layne Staley had a unique talent of expressing emotion, especially pain and desperation, in a way that could make someone like me who's never taken drugs in his life feel what it's like to be a junkie.

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

Loved this song since came out in my early childhood in the early 90’s

[@JohannaTrueman]

Millie please do Come On by Oktaf Kanis 🙏🏻❤

[@scottwontorski1274]

This song ROCKS!! it ROCKS🤟😝

[@cdfdesantis699]

My fave "Alice" song! Hard, heavy, & haunting! Thanks for your reaction.

[@magicbrownie1357]

The guitar effect is called a Talk Box.

[@mtrainor999]

Great reaction! Your enthusiasm was amazing!

[@steveszanto1581]

Love this! Iconic time in our lives.

[@briangreen9677]

As someone who listened to their music and all grunge while in high school (Class of 93), I always love hearing it. Seeing your reaction to Layne hitting those high notes certainly made me smile. Two other songs that will impress you with their music and talent are "Would?" and "Again". Both have official videos to react to. Keep up the great work here on your channel and keep smiling!

[@rocmo656]

Not a Talk Box being used. It's Layne and Jerry harmonizing with vocals and guitar 🤘

[@srt8rocketship241]

I can't categorize them as grunge. Just an excellent Rock and Roll band. Miss them. Such tragedy. Millie , do Love Hate Love live at THE Moore.

[@gutshotninja5757]

Rooster should be your next. Another iconic song you wont forget.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Alice in Chains is one of the peak GenX bands.

[@deanskipit8220]

I got to see them back in 92 when they opened for Van Halen. It was a blast

[@jarrodbinthenc6810]

Jerry Cantrell and company. AIC is legendary. ❤ 🤘🇺🇸

[@GrayNeko]

"Rooster", "I Stay Away", "Nutshell", "Over Now", we could be here for days, miss, but it's a start! ^_~

[@Gabriel_Moline]

Really happy you got down with this!🤣This is probably the most tame song on the album! 🌸🌿🌹

[@grogu1986]

One of the greatest singers of all time. Rock in peace Layne❤

[@kevincallahan7113]

Thank you Millie loved your reaction

[@FrankMartell-cz2gf]

There's a reason why they are the only grunge band that opened for slayer Megadeth and anthrax from the tour clash of the titans

[@justitia257]

Fantastic

[@katemccrea6963]

You definitely need to check out Rooster next and watch the video for it. So powerful. RIP Layne. Another rock icon gone too soon.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

♥

[@RichardGriffis]

"Man in the Box" was released as a single in 1991. This may be why it has a "vintage vibe" to it. I hear it played on the local "oldies" radio station.

[@deanskipit8220]

Layne staley was definitely a great lead singer. R.i.p layne. Jerry cantrell is a great guitarist the music they made was incredible.

[@glenbud]

You had to hide your emotions haha! Layne caught you off guard !!!!

[@nathanfisher1826]

Great song

[@scottmorin357]

Can't deny talent.

[@texastyrannyresponseteam794]

this one is sooo much fun to cover live..

[@CarlosjavierDespo-jp4cg]

Reacction excellent.millie🇬🇧

[@jonlate4581]

The sound from the amp travels through the tube, which the player puts in their mouth allowing them to shape the sound. It comes out of the mouth and through the mic which the tube is next to. In simplistic terms it would be like putting the amp in your mouth. I used to take my little practice amp, hook up little earbud style headphones to it, and then put them in my mouth. It created the same effect.😆👍

[@nickkleiber8636]

One of the greatest bands of all time!!!!

[@versistversist1517]

you are correct, thats called a "talk-box"; not really sure how it works but it involves a tube connected to a box that runs through the effects loop for the guitar or something

[@PizzaGamer11919]

My favorite band I remember playing this so much when I was 6 Alice In Chains is badass.

[@jayman58016]

I hated Grunge when it showed up on the radio but.....these guys caught my ear and I was hooked on them instantly. Layne's vocals and Jerry's backing vocals and guitar were a perfect combo

[@gnorley]

Grunge was basically the most popular music in the 90's it was raw and real. HipHop was too.

[@michaelb1761]

Layne and Jerry sounded this good live too. This isn't studio massaging of the vocals like you get today (even more so than when this came out in my childhood).

