Dinosaur music! 😂😂 love that description! ETA: I can’t stop laughing about this. The further clarification that it’s not just ANY dinosaur music, but more specifically “T-Rex music. Grrrr.” LOL 😂 Rory, you crack me up!
My friend and I had a metal show in Dallas that was insanely popular when AIC came out. We got to play them before anybody else outside of the NW. Layne actually asked us if we thought they had what it took to make it. This is from their first LP Facelift. We started every show with AIC!!☮️❤️
This is one of those timeless sludgy tunes that you cannot help but grit your teeth, wrinkle your nose, & bang your head to…..Jerry is a masterful song writer and no one can bring forth that heavy gritty emotion like Layne.
This is scenes from the movie "Singles" totally awesome!! Alice in Chains toured with Metallica. Its like stomping music, my favorites are Alice in Chains and Mad Season and Pearl Jam and Temple of The Dog and Soundgarden and Audioslave, best music ever!! RIP Layne Staley and Mike Starr the bass player. Thank You so very much Rory and Kayee! That was awesome!! 😊💓🤘✌️🔥
Jerry Cantrell is a goddamn genius, one of the best songwriters to ever live and very deserving of his riff lord nickname. Layne ruled too as a vocalist RIP
Damn. When you said, “Beatles”, spot on! Lennon with lead and Paul coming in? Brilliant. Even the drums sound a little Ringo. Great reaction to my fave AIC
I describe Alice. In Chains as ‘acid metal’, in that they are essentially a sludge/stoner metal band, only with these gorgeously mind-fucking harmonies that create the atmosphere I associate with psychedelia. Also: ‘dinosaur rock bands’ 😆 I know exactly what you mean, m8. Well-said. I love you said this were like a Beatle song, man. Any time I play with anybody, like, if anyone wants in on one of my musical projects, I make ‘em listen to the Beatles’ *Rubber Soul* and ‘Revolver*, Soundgarden’s *Superunknown* and *Down On the Upside*, and a AIC’s *Dirt*, and the *Sap/Jar Of Flies/* compilation. I say, ‘Take a couple tabs of acid, or a handful of mushrooms, and put all that music into your brain. Bonus points if you check out the Chameleons’ first record. Listen to it on shuffle, listen to it on repeat. Get it all in there and knead it up like a ball of dough. We’re aiming to create that ball of dough in one song-in one record. If yer upferit, you and I will likely be besties. If yer not, it just weren’t meant to be.’
IT AIN'T LIKE THAT came out of a riff that guitarist Jerry Cantrell cited as a cool mistake. The lyrics could be traced back to the band's disillusionment with Los Angeles. They were wide-eyed kids from Seattle headed to Los Angeles - the city of angels. When they got to Los Angeles, it was not what they expected. The Sunset Strip that had been the haunt of Van Halen, The Doors, Motley Crue, Poison, and Guns N’ Roses was nothing like the club circuit they played in Seattle. The 1980s music scene that clubs on the Sunset Strip thrived on for a decade was dying out. Compared to the Sunset Strip in 1989-90, the Central Tavern looked like a nightclub in the Ritz Hotel. The lyric: Sign the deal, set in motion / Smaller fish, so huge the ocean had not been a more appropriate description of their situation. IT AIN'T LIKE THAT (from the Facelift album) and WOULD? (that showed up on the Dirt album) appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of the band Heart from 1986-2010 and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used IT AIN'T LIKE THAT from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs ROOSTER and WOULD? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used WOULD? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how WOULD? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt. Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Layne Staley's vocal range can run rings around any other grunge singer in my opinion. Layne could sing the phone book and never hit a wrong note. Even at the end of his life, with no teeth and a lisp, his voice, wit and humor were all still there. Layne's voice and vocal range was so powerful he did NOT need auto tune or pro-tools until he lost his teeth and had a lisp around 1998, and even then he still killed the vocals. Barrett Martin (who played with Layne in Mad Season) said that when he stood to the side of the stage, he could hear the sound of Layne vocal resonance come out of Layne's body LOUDER than it did coming out of the speakers, Layne's voice was that powerful.
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Layne Staley is my favorite singer of all time.
They won a Grammy for best live performance in a movie for this song.
No wins, 11 nominations. Are you thinking of the MTV award for Would?
You can never go wrong with AIC
🎤🎸🎶💕🎶🎸🎤 🎸🎸🎸🇨🇦
This was recorded about 5 months after live at the Moore. Moore was in December 1990, this was recorded in April 1991
Layne ❤ just is the goat and missed
🔥 Yesssssss 😎🤘
Layne at his best. Love those AIC harmonies 🔥♥️ Always a killer riff and catchy melody.
Dinosaur music! 😂😂 love that description!
ETA: I can’t stop laughing about this. The further clarification that it’s not just ANY dinosaur music, but more specifically “T-Rex music. Grrrr.” LOL 😂 Rory, you crack me up!
Pretty funny too especially because AIC has an album with Dinosaurs in the title lol.
