I was reading in a thread and someone mentioned Layne Staley.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssSL9rAPczI

I met Layne once after his concert once at their hotel they were staying at. first thing he says to me is that he feels like his dick was lifting a bus full of fat kids. Shit you not. I still don't know what the fuck that means but I laughed my ass off. We got to talking and he said he hadn't been feeling well I could tell something was bothering him.

anybody got the copypasta about the dudes uncle picking him up from school when layne died?

Layne and forgotten don't even fit in a sentence together. I got to see Alice once and I was front row. Layne saw me with my girlfriend and said "wear protection you'll need it" best night of my life. Lol

Layne was a fucking great guy. No one will tell you otherwise he loved all. I was at a Metallica concert once and they started shit talking Layne. I left as soon as that happened. Of course back then it was only rumors he was on drugs bad. We didn't know how bad.

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>Me and my friend Paul were making fun of the spanish kids with velcro shoes in 7th grade shop class and next thing I know the loudspeaker goes off and has the guidance counselor on ittelling me to report to the office, I go in and my uncle Darrell who I havent seen since I was a toddler was standing there with this look of emptiness and shit. “Get in the car dude,” he said and I am thinking the worst has happened. Well I ask what was wrong and he just looked at me and said, “Layne OD’d,” and I asked him who the fuck that was. He took out a cassette and popped it in the tape deck, cranked the volume up, and passed me a joint even though he knew I never smoked before. We took off and Alice in Chains – The Rooster played all the way thru, we were both stoned silent the whole time and my mind was completely blown. “That singer is dead now man,” and from there on out I have just had this insane outlook on life.

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Thank you

>>72867997
There's video of this shit on YouTube you know. I bet James feels like shit about that everyday

I was fortunate enough to meet Layne at a nightclub once. He walks up to me and asks who my sister is dating. I told him his name and asked why he was interested. He pointed down at his bare feetand said "cause that's the asshole who stole my shoes" I didn't know what to think

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It was a shitty thing to do, but imagine the predicament Metallica was in, the frustration of trying to find a new opening act at the last fucking minute. It doesn't help were all full blown alcoholics. James especially, and the easiest way to deflect your own problems is to shine the light on someone else as a distraction

They were cool with each other by the aic unplugged performances though.

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Apparently he was big into vidya in his last years alive. someone on here mentioned he was a fan of MGS.
No idea about the validity of that though

Jesus Christ how many people met this motherfucker

>>72867910
He was the rarest of talents.

I was in the Florida on holidays when I was a kid. We were queuing to get into some restaurant on international drive.

A bunch of guys with long hair breezed in through the queue. My mam started loudly saying "who the fuck are they".

Mfw when Layne turned around and I nearly died. I said to him I was sorry for her outburst and he smiled.

I wandered over to him later when i went to get a soda refill. Got talking for a few minutes, he bust a nut when I said he was amazing but I could take or leave the rest of AIC as a band. Got a signed napkin off him and that was that.

Super down to earth guy, amazingly talented. Its the one death I've never really gotten over.

>>72868082
A lot of people. He was a very social guy. He always met fans when he could and enjoys talking to people.

>>72868071
My brother Lynn was one of Laynes friends in his later life. He worked at a coffee shop Layne would go to. My bro can confirm on this. Dude loved MGS and Gek apparently.

He made a forthright comment before he died , it seemed like he was aware he was stuck with his addiction. It was a very sad death

>>72868149
He was. His dad is a genuine piece of shit. He got Layne hooked on that shit and then he got off.. Layne didn't.

To be honest I'm glad Nirvana was bigger than Alice that was we can enjoy them more. Would be annoying seeing these 14 year old girls running around singing Man in the Box like they do with Smells Like Teen Spirit. Layne was possibly the best vocalist of the 20th century. His technique, his range (incredible), and his very strong belt. He was a great singer.

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I saw Layne Staley at a grocery store in Seattle on January 2001. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “O--oh, ummm uhh l-like you’re doing n-now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? shit... huh? huh?” and closing his gloved and rotten smelling hand in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle and mumble as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to shuffle out the doors with like fifteen bottles of cough syrup in his shaking hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and unsteadily brought them to the counter, mumbling something about needing to poop.