[@tamibrandt]

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

[@brentkelsay3439]

Shove my ears in THIS!!! Crack on with 'Rooster' and 'Them Bones', Millie! Fyi young female rock band Plush does an incredible cover of Down In A Hole!🤘

[@AnitaAshhh]

Hi Millie! Please do "Oktaf Kanis - Come On" 🙏🏻❤

[@robertwright8317]

The barn setup gives me vibes of Cannibal Corpse's - Evisceration Plague, I'll need to watch the original now lol

[@ALAN_COX]

That tube device is commonly called a talk box or talkbox. Basically it has a speaker with the sound directed into the tube. You put the tube into your mouth and direct the sound coming out of your mouth into a microphone, which is why you usually see the tube attached to the microphone stand and sticking out a bit past the mic. Then you simply move your mouth and change shapes to modulate the sound going into the mic. You can even move your mouth like you are saying something to make it sound like your guitar or other instrument is talking. You may have heard that done on Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton. There are pedal devices now that mimic the sound of a true talk box without having to deal with the tube and microphone. It is not exactly the same but somewhat similar.

[@lenaaustin6692]

You're great. You get it.❤

[@LanceThompsonKssooner]

Love Hate Love live at the Moore

[@srt8rocketship241]

Can't understand the editing of the word shit out of the song knowing how they talk on cartoons these days. WTF? Oh well , go figure. Great job Millie as always. Keep up your good work.

[@ExclusiveLM]

Kurt Cobain from Nirvana and Layne Stanley (the singer in this video) used to be good friends and used to hang out together and would drive each other to their houses. RIP both of them.

[@Nolimitcam._]

Damn I thought Kurt and Eddie were more close

[@eemanuel4655]

Great reaction.. just how I felt 30 years ago.. where happened to music..😮

[@bradgordon3760]

Love Hate Love live at the Moore, the official video's for Rooster and Would. All are must see TV.

[@joecardenas2562]

Angry chair,Them bones,I stay away.

[@CCCowboy]

⚡❤⚡

[@wheelmanstan]

You guys GOTTA see the Animated Street Fighter 2 film, it's on here, it's soundtrack has so many great gunge songs and the film is EPIC.

[@Nolimitcam._]

Definitely check out love hate love live at the Moore 1990

[@DustinLynch-bl2ux]

Check out.. It ain't like that, I stay away, would, don't follow, no excuses, and right turn! Alice in chains is my all time favorite band!so many good songs!

[@KasvyanJKR]

Please, listen to "Would" you will love it!!

[@brucewatts8447]

Would? is one of my favorites.

[@felixrojas1716]

You must react to LOVE, HATE, LOVE live at the Moore... its just insane

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

I loved when the wrestler Tommy Dreamer used this as his entrance music in ECW

[@tiffanyalberti2029]

Check out the song Confusion by Alice In Chains

[@mattwest1234]

Would love to see you react to Alice In Chains unplugged performance

[@lfgamer1564]

Layne Staley the legend!!!

[@FrankMartell-cz2gf]

I seen them with tool front 242 and rage against the machine the song rooster was haunting

[@estil333333]

This is my favorite song of all time. The guitar solo in the middle of the song is just amazing. My 2nd favorite is Metallica ONE. The instrumental in that song is chefs kiss.

[@tid418]

AIC was the first "grunge" band I became aware of back in 1991. I was into metal (though not exclusively!) and bought the cassette single of this... got a lot of play out of it. I took AIC as another metal band to add to the list... I didn't find out they were supposedly some other genre until late in that year. I still don't think they really are grunge. They happened to be from Seattle when "the Seattle Sound" became the new thing, and that became "grunge." RIP Layne.

[@Gabriel_Moline]

7:53. You didn’t hear the song ,”Down in a Hole”. You heard a broken, dead person try to sing like it did just a few years before. It got killed by himself years before that mtv unplugged.

[@natejames6867]

Thank you for the great content. . Keep it up your doing good work.

[@tylerscott9741]

The best song that shows the pure power of his voice is love hate love live at the moore

[@chrissmith1011]

Love Hate Love live

[@Boodieman72]

The device is called a Talk Box

[@ottobee709]

Millie ❤

[@wheelmanstan]

You'll notice in AIC songs, at least 3 I can think of, they play around with the chorus. In two songs they speed up the chorus and in this he'll say.."now you've sewn them SHUT". They hit you with SHUT before you expect it. They seemed to like doing these things, unexpected things and not keeping things too polished or clean...well I mean that's Grunge.

[@joseynguanzo1315]

That's a good lesson. Would is your style

[@Jonura]

LOVE hate LOVE en el Moore. Menudo bestia era Layne

[@jonlate4581]

A talk box. Not new, Peter Frampton popularized it in the early 70s and I'm sure it was used before that.