My friend and I had a metal show in Dallas that was insanely popular when AIC came out. We got to play them before anybody else outside of the NW. Layne actually asked us if we thought they had what it took to make it. This is from their first LP Facelift. We started every show with AIC!!☮️❤️
This is one of those timeless sludgy tunes that you cannot help but grit your teeth, wrinkle your nose, & bang your head to…..Jerry is a masterful song writer and no one can bring forth that heavy gritty emotion like Layne.
Hell yeah i was hoping someone would request this!
Rock on, dinos!!
No disrespect to Chris Cornell but in my opinion Lanye Staley had a range attainable by very few singers
Chris also had that lol it’s not disrespectful and I mean no disrespect to Layne but Chris had even more but Payne had the more powerful belts
Thanks for this one so good
I bought the MEDIOCRE Movie SINGLES, because of the very short excerpt of this performance
This is scenes from the movie "Singles" totally awesome!! Alice in Chains toured with Metallica. Its like stomping music, my favorites are Alice in Chains and Mad Season and Pearl Jam and Temple of The Dog and Soundgarden and Audioslave, best music ever!! RIP Layne Staley and Mike Starr the bass player. Thank You so very much Rory and Kayee! That was awesome!! 😊💓🤘✌️🔥
Jerry Cantrell is a goddamn genius, one of the best songwriters to ever live and very deserving of his riff lord nickname. Layne ruled too as a vocalist RIP
I never get tired of AIC reactions…..to watch ppl’s eyes light up the minute Layne belts out that first growl….priceless 😊
Yeah AIC can get heavy, check out Grind or Sickman if you want heavy.
Damn. When you said, “Beatles”, spot on! Lennon with lead and Paul coming in? Brilliant. Even the drums sound a little Ringo. Great reaction to my fave AIC
Has a “Come Together” tone.
Sludgiest Riff Everrr!!! Top 3 AIC songs for me!! Check out the live at the Moore Theater performance of this when you can it’s amazing!!
I describe Alice. In Chains as ‘acid metal’, in that they are essentially a sludge/stoner metal band, only with these gorgeously mind-fucking harmonies that create the atmosphere I associate with psychedelia.
Also: ‘dinosaur rock bands’ 😆 I know exactly what you mean, m8. Well-said.
I love you said this were like a Beatle song, man. Any time I play with anybody, like, if anyone wants in on one of my musical projects, I make ‘em listen to the Beatles’ *Rubber Soul* and ‘Revolver*, Soundgarden’s *Superunknown* and *Down On the Upside*, and a AIC’s *Dirt*, and the *Sap/Jar Of Flies/* compilation. I say, ‘Take a couple tabs of acid, or a handful of mushrooms, and put all that music into your brain. Bonus points if you check out the Chameleons’ first record. Listen to it on shuffle, listen to it on repeat. Get it all in there and knead it up like a ball of dough. We’re aiming to create that ball of dough in one song-in one record. If yer upferit, you and I will likely be besties. If yer not, it just weren’t meant to be.’
huh?? The BAND described themselves as Hard Rock. lol You are interesting. lol
IT AIN'T LIKE THAT came out of a riff that guitarist Jerry Cantrell cited as a cool mistake. The lyrics could be traced back to the band's disillusionment with Los Angeles. They were wide-eyed kids from Seattle headed to Los Angeles - the city of angels. When they got to Los Angeles, it was not what they expected. The Sunset Strip that had been the haunt of Van Halen, The Doors, Motley Crue, Poison, and Guns N’ Roses was nothing like the club circuit they played in Seattle.
The 1980s music scene that clubs on the Sunset Strip thrived on for a decade was dying out. Compared to the Sunset Strip in 1989-90, the Central Tavern looked like a nightclub in the Ritz Hotel. The lyric: Sign the deal, set in motion / Smaller fish, so huge the ocean had not been a more appropriate description of their situation.
IT AIN'T LIKE THAT (from the Facelift album) and WOULD? (that showed up on the Dirt album) appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of the band Heart from 1986-2010 and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used IT AIN'T LIKE THAT from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs ROOSTER and WOULD? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used WOULD? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how WOULD? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt.
Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.
Layne Staley's vocal range can run rings around any other grunge singer in my opinion. Layne could sing the phone book and never hit a wrong note. Even at the end of his life, with no teeth and a lisp, his voice, wit and humor were all still there. Layne's voice and vocal range was so powerful he did NOT need auto tune or pro-tools until he lost his teeth and had a lisp around 1998, and even then he still killed the vocals.
Barrett Martin (who played with Layne in Mad Season) said that when he stood to the side of the stage, he could hear the sound of Layne vocal resonance come out of Layne's body LOUDER than it did coming out of the speakers, Layne's voice was that powerful.
Any chance of a Singles the movie reaction? You'd love it and see some familiar faces in the cast
In my opinion the greatest lead singer ever
No, this is NOT dinosaur music. I know what you mean and you mean the genre of "Sludge". Check out Crowbar!!!
Do the alc song from the last action hero
All time favorite Alice song.