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Alice In Chains Unplugged

Started by Pentagrimes, January 30, 2019, 08:01:14 PM

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January 30, 2019, 08:01:14 PM
I am somehow only seeing this for the first time in my life now.

How was it not obvious Staley was going to die?He looks awful.
#1 January 30, 2019, 08:07:46 PM
Yeah, I find it very hard to watch, he was in brutal shape.
#2 January 30, 2019, 08:21:35 PM
Looked awful but that gig is amazing. I still regularly listen to (but rarely watch the DVD) the album. The writing was on the wall for the poor guy and I remember reading lots of commentary at the time in magazines that his drug abuse had gotten so severe he was on injecting in his hands, hence the gloves he had on almost all the time. Such a waste of talent but such is the sickness of addiction.
#3 January 30, 2019, 08:24:59 PM
Mark Lanegan was almost as bad around that time but managed to turn it around.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamJIe332R0
#4 January 30, 2019, 08:41:29 PM
Jesus took me a sec to twig that's Josh Homme on second guitar
#5 January 30, 2019, 11:24:10 PM
Must have been nuts being around knowing he hadn't long

An outstanding album
Staley is superb, on an edge, barely keeping it together for such a brilliant performance
Whole band is brilliant
#6 January 31, 2019, 06:32:15 AM
Like most of the grunge bands around that time, their songs translated so well for those unplugged sets.

Really doesn't feel like it was 23 years ago either  :o
#7 January 31, 2019, 08:52:47 AM
Quote from: Jward on January 30, 2019, 11:24:10 PM
Must have been nuts being around knowing he hadn't long

An outstanding album
Staley is superb, on an edge, barely keeping it together for such a brilliant performance
Whole band is brilliant
Absolutely agree with all this, exceptional band at the time. I get that the skag has visibly taken its toll by now but the way everyone is talking about Layne not having long left, youd think he died soon after. Unplugged was in 1996 and he died in 2002.
#8 January 31, 2019, 08:58:52 AM
Imagine how utterly fucking awful those six years must have been.
#9 January 31, 2019, 09:05:02 AM
He didn't appear too much after this gig. Maybe one more tour with Kiss if memory serves me correctly?
No doubt his final years were abysmal.
#10 January 31, 2019, 09:19:21 AM
There was a great artitle about his last few years where he pretty much stayed in his house all the time, never contacting anyone, playing video games and getting high. Must try and find it again
#11 January 31, 2019, 11:52:47 AM
Sure when they found him he was half rotten the poor bastard..i.e. he was decomposing. Unplugged is one of the greatest performances I´ve ever heard. I got it when it came out and still regularly listen to it..a thing of immense beauty. Staley was sublime on it, they all were.
#12 January 31, 2019, 12:41:18 PM Last Edit: January 31, 2019, 12:46:55 PM by Herbert West
Quote from: Trev on January 31, 2019, 09:19:21 AM
There was a great artitle about his last few years where he pretty much stayed in his house all the time, never contacting anyone, playing video games and getting high. Must try and find it again

Think this is the article you're on about:

https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/alice-chains-untold-story-layne-staleys-final-gloomy-days-frontman-seattles-grunge-legends

#13 January 31, 2019, 01:24:18 PM
Always rated this the best of those Unplugged sessions. Staley was a wreck, which strangely makes the performance otherworldly. Superb stuff.

#14 January 31, 2019, 02:34:20 PM
And for anyone who hasn't heard Mad Season with Staley on vocals, time to get onto it straight away. Incredible album. Mike McCready on guitars..sublime stuff
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