Alice In Chains - Love, Hate, Love - Live At The Moore (Reaction)

[@LydellC]

*Rory.* This is considered by many to be Layne's most impressive performance. He was definitely a beast. Staggering power. But I still say Jerry Cantrell is the unsung hero of AIC. Killer songwriter, riffs for days, super melodic and soulful playing. And you don't hear it here, but their harmonies were their secret weapon. Hard to beat the Seattle scene for music that packs a gut punch 🔥🤘✌️

[@ilariatremolada379]

Iconic performance 😎 it perfectly conveys the mood of the song with the dark scenery, the unsettling guitar distortions and Layne’s raw and powerful vocals. Riveting 🔥

[@tiawarren5403]

And that's why Layne was / is the best rock/ grunge vocalist of all time..period.. RIPLayne...power, tone, feeling, skill....sad angel ..GOAT..!!!!! 💜💜💜💜and the band made it's one of a kind sound.. total legends AIC...

[@teresakoslosky3053]

He is the goat! I am so sad he is gone! So much incredible talent gone… but oh In Seattle at that time it was magical!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@alicaveltman3021]

This entire show is incredible. My personal favorite is 'Bleed the Freak' I think you might enjoy it as well. 🤗

[@tiawarren5403]

Grunge... the epitome of music to me....💜

[@laurawatters914]

This is my favorite Alice in Chains live performance!! 😊💓🤘✌️🔥

[@lindsayheywood7195]

Imagine being there to see it!

[@laurawatters914]

@@lindsayheywood7195 Mann, that would be incredible to witnessed this in the crowd!! One of favorites, Seattle music in the 90's!! 😊💓🤘✌️

[@lindsayheywood7195]

@@laurawatters914 I think it’s my favorite live performance of all time. It’s unreal!

[@amachvt]

You’re awesome Rory, loved this reaction. Always so excited when people discover music I loved growing up with.

[@karolprado9296]

Check out junkhead live!!

[@petecatalano3843]

This is definitely, not a radio friendly song from them. Basically their " slaves and bulldozers "

[@ronsuper100]

Layne staley goes to "that dark place." His story and beautiful/powerful voice takes you there. He is inchanting! A rock god!

[@spetts75]

I know everyone has an affinity for the music that came out when we are 16-20 yrs old, but there really was something truly special about the 1989 - 1993 albums. There were so so many killer albums that came out in those 4 years. Literally 75% of my cd collection is made up albums that came out during that brief unbelievable time in music.

[@nancywade3428]

This is my favorite performance of AIC.. remember this was recorded in the 90’s.. not auto tune.. just Layne and his amazing voice!! I had the pleasure seeing this tour. Layne at his prime!!! RIP Layne❤

[@nancymjohnson]

I was a dj when this came out. It was definitely called grunge. Layne is so greatly missed. AIC still one of my top two favorite bands. ☮️❤️

[@eidetecker]

They open this show with 'Real Thing' and it speaks to what you're saying at around 12:40 . Plus, they nail that number ... geez, the whole show is a must see.

[@allisons.9553]

I was hoping you’d watch some of the songs from this show! You should just react to the entire concert. 😊❤

[@damboulton]

More AiC!

[@labird1994]

Wow🤘amazing 🎸👍very good 👌fantanstic 🎤thanks

[@tiawarren5403]

Gotta do "Real Thing" by AIC.... might be my fav by them ever.....!!!!

[@mtrainor999]

Awesome reaction brother!

[@PROGROCK-tr9hw]

Check out the whole Dirt album.

[@laurawatters914]

Check out Mad Season, Long Gone Day at The Moore with Mark Lanegan and Layne Staley and Mike Freakin McCready from Pearl Jam and drummer from Screaming Trees Barrett Martin 🥁🔥😊💓🤘✌️ I absolutely love your awesome reaction thank you!!

[@allisons.9553]

Love Mad Season and that show! So good. My faves are their cover of Lennon’s I Don’t Want to Be A Soldier, and Artificial Red. And maybe All Alone. Honestly, they’re all my favorite. :)

[@laurawatters914]

@@allisons.9553 I totally agree!! I love Wake Up ( such a sad song) and Mike Freakin McCready's awesome solo and Long Gone Day incredible song and performance 😊💓🤘✌️

[@ericaveillette6388]

Mad Season is one of my favorites of all time. Guaranteed good listen from start to finish every time!

[@laurawatters914]

@@ericaveillette6388 totally!! 😊🤘✌️

[@zoehattersley9410]

First time I've seen you Rory excellent reaction , to a magnificent Band x

[@victormiranda4491]

Just the tip of the iceberg. Rabbit hole AIC, you won’t be sorry.

[@amandamceachern2199]

Check out Bleed the Freak from this same show if you haven't yet!

[@susannesoto3512]

I was 20 in 1990. We called it grunge. I still call it grunge.

