This band should be mentioned more often in music discussions that are overcrowded with the beatles, the stones worship (though those are wonderful bands). I guess it takes another ten years until the 90's is remembered as a special time when good music was being made. Fortunately good music still gets being made, but there's only one Alice In Chains.
Grunge was a good musical movement (though I hate labelling bands into categories, like 'prog'). Ofcourse AIC haven't had the same impact as Beatles (rare have), but it would be nice to see these bands being lifted to the 'cool' status. Meaning bands like Sonic Youth, that are 'hip' to mention in dinner conversations. I guess I just want more people appreciating good music, not wanting to belong in a fashionable crowd.
The nineties were an excellent decade for music and I don't even dig grunge very much. Alice In Chains is a good band, but what about bands like Kyuss man. There were a shitload of new psych bands and the stoner rock scene started to grow. I also dig a lot of the psytrance, dub and d 'n bass stuff from the nineties, and of course the mighty black metal genre came around!
Haha, metal is such a large genre. I can't stand death metal most of the time and especially can't stand nu metal. That's a very bad thing from the nineties in my opinion, but I guess it has something since a lot of people seem to like it. Death metal I can understand, just not my cup of tea. Black metal is a relative new style I do love. Pure, nordic and loud, I dig the atmosphere very much. Same with scandinavian folk metal, which is often combined very well with black.
love 'em! especially love 'nutshell' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scCxx4fgJwA&mode=related&search= and 'over now' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krr2CnFBdfw&mode=related&search= great sound...
Yep, Layne Staley dying was weird. We just gotta be grateful for these guys making music that, us the human race, will listen to (hopefully) millions of years. Jar of flies and Sap are a brilliant examples of EP-albums as artform, like short-stories (I vaguely remember that Jar of flies is, or was, the most sold EP of all time).
They are touring atm. I don't think they would be that good, since Layne was pretty much a band-maker.
So it's it? Just the fans talking how great they were? (I hate the word fan, AIC just made mellifluous music, like all the greats) There should be new people wanting to find about good music. I just can't stand people (from the ages 10-19) not knowing culture. Can't fight the unwinnable fight (is it even a word, we're too used to winning? haha, no way), but one can always spread culture, like... whatever.
P.S. It's nice if they tour even as Layne is dead. Creative minds doing new music (even with the name Alice In Chains, though no possible) is always good, and they give 'C' to the the word 'creative'. Just shows how rare is a band like Alice In Chains.
AIC were fantastic! The way Layne and Jerry's voices meshed was both eerie and beautiful. Good call on the unplugged album. MUCH better than Nirvana's overrated set imo. Sadly the band died with Layne. Hopefully the guy found a modicum of peace. His last years by all accounts were not pleasant to put it mildly.
Ya, I totally dig the band, RIP Layne you're beautiful. But I plan on getting their new album and seeing them if they pass by my neck o tha woods. Its cool that they can do that(get back together). Rad sauce. But hey, sure, Nirvana is a love/hate thing with most people, but I still say "grunge" and names of the sort shouldn't be so prominent in music, AIC and Nirvana were really different bands, and then Pearl Jam, which Kurt said he hated. So, I mean, they have similar roots and all, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that for some weird reason grunge acoustic sounds good.
