Saturday, August 14, 2010
Alice In Chains - Junkhead
Simply a classic! The loss of Layne Staley is in my eyes just as horrible if not worse than than the loss of Kurt Cobain. This guy and this band were a collection of geniuses. Alice In Chains lives on today through the voices of Jerry Cantrell, and Layne's superb replacement, William DuVall. Every new one they come out with has Staley's influence in it - you can hear it. A lot of it is Cantrell's writing, but the sound lingers on, and on, and on.
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All we get from Nirvana is the same ol' stuff from 20 years ago. I have to blame most of that on 99.5 Kiss - the main local rock station here. Their playlist coordinator needs to resign asap.
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I totally agree...Laynes death was a huge loss...I think his death didn't seem as huge because he didn't die when he was at the top like Kurt did...He kind of faded away...I was thinking on the William Duvall debate the other day...Those who say he is not a good replacement...And You know I don't think of him as a replacement...Jerry could have picked a guy who looked like Layne and sounded like him...But William looks nothing like Layne and has his own thing going on...So while he is an addition to AIC definately not a replacement...
ReplyDeleteVery good point, and I actually think he sounds enough like Layne (especially along with Jerry) that the AIC sound is still "there".
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