She took one of the bottles and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “t-to prevent a-any electrical interfettence,” and then turned around and winked at me, his rotten
and loose teeth in a grin. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly. He dozed off multiple occasions. He's wake up startled and mumble 'fuck'.

When he came to, the price was something like 100 bucks. He tried to pay with black tar heroin residue in his pockets but the cashier obviously didn't accept it. He took off his show and removed a wad of fives and slapped the how thing down on the counter and waited for the cashier to pick through the wet looking bills.

When the money was counted, he collected the wad of bills and walked out of the store with his cough syrup. He left his shoe behind.

Really eye opening stuff.

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Layne knew everyone and made sure he did. He loved people and was a very caring guy. he was so cool on stage.

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I met him the same year with some friend of his at a baseball park. He was so strange and constantly mumbling. His friend told me Layne was on crack and wanted to make sure he was alright. He looked horrible. Surprisingly didn't smell bad, but you could tell he was fucked in the head.

Layne was an amazing person. He wasn't right in the head because of drugs in his life that fucked him up.

>>72868238
Mike Starr possibly?

>>72868299
Layne had More friends than Mike dude probably not.

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>could take or leave the rest of aic
Kek, jerry was aic

>>72868369
Jerry wrote the music for sure. The guy needed Layne though. Layne wrote great eery lyrics that really brought a song to life. Jerry's voice is good but isn't strong enough imho to sing lead by himself on those tracks. I couldn't be a bigger dick sucker of Jerry though.

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no way

Turning the steering wheel hard to the right and stomping his foot on the gas, Alice in Chains' lead singer, Layne Staley, accelerates full speed into the back of a stopped car. Grinning widely, he slams his open-top vehicle into reverse and glances over his shoulder just in time to see a Wiffle ball descend in an arc toward him. Staley shifts his bony hips, reaches his left arm out and catches the sphere in a scoop that resembles a cross between a squash racket and a jai alai cesta. Then he floors his car back to center court, where he passes the ball to Alice's guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, who is waiting under a small goal. Cantrell flings the object from his scoop and into the goal. A buzzer sounds, and a red light illuminates. Two points for the Alice in Chains team.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-19960208

>>72868172
Pretty sure everyone knows this

his mom is fucking weird

like she capitalized on his death with books and lots of media shit

And they said, “Oh I wouldn’t do that.” And I said, “I can do this.” I’ve always promised myself that if anything happened to my children I would be there for them. And I went in, and he was tiny and I thought at first that he had made like a life-sized mannequin of himself because he had lots and lots of art projects always. And I thought, you know, somebody could have thrown that little guy over their shoulder and walked down the street and nobody would have even know that it was a real person...so, and I sat with him for a few minutes. And I told him that I was really sorry how things had turned out...." [53]

whoops!

There's a really depressing article about his final days. Easily found through google.

"Since our music is so depressing, everybody expects us to run around in black and whine about shit," says Kinney. "But that's such a misconception. We just get together and fuck around. We're like the Monkees or something."

>>72868400
Nigha jerry wrote nearly all the lyrics too

Wasn't he dead in his apartment for about 2 weeks before they found him?
Sad.

>>72868454
No he's right it's pretty well known Layne was the lyricist of the band. Jerry was the writer of the music.

>>72868208
On a copypasta related note, has anyone got that one about Thom Yorke and the sex machine in his hotel room?

>>72868400
Staley wrote 3/12 lyrics on facelift and half of them on dirt. His voice was integral to the aic sound but jerry was definitely the brain

>>72868434
I don't think he liked his parents very much.

>>72868469
Not really, jerry wrote nearly all of dirt and at least half of the lyrics of their later stuff

>>72868071
>Apparently he was big into vidya in his last years alive.
confirmed

"After dinner, Cantrell, Kinney and Inez return with Staley to his house, where they stay up until 5 in the morning, smoking pot and playing video games. "

>>72868494
Jerry wasn't the lyricist. Most of their later stuff was Layne. Sap and facelift are the exception. Layne wrote the lyrics on nearly all of tripod jof and dirt.

>>72868509
Almost true except the dirt part they went half and half. Hell even rooster was about jerrys dad I think

Which Alice in Chains song gets you most, anon?


Down in a Hole for me.