[@paulalloyd8860]

Best performance ever

[@edparr4670]

You should check out mother love bone

[@tonyarodriguez2098]

Love that group ❤ Rest in Peace Stargazer

[@tamibrandt]

LOVE HATE LOVE live at the Moore December 22, 1990, is LAYNE STALEY in his prime and UNTOUCHABLE PERFECTION. All other bands should strive to have a live performance this perfect. Layne is better live than studio version. One of the very few singers who are better live. The entire Live at the Moore concert from December 22, 1990 was turned into a live vinyl album and VHS called Live Facelift. It cost about 75.00USD last I checked. The VHS has live concert footage from December 22, 1990 of: MAN IN THE BOX, REAL THING, LOVE HATE LOVE, SEA OF SORROW, BLEED THE FREAK, bonus footage of IT AIN'T LIKE THAT live and official videos for WE DIE YOUNG, MAN IN THE BOX and SEA OF SORROW. Jerry Cantrell is the guitar player. He's a certified Riff Lord. He respects any musician who KNOWS their instrument. Layne wrote the song about his tumultuous relationship with Demri Parrott (pronounced Per-roh). There was cheating on both sides. Listen to the song from the mindset of a sociopath. How many times did Layne come back home from being on tour to find another guy just so smitten-puppy love-tattoo-you-on-my-chest in love with Demri at first sight. But the Demri fans think Layne should have lain down and taken that because he deserved it for screwing groupies on the road? There a few stories of her on the road with him where the first thing she thought of was scoring junk before anything else. I've come to the conclusion that apparently to Demri fans the Layne/Demri relationship is a sacred, hollowed relationship and NO ONE is allowed to side with him against her for what she did to him with the drugs and cheating on him, but he was lower than a snake for what he did to her with the drugs and cheating on her. She was so independent, she DID NOT even want to be recognized as his girlfriend (God-forbid that ever happen). Even though the second he told her he wouldn't get her any more drugs, she just turned around and shacked up with the next guy who would do what she wanted. Her family called Layne back home from GERMANY where he was on tour for a damn intervention with her. Layne never thought interventions worked, but he did it for her. There was one instance where Layne sent her out for coke or something, and she came back with heroin. Hell, it wasn't like Demri was headed for a life in a convent when she met Layne and on the day she was to take her holy orders, Layne corrupted her. She already knew how to get drugs when they met. Layne could have wished upon a star a million times over that she would have married him, but she wasn't going to give up the drugs any more than Layne would have, so there was no way in hell she was marrying him. She had such a feminist independent streak. When they were making the SEA OF SORROW video, the girlfriends were all invited down to participate in the video. Every girlfriend showed up EXCEPT Demri. She didn't even show up to support him let alone be in the video. Discussing the title track "DIRT", Cantrell stated that "the words Layne put to it were so heavy, I've never given him something and not thought it was gonna be the most bad-assed thing I was going to hear." Staley said he wrote the song "to a certain person (Demri) who basically buried my ass". In an interview with the Canadian magazine M.E.A.T. in December 1992, Layne Staley said about the Dirt album cover: "This album cover... I like to refer to it as "revenge". The woman on the album cover is kinda the portrayal of that person being sucked down into the dirt (laughs), instead of me. The picture is the spitting image of her, and that wasn't even planned. Actually, I was pretty angry about it when I first saw it - she's not happy about it either (laughs). It was real eerie. The girl on the album cover is really Mariah O'Brien NOT Demri. She had two heart surgeries that Layne paid for and two lung surgeries (that Layne also paid for) all stemming from endocarditis that she contracted through intravenous drug use. She passed away on October 28, 1996, from a bacterial infection that was a complication from the last overdose she had. Even though they had broken up for good by 1994, he still loved her and she was still hanging around in 1995 and 1996 before she hooked up with someone else a few months before her death. Demri’s death devastated Layne. A few months later, Layne asked her mother for the teddy bear Demri had with her in the hospital and a few other things. It took another few weeks and an accidental meeting on a busy street to exchange the items. The consensus was that Layne never got over Demri’s death. He used her death as the catalyst to go into a drug-induced tailspin in which he would take his addiction to lengths few could imagine or sustain. (This is coming from a Layne fan who was NEVER a fan of Demri and the many times she strung him along)

[@montanaford6090]

Best genre ever!!!

[@seahawkgal5052]

Layne is the GOAT!

[@teresakoslosky3053]

Fire!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@consuelaluna1414]

💚💚💚💚💚

[@andycaroll9]

Do mad season wake up

[@HildeAzul]

If you like B tracks the whole Dirt Album B tracks are ducking amazing.

[@michaelkhobbs9522]

Hey if you go on my list of songs don't count them as my best sound. I'm not using anything to enhance my sound it's very raw and bland 😆🤘 I'm going to have someone show me what I need to do with over dubbing my voice damn I'm lame on that part Hey great analogy 🤘