Opera Singer Reacts LIVE to Alice In Chains - Man in the Box and other artists!

[@danabomb100]

Layne was a complete vocal powerhouse. His talent is, obviously, still celebrated present day. He was a master at giving raw grit with a bluesy tinge and could reach in and rock your soul to its core. There is no one like this fella - such a unique voice. The harmonies or even the ‘callings’ between he and Jerry are unmatched and nothing short of perfection. Love, Hate, Love-live at the Moore is a must (or even Bleed the Freak from the same set) - you will not be disappointed. It is Layne at his prime…..the entire set is a treat to your ears!!!

[@maggiereneemusic]

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[@skithee]

@@maggiereneemusic GOTTA second Love, Hate, Love if you're into Layne's voice. it's just a showcase of his power

[@maggiereneemusic]

😊

[@joestrummer9507]

Yeah, LHL at the Moore is 1 of the best rock vocals in the history of mankind.

[@shawncoleman2286]

As others already mentioned... "love hate love" live at the Moore. It will simply blow you away!

[@charliemoss6379]

He's harmonizing with the guitar to make that sound

[@theMenace985]

Definetly react to Love Hate Love live

[@Vadershake]

This live at the moore

[@giuseppemaggio5894]

Ok so about the guitar-voice harmonics : Those are made out of 2 different Layne vocal recordings and either 1 or even sometimes 2 guitars with one being driven through a "Wah" pedal

[@davidgoz8219]

I love that you reacted to AIC. Thank you 🙏

[@maggiereneemusic]

My pleasure. Thank you for your lovely comment! 😊💖

[@sportsmom165]

Part of the intro is also Layne waa waa'ing. Mark Lannegan said that Layne's vocals were so powerful, that standing on the side of the stage, you could hear Layne sing over the instruments.

[@ogulcanyolcu8714]

I was just gonna text the same thing. Mike McGrady also told that you could hear his voice coming out of his body. Loud af

[@kylecarmean9636]

This is my favorite AIC song, not that I dislike any of their songs, I love them all but this is the one that grabbed my mind! I love it.

[@heidihamby2670]

You should definitely check out Love Hate Love live at the Moore with Layne Staley. He is freaking amazing! He hits a beautiful, distorted Bb4 live

[@robfrey9881]

Gotta check out his live performance at the Moore theater of love hate love

[@joestrummer9507]

Yeah, that performance was incredible. She'll freak out, guaranteed.

[@aitornavarro6597]

Wah wah riff is the guitar with wah wah pedal and Layne singing

[@tigers3321]

Correct, there was no talk box. His voice and guitars sounded so close!

[@Horrorscope79]

Goosebumps... You must react this song live.

[@wildwillie5408]

Should've done live version from the Moore. You can't appreciate how powerful his voice really is till you here him live. One if the few singers who is much more impressive live!!!

[@aitornavarro6597]

Growing up AIC was one my favorite bands!!!

[@jamzales]

It's called a talk box. A plastic tube runs from mic stand down to like a fuzz pedal. It's Jerry Cantrell guitarist doing that part and Layne doing vocal part.

[@LEDZEP769]

Like Scott Wieland and Chris Cornell, this Seattle powerhouse is gone but not forgotten. You can't help belting out the vocals to this song. I''m a baby boomer and to me the 90's and early 2000's was really the last good era of music and it's good to see a younger generation discovering real talented uncompromised musicians that is seriously lacking in today's music world. 🔊 🥁🎸🎤🤘

[@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

[@chrish5500]

Well done dude That was amazing Cheers 👍 Really great

[@matthewgoodA1206]

That is crazy how they just came in and brought the whole thing to a halt. But this was Layne in his early prime, with so much power to his voice, later sapped by drugs, but never fully silenced.

[@melissasafeer1499]

Love this!! Layne is the GOAT!! Please do love hate love live at the Moore!

[@229Clayton]

Alice in Chains and Nightwish, that says subscription all over it, greetings from Auckland New Zealand. Your channel is awesome keep up the great content.

[@maggiereneemusic]

Thank you for your comment. Hope to see you at the Premiere of my new reaction video to NIGHTWISH tomorrow?

[@mauriciofonseca2079]

I have a woa woa guitar pedal ... and Layne is eternally our hero. Amazing band, let´s not forget the bassman also died some years later from overdose, so sad. Our 90´s generations suffering from depression and drugs addiction, and great music as well.

[@layneinchains4047]

Should have done the live at the Moore version you would have been completely blown away!

[@sharonunfiltered]

His eyes though 🥺

[@Vadershake]

Cut to the chase and react to Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore....power vocal fest

[@sidou9149]

Love hate love live, you'll be impressed, believe me !

[@charliemoss6379]

Layne was the man! Like you said his power is phenomenal but it almost seems effortless! You can say the same about Chris Cornell.

[@mauriciofonseca2079]

I love Maggie´s reaction, funny and authentic.

[@andylafferty3782]

Peter Frampton “ do you feel like I do” and Motley Crue “ kickstart my heart” among many others

[@jasonfrost3693]

I SLaMMeD the subscribe button when I saw Layne Melt you Face and you went back for more! 🤘😼🤘

[@maggiereneemusic]

Welcome and thank you for your lovely comment! 💖 Hope you are having a lovely weekend! 😊 Can't wait to see you tomorrow on my livestream: kzbin.info/www/bejne/raLRin2wgdSleM0

[@vanlalruatawakauh8930]

Please react to Alice in chains - junkhead (live)

[@AngieandBoomer]

Nobody compares to Layne!!!