"I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS,"

>>72868531

Brother

>>72868531
Rotten Apple.

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never knew this existed

Most amazing thing about AIC was harmony between Cantrell and Staley's voices. It was some magic sort of music.

This is why i can't into Duvall. He's not bad and has voice, but there's no such harmony anymore and i can't feel this magic.

Their new stuff is not that bad though, Check my brain is cool and your decision too

>>72868531
Either Nutshell or Sludge Factory.

>>72868560
Agreed. Great band still. I believe DuVall is a cool motherfucker but Layne is Layne. You can't replace someone like him.

>>72868531
Rain when i die

>>72868560
when a band loses its front man that's the end for me, see also all these other acts still going with someone else

>>72868531
We die young

>>72868581
Like. Just change your damn name. You're not Alice anymore without Layne. Nirvana didn't continue without Kurt for a reason.

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Nah m8, the only album laybe wrote more lyrics than jerry was tripod and jerry still wrote 3 of em

Chris was a fucking GOAT.

Stone Sour, RHCP, Megadeth already paid tribute and covered Soundgarden songs on their shows.

I feel warm as huge grunge fan that Chris got such reputation and acknowledgement

>>72868592
like cannibal corpse, they were just never ever ever . . . the same without Chris, I'm not saying the musicians aren't as good as they get (which they are) but the front man is the relatable personality

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>>72868592

I get you still want to play with your brothers, but why not just Joy Division/New Order it.

>>72868607
Chris was great. His song with Alice is a pretty damn good one. Chris and Layne could do no wrong.

>>72868607
>soundgarden and aic
>grunge
When will this meme die.

>>72868531

Born Again

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along side us as we blow out one by one

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I know that AIC and sometimes Soundgarden have more metal style and are heavier, but i still consider them as part of grunge "scene". It's not about music style only.

I always considered Seattle big four as same scene and i will always continue to

>>72867910
I'MMMMM THE MAAAAAAN
IN THE BOX!!

>>72868621
so true, so true

>>72868640
Theyre definitely alt metal, they sound nothing like the other grunge bands but yeah i assumed it was simply because of location and looks

Met Layne once in 90 and he gave me his phone number because I hit on him. I'd call him every now and then to see how he was he was always wanting to talk. He had a gf named Demri I think and he loved her. He talked to me about her once and said he was going to marry her. I called him the day after she died to tell him how sorry I was for his loss he answered said "I gotta go.." and hung up. I didn't talk to him again until 2000 when I saw him at a gas station. I barely recognized him. He came behind me covered my eyes and said "guess who behind you, you must" I was worried about him. I still haven't gotten over his death. He was a sweet man.

>>72868681
Holy shit I'm in tears

>All these Americans who met Layne IRL
>Me from Georgia(the country) huge fan of AIC
>Can't even visit Seattle
>Lucky motherfuckers

I hope can visit Seattle one day and put flowers on Layne's grave if there is one

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Facelift: 8 jerry, 4 layne, 1 together
Sap: 3 jerry, 1 layne, 1 kinney
Dirt: 7 layne, 5 jerry
Jar of flies: 4 layne, 2 jerry
Tripod: 9 layne, 3 jerry

FWIW jerry seemed to write the majority of their hits

>>72868681
This might be my favorite Layne story I've heard so far. He was so sweet.

>>72868710
Yeah this is true. However, they're both great writers.

>>72868681
He apparently was getting better until his girlfriend died, however I didn't know her name until now thank you anon

http://www.rememberlayne.com/blog/

Ran by a friend of Demri and Layne. A nice place to see personal stories from.

I like Tool show where Maynard is singing Opiate (i think) and then Layne suddenly appears and joins him

>>72868754
Layne loved doing shit like this. I hate that (it was mainly drugs that did this) he was so lazy. He could've done so much shit. He apparently wanted to sing a song with Kurt Cobain in his years but never asked.

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Did Layne and Kurt know each other well? what was their relation?

>>72868681
How do you not break down every day crying over that story.

