haha not even close man, seeing them in virginia
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Have you ever seen anyone live ALA?
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Made me lol
My friend saw them and got cool light-up drumsticks.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Layne was set to record another Mad Season record after the self-titled, so I reckon the sound of AIC would be quite influenced by the more experimental, jazzy nature of his side-project.
I always imagined them recording another EP (...or album) to the likes of Jar of Flies too.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Layne barely wrote any of the music on any of the AiC or Mad Season records. Chances are that even with Layne we still would have gotten BGWTB, except with Layne singing lead...and slaying.
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Not necessarily. If they wrote BGWTB in the late 90's, it definitely would not have been like the final product.
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and layne did write a lot of the music for mad season, just not by himself of course.
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Album Rating: 5.0
AFAIK Layne did write all the music for Mad Season, I'm talking lyrics wise of course. And he did have a huge influence on how the melodies sounded for AIC... it wasn't just Jerry as the common misconception is. There are songs like 'Hate to Feel' and 'Angry Chair' which are 100% Layne.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Lyrics and melodies were primarily Layne, but most of Alice in Chains' music and a lot of the lyrics and melodies were written by Cantrell. I love Layne, but musically Cantrell has always been AiC's driving force. Except for Layne's voice, Cantrell IS Alice in Chains. So with Layne BGWTB would have been more or less the same, but with more Layne influence.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I never really bring it up when discussing AIC, I think It's a weird discussion since no band member is less valuable than the other. They wouldn't be the band they are without Sean Kinney either for example. Cantrell is just one aspect of the whole equation...
I must disagree with you when it comes to BGWTB though, even if It's purely speculation. I think BGWTB sounds the way it does, deals with the lyrical themes it has etc. because of Layne's absence. He would have brought something entirely different to the table, instead of having an album which melodically sounds very similar to Cantrell's solo work.
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Honestly Jerry and Layne are practically as important as each other in my eyes because Layne's contributions are just as important as Jerry's foundations.
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agree hard.
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agree hard.
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It's like having the best designers for a skyscraper but not having great builders to execute that design. What's the point if you don't have people to make the plan into a finalized, unique product?
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For sure. Layne is the best for delivering what Jerry writes.
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no question.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I'm not disagreeing with you guys. All the bandmembers are certainly important, but it's rather strange to say that they're all equally important to the sound of the band, especially in the case of AiC where they actually did replace two of the members without the band's sound changing drastically.
To use the architecture analogy; it doesn't matter who the actual builders are, but if your architect designs a high rise with glass and steel you're not going to get a brownstone just because of the builders. Layne's continued presence in the band would have certainly had an influence on their sound, but the end product would have sounded a hell of a lot closer to how BGWTB sounded than it would have to Mad Season.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Wooooahh *exhales*
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Album Rating: 4.2
Bumping my rating to a 4. Every 7+ minute song on here is breathtaking.
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Album Rating: 3.5
especially Frogs
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