Alice in Chains: The Dark History of Dirt, Layne Staley's Struggle

This is why I absolutely love your channel. I love Alice In Chains and even a period in my life not to long ago for like 8months -1 year every day I listened to or watched videos or researched for countless hours during my free time. Almost as an obsession but that’s my addictive personality to anything I am into. Since then I kinda don’t want to say I moved on but more like I found/listened/read all the info I could about them that it became repetitive loosing the spark. Just shows your commitment as in each of your videos about them I probably know all that your speaking about but still always learn a new thing or two witch I can’t thank you enough sir! (Funny comment I even tried to pin point the exact day layne used or was grabbed by herion witch I narrowed down to like 1-5 dates LOL)

I'd go crazy with the stems for those records with the way they recorded it 👀

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The media only focused on what every rock star did before them and never mentioned a peep about 80s party and glam rock. Then when a grunge singer gained a habit that's all they focused on. Maybe Kurt's death had a lot to do with it. But the media contributed to his death. And facelift and dirt. Different I'll admit. But still both so good.

It's not an album. It is a monumental heavy rock masterpiece. The best record to come out of the grunge era. It was the soundtrack to the best years of my life, being a young guy in his early 20s during that era was fucken awesome. I can only feel pity for the youth of today, those who were there know what I mean.

🤣ha U undstnd nothin. U content freak!

When I was younger I was into nirvana. A few years down the drain now I’m into Alice In Chains

A deceased puppy in a jar?

AIC is still one of my favorite bands of all times. I seen them live with Layne. No disrespect to Bill