The 50 States in 50 Days tour that George Thorogood & The Destroyers did in the fall of 1981. The logistics of it are something else, especially because one day they did a Maryland show in the afternoon and a DC show at night!
AC/DC Flick of the Switch....maybe talk about Phil Rudd's firing at the time. Or when Chris Slade was pissed when they demoed Rudd in 94....in fact a video about Phill Rudds in and outs of the band.
I really like Jerry Cantrell's honesty and self awareness regarding his jealousy over Layne Staley recording with Mad Season. There's a man who has identified his faults and knows how to deal with them.
I'm surprised by it. I figured it was more like "Layne couldn't make an effort to stay sober in our band but could clean up his act enough to start another"?
Mad Season was the opposite of a tragic band. Wow. Everyone got sober and had an incredible experience in that band growing as artists and experiencing great success. The drummer and mark Lanegan earned the kind of money they didn’t earn in their other bands.
I bet it did, my goodness that album, and ESP live performance at the Moore theater are Soo incredibly magical 🙏❤️🙏❤️ The stars truly aligned for that show!!
The fact that Layne didn't want the guy coming over and falling asleep because he'd have to "tip toe around his apartment" is so sweet! The fact that he would actually just stay quiet in his own home when this guy was asleep on HIS couch says a lot about what type of person Layne really was.❤
Love the ole first track wake up 🆙 having been affected in the past with crack cocaine and alcohol 🍺 if it wasn’t for Layne Staley and his wonderful artistry I would of topped myself may he fly high and RIP x
Metallica binge and purge for example. My god, we will never have such a time again. I hope we do soon, but I don't see it happening unless the PEOPLE want it bad enough.
Above helps me get through life, especially on the days that I find it really hard to stay clean. I’ve been in recovery from opiates, speed and benzos for a little over a year. Layne Staley’s vocals in general get me through a lot, but especially this album in particular. RIP Layne Staley, RIP John Baker Saunders.
I hope you're still doing good...and if not keep trying man. I'm struggling with some of that too. It sounds like you've got the first step down....keep on trudging my man. You're not alone.
@@meilnartin9109 my worst days clean and sober are far better than my best days were in active addiction. I’m still doing good, one day at a time. I successfully got off all those pills like I said, now almost 2 years ago, and I’ve been on methadone treatment and I smoke weed. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and my girlfriend always worrying about me because I’d only be awake for 2 hours of the whole day. I’m just so grateful to have such an amazing support system and to have another day clean from hard drugs. I know I’m still on maintenance medication and I smoke bud, but it doesn’t effect my life negatively, I don’t smoke a lot. Mostly for my stomach issues and to be able to sleep. I hope you’re doing good as well, and as you said, If not, keep trying. The most important thing with recovery is you have to want it more than anything else, and you have to want it for yourself. And you have to change people places and things, any triggers. One thing I’ve learned you cannot manipulate, or tough out because you think you’re different.
no shit! 30 years AIC been in my life and Afukinlot of shit tve been through. this music has touched me from my fiancee overdosing in 02, to my to lifelong drug addiction, after loosig my love i started shooting again, morphine. so im 44 now and sober for 6 fukin years. im still that fukin X Generation grunge, alternative girl, so this transition i have done its something unfamiliar. i mean damn, i cant wrap myself around living life not popping pills, shooting up, self medicating. ive done good.
@@daveyboy8907 how do you know thats fake? it sounds like something similar to what I could do. I listen to grunge throughout the day every day and if it doesnt bother anyone I sometimes play it loud
Gods bless Layne. He was such a genuine person. It was impossible not to like him, like someone's high-energy little brother. Every interview I hear with him just pushes that point home.
@Walkin' Tall Honestly, having known many junkies, including the vocalist from my band, who was one of my dearest friends, who also died from dope this year, I have the suspicion that he was doing the common junkie ploy of nitpicking his way out of doing something that might not be conducive to doing more dope.
I know right, when they said Layne was a really sweet guy they weren't joking! LOL the fact that he even cared to tiptoe around someone else in his home shows that he was a sweet guy but enough is enough and I certainly wouldn't do it either so he's a better person than I would have been about it that's for sure.
No human being can be as flawless of a singer like Layne without some vices his happened to be drugs. The amount of pressure he must of endured to nail it perfectly every time, pressure from his label to tour in withdrawal must have been overwhelming. The burden he must of carried publicly, the constant badgering from everyone who didn't understand his pain, to see himself beautiful and amazing whither away into a secluded oblivion must have been horrible,frightening, and embarrassing is there anything left to feel every single day that wouldn't destroy a person? I get it Layne thank you for your gift.
@@64TMS I don't doubt it; that must've been a poignant perfornance. She also started some sort of benefit program for people struggling with addiction and whatnot. Layne Staley Foundation, I think. She sounds like a sweet person.
Great taste at a young age..that's the year I graduated lol I was wearing a RegHotChilliPeppers shirt in.my freshman pic in 93 that and a flannel shirt 😋😜🤘🏼🤘🏼👍🏼✌🏼
The meaning of Mad Season: River of Deceit as sung by Layne Staley. Start off by saying this is about Layne’s drug habits particularly with Heroin! Think about it: The river(blood flow in your veins) takes down the Deceit (Heroin). If you read the lyrics now with this in mind and counter the fact this eventually led to Layne’s death is poetic. He KNEW he had a problem and was conveying that to the listener. My pain is self chosen. Pull off my skin and swim to shore…Heroin addicts pick at their skin. Shore represents being off the drug…now I can grow a beautiful shell (New Skin) for ALL TO SEE. Listen again with this in mind.
