The Alice in Chains Story with Jerry Cantrell & Guns 'N' Roses' Duff McKagan
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and Guns 'N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan have known each other since the 80's, when they were both Seattle musicians on the cusp of breaking through. In this special feature (content guide below), the two longtime friends share the story of AIC, from the Music Bank & when Man in the Box hit (features Corey Taylor & Ben Weinman). Content guide below:
00:00 Duff and Jerry in Seattle, Axl & the demo tape
01:25 Alice in Chains as a Greek tragedy (by Duff McKagan)
02:15 The lion force of new singer William DuVall in the band’s Second Act
02:41 Ben Weinman of Dillinger Escape Plan on William DuVall (Ben also plays in Giraffe Tongue Orchestra with William)
03:31 Nothing is easy in Alice in Chains
04:04 No one breaks overnight & the impact of “Sweet Child of Mine” and “Man in the Box”
05:16 Corey Taylor (Slipknot) on watching Alice in Chains on the Clash of The Titans tour (Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth) in 1992
06:01 The magic moment when Alice in Chains broke through
06:07 Meeting Layne Staley at The Music Bank
07:28 The birth of the Seattle scene - Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone & Alice in Chains
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How cool would it have been if Layne would have grown old and had been together reminiscing with these guys in this great Interview?
Jerry: “Yeah Axl tossed my demo in this trash as he was walking away. It was awesome!” 😂
Without the earrings, Cantrell looks like any anonymous suburban dad.
pnut166 rip Jerry's 30 year old hairstyle.
pnut166: Jerry Cantrell is now hard pressed choosing between "seafoam green" and "majestic emerald" wallpaper for his bathroom decor. He just finished adding fresh sod to his lawn and will yell at you if you step on it.
Am glad he grew the hair back but the beard makes him look like Willie Nelson.
MrTechselect yes I agree with you on both, the hair and the beard. I couldn't think of who the beard made him look like but you nailed it 😁
he looks awful with short hair
I need a compilation of Jerry laughing. :P
Reminiscent of Beavis & Butt- Head .❤️🦋🌈
Both Jerry and Duff are so inspiring, you can just tell they have long term sobriety, they’re nice guys who don’t take themselves too seriously and I bet they help so many other guys to get and stay clean and sober :) great interview
Duff has relapsed more than once, he's hardly a role model. I adore Duff but he was using Xanax when he was with Velvet Revolver, he's not perfect.
IMHO, best band to come out of Seattle in the 90's.
Love that Jerry is carrying it on but nothing will replace Layne. Jerry knows this he isn't trying to do that I think he is just trying to keep the music alive.
Yeah. if he ended Alice in Chains when layne died, we wouldn't have some good riffs that we have from them today.
And, even though most of their best songs (in my opinion at least) are from the Layne era, some of the best songs from the Duvall era are written by Duvall. "Hung on a Hook" and "Phantom Limb" from "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" and "So Far Under" from "Rainier Fog" are apparently all written or co-written by Duvall, and they're in my opinion some of the band's best songs from any era... Duvall is not Layne, but he's definitely no slouch either.
GOD,JERRY STILL LOOKS SO GOOD.
I saw AIC with Layne at Festival Hall in 1993, a couple of days after my 22nd birthday. There was menace about them, I loved it.
Oh man, that would have been AMAZING. They are just a spectacularly tight band with so much love and sorrow and menace. The best.
I am so fucking jealous right now I just want to implode....😭
coverdrums71 wow how lucky are you I’m jealous in a good way!❤️
I saw them at Lollapalooza 93. They were amazing, gave me chills...
I like this. Friends talking about music. Totally genuine. Duff is the reason Guns got back together. Seems like a real good dude.
They were great! This is one of my favourite things I've ever pitched. I just had this feeling these two Seattle boys would have things to talk about. I wish I could have filmed them for hours! Glad you like it :)
@@TheVoidwithChristina Duff is a top guy, what he did for Mark Lanegan was special.
I love Jerry's laugh
#dadlaugh
Jerry Cantrell can write a gut punch of a song. Love it, but it’s raw and you have to be in the right (or wrong) headspace to listen.
Agreed. He has made me cry COPIOUS amounts of tears with his lyrics...especially if you realize who they're being aimed at. He had a LOT of stuff to get off his chest fo' sho'! 💔😭
Loved hearing some of the history about the Music Bank. RIP Layne.
I saw Pantera in 1988 in a small club in Lawton Oklahoma. There was less than a hundred people there and they played most of the songs from Cowboys from Hell and they killed it even though no one knew who they were. What I remember most from that show was how insane Phil was, he just owned that stage.
Haha amazing!
Love Jerry. I could listen to these two talk all day.
I could listen to this shit for days, Love AIC, Soundgarden, STP, G-N-R, The 80's & 90's were fucking great, not gonna lie...I'm amazed I survived lol...
I remember that time so well - I remember watching Man in the Box on Headbangers Ball and the waterpark episode, golden times.
Waterpark with Layne's fluorescent hat
It was a long time ago but wasn't Jerry wearing Budgie Smugglers in that interview.
Two of the coolest dudes in rock.
Two class-act sweethearts. Jerry has the best laugh ever!
GOTTA LOVE JERRY’s LAUGH! SO CUTE!
This was a cool interview..jerry's seems like a dude ya could hangout and have a worthwhile smart conversation with...
2 Legends I have such respect for both of these guys. Jerry tryed to save Layne and Duff tryed saving Scott! So sad it wasn’t meant to be. RIP Layne Staley and Scott Weiland
Duff saved Mark Lanegan though! ❤
@@yuthavanbergen1411 not for long tho 💔
I wish places like Music Bank still existed. 50 rooms - Open 24/7 - sounds like a dream
Jerry looks like some sort of psych or humanities professor. Would be a good class to attend.
That is the best comment about Jerry's short-term stint with short hair I've read so far on this video, haha! Curious - what do you reckon the subject of that first class would be? What would you have to write an essay on? Hella down to attend. Totally cool if you don't have an answer, just curious. :P
Duff has really become the unofficial 5th member of Alice in Chains.
Rotten Apple him or Philly H Anselmo
@@beaconx_sxe3193 the fact Pantera and AiC are friendly towards each other is awesome
@@ninetoedlizard6650 Dude Jerry knew and became close friends with Dimebag before he even met Layne and the others.
@@danegonzales5651 how do you know that? any source?
@@alessandro9740 interview online. Believe it's my Gibson or fender. It's over an hour long.
Jerry and Duff have a few stories to tell. I could sit there all day and listen.
that credit to Chris Cornell...
Im glad to have grown up in west seattle and witness the talent at a young age! Mom went to school with Duff. Small world.
cool to hear the story about how Jerry and Layne met.
Great chat! Duff seems like a really great guy. He was friends with my boss when I worked in the music biz in the 90s. Read his book recently. And also got reacquainted with AIC listening to their music, taking it in. I was in the music biz early 90s and even bigger fan and everything these fellows say is accurate. It was an exciting time! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
i can’t help but notice that Jerry’s story of meeting Layne has changed a little bit over the years and i find that quite sad. it would sure have been nice if those two had not drifted apart. the brotherly love is what made them great in the first place. Rest in Paradise Layne and Mike Starr ❤
I am a huge Alice In Chains fan and I thoroughly enjoyed that thank you for the upload
This reminds me of 2 guys who were in a band when they were young, but one quit when he got married. One has stayed with it for 25 years and they run into each other at their daughters' soccer games lol
Haha! Except the excellent part is they're both still playing in the bands they started as teenagers and kicking ass and playing arenas, with people still screaming all the songs back to them. Yay for playing the long game! :)
I'm glad Jerry is carrying the band on, but I feel he should just have taken over lead vocals entirely, which he did to an extent.
copykon agreed, I absolutely do not like Will!
Celtic Moon Hutcheson Neither do I. I think Jerry made a poor choice in signing him on and keeping him. He just doesn’t cut it, imo.
@@christar9527 Honestly, I just can't stand wills voice - especially when it gives out. Then again. I imagine it's tough to find a singer that isn't addicted to drugs, has talent and has the fire and drive to leave a mark.
I think he should have changed the name, it isn't Alice without layne.
@@bradsully6620 now THAT I agree with!
Saw the Clash of the Titans tour in Houston at the old Summit arena. Had just started hearing/seeing Man In The Box and we took a road trip from Baton Rouge to Houston, and that whole trip the only thing we listened to was Facelift, non stop. It was that good. One of my buddies got it the day we left town.
Cool interview!!
great interview.
Damn jerry, "friends don't let friends cut their hair" remember??
thomas jene friends don't let friends get friends haircuts. That was a dig at James hetfield for getting the "rachel" in 96
Lmfao
thomas jene lol
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns the character rachel (Jennifer Aniston)from friends had a very popular hairstyle in the mid 90s. People called it the rachel. Mike inez had the "friends don't let friends get friends haircuts" on his bass at AICs '96 MTV unplugged performance to make fun of metallica who all cut their hair short at the time
That was written on Inez's bass.
Nice interview...Love Corey Taylor and most of all, LAYNE, miss you hope you are in peace and smiling more than ever XXXXXX
When was this interview?
2014, the last time the guys were here in Australia. Long before the reunion was announced. Would love to chat to the guys again to get an update. :)
+The Void with Christina I knew it had to be a while ago because Jerry now has long hair and full beard. I just saw AIC in NYC last week. I had awesome front row.
Amazing! That would have been killer. How was it? I have to say Alice in Chains live is in my top #5 live band experiences of all time. SUCH a killer, tight band, amazing songs, and William is incredible. I am a diehard Layne fan but DAMN William is brilliant and brings a whole new energy to the show. :)
+The Void with Christina great show, I just posted a few vids on my channel. Awesome front row view!
I don't like any of Corey Taylor's music, but I know he's a big fan of AIC and NIN so he's cool with me.
lednails Slipknot sucks.
Same
Wait until he cover AiC Man in the Box..
This was a pretty good interview. The fans see all of the fun that bands have once they "Make it", but most of them don't see all of the hard work in the studio and on the road that it took to get there. There were probably a lot of shitty gigs where they might not have gotten paid Etc. before you see them in the big arenas and stadiums. Just watch some G-N-R videos from 1985 or so where they are playing acoustic and more people are talking than actually listening to them because at the time they were just one of a hundred bands in L.A. that were trying to make it. They weren't always rockstars
my two favorite bands
This is rad!
Two really cool, really good guys.
Jerry looks like a different person without all the hair. It doesn't feel right. 🤣
That Corey Taylor clip was clutch, nice one
Wow two legends
Great job making/putting this together,and really interesting hearing from Jerry's part of the interview that the way the Seattle bands and their lucky big breaks getting Recording Contracts with the particular Major Record Labels fits exactly with how I'd heard it had,also Duff's interview explaining how Appetite did not sell at first,but after the Sweet Child of Mine video was seen around the world-That is the moment that Appetite started to sell big-exactly what I'd heard years ago also,so thanks for showing this,and thus confirming these stories I thought were what had happened,but was never a 100% sure it was,well now I know that what I'd heard was actually the way it happened,cool.
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it. I loved making it. :)
Jerry's sunglasses are awesome. Wish I knew the brand and model
6:26 William passing behind duff toward the right
The clash of the Titans tour I was there in Cedar Rapids Iowa someone got married during the show on stage.
Thats what i personally think about DuVall, yes, he brings a new energy, but different, which changes what those old songs really meant back then. Just my personal opinion.
Btw hes hell of a singer
I was right all along, freddy mercury is alive
Thank you I was hoping someone else saw that.
If Freddie Mercury and Greg Puciato had a love-child 😂😂
Jerry out here looking like a corporate lawyer
Like duff ...love Layne
Jerry looks like The Governor from TWD here. 😎
OMG......he DOES!!!!
Friends don't let friends give friends haircuts...
Wow,,, I think I am in love!!!
jerry is lookin like clapton more every year
Giselle Vitali lmao 🤣🤣😂
You need glasses.
He looks more like Phil Collen (Def Leppard), if anything.
More like Elton John.
forget the comparisons of who is better...jeeezus....just enjoy a cool rock interview
Yeah man, so true!
Jerry is my favorite. But these two guys are equals and respect one another. Why dumbasses can't see or admit that is beyond me.
5:24 the neck makes an appearance. Niiiiiice.
‘92 damn. Idhave killed to be there. But alas. I was 10 years old ;(.
Corey Taylor doesn't have a neck...the neck has Corey Taylor...ahhh..stupid joke, I know...whatever.
A good night the best in a long time.
Corey taylor is so funny! "I remember seeing them in 92, they were so amazing"
Right!!! Facelift was only released oh like 2 years prior. lol
That Clash Of The Titans tour started in late '90 and went for about 6 months. He was off just a tad,....
Jerry has the best laugh of all time.
Fuck, I saw Clash of the Titans in Houston and Seattle in the same week, AWESOME!
Dillinger Escape Plan!
I saw AIC open for Van Halen fall of 1991 ....so I have you beat Mr. Taylor!
So did I...at Cal Expo in Sac, CA in Sept '91. Where/When did you see them??
I saw them April 1st 1991 in Dublin supporting Megadeth . They blew me away I went out the next day and bought their album .
@@darrencoady7160 They came to Ireland? Omg I'm so jealous haha. I wasn't even born then. What I would have done to see Layne live.
8:43 sean kinney and will duvall
I think Mike Inez was also walking by then.
Jesus.. corey taylors neck is HUGE in this vid
Hey JC 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 I love your hair . You can wear it any way you want to ! You could be bald and still beautiful! You are such a gift in my world . I don’t know what I’d do without your art . I admire you sooooo much ! I think you’re wonderful magical your art is euphoric, you are so gifted ! It’s hard to believe you are human ( lol) haha ! Soulfully beyond beautiful what you are capable of ! Thank you so much JC for following your heart ! It’s so beautiful!
when i first heard the song man in the box i thought it was guns and roses
Nirvana(turned grunge into main stream)Alice In Chains Pearl Jam Stp sound garden was that era of music
g323g STP has no business on that list, they’re post-grunge. They weren’t on the front lines with AiC, PJ/Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden/Temple of the Dog, Green River, Melvins, etc.
I'll pass on PJ...never liked EV's voice and always thought their music was derivative and boring.
I like a couple of STP songs, but (like PJ) I never understood what the big deal was. SW was a great singer, and the band was technically proficient (tho invisible), but their songs (and lyrics) never made any sense to me, point of view-wise. They had no 'look' of their own and I always thought of them as just a heavy pop band.
It was SG and AiC that were the stand out bands. I've come to appreciate KC's humor and how he put his pain into songs ('Bleach' and 'In Utero' are their best imo), but SG and AiC weren't whiney bands, and wrote songs about pain, lonliness, addiction, etc. that hit home with me. They were sorta metal, but deeper and more real than most 'metal'...and 'Dirt' is why I would choose AiC over SG, tho BMF and SU are fantastic albums.
❤️
Turn up the volume!
Jerry looks good with the short hair.
I so love 😘💕👄✌️ out your long hair better Mr. Jerry Cantrell. Just love your guys music together God bless
mike inez is the shit
So much truth here ^^
Not as much as Mike Starr
Yeah yeah cantrell is the boss man
the 5th Beatle lol
Solonex2017 Huddleston ???what
Whatever happened to the bio Duff was supposed to write about AIC?
Omfg ❤️❤️❤️🤘🏻❤️
Duff looking like Lou Reed and Jerry looking like my physical education teacher at high school
Lou Reed? Huh? Nah..
Mother love bone and Soundgarden where the first to get a record deal.
Fuck I love this.
Favourite idea I’ve ever pitched that actually happened!
Really glad Corey Taylor's neck could make an appearance.
They didn't give enough credit to Layne Staley in this interview.
II hear you, and its a sensitive area... and one that the message was to not emphasise too much. Layne and Jerry started the band together, I don't think its arguable how significant he was ... as a diehard Layne fan, I have to say I was blown away by William live and I don't think its said enough how great he is. Layne was a one in a million though. :)
Thx for the reply. I agree this great music must go on.. I've only seen a few videos with William & to be fair, have never seen him live. He sounds real good but he's no Layne. Layne had a texture and passion in his voice unmatched. But that's just my opinion. :)
Of course! I think the live environment is always the true test. Highly recommend you making it to a show. And MAN that band is still tight as fuck.
Credit must go where its due - DuVall does a great job at the live shows. I've seen them twice since they've been back and they're fucking outstanding.
You wanted to say that Layne was a one in a 7 billion I guess :D
Layynee... 😢
"No he threw it away as he walked away, he was awesome, lol." You can hear the Gun's N roses influence on put me down big time. Glad they moved from that. Love Face Lift though. Duff seems cool and Alice n Chains are just boss!
In 1988 a friend of mine saw GNR in England at Donnington,she was blown away, I still remember her excitement, guns and fooking rose…absolutely brilliant
He’s handsome no matter what to me, but I’d never noticed his earrings before lol. You guys have seen his funny video “Dad Band” I hope?
What good lookin dudes...hope I age half as well
I love this interview, and I like William Duvall BUT PLEASE DO NOT compare his "energy" to Layne Staley's. They are two totally different entities and Layne's energy is legendary.
Why would you not talk about the differences between them? Layne was a one in a million, and William is an incredible talent as well. Discussing their different energies diminishes neither. I was very dubious, as a MASSIVE AIC fan, to see them with William, and he blew me the fuck away. Layne died almost twenty years ago ... and was a tragic loss. But the rest of the band deserves to keep going and to play these songs for the world. Totally respect where you're coming from though. :)
The Void with Christina Fuck william
mandyjuelz Yeah. Don't talk about stuff or things in interviews. Assholes.
The Void with Christina lmao he gets credit for being a good karaoke singer. He didn't create anything. Layne created those unique vocals, melodies, and harmonies. He is just a good imitator.
They just made a brand new record, and have been making records for years. Layne died sixteen years ago. Yes, he was one of the most incredible singers to ever walk the earth, but you need to see William and this amazingly tight and talented band live before you say that the band died with him. It FUCKING DIDN'T. They are such KILLER musicians and William is a pure blood singer, and an artist, and someone not cruising slowly towards complete oblivion. Totally understand where you're coming from, I adore Layne's vocals. But bands are more than just their singers ... not to mention Jerry's a HUGE part of the vocals - he was half of the melodies and harmonies, he is just as much the heart of the band. And holy shit the AIC rhythm section?! So good. There will never be another Bon Scott, but that doesn't mean that the PAST THIRTY YEARS OF AC/DC didn't rule too.
F$$K where can I jam with these guys?
I like the fact that they didn’t go with a Layne copy cat. Will is a great musician and despite the nay sayers. He is a killer singer. It’s a different animal now and I for one f***in love it!
I’ll always miss Layne. But I’m glad they carried on
I saw them at clash of the Titans Holy fuck im old.
BRING BACK SOUNDWAVE!
I have never seen Cantrell with short hair!!!
I saw them live when his hair was short. It was a little shocking at first, but Jerry is Jerry. 😊
So if Soundgarden was first, motherlovebone was second & A.I.C was 3rd in being signed......... where does Nirvane fit into this history as they sorta got credit for being the Grunge masters so to speak. My Fav of all of them was Alice in Chains.
Imagin if duff was in a grunge band instead of guns
I thought nirvana was the first to hit it big in that area