>>72868728
No argument there, one of the few duos who ever gelled seamlessly

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He talked to Kurt they liked each other to my understanding. They both had very similar personalities except one was an introvert (Kurt) and the other was more of an extrovert (Layne) I could see Kurt getting along with someone as caring as Layne

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Demri a cute

Good article on Layne and Courtney Love
https://www.google.com/amp/www.stereogum.com/1820955/new-alice-in-chains-book-reveals-courtney-loves-suspicion-that-kurt-cobain-didnt-commit-suicide/news%3Famp%3D1

>tfw its freaking strong rain here with thunderstorm
>tfw i'm going to turn on Rain when i die

AND DID SHE CALL MY NAAAAAAAAME
I THINK ITS GONNA RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN

>>72868531
Fuck that's tough. Probably Got Me Wrong or Real Thing

>>72868826
Is that the cat jerry got After layne died? It was in jerrys cribs episode (which was very comfy)

>>72868826
Someone as attractive as Layne had to have a great looking gf obviously lol

“Layne shot me up first a couple of times. Then Kurt shot me, and then Layne shot me after that and I died, for like 11 minutes.” -Mike Star

lol

>>72868852
That vocal line is chillingly powerful, i have no words for it

>>72868856
Couldn't be. Demri died way before Layne or do you mean is it the one Layne left him? Sorry have trouble understanding things sometimes

>>72868558
amazing album

"No Excuses" is very emotional tbqh lads desu.

"You my friend i will defend and if you change, well i'll love you anyway"

Gets me all the time
Basically Jerry was talking to Layne via this song

>>72868895
Strange to me. There's never been a band so open about there own situations so beautiful to ever exist. I don't think we'll get that ever again.

Layne was a great guy is that even a question? Tbh before I knew he had a gf I always though he was gay. Just the way he dressed and acted.

>>72868933
Wasn't he bisexual? Thought he was.

>>72868933
He just didn't give a fuck what people thought.
In his first band, Alice N' Chainz, he dressed in drag.

>>72868949
Layne was very liberal when it came to social stuff. Great guy. Very open minded man. Also confirmation on him being bi?

I saw them live and I feel like my gf wanted to leave me that night because she saw Layne.

layne fighting a neo-nazi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91fz-cNgU8

>>72868992
Well I have heard from people that he was bi but nothing official. He was like Kurt in that regard, not necessarily outcasts but they came from a very different side of society that tended to stick up for the downtrodden and the freaks, something that isn't really seen in its pure form today.

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I always enjoy this video. He hated these motherfuckers. Shit had to hurt. Layne looks like a twig here but will whoop your ass if you come to his concert spreading hatred.

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>>72869039
Damn right son

Anyone have any Layne/Kurt, Layne/Andrew Wood stories or Layne/Chris stories?

I kinda feel bad for jerry because his solo albums were solid but he just couldn't get any traction without layne, even with mike bordin and rob trujillo behind him

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http://archiveofourown.org/tags/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query%5Bname%5D=cobain&query%5Btype%5D=

God damn it. Rotten Apple has best chill intro ever.

And Jesus Christ pose by Soundgarden has best heavy intro desu lads

>>72869126
Rotten apple is probably the most beautifully, dark, melodic, scary piece of work in rock I've ever heard

https://youtu.be/7WS6C-TuMHA

>>72869022
wew lad

>>72869112
Jerry has a good amount of fans behind him. Don't feel bad for the guy. He probably wouldn't have it any other way.

>>72869149
Holy shit why've I never seen this before now thx anon lol

>>72869154
Yeah i know, i think the last two alice releases are great as well.

>>72868883
Screaming Trees guitarist what a hero, that big fat man rocks like crazy

>>72869182
They really are it surprised me that their music is still good over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gVnjtY3bRk

My favorite story Layne told is the one about him with the soup in his beard. He was so cute lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbIJcztW2M8

>>72869187
Gary Lee Conner and Screaming Trees by definition are stupidly underrated. Some of the shit on Dust and Sweet Oblivion and their unreleased shit blows my mind.

But it was Mike McCready who played on that album.

Layne was the voice of the 90s Kurt just happened to be the face and image. Everyone knows Kurt knew he wasn't the best singer and respectfully he didn't have to be to make great music still. However Laynes voice is just hauntingly great.

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the fuck is this shit

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We are just having our comfy thread here

>>72869330
Lol lots and lots of posting from people who don't want to leave

>>72869225
right, I only came across it Gary Lee != greatest Les Paul player

>>72868071
That photo always gives me the feels.