Layne was the best and the leader of Mad Season. His song "Wake Up" is the best song in history of music. Mad Season is not Mad Season without beautiful, talented Layne
Mad Season was a great band. I bought Above when it first came out, and I was blown away when I dropped the needle (yes, I got it on vinyl)! I just wish they did a follow up, but I'm glad we got one album out of them. May Layne and John rest in power.
Above is a great album. My mom died at 55 from addiction to opioid addiction, alcohol and anorexia. She was abusive and fat shamed me sending me into I also learned about cutting. Then the booze came. Then in my 20’s I found my lover which is adderall aka legal meth. It made my workouts better which is why I think it’s banned in some sports. I was more productive but eventually angry and just didn’t work. So I quit. I’m clean almost 5 years. I wanted to sleep for a month. I still have body issues but hopefully that will eventually go away.
I bet you are way more amazing, special, cool, beautiful and awesome than you ever ever have realised. You are a tough person with more inner strength than you know and I wish you loads of ♥ ☀ ✌️ From 🇮🇪
It's tragic how drugs have brought us so much great music and yet have also prematurely ended so many of the great musicians that made that very music.
It wasnt all tragic, Layne was a beautiful person who sang beautiful songs that help me in everyday life. Irritates me to see everythings about Layne on youtube saying 'the tragic life of Layne". i know ur trying to get ur views brother but we have to remember Laynes Legacy also.
Unfortunately it was a tragic life. I grew up in Seattle and saw many of these bands/artists live in the club scene. Sooooo many of these bands/artists have tragic stories.
Dude, the last 6 years of Laynes life are literally as Tragic as Tragic gets. Sure he didn’t wanna stop, but I’d say by the year 2000, the spot he has put himself in he was far past the point of no return. How in the hell he lived until 2002 blows my mind. I mean he had already blown every vein in his arm out by 1992. It really shows you how tough and stubborn his body was, I mean he lived for years at literally a hundred pound or so. And would IV H and Coke, while smoking rocked crack, followed by inhaling. Every damn day, just to get by.
Layne couldn’t help heal himself, but he helped heal thousand of addicts in the process. Those lyrics that helped those people could only come from someone in Layne’s position. From what I know of the guy I think he would say that’s worth it. Nothing tragic about that. It’s heroic.
I remember blaring Wake Up at a red light one night in my factory speakers in a 96 Cherokee. The bass sounded incredible. Even had the guys next to me turn their rap music off and ask who in the heck it was making that sound.
I had super rare posters and record store promo cut outs of Mad Season (and AIC) covering my bedroom walls circa '96. Would give anything to have my old room back. I miss my grunge den, I miss Layne.
@Josh Meza Nothing wrong with that. One of my best friends only likes AIC tripod and Mad Season only - which I had put him on to. As long as we can all agree that Layne was beyond an average human being.
I love these little rockumentary documentary videos it just gives you a little more insight into everything that was going on at the time for the "real people" behind the band ,and the love that I feel for people like Layne Staley is so deep it hurts eternally that he is gone. And I honestly I had no idea what Mad Season meant until just now! That's a funny but cool lil factoid lmao anyway, thank you for a great story and video, I could listen to these.all the time!
Layne was such a talent. When listening to this album, I like to spliff up and then zone out to "Long Gone Day" and then air drum the shit out of "November Hotel".
@@dboy2462 I have, I rekindled my childhood music during my college years starting with Grunge and found out about the album. I was like "Stayley and Lanegan on the same album, how!?"
It’s scary/sad be side anyone that has done dope can not only empathize with Layne but understand just giving up and falling headfirst into addiction. Everyone who does dope is just one bender, or one tragedy away from giving up.
I love Mad Season..that album will always be a classic. Layne was one of the most iconic artist of the 90s. His voice was just amazing and haunting.. I wish he was able to fight his drug addiction..
Mad Season is woefully underrated. It is tragic to think of what they could have accomplished. I hear their influence in groups like Cigarettes After Sex and the XX. They were way ahead of their time.
I was "Blessed" to be in High School when Grunge broke out.. Music will never be like that again. 1991-1997 especially was loaded with wonderful bands and albums. The Mad Season record is a Masterpiece in itself... How I wish for a time machine....
I've said for a long while now that the Grunge/Alternative rock Era - which I consider to be 1989-97 - is second to none in the history of rock music. So many all-time great bands and albums during that era. Cool that you were in high school when Grunge broke. I was 24 (same age as Cobain and within a year either way of so many musicians of that scene) and hugely into music at that point. It felt like the perfect age for me to fully appreciate it.
Heroin has claimed so many wonderful and talented people. As a person in recovery, the struggle is real and addiction is a powerful burden to carry. RIP guys!
So to help each other cope and get though our drug addictions lets make a band... buuuuuhhhht let's also call it "Mad Season", ya know, in honor of psychedelic shrooms. Love Rock n Roll!
