First Time Reaction to Alice In Chains | Would

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Artist: Alice In Chain
Title: Would
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[@vichi2059]

I love Nirvana but Alice in Chains, to me, is a much deeper band. I hope you dive a little deeper because you are in the right ballpark when it comes to the song being about addiction and if you like that kind of vibe (if you can like something like that) you will enjoy basically everything they put out.

[@johnphillipsjr7238]

Nirvana sucks ass

[@TheStepmonkey]

More than the meaning of addiction, all of their songs are just beautiful and anyone can enjoy them ✌️

[@TheStepmonkey]

Alice in chains is easily the best band from the 90's 💗

[@lfgamer1564]

Layne Staley legend 🎤

[@danabomb100]

GOAT!

[@amota92]

Alice In Chains was part of the grunge movement in the early 90s just like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Sound Garden. The song is about Andrew Wood from the band Mother Love Bone who died of an overdose.

[@JIPS1993]

Just saw Jerry killing this song on his solo tour!

[@SPGhettus]

"Would" has a unique arrangement that I enjoy. The first section doesn't have musical resolution, so it builds tension without release. The last section resolves, and it hits extra hard after the build-up. Nice technique from a band known for being powerful and creative.

[@CorinneWoods]

You should do more Alice In Chains! They are best when they’re live!

[@timwhite5562]

I was a junior in highschool when this came out and it was in heavy rotation on MTV. It's one of the few songs I've yet to burn out on yet.

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

Love this song, brings me back to my youth in the early 90’s

[@TammyM36]

I absolutely love this song. You are so correct about the groove. It’s so awesome. That baseline!

[@leslie8743]

Lived in Seattle and this is from the Cameron Crowe movie called, Singles and had members of AIC, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Great feel of the music scene of late 80s and early 90s. ❤️. Listen to Bleed the freak, great song.

[@Insertcatchienamehere]

I absolutely loved alice in chains, always will. This is an all time fave for me. I was big into grunge, it was huge here in souther cali.eally miss that era.

[@JesseLJohnson]

It is about addiction. The singer from Mother Love Bone had overdosed and died his name was Andrew Wood. This song was a dedication to him. Alice in Chains had plenty addiction issues themselves. Both that bass player Mike Starr, and the singer Lanye Staley both died of overdoses themselves.

[@truther4life]

Greatest voice in rock history!!!

[@cynthiahutchinson459]

This song was written as a tribute to Andrew Wood, frontman for Mother Love Bone who died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Layne is actually wearing Andrews’ sweater in this video.

[@Dr.VonBraun]

I love seeing old Seattle from the early 90’s in the video. Different time and place. RIP Layne Staley. ❤

[@vasiliarkhipov2121]

Best band of the 90s. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but as time go by more and more bands fall away. They're still good, I just don't keep going back to them. Alice in Chains I come back more and more and more and more. Them and Tool are the only ones still in major rotation, but I don't think of Tool as a 90s band.

[@mommabird2813]

This is the early 90’s and this was the best imho. AIC, SoundGarden, Nirvana, PearlJam, STP in that order❤

[@cynthiahutchinson459]

Alice In Chains is known as grunge, but Layne said they weren’t. They did use a lot of distortion like grunge but to me they were more heavy metal. They actually started out as a glam rock group!

[@micahl8857]

Both Nirvana and Alice In Chains are based out of Seattle. There was a big grunge movement up there in the ‘90s

[@d3mist0clesgee12]

How could you not listen to them bro, lol RIP Layne

[@ThEmB0nEz]

Alice in chains - Rooster

[@tamibrandt]