Perhaps it's because he was so clearly /ourguy/ in the end.

>>72869022
lmao liberal pussy gets a guy out and sucker punches him while he's defenseless, getting out of the crowd - WHAT A HERO

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>>72869187
https://www.youtube.com/user/microdotgnome/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

>>72869201
Its jerry man. I couldnt believe how heavy stone sounded. Those bends are huge. Have you listened to degradation trip

jerry is the coolest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQCZ14f0Rs

>>72869749
Yeah cause nazis don't deserve a punch to the face

>>72869871
nobody deserves a punch in the face, you liberal faggot

>>72869887
Lol kys

>>72868317
it really fucking sucks, that Mike Starr said "Oh i had to leave Layne the day he died, cause i was fucked up on xanax, I didn't know the extent of his addiction"

Layne was a publicly, and famous heroin addict, how the fuck don't you know the extent of his disease, he was barely 100 pounds desu.

and why the fuck do you need to leave if you took xanax? it's probably safer to stay in Laynes apartment, black out for a few days and than maybe in your autopilot state, he may have called EMS and saved Laynes life.

Fucking pathetic, Layne didn't deserve to rot away for days after passing cause of some fucking retarded benzo user

>>72868622
>Dat bassline

>>72870009
"Not like this, don't leave like this"
;_______;
unironically crying for the 12th time reading that.

>>72868531
Don't follow

I miss Layne staley so much

>>72868543
Fucking this, by far.

>>72869642
Also that photo was taken 4 years before he died. He looks absolutely terrible in it, so I can barely imagine what he looked like 4 years later.

>>72868531
junkhead

>>72869022
This is embarrassing.

great thread.

Chris Cornell said in an interview that AiC were a bunch of really young cats who lived in the same house, and it was like The Monkees

>>72868531
Dirt gets me pretty bad, it's just downright dark. Most of the other songs usually have something meaningful hidden within, Dirt is just mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PWkN9viNxA

Grunge was the last time rock had good vocals and Personalities. Everything since then has been lacking in some way. Its Sad how these dudes went out..

>>72870433
NuMetal had good vocals, well SOAD, Deftones and Slipknot had good vocals, at least.

That song Brother from the Unplugged is awesome, I didn't remember that one. Good stuff.

Why didn't the Killer Is Me, make it on AIC S/T?

>>72870465
That's true to an extent but I'd say it was lacking in other ways. Like people look back at a lot of those bands and cringe. Whereas even dumb teenagers think Grunge was cool.

>>72870492
Probably the same reason why Lying Season didn't end up on Dirt.
>>72870500
Only some bands, like Limp Bizkit. Still, a few years back articles regarding the disaster that was the grunge fashion were pretty common. Maybe NuMetal needs a couple of years for people to treat it like nostalgia worthy or reach cult status.

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>>72870500
>nirvana
>not cool
Generation-z kiddo spotted.

>>72870492
that was just a jam i'm pretty sure. iirc jerry says it was just something they were fooling around with at soundcheck.

>>72868531
for me: unplugged version of brother fucks me up. my cousin and i love AiC and when he got deployed as a marine I played that on my ride home that night. cried hard as fuck once it was only jerry and layne singing.
honorable mentions are rooster, nutshell, frogs, and over now

>>72870582
I don't think nu metal will ever reach cult status, people get nostalgic over it i know i do. But I don't think nu metal quite captured the zeitgeist like grunge did. It was a big deal but it wasn't a game changer like Grunge. Idk if rock will ever reach those hights again..

>>72870615
I was talking about nu metal dummy. Grunge will always be cool but nu metal seems cringe at this point.

>>72867910
he let >tfwngf get to him
literally

>>72870635
Well, it will probably never be as well respected as grunge because it never was as big. I mean, Nirvana's still regarded as one of the best bands ever by "big" publications. But I don't think the normal consensus on nu metal is cringey; maybe here, but people still complain about Linkin Park not going back to the genre.

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>>72870711
nu metal will not age well

Deftones is good, not sure about other nu metal. But i like Deftones.

I'd have sex listening to Chino Moreno's voice

>>72870728
Nothing wrong in being part of an era's sound. See: Duran Duran.