MLB should have been, might have been bigger than Nirvana. Nevermind gives me a headache after a few spins. Apple gives my brain a boner after a few spins. Long live Andy Wood!
That's why he never quit his day job as the "The Riff", just because somebody's famous doesn't mean they automatically have a gift for speaking. Jerry writes the songs, plays the music & harmonized like no else in our generation with Layne
The song Wake up has helped me get clean off fentanyl/coke using the needle about 5x. I still can't get this completely right though. Not like I like waking up and feeling like death is the better alternative.
I really believe Mike McCready is such an underrated guitarist. It’s crazy to think he worked with Vedder, Cornell and Staley. Would love to hear him working with Lanegan.
Lanegan is on a few of the Mad Season tracks, “long gone day”, “I’m above”, “locomotive”, “black book of fear”, “slip away.” I think the last 3 were only on the delux release. Apparently they tried to get Lanegan to do a second release but couldn’t get him to come to the studio to record.
Above is such a beautiful album and such a pleasant surprise. So different than Alice but amazing nonetheless. I’m so glad you covered this in a video!
What he did for Mark Lanegan when Mark was just out of rehab was "sweet" ! Said, "oh by the way Mark, I want you to come and live in my house while I'm gone, or here". That's not an exact quote, but that's what he did for Mark. Look at Mark now. Wow ! What a genuine friend ❤
We are but the simple canvas for the artist and his many colorful songs... With the brush strokes his melody, he defines the detail of our hearts and minds as our ears are filled vibrantly with Sound... Rhythm... and the story of life. ...and we feel.
I know most would think im crazy for this, but to me, Chains opening for Metallica is nuts! I know Metallica is bigger, has more hits, etc.. But chains is so much better to me. Should be Metallica opening for them!
They were all good friends. All of Metallica is sitting front row for the Unplugged album. Jerry Cantrell's guitar says "Friends don't let friends cut their hair" as most of Metallica had cut their hair off previous to that show.
Layne saying there's no more Mad Season because Baker passed away... is beautiful that Sean, Mike Inez and Cantrell decided to keep playing together after losing Layne, but dude... i will never understand why it has to be called Alice in Chains still? rest in peace Layne Staley and Mike Starr.
First time I heard River of Deceit on the radio Me: "oh, new AIC. Never heard that one' Announcer: that was River of Deceit by Mad Season" Me: wow, that guy sounds a lot like Layne 🤦🏽♀️
Love this supergroup and have the cd in my car. Shame they didn't do another great album. Another band you can also cover is The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Very underrated band from the 90's.
Fantastic story, me and my buddy Kurt are part of history, on my birthday which was April 29, 1995 we were able to score 2 tickets to that show by winning a lottery weeks before in Seattle. It’s also known that I’ve taken this album back to my original hometown of Springfield Ohio and passed to family and friends who still listen to that album to this day. What’s also interesting was I knew this would be A masterpiece, and I have Botton the album on LP and have never opened it! Lastly for that get together that they had just a few years ago he had not mentioned Jefferson “Junior“ angel, what is a prolific and well-known vocalist and guitar player in the area who sang in Lane Staley‘s absence. Great video, where did you get all your information?
Please do a show on The Tea Party from Canada. The almost broke in the States and sold a lot of albums. Same time as the Grunge era. Similar style music. Fantastic band
@@07foxmulder their first album was in 1992 and most popular was in 1994. Tale end of grunge. They were more like Led and The Doors. If your going to judge a band, make sure you actually know anything about them. Been a fan since 1992. I understand, by the way, grunge started in 1989. I know this before you try and dazzle me with when things started.
See Rogers Oh holy wowzers! You’ve been a fan since 1992? That’s incredible. That doesn’t change the fact that they sounded nothing like any of the bands from Seattle, regardless of when their first album was released. I mean, Gish was released in 1991 so I guess The Smashing Pumpkins is grunge, too, right? I never knew that dates and genres of music go hand-in-hand. Thanks for teaching me something :) Like I said, they were more post-grunge/cock-rock sounding. Just another boring, uninspired Canadian band who exists because of the CRTCs CanCon demand.
Commentator states McCready met fellow Seattle resident Baker Saunders in rehab, located in Minnesota. At that point in time, Baker was playing bass in the Lemont Cranston blues band, in Minnesota somewhere. Baker and McCready went to Seattle after treatment. I heard Baker might have been a taxi-cab dispatcher somewhere in Seattle. Another rumor was that Baker had a mid-60's Chevy Nova station wagon, color blue.
Jerry Cantrell loved Layne so very much. You can tell in every interview he’s ever spoken his name. He speaks so highly of him. I absolutely loved Laynes voice. I still listen to mostly my 90s music at all times. AIC and Mad Season are both in my collection. There’s no other human that sounds like Layne. Such a beautiful, troubled soul.
throw your suggestions below for future topics!
Stryper's continual sobriety 🤔
Thanks for the TAD video!
The 50 States in 50 Days tour that George Thorogood & The Destroyers did in the fall of 1981. The logistics of it are something else, especially because one day they did a Maryland show in the afternoon and a DC show at night!
@unarmed black man You're right of course. I can't think of a single black person who became successful in the music industry
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AC/DC Flick of the Switch....maybe talk about Phil Rudd's firing at the time. Or when Chris Slade was pissed when they demoed Rudd in 94....in fact a video about Phill Rudds in and outs of the band.
I really like Jerry Cantrell's honesty and self awareness regarding his jealousy over Layne Staley recording with Mad Season. There's a man who has identified his faults and knows how to deal with them.
It's kind of a healthy jealousy for artistic creativity. It probably get Jerry pumped up to write the self titled album.
He knew that voice is the meal-ticket. Guitarists are a dime a dozen.
I'm surprised by it. I figured it was more like "Layne couldn't make an effort to stay sober in our band but could clean up his act enough to start another"?
Jerry’s the man!
Agreed. I highly respect Jerry Cantrell
Hey that's me on rock line ! I'm the caller who asked lane about mad season !
prove it
Wow! Cool. I'll take your word for it, unlike the pessimistic previous comment.
Mad Season was the opposite of a tragic band. Wow. Everyone got sober and had an incredible experience in that band growing as artists and experiencing great success. The drummer and mark Lanegan earned the kind of money they didn’t earn in their other bands.
It’s true; I’m reading Lanegans book and he openly admits the royalties from Above basically kept him afloat
I bet it did, my goodness that album, and ESP live performance at the Moore theater are Soo incredibly magical 🙏❤️🙏❤️
The stars truly aligned for that show!!
@@SeanEnginetechnologyI don’t know anything is nuts from that show
The fact that Layne didn't want the guy coming over and falling asleep because he'd have to "tip toe around his apartment" is so sweet! The fact that he would actually just stay quiet in his own home when this guy was asleep on HIS couch says a lot about what type of person Layne really was.❤
He was a compassionate guy. I'm the same way.
I'd say it was more of a convenience to the guys having to tip toe, so obviously he had to go!
Tenía ambos, convivencia y compasión (pero estás juntas no sobrevivirían siempre ) un caramelo el
That's what drugs do
@@tino0217not everyone needs a reason to be nice. It's a personality trait, just like being a judgemental a**hole
'Above' is a masterpiece.
One of my favorite albums of all time.
It's part of me, part of my life in a meaningful way.
@OBEYTHEWALRUS G59 100%
Understatement of a decade
Love the ole first track wake up 🆙 having been affected in the past with crack cocaine and alcohol 🍺 if it wasn’t for Layne Staley and his wonderful artistry I would of topped myself may he fly high and RIP x
I just wish lane could have found sobriety! With out a doubt he was the best front man ever period.....
There will never be another few years in music like 1989 through 1996
I really, truly, hope you are wrong bro.
@@ThunderDawg89 As do I
Metallica binge and purge for example. My god, we will never have such a time again. I hope we do soon, but I don't see it happening unless the PEOPLE want it bad enough.
And pan fucking tera
Never
Above helps me get through life, especially on the days that I find it really hard to stay clean. I’ve been in recovery from opiates, speed and benzos for a little over a year. Layne Staley’s vocals in general get me through a lot, but especially this album in particular. RIP Layne Staley, RIP John Baker Saunders.
Andrew, my friend, I hope you are doing better now. I know life is very hard, but please try to stay well. I know you can do it
I hope you're still doing good...and if not keep trying man. I'm struggling with some of that too. It sounds like you've got the first step down....keep on trudging my man. You're not alone.
@@meilnartin9109 my worst days clean and sober are far better than my best days were in active addiction. I’m still doing good, one day at a time. I successfully got off all those pills like I said, now almost 2 years ago, and I’ve been on methadone treatment and I smoke weed. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and my girlfriend always worrying about me because I’d only be awake for 2 hours of the whole day. I’m just so grateful to have such an amazing support system and to have another day clean from hard drugs. I know I’m still on maintenance medication and I smoke bud, but it doesn’t effect my life negatively, I don’t smoke a lot. Mostly for my stomach issues and to be able to sleep. I hope you’re doing good as well, and as you said, If not, keep trying. The most important thing with recovery is you have to want it more than anything else, and you have to want it for yourself. And you have to change people places and things, any triggers. One thing I’ve learned you cannot manipulate, or tough out because you think you’re different.
@@AndrewLemmings hell yeah. That's great news....what you said is 110% correct. I'm finally understanding those things.
no shit! 30 years AIC been in my life and Afukinlot of shit tve been through. this music has touched me from my fiancee overdosing in 02, to my to lifelong drug addiction, after loosig my love i started shooting again, morphine. so im 44 now and sober for 6 fukin years. im still that fukin X Generation grunge, alternative girl, so this transition i have done its something unfamiliar. i mean damn, i cant wrap myself around living life not popping pills, shooting up, self medicating. ive done good.
River Of Deceit is still one of my fav songs
Same, still in a couple of my playlists
One of mine too! It is absolute gold!
So true big mattress song of the week on WBCN WBCN Boston led by Charles laquidar
It's a beautiful tune
It's a very moving song
I had a roommate in college that would blast "I Don't Know Anything" as soon as he got home from flunking a test....
Madlad
😂😂
So fake get a life
@@daveyboy8907 how do you know thats fake? it sounds like something similar to what I could do. I listen to grunge throughout the day every day and if it doesnt bother anyone I sometimes play it loud
@@daveyboy8907Fake or not it’s still a funny comment 😆
Gods bless Layne. He was such a genuine person. It was impossible not to like him, like someone's high-energy little brother. Every interview I hear with him just pushes that point home.
If you come to my house and fall asleep I will not tiptoe around you.
@Walkin' Tall Honestly, having known many junkies, including the vocalist from my band, who was one of my dearest friends, who also died from dope this year, I have the suspicion that he was doing the common junkie ploy of nitpicking his way out of doing something that might not be conducive to doing more dope.
Tiptoe Through The Tulips
I know right, when they said Layne was a really sweet guy they weren't joking! LOL the fact that he even cared to tiptoe around someone else in his home shows that he was a sweet guy but enough is enough and I certainly wouldn't do it either so he's a better person than I would have been about it that's for sure.
Layne was such a sweet guy! Not many people would tiptoe around their own space for someone else...
You’ve got to have a house first.
I clicked because "I Don't Know Anything" about Mad Season
Well played.
Well, you can't say that anymore. Welcome
Well it’s time to “wake up” and listen to the music. Man what a beautiful album
@@booster115 I'll be sure to listen to them when I'm "All Alone"
@@jexikavindictive (title of the song)
No human being can be as flawless of a singer like Layne without some vices his happened to be drugs. The amount of pressure he must of endured to nail it perfectly every time, pressure from his label to tour in withdrawal must have been overwhelming. The burden he must of carried publicly, the constant badgering from everyone who didn't understand his pain, to see himself beautiful and amazing whither away into a secluded oblivion must have been horrible,frightening, and embarrassing is there anything left to feel every single day that wouldn't destroy a person? I get it Layne thank you for your gift.
LOVE THIS COMMENT SO CORRECT IT REALLY HIT THANKYOU FOR THIS COMMENT
Said so beautifully 🖤 Rest in Paradise Layne 🖤
"Wake up, young man
It's time to wake up..."
You’re love ❤️ affair has got to go my friend
@@STOKESEY1974 for ten long years
They had Layne's mother sing "Wake Up " at a benefit concert. Betcha there were puddles on the floor.
@@64TMS I don't doubt it; that must've been a poignant perfornance. She also started some sort of benefit program for people struggling with addiction and whatnot. Layne Staley Foundation, I think. She sounds like a sweet person.
Too late.
I'm wearing a Mad Season shirt in my freshman yearbook picture, back on '97
Nice. I didn't realize it until later, but I was wearing the same grungy old Danzig shirt in both my junior and senior yearbook pictures. Good times.
You might be the coolest same age as me kid of all time
I was born in 97' That is epic I would love to be able to buy a mad season shirt today.
Great taste at a young age..that's the year I graduated lol I was wearing a RegHotChilliPeppers shirt in.my freshman pic in 93 that and a flannel shirt 😋😜🤘🏼🤘🏼👍🏼✌🏼
i was at the moore show in 95. amazing
The meaning of Mad Season: River of Deceit as sung by Layne Staley.
Start off by saying this is about Layne’s drug habits particularly with Heroin! Think about it: The river(blood flow in your veins) takes down the Deceit (Heroin). If you read the lyrics now with this in mind and counter the fact this eventually led to Layne’s death is poetic. He KNEW he had a problem and was conveying that to the listener. My pain is self chosen. Pull off my skin and swim to shore…Heroin addicts pick at their skin. Shore represents being off the drug…now I can grow a beautiful shell (New Skin) for ALL TO SEE. Listen again with this in mind.
This made that song a whole new one for me bro
Layne was the best and the leader of Mad Season. His song "Wake Up" is the best song in history of music. Mad Season is not Mad Season without beautiful, talented Layne
I love that song
its a really sad song, especially since he died from heroin
really good song tho
Mad Season was a great band. I bought Above when it first came out, and I was blown away when I dropped the needle (yes, I got it on vinyl)! I just wish they did a follow up, but I'm glad we got one album out of them. May Layne and John rest in power.
Above is a great album. My mom died at 55 from addiction to opioid addiction, alcohol and anorexia. She was abusive and fat shamed me sending me into I also learned about cutting. Then the booze came. Then in my 20’s I found my lover which is adderall aka legal meth. It made my workouts better which is why I think it’s banned in some sports. I was more productive but eventually angry and just didn’t work. So I quit. I’m clean almost 5 years. I wanted to sleep for a month. I still have body issues but hopefully that will eventually go away.
Stay strong, sis.
Hope you’re okay
I bet you are way more amazing, special, cool, beautiful and awesome than you ever ever have realised. You are a tough person with more inner strength than you know and I wish you loads of ♥ ☀ ✌️ From 🇮🇪
It's tragic how drugs have brought us so much great music and yet have also prematurely ended so many of the great musicians that made that very music.
It wasnt all tragic, Layne was a beautiful person who sang beautiful songs that help me in everyday life. Irritates me to see everythings about Layne on youtube saying 'the tragic life of Layne". i know ur trying to get ur views brother but we have to remember Laynes Legacy also.
Unfortunately it was a tragic life. I grew up in Seattle and saw many of these bands/artists live in the club scene. Sooooo many of these bands/artists have tragic stories.
Dude, the last 6 years of Laynes life are literally as Tragic as Tragic gets.