[@flippinchoons]

i want this and "Down in a hole" played at my funeral...

[@jamalsampson9389]

1. This song is definitely legendary!

[@amandamceachern2199]

Gonna agree with everyone else that said to check out AIC live at the Moore to see Layne in his prime. Bleed the Freak and Love Hate Love are my favorites from that performance, but literally the whole thing is amazing. Unplugged is amazing in it's own right, but Layne was unfortunately not as strong by that point.

[@runninamok2003]

This song made me a big Alice in Chains fan. Never heard pipes as strong as Layne's before or since. It's not just a song, it's an experience........this sentence goes for the Righteous Brothers as well lol. How's that for eclectic taste? :p

[@insufferablethrashelitist9305]

About 15 minutes in you were reminded this was the "down in a hole" guy. Alice in chains deserves much more appreciation than that. I think this type of format lends to hearing, then forgetting. A band like this should be listened to one album at a time on repeat over and over many times repeated. You're missing out on such greatness on so many levels.

[@ExUSSailor]

You need to check out Alice In Chains "Love Hate Love Live at The Moore" to really experience what Layne was capable of!

[@aaronmachuca5831]

You need to hear "The Rooster" next.

[@italianstallion8317]

Wow stopped at the end😮

[@Chief2112]

Love Hate Love live. Talk about a powerhouse. I love AIC but I get so sad listening to them because Layne was literally screaming out in pain with his voice and lyrics and no one was ever able to help him. RIP legend!! If anyone needs help don’t be afraid to seek it. ✌️❤️

[@RolandDeschain1]

Layne Staley had a hurricane in his throat.

[@deeprestevol8781]

Looking as pretty as ever. Thanx for vids

[@Djzsolo]

Listen to this song live at the Moore Layne never used anything for his vocals it’s all him

[@MatthewBousumonline]

Someone needs to watch Love Hate Love at the Moore

[@veganlion4328]

Watch or listen to FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE

[@tonoymahmud2746]

Try Alice in Chains Mtv Unplugged 1. Nutshell 2. Down in a hole

[@stevenutbrown6783]

Love your reactions, check out The Zoo by the Scorpions perfect example of a talk box being used.

[@maggiereneemusic]

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[@nononobutyeah]

"Love Hate Love" live.

[@echofive1178]

Love Hate Love, River of Deceit

[@sonofpioneers]

can you react to Candlemass? its quite operatic metal

[@babaoriley1971able]

Yes. Candlemass - Well Of Souls would be quite good to react to.

[@maggiereneemusic]

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[@billspivey6919]

First hit, single

[@Slitheadsnyde]

You're such a sweet person. Never change.

[@maggiereneemusic]

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[@Slitheadsnyde]

@@maggiereneemusic I am certainly going to try. I'm currently exploring new music and today I found an artist named Harvey Poe. Still listening to the albums but it's no Enrique Caruso lol. Still, a new artist or genre, every week for me because music is my drug.

[@maggiereneemusic]

😊

[@jtough7499]

Talk box on guitar

[@yearzero7025]

ShaAaaAaadow

[@gerhardattan2741]

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[@pablozapata8642]

U are cool.

[@papapop06]

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[@deeprestevol8781]

Manhattan

[@ephraimsholomo9544]

Shalom! How are you today

[@deeprestevol8781]

Can see and hear fine

[@deg1224ify]

Harrisburg

[@deeprestevol8781]

MAGGIE!!!! HE DIED FROM AN OVERDOSE HERION

[@trixiebella]

Yes Maggie is aware from when she did "down in a hole" such a sad loss.

[@aitornavarro6597]

AIC. Love, Hate, Love!!!! 🙏

[@Christian-vq8rd]

Live in Seattle

[@aitornavarro6597]

@@Christian-vq8rd Yes!

[@ThatGuyX2]

7 minutes later...

[@ronaldstachurski7563]

A1

[@jamestroost2784]

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[@deeprestevol8781]

Your hair looks nice. A little different

[@jamalsampson9389]

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[@paulrussell8585]

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[@maggiereneemusic]

Thank you!! 😁 Can't wait to see you tomorrow at "Stump Maggie" Channel Member Livestream.💖

[@paulrussell8585]

@Maggie Reneé What time is your Stump Maggie live stream hun. UK time? Or S.E.T will do I can work out the time difference, Maggie. One of your b. e. a. u. tiful people

[@maggiereneemusic]

5pm ET TOMORROW

[@paulrussell8585]

@Maggie Reneé Thank you, that's 11 am here in Rochester UK until Sunday when our clocks go forward 1 hour. Thank you, sweetness. 🤗

[@paulrussell8585]

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[@deeprestevol8781]

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[@Djzsolo]

Layne live is better the studio versions best ever to walk the planet 🌎

[@CoryAnderson-es4qq]

Wah pedal

[@ronaldstachurski7563]

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[@jamalsampson9389]

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[@richrazz2653]

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