>>72870711

Well Cobain was a above average song writer and did really well vocal melodies

He was probably a bland guitarist though. But most of us are bland guitarists anyways


Nirvana was really good at pop songs which sounds kinda funny

>>72870711
People i know who were into nu metal cringe at it like how i cringe at my emo/scene phase. Part of growing up I guess. I just can't see people looking back at Korn, SOAD and slipknot and going on about how cool it was. Like how people go on about 70s punk or the late 80s rave scene. They'll probably lool back at it like people look back at Smash mouth and hair metal.

Deftones were cool though

>>72868531
nutshell or rotten apple

>>72870747
Hey, buddy fuck you
Duran Duran live will make you want to bang anything is so hot

Memes aside, those posh brits give a helluva show.

>>72870844
Mostly because people who invest themselves that much into a scene, quickly jump into another as soon as it "dies out", at least when they were young.

I had some friends that were into nu metal, then they were into metalcore, then went full hipster. I think those kind of people tend to cringe at everything they used to like. But I think normal people still hear Chop Suey! and most likely sing along.

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Wasn't implying anything bad about them, Rio is one of my favorite albums of all time.

>>72870745
listen to crosses then

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i already do
bretty gud desu

>>72867978
>I got to see Alice once and I was front row. Layne saw me with my girlfriend and said "wear protection you'll need it" best night of my life
Because STDs or was he saying never have a kid with this bitch?

>>72870932
>Rio is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Duran Duran are legitimately one of the most underrated musicians I've ever heard. Yes their songs are poppy and they got huge recognition for it, but as musicians? Fuck man they're technically leaps and bounds above the shit they play. It's odd

>>72870932
I remember that shit. Like 7 or 8 years ago suddenly all the sceneies became hipsters. Happened over night. Tbh i never really liked nu metal too much, i liked slipknot briefly but then got into death metal. I mean it was lame but atleast back then kids had something. Like wtf do teenagers today have? Lil uzi vert? Is that it..

>>72871012
My Mum likes Duran Duran. The good old days, when Thatcher was in charge.

>>72871012
I firmly believe they put so much thought into every note they lay down that it shows in the effect the music has on people
Even the dudliest of duds feels compelled to move at least a little when it plays.

>>72871012
Saw a video on John Taylor's rig. The guy basically said he mainly plays with a cheap Peavey bass despite having a Music Man and a Factor bass at his disposition. He also says that he doesn't like to change the strings.

Really humble guy, easily one of my favorite bass players.

>>72868531
Cliche but Would? still give me goosebumps every time I listen to it

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Dirt [Columbia, 1992]

Crunch, crunch, crunch, riff, riff, riff. Way harder, louder, and more metallic than Soundgarden will ever be. The price of all this power is that it's also stupider--the sound of hopeless craving. This is a junkie album, take it or leave it--"Junkhead" isn't ironic and probably isn't fictional either. As I sit here looking at my books and degrees (well, degree), I somehow doubt I'd be doing as, er, "well" as resident sickman Layne Staley if I "opened my mind" as he suggests. I'll wait for my own man, thank you very much. B-

Jar of Flies [Columbia, 1994] :(

>>72871162
Stupid kike new yorkers total garbage

>>72868063
Were they my dude? Because I strongly remember the bassist having "Friends don't let friends get Friend's haircuts" written on his acoustic bass on the A.I.C. unplugged and that was a reference to Metallica and their new gay hairstyles and image and subdued music when the "Until it Sleeps" video from Load came out.

great job remembering Chris Cornell everyone

>>72871147
I love how every instrument is so pronounced in that song.

Probably the best AIC song and one of my favorites

>>72871162
Of all the talented people we've lost in the past year and this plebian hack is still breathing.

>>72868531
Grind is a sludge masterpiece.

>that chorus

>>72871214
I think Metallica were at the Unplugged crowd. Far as I remember, they were good friends.

>>72871162
lmao with all his books and degree(s) he'll never influence anyone as much as based layne and AiC.

Sheltered silver spoon kike shithead blind to anyone's viewpoint but his own

no teenage girls with big piccies of the <objectively><?> better looking Layne on their wall. I can't understand the cult of Kurtis Quiet-Loud though, so maybe just me.

>>72871272
Did you have a stroke, dude?