Sure he didn’t wanna stop, but I’d say by the year 2000, the spot he has put himself in he was far past the point of no return. How in the hell he lived until 2002 blows my mind. I mean he had already blown every vein in his arm out by 1992.
It really shows you how tough and stubborn his body was, I mean he lived for years at literally a hundred pound or so. And would IV H and Coke, while smoking rocked crack, followed by inhaling. Every damn day, just to get by.
I agree 100% he's helped and saved so many people going through addiction and hard times glad u see something positive In this because I dot too....
Layne couldn’t help heal himself, but he helped heal thousand of addicts in the process. Those lyrics that helped those people could only come from someone in Layne’s position. From what I know of the guy I think he would say that’s worth it. Nothing tragic about that. It’s heroic.
I remember blaring Wake Up at a red light one night in my factory speakers in a 96 Cherokee. The bass sounded incredible. Even had the guys next to me turn their rap music off and ask who in the heck it was making that sound.
I had super rare posters and record store promo cut outs of Mad Season (and AIC) covering my bedroom walls circa '96. Would give anything to have my old room back. I miss my grunge den, I miss Layne.
Same
@@MG-ci6de You had a grunge den too?! Respect.
@Josh Meza Nothing wrong with that. One of my best friends only likes AIC tripod and Mad Season only - which I had put him on to. As long as we can all agree that Layne was beyond an average human being.
@Jeremy Chandler Always had. If anyone gave me shit for my musical preference I'd ask them whats theirs and I'd laugh back at what they like.
@@dugp1862 oh, for sure! Miss it. I had cut outs all over of everyone from the music paper in Seattle called The Rocket.
I love these little rockumentary documentary videos it just gives you a little more insight into everything that was going on at the time for the "real people" behind the band ,and the love that I feel for people like Layne Staley is so deep it hurts eternally that he is gone. And I honestly I had no idea what Mad Season meant until just now! That's a funny but cool lil factoid lmao anyway, thank you for a great story and video, I could listen to these.all the time!
Man Jerry was hitting that nose candy hard before that interview lol. Glad he got sober and still making amazing music
He certainly was
How many “you know?” did he say?
He was pretty bad off around the Boggy Depot album according to Rex Brown.
That's why they took lots of time off both sean and jerry were into coke and staley and starr both drugs
@UCmH7jmyKrYTRiRw9R0uBdkQ your stupid alot of pple speak the same and they dont do drugs, I say ya know also i never done that junk
Layne was such a talent. When listening to this album, I like to spliff up and then zone out to "Long Gone Day" and then air drum the shit out of "November Hotel".
Hells Yeah! 😎🤟
That performance at The Moore was legendary, so amazing, I watch it frequently.
I like how Jerry Spoke of his jealousy and gave us a more clear idea of how him and Layne’s dynamic was. He kept it so real, gotta respect it.
I didn't hear about this group till around the early 2010s. Above is definitely one of my favourite albums of all time.
great album
Have you heard Locomotive, a track recorded by the band in the 90s but sang by Mark Lanegan in recent years? It's great.
@@dboy2462 I have, I rekindled my childhood music during my college years starting with Grunge and found out about the album. I was like "Stayley and Lanegan on the same album, how!?"
Same. I grew up I'm the 90s but never heard of Mad Season till I heard them on a Comcast music channel.
Artificial Red is Sublime!
Love Mad Season
Wish YOU were still with
us Layne 😢❣😎
"I mean, uh, whatever"
-Jerry Cantrell
Those are profound words of wisdom. Jerry Cantrell is a modern Socrates.
“You know?”
“It’s kinda like your girlfriend, but not. Ya know?”
Lol, those were Jerry's coke days
One of the best collaborations ever! 90s ruled! ❤️Layne❤️
It’s scary/sad be side anyone that has done dope can not only empathize with Layne but understand just giving up and falling headfirst into addiction. Everyone who does dope is just one bender, or one tragedy away from giving up.
I love Mad Season..that album will always be a classic. Layne was one of the most iconic artist of the 90s. His voice was just amazing and haunting.. I wish he was able to fight his drug addiction..
Above is a masterpiece!!!!! Great super band
Mad Season is woefully underrated. It is tragic to think of what they could have accomplished. I hear their influence in groups like Cigarettes After Sex and the XX. They were way ahead of their time.
My pain is self chosen
Best song ever......
Got that tattooed on my arm!
So the prophet says
I was "Blessed" to be in High School when Grunge broke out.. Music will never be like that again. 1991-1997 especially was loaded with wonderful bands and albums. The Mad Season record is a Masterpiece in itself... How I wish for a time machine....
Same. Grunge broke my freshman yr of high school. Perfect timing for my predictable teen angst ♡ nothing will compare..
@@sstaners1234 I've been with Pearl Jam since 1991 so I'm with you. I'm a true fan of theirs and have seen them live several times over the years...
I've said for a long while now that the Grunge/Alternative rock Era - which I consider to be 1989-97 - is second to none in the history of rock music. So many all-time great bands and albums during that era. Cool that you were in high school when Grunge broke. I was 24 (same age as Cobain and within a year either way of so many musicians of that scene) and hugely into music at that point. It felt like the perfect age for me to fully appreciate it.
So true there will never be an era like that again
The world went completely to hell after that period of time
I LUVVV ALICE IN CHAINS best 90s rock band 💓
AGREED🤗🤩
Above is so good it's ridiculous it's River of deceit is just absolutely haunting I just love it I really miss layne...
Heroin has claimed so many wonderful and talented people. As a person in recovery, the struggle is real and addiction is a powerful burden to carry. RIP guys!
So to help each other cope and get though our drug addictions lets make a band... buuuuuhhhht let's also call it "Mad Season", ya know, in honor of psychedelic shrooms. Love Rock n Roll!
Thank you for dropping a Layne Staley video on my birthday, much appreciated.
Happy birthday!
I appreciate the clips from other interviews of McCready, Cantrell and Staley.
Good information.
Interesting.
Nice work.
Thank you.
Man, i sure miss Layne. He would have been 54 this August. R.I.P.
Classic album, not as well known as it should be, same goes for Temple of the Dog and Mother Love Bone’s stuff. Such solid stuff.
Stardog champion apple 🍎 immense album 💿 the birth of the legendary classic grunge era
Too right.
Mad Season and TotD. From each of those the listener can fire off in all directions.
Welcome to the finest of Seattle.
MLB should have been, might have been bigger than Nirvana. Nevermind gives me a headache after a few spins. Apple gives my brain a boner after a few spins. Long live Andy Wood!
I’d love a full video about Mike McCready. He’s a great musician and guy.
Band: Lets get a band together to say sober!!! Yaaay!!!
Also Band: Lets ask Layne Staley to join.
Jerrry "Ya know" Cantrell.
“It’s too many know what I’m sayins, know what I’m sayin?”
What,xare you from the Department of Gnomesayin' ???
I know
Ya know is much better than you know what I'm sayin
That's why he never quit his day job as the "The Riff", just because somebody's famous doesn't mean they automatically have a gift for speaking. Jerry writes the songs, plays the music & harmonized like no else in our generation with Layne
The song Wake up has helped me get clean off fentanyl/coke using the needle about 5x. I still can't get this completely right though. Not like I like waking up and feeling like death is the better alternative.
Long Gone Day is like hearing an angel for the first time.
The cover of the album is art by Layne, it is so haunting.....just like the record.....#LifelessDead
Are you saw the original photo by Demri and Layne? Awesome work, yeah!✌ (Alex Nagy)
Imagine being invited to do an album with those guys and not showing up lol. That’s insane.
That's Lanegan for you lol
I really believe Mike McCready is such an underrated guitarist. It’s crazy to think he worked with Vedder, Cornell and Staley. Would love to hear him working with Lanegan.
Lanegan is on a few of the Mad Season tracks, “long gone day”, “I’m above”, “locomotive”, “black book of fear”, “slip away.” I think the last 3 were only on the delux release. Apparently they tried to get Lanegan to do a second release but couldn’t get him to come to the studio to record.
Very apparent... since they just said that in the video.
He won Ultimate Guitar dot com best guitarist so no...not underrated
@@frankieedwards9825 good to know he’s getting some well deserved love! Thanks.
@@erinnothingtoseehere4992 why wouldn't he though? They never mentioned the reasons why
Staley's posture was fantastic. Something us junkies don't appreciate until we're hunched over. Crazy.
Above is such a beautiful album and such a pleasant surprise. So different than Alice but amazing nonetheless.
I’m so glad you covered this in a video!
Would love to see a video on how the smiths broke up
Great story. My favorite part about this channel is the sourcing of books and articles that I did not know about
Damn...Duff is friends with everyone. He must be a hell of a guy.
All of GNR seem cool except for Mouse,Mickey.
@@clintwilson6380 I thought that was Lemmy
Duff is also a Seattle native, born and raised. So he knows everyone in that area. But yeah he comes off as a super cool guy.
What he did for Mark Lanegan when Mark was just out of rehab was "sweet" ! Said, "oh by the way Mark, I want you to come and live in my house while I'm gone, or here". That's not an exact quote, but that's what he did for Mark. Look at Mark now. Wow ! What a genuine friend ❤
@@64TMS Duff did that?
I loved Mad Season, and Above is really a masterpiece.
I find it interesting how Layne Staley didn't promote mad season
Long Gone Day is one of my favorite songs ever
We are but the simple canvas for the artist and his many colorful songs...
With the brush strokes his melody, he defines the detail of our hearts and minds as our ears are filled vibrantly with Sound... Rhythm... and the story of life.
...and we feel.
Thank you for this. I’m still not over Staley’s death and Above is often playing in my house.
Alice is by far one of my favorite bands ever but this album is probably my favorite albums of all time!
when I heard *above, wow, I was mesmerized & surprised, never heard so much energy & passion for making music... passed members RIP ❤️
I love Above, it’s one of the best collaborations ever, at least in the 90’s. R.I.P. Layne and John.
Mad season was a revelation for me. 💜
I can listen to wake up in an endless loop without getting bored after 3 hours.
I remember listening to the local alternative station with friends and we heard River of Deceit. Went out that night and bought the cassette
I know most would think im crazy for this, but to me, Chains opening for Metallica is nuts! I know Metallica is bigger, has more hits, etc.. But chains is so much better to me. Should be Metallica opening for them!
In melbourne, australia. Suicidal tendencies opened for AIC in 1990s tour.
