![]() Layne and Jerry performing at the Limelight in New York City, Octo(Image credit: Frank White) A short time later they recorded a demo of the songs you hear on Facelift and they had that drop-D tuning on them.” “I said, ‘There’s this thing called drop-D tuning. “Jerry asked me how to play songs like Beyond The Wheel ,” he remembered. He claimed that the band changed their approach when they heard Soundgarden. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil recalled their early demos “owed a little bit more to Poison”. Not that Alice were entirely accepted by their grunge peers. “I had kind of been aware of this ‘Seattle sound’ that people were talking about, but to be there felt very exciting.” “You could tell that something was in the air,” he says. The band took him out to the local clubs, where he saw grunge pioneers such as Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone. “When I got that six-track demo, and it had Man In The Box and all the great songs from that first album, that’s when I really thought we could be on to something.”ĭave travelled up to Seattle to start working on Alice In Chains’ debut album. One of the songs was Man In The Box, destined to become AIC’s breakthrough hit. A few months later, Dave received a new six- track tape. Nick passed it on to Dave Jerden, who told the band they should go in and record another demo. Their demo, The Treehouse Tapes, ended up in the hands of Nick Terzo, an A&R man with Columbia Records, who signed the band. The line-up was completed by bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney. The pair stumbled through various combinations of band names before settling on Alice In Chains, borrowed from a name Layne’s old band had briefly used. I knew I wanted to be in a band with him right off the bat.” He was just such a cool fucking guy and his voice was amazing. “I didn’t have a place to live so he invited me to this place where he lived called Music Bank. “We met at a party,” Jerry told author Mark Yarm in the book Everybody Loves This Town. ![]() They bonded over family, drugs and music. Layne had been kicked out of his house by his mom. Jerry’s mother had died of cancer when he was young, and he wasn’t close to his father. However, looking at their actual setlist reveals how much of a cluster fuck the whole show was.Layne and Jerry had chequered musical pasts – the former as the singer of glam metal band Sleze, the latter as guitarist with bouffant-haired rockers Diamond Lie. ![]() The finished/released product is fantastic, but we all heard stories about needing to replay songs, most notable perhaps is the false start of "Sludge Factory" which even made its way onto the DVD/VHS version. ![]() People (especially on this sub) adore the band and their Unplugged show (April 10th, 1996), and for a good reason very beautiful songs and a strong performance from the band, despite the fact they were coming off of a 2 year hiatus at that point, Cantrell was a bit sick and Staley was pretty deep down in his drug rabbit hole. Enough of the yapping though, here are the songs:Īnd then we arrive to AiC, where things get more interesting. One small note is that I've recently learned that Cobain was seriously considering playing "Old Age", which would've been so cool to hear, but whatever, you can't have everything I guess lol. There are absolutely no surprises here, we have seen/heard everything they played that night, even the rehearsals got released since then. I think this is the most popular Unplugged show of the three, so probably we are all aware of their setlist, but for the sake of clarity, I'll still type it out for you. Then it was Nirvana's turn on November 18th, 1993. Anyways, here are the songs they played according to setlist.fm: ![]() Fairly short set, although it was interesting to see that they apparently played "Garden" and "Leash" as an encore, which was news to me lol. As we all know PJ was the first one to do it, they played on March 16th, 1992. But let me start at the beginning: I was just bored out of my mind the other day so I decided to check out all the information/setlists/etc I could find about the big 3's Unplugged shows. ![]()
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