If I could pick one band that had the most impact on my post-college motley crew of friends and fiends, it would have to be Alice In Chains. We have all been willfully crushed under the alluring mass of white-hot pain that was the music given to us by Layne, Cantrell, Inez and Kinney. Too [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alice in chains’
When Christopher Cornell could make pretty things explode
Posted in sound, tagged alice in chains, alice in chains new album, badmotorfinger, ben shepherd, beyond the wheel, cantrell, greatest grunge vocalist, inez, kim thayil, kinney, layne, lost grunge tracks, matt cameron, scream 2009, superunknown on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alice never more
Posted in news, sound, tagged alice in chains, save layne staley, we hate iron maiden on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News: Alice In Chains sign new deal with Iron Maiden’s label
My Reaction:
Alice in chains and on the turntable
Posted in sound, tagged alice in chains, Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Layne Staley, Mother Love Bone, Temple Of Dog on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five years ago, if someone had told me that there was a remix of Alice In Chains out there that does not make you want to gag and torture the nearest DJ, I would have scoffed at your supposed insolence. Back then, I recited prayers before the miserable altar of Alice In Chains. A couple [...]
And now for something very peculiar
Posted in sound, tagged alice in chains, funkadelic, leonard cohen, mark lanegan, mojoe, screaming trees, sound of silence on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During Maggot Brain’s brief intro, we get to listen to a strange voice telling us “Mother Earth is pregnant again”. Thankfully, the Al Gorisms stop right there. For the next 9 minutes, Funkadelic leads us on a hazy trip with the cleanest sounding guitar solos this side of Jeff Beck. While the band boasts of [...]
Layne Staley (1967-2002)
Posted in sound, tagged alice in chains, cobain, dirt, jar of flies, Layne Staley, zappa on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To anyone with half-a-brain, Alice In Chains were a grunge band. For music connoisseurs, they were a great grunge band. To a rare breed of unclassifiable sods, Alice In Chains had the greatest sound to ever jump out of their speakers and into their skulls.
The mental intrusion was orchestrated. It was an experience like nothing [...]