They were all good friends. All of Metallica is sitting front row for the Unplugged album. Jerry Cantrell's guitar says "Friends don't let friends cut their hair" as most of Metallica had cut their hair off previous to that show.
@@charliebay9441 it was Mike Inez’s guitar.
@@christytrim291 Ahhh, knew it was one of theirs.
Facts
Nice! Love me some Mad season!
The dragon is nobody’s friend.
Just imagine how much amazing music and musicians it’s stolen from us all.
Layne saying there's no more Mad Season because Baker passed away... is beautiful that Sean, Mike Inez and Cantrell decided to keep playing together after losing Layne, but dude... i will never understand why it has to be called Alice in Chains still?
rest in peace Layne Staley and Mike Starr.
First time I heard River of Deceit on the radio
Me: "oh, new AIC. Never heard that one'
Announcer: that was River of Deceit by Mad Season"
Me: wow, that guy sounds a lot like Layne 🤦🏽♀️
Love this supergroup and have the cd in my car. Shame they didn't do another great album.
Another band you can also cover is The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Very underrated band from the 90's.
ever see that documentary about the band? it was really good. Also had the Dandy Warhol's in it.
@@rsohlich1 Yeah i think its called Dig great documentary on them. They have tons of good songs.
Have this on cd and cassette.
Still have the CD from the 95. Solid album from beginning to end.
Me too, I played it so much, the hinges of the plastic cover that attaches to the back broke off, so the cover just sits loose on top.
You should get the deluxe version. Live at the moore is great.
@@Turk_2023 yeah man I’ve listened to it on Spotify. Wish I could have seen them live!
River of deceit is such a moving track.
Sad Season.
:'(
Fantastic story, me and my buddy Kurt are part of history, on my birthday which was April 29, 1995 we were able to score 2 tickets to that show by winning a lottery weeks before in Seattle. It’s also known that I’ve taken this album back to my original hometown of Springfield Ohio and passed to family and friends who still listen to that album to this day. What’s also interesting was I knew this would be A masterpiece, and I have Botton the album on LP and have never opened it! Lastly for that get together that they had just a few years ago he had not mentioned Jefferson “Junior“ angel, what is a prolific and well-known vocalist and guitar player in the area who sang in Lane Staley‘s absence. Great video, where did you get all your information?
Wished we had more from this. One of my top 5 albums
Wake up is the song on my alarm clock
Thank you for making a video about this amazing band
Please do a show on The Tea Party from Canada. The almost broke in the States and sold a lot of albums. Same time as the Grunge era. Similar style music. Fantastic band
They were more post-grunge. Their sound is more in line with bands like Creed and Days of the New. Regardless, they were garbage.
tea party is always going to be in my list of music i love timeless masterpieces created by them !
@@07foxmulder their first album was in 1992 and most popular was in 1994. Tale end of grunge. They were more like Led and The Doors. If your going to judge a band, make sure you actually know anything about them. Been a fan since 1992. I understand, by the way, grunge started in 1989. I know this before you try and dazzle me with when things started.
See Rogers Oh holy wowzers! You’ve been a fan since 1992? That’s incredible. That doesn’t change the fact that they sounded nothing like any of the bands from Seattle, regardless of when their first album was released. I mean, Gish was released in 1991 so I guess The Smashing Pumpkins is grunge, too, right? I never knew that dates and genres of music go hand-in-hand. Thanks for teaching me something :)
Like I said, they were more post-grunge/cock-rock sounding. Just another boring, uninspired Canadian band who exists because of the CRTCs CanCon demand.
@@07foxmulder thank you for your superb input. When is your next class. I will sign up. If you have room for a dumbass like me of course.
Great job👍
Commentator states McCready met fellow Seattle resident Baker Saunders in rehab, located in Minnesota. At that point in time, Baker was playing bass in the Lemont Cranston blues band, in Minnesota somewhere. Baker and McCready went to Seattle after treatment. I heard Baker might have been a taxi-cab dispatcher somewhere in Seattle. Another rumor was that Baker had a mid-60's Chevy Nova station wagon, color blue.
RIP #rip #legendary #laynestayley
It's a crying shame all these people around him could help at all from all I've read
Layne Staley was so amazing and talented(so sad about his drug addiction) And its Still the best music ever. Prerecorded crap these days is no talent!
The entire album was amazing.
Wake up is the most powerful song Layne was involved with. More than even Nutshell imo
Agreed. It's the perfect opening track. 👍
love the b-roll clips youve added in this episode to add context
They were one of my favorite bands and still are.
Tragedy always gives the audiences what they came for.
I swear 90% of this channel's videos have "tragic" in the title
Jerry Cantrell loved Layne so very much. You can tell in every interview he’s ever spoken his name. He speaks so highly of him. I absolutely loved Laynes voice. I still listen to mostly my 90s music at all times. AIC and Mad Season are both in my collection. There’s no other human that sounds like Layne. Such a beautiful, troubled soul.
No your beautiful
No he didn't!
Really great band and a fan of the music 🎶
Im a fan of yer pic nice
Awesome
This channel is so great. Thank you.
the face before me flys
Laughs at me inside
masks are made to hide the glow
It’s hard to start things over
You can feel the fire around us, ALL THE TIIIIIIIME, yeah.