>>72871272

Yeah

>>72871249
Yeah they were. They're still good friends with Cantrell. He was part of the acoustic radio show they did in the 90s where they recorded Tuesday's Gone for what became Garage Inc

>>72868681
Cool /r/music copypaste.

>>72871093
>He also says that he doesn't like to change the strings.
I can get behind that, new strings sound too bright for me

>>72871162
IIRC of the big grunge bands, the only one he really liked was Nirvana.

>>72871147
Layne tearing it up at the end of the version on unplugged. I could listen to that on a loop all day.

"Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
And left you all alone?"

Fuck man. That still gives me shivers.

>>72868004
didnt happen

>>72868531
All of your replies for me basically. Rotten Apple, Down In a Hole, Rain When I Die, Junkhead, Dirt, Nutshell...
I get the intense feels

>>72868531
> Don't Follow

A timeless track from a timeless EP album

the performance of man in the box from their last show is incredible. you can see jerry giving a thumbs up to layne to encourage him nailing those high notes in the chorus and i get chills every time bro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zx-oVwhdLc

>Was he a good guy?

Literally the greatest vocalist of his generation, considering rock music atleast.

A lot of people don't know this, but Layne had a bit of a nasty white nationalist/nazi streak. The "Alice" the band name refers to has a double-meaning. It's not just a quirky Lewis Carroll reference, but also the name of a black acquaintance he had. Pretty dark when you think about it.

Now, on it's own you could shrug that off as a harmless joke, but if you do some more research things start to add up. I can't be too specific, but a friend of a friend knew these guys, and it was common for them to play drinking games based on how many times Layne would say the word "nigger" while drunk, and it usually escalated from there.

Remember that supergroup Class of 99? Probably not. They recorded one Pink Floyd cover and broke up. Some say Layne and Tom Morello didn't get along. I can only speculate as to why.

Eventually karma came back around for Layne. He died strung out on herion, a shell of a man, and AiC was happy to replace him with the first black singer they found. And the Class of 99 project found new life in the form of Audioslave. Sad, but it's not uncommon for things to end like this for racists.

>>72875063
fuck off nigger

>>72875063
Layne hated nazi ideologies though?

>>72875398
You must be the forgetting the time a neo nazi called him a "nigger lover" and he was so offended he beat the shit out of him on stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91fz-cNgU8

I had the pleasure of meeting Layne at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny

>>72868531
No excuses and Down in a hole unplugged

>>72868531
Frogs
Such a bleak song

>why's it have to be this way

If I could bring one musician alive it would be him

Best thread I have seen on /mu/ in along time

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>>72871272
>Kurtis Quiet-Loud

this post made me think

>>72870183
They're all fuckin gone man.

I'm trying to listen to Dirt right now but I keep getting stuck on Some Bones. Like, playing it over and over again. I love how it just hits you out of the gate, its only 2:30, no bullshit. The odd time signature for the verses, that catchy chorus. What a perfectly written pop metal song.

>>72867939

left one is already fuckable without beard

>>72868004
LITERALLY DUDE WEED LMAOOOOOO

>>72877526
>some bones

>>72878498
Whoops. Them Bones. Go ahead and discard my post

>>72868531
Rooster

>>72878523
I FEEL SO ALONE
GOTTA GO AN GET ME SOME BONES

>>72879058
haha, fuck you

>>72877526
AAH
AAH

>>72879165
SSOOOOAHHMMMMEE SSAAAAYYYYY

>>72879165
aaaaaAaAaAAaaAAAAAAHHH

>>72879236
Wee erred borrreeee into dahhhh grave

>>72868531
Definitely Nutshell, but Rooster reminds me of my dad so I love that one also

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpbZIyGM1aI
>i'm very interested in the subject matter behind the song
what did he mean by this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYYGKCanqfA

>>72869887
Nazi's do

I don't remember exactly where I read it, but it was a sight were people were sharing stories about him.

One girl, who was a friend of his in his later years, talked about how Layne became obsessed with anime, particularly one called "Vampire Princess Miyu."

His last days were spent doing art, watching anime, and playing vidya. Oh, and drugs, I guess. But yeah.

He probably would'a posted on here if he'd lived til' 04

>>72868531
Got Me Wrong, Nutshell, and Killer is Me