The backstory with WOULD? ... guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote the song for Andy Wood, singer of Mother Love Bone after Andy died of an overdose in 1990 just as Mother Love Bone was going to hit big. After Andy died, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament dissolved Mother Love Bone and re-emerged as Pearl Jam. WOULD? as a title is a play on Andy Wood's name. Layne sang the hell out of WOULD? and ROOSTER on the album, official videos and concerts in 91-93. WOULD? appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of Heart and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used IT AIN'T LIKE THAT from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs ROOSTER and WOULD? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used WOULD? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how WOULD? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt. Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe between 1986 and 2010. Drummer Sean Kinney developed that heavy kick-drum at the formation of Alice In Chains. That heavy kick-drum is the foundation of AIC's sound. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell was fine doing backing vocals on the early songs like the ones they played in their clubbing days and on Facelift like the Call and Return of the chorus on MAN IN THE BOX until one day when he was trying to write songs for the SAP EP and the Dirt album, Layne looked at the lyrics and encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all, they were Jerry's lyrics. He should sing them. When Layne and Jerry sang together they achieved the perfect pitch of two voices making one voice. 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 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. The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because he was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was other drugs). His liver was damaged from the years of drug use. He was just high enough to do the show so he didn't get dope sick and to chase away withdrawal symptoms. 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 Layne's choices for his life. That show was filmed on April 10, 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. Before the show, drummer Sean Kinney and bass player Mike Inez argued with guitarist Jerry Cantrell about whether Layne could even pull off the high notes in some of the songs, which is why Jerry gave them that “I told you so” smirk after Layne hit that long, high note in DOWN IN A HOLE. He did the same thing again when he hit a high note in ROOSTER. The fact that Sean and Mike didn’t have any confidence that Layne could do the show and Jerry being the only one that knew deep in his heart that Layne could do it because Layne had done so many things against the odds over the years no matter how high he was at the time. When Jerry needed him to be there where it counted, Layne always pulled through. The entire show was a success because Layne did have a powerful performance despite his condition. He proved to his cynical bandmates that he could still sing the high notes and he pulled it all off beautifully while the same four guys (Metallica) who had mocked him for his addiction sidelining Alice In Chains from ever doing extended tours sat in the front row. The mistakes he made screwing up SLUDGE FACTORY 8 times even though the dvd only shows 1 time (and I think he screwed up GOT ME WRONG once or twice, but Toby Wright didn’t keep that in editing) were endearing, at least to me. They didn’t take away from the performance, it added something to the performance that, had it been removed after everyone had seen it, wouldn’t have made the show what it was. Knowing what Layne was capable of before, and what you see on Unplugged is the difference between night and day. Watch him sing DOWN IN A HOLE and knowing that this was the same guy who back in 1992 was hanging from the rafters of a low ceiling in a bar belting out LOVE HATE LOVE, that is what's heartbreaking. Knowing how he sang ROOSTER in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 1993 when his “yeahs” and screams were so loud and high I’m surprised the rafters didn’t come crashing down around him and then watch him sing the same song so low-key on Unplugged knowing he could do to the song what he did in Tilburg is heartbreaking. Knowing he initially sang the hell out of WOULD? on the official video and album and seeing the end of WOULD? on Unplugged . . . and knowing how deep into his addiction he had gotten by that point is heartbreaking. Mike Starr (who is in the video) was the first bass guitar player. He left the band after Rock in Rio January 22, 1993 (long story). Mike Starr was the last person to see Layne alive on April 4, 2002. They had an argument and Starr left. No one noticed Layne had died on April 5, 2002, 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 Alice In Chains manager Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911 on April 19, 2002. Mike Starr died of a prescription drug overdose on March 8, 2011. 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. Though I do applaud MoPOP including Layne Staley and Mike Starr when they inducted Alice In Chains in the MoPOP Museum of Pop Culture. It's more recognition of Layne (and Mike) than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (thanks to Rolling Stone's criticisms of Layne and his addiction) and the Grammys (who FORGOT him when he died) have EVER done. 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 kept his humor and wit even to the end of his life. All the information above has longer, deeper stories, and I could say so much more, but KZbin has a cap on comment length. In the end, it all boils down to: Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote songs about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press.

[@themiseducationofme6998]

i put this song on every mix *tape* i ever made for someone. 🧑‍🦳

[@raulnovoa6098]

Try. To. Top. His. Vocal range. Goodluck. The man. Had. Crazyrange. 👊👊👊👊✊✊✊✊💥💥💥💯💯💯💯💫💫💫💫

[@bradgordon3760]

Dude! you grew up in the 90s and missed Alice in Chains?!?! Get going brother. Down In A Hole from their Unplugged show should be next.

[@t22odd]

Please do yourselves a favor and do a deep dive on this bands catalog. Their MTV Unplugged album is THE BEST of that collection.

[@jtough7499]

I think they should do album versions so they can see the power, then go with the unplugged.

[@themiseducationofme6998]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@imhendriyantonasution2511]

they're Alternative Metal.

[@raytrusty8618]

Time for something equally impacting.....a track by Prodigy called (Smak My Bitch Up) you will love it....because this IS from the 90's in Britain....

[@mztweety1374]

James Hetfield from Metallica covered this live with Alice in Chains once and it damn near brought me to tears ..I'm not sure why

[@Omidion]

Haveno idea how i stumbled upon your channel, but you two are cute :) Anyway...take a look at: Type O Negative - Black No.1 Evergrey - Recreation Day Kamelot - When the Lights Are Down

[@cynthiahutchinson459]

React to Love, Hate, Love live At The Moore, you won’t regret it. Layne was best of the best.

[@horizonblack]

A song about an overdose by a singer who died of an overdose. It's the circle of life...

[@wayneadler3451]

Sad but true

[@OzzybinOswald]

Cool doesn't exist nowadays.

[@zomacinsumos1674]

REACTION TO KE PERSONAJES

[@johnphillipsjr7238]

LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore.