Layne Staley

[Reckoner]

Do you think he received enough credit for all the work he did as a musician? It seemed like the drugs overshadowed just how great a singer and songwriter he really was. I read that even after his death, only 300 fans went to his memorial.

 

[exilera]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Do you think he received enough credit for all the work he did as a musician? It seemed like the drugs overshadowed just how great a singer and songwriter he really was. I read that even after his death, only 300 fans went to his memorial.

I don't know who the hell that is.

 

[Yreka]

Was the lead singer from Alice In Chains

 

[spaceman]

:music:we....chase misprinted lies...................we.....face the path of time......:music:

 

[chrisms]

Yes he is very underrated. He was more talented than Kurt Cobain, but I must admit as a person living in Seattle I only started paying attention to his music after his death and long after I'd been a fan of Nirvana. His work with Mad Season is better than much of what he did with Alice in Chains.

 

[Platypus]

he's VERY underrated, way more talented that 90% of that genre.

 

[Reckoner]

I was just watching the MTV unplugged DVD for Alice in Chains, and he (as well as Cantrell) were amazing. Highly recommended to AnC fans 🙂

 

[wheresmybacon]

I used to run down on the Kirkland waterfront - it looks over Lake Washington to Seattle sorta near the neighborhood where Layne lived. Someone who lived in these apartments I used to run by - right on the water - had spelled out his name in huge letters with xmas lights and had them up on their deck all year long. I always wondered who did that. Anyone who spent any time in Kirkland around 97-2001 or so might recall seeing that?.it was sorta hard to miss.

I thought he lived in the U-district and I always wondered if he saw that or cared. People loved him, but his addiction trumped far too much of the great stuff he did back then. He was one of my favorite artists of that time.

 

[GrantMeThePower]

Alice and Chains were always one of my favs and he was underrated as a singer- but not as a song writer. The reason being that Jerry Cantrell wrote most of the songs. Check it out.

 

[alkemyst]

there is like only one grunge band that could possibly do a reunion (Soundgarden)...

all the rest have at least one dead member.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
there is like only one grunge band that could possibly do a reunion (Soundgarden)...

all the rest have at least one dead member.

I guess Pearl Jam doesn't count.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: alkemyst
there is like only one grunge band that could possibly do a reunion (Soundgarden)...

all the rest have at least one dead member.

I guess Pearl Jam doesn't count.

Not if you count they were Mother Love Bone mostly.

 

[sirspotti]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Yes he is very underrated. He was more talented than Kurt Cobain, but I must admit as a person living in Seattle I only started paying attention to his music after his death and long after I'd been a fan of Nirvana. His work with Mad Season is better than much of what he did with Alice in Chains.

Kurt Cobain was so overrated. Him dying was the best thing to happen to rock in years. It gave us lots more Dave Grohl and that is what the world needs.

 

[thomsbrain]

i never liked alice in chains. by far the blandest grunge band. no wait, that was stone temple pilots.

 

[monk3y]

He had such a distinct voice. I wish he was still around making some music. 🙁

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: alkemyst
there is like only one grunge band that could possibly do a reunion (Soundgarden)...

all the rest have at least one dead member.

I guess Pearl Jam doesn't count.

Can't have a reunion if you have never de-unioned.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: sirspotti
Kurt Cobain was so overrated. Him dying was the best thing to happen to rock in years. It gave us lots more Dave Grohl and that is what the world needs.

I hate saying that, but it's true 🙁 (As in the gains from the death of another)

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
he's VERY underrated, way more talented that 90% of that genre.