'Love, Hate, Love' LIVE at the Moore - Reaction and Vocal Analysis feat. Alice in Chains

I'm revisiting Alice in Chains today and Layne Staley's unique vocals. Thanks to your recommendations we're watching another live performance. Here is "Love, Hate, Love" from their 1990 concert at the Moore Theatre.

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[ddemulling]

Layne was barely 23 years old here. I have no words.

[willengage]

Layne's live vocals were so insane. You could understand every word of the lyrics and the other sounds took you where he wanted you to go. Taken way too soon.

[Cadinho]

Layne Staley is a generational talent. Tragic story, but one of the best vocalists of his time and even ever.

Also, I love when bands can sound even better in concert than their albums.

[Yellowmusicroom]

I recall reading somewhere that Jerry Cantrell once said Layne’s voice was so powerful that they could hear him over their amped instruments without a mic.

[kevinwest]

Layne has the best “Yeahs” of anyone ever.

[rexrocker]

“This next song is about pain” aka every single Alice In Chains song.

[matthewgoodA]

Lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell considers this song the masterpiece of their debut album, that his own guitar solo gives him chills, and that Layne’s vocals on it are amazing. A tormented encapsulation of the fraught relationship Layne had with a girl named Demri Parrott, truly the love of his life. They used drugs together, got addicted together, and her death in October 1996 was a blow he never recovered from. Yet even so, it was as he sang here, “I still love you, but I still burn.”

[michaeldenny]

One of the most emotive vocalists I've ever heard. He made you feel it down in your bones.

[baronofgreymatter]

This is when he was at his strongest. He would blow you out of the room! POWER!

[DetoursRC]

Layne Staley is one of my favorite vocalists ever!

[LostHate]

I'm so glad you did this video. It's important that people understand that AIC is so much more than just the unplugged set.

[ChadH]

Insane that a band like this is criminally underrated and never got the recognition they fully deserved. No Grammy's, not in the rock Hof. My favorite band of the grunge era by far.

[gottlicherhammer]

I got unexpectedly emotional watching this video. Something about watching the admiration light up this young lady’s face as she experienced this amazing performance from a long-gone era, much like my generation did decades ago.

I don’t know… Maybe it just hit me how old I’ve become.

[KyleS.]

The mighty Layne in his prime, God rest his soul. Thanks so much for checking out some more AiC and sharing your insights with us.

[michelebella]

I absolutely LOVE when people find Layne's voice for the first time and have that same ethereal feeling that I did when I first heard it. He was an incredible singer.

[jeroenkoster]

Layne's voice will forever cut through the heart and soul of everyone who hears it, that's what makes him immortal.

[MMatte]

The greatest live performance caught on tape!! How in the world they are not in the hall of fame by now is just a musical injustice

[dmoore]

I remember hearing AIC for the first time in 1992 on MTV. Layne's intensity gave me goosebumps, and my jaw was on the floor. I don't think anyone aside from Janis Joplin put as much raw emotion into singing as Layne did.

[anthonywatt]

Same vocal coach taught Anne Wilson, Chris Cornell, Geoff Tate, Layne Staley and many Broadway singers and movie stars. “The Maestro” David Kyle

[dasninjastix]

Layne was brilliant. Power, emotion, control, amazing sense of melody and harmony. Never be another. Please enjoy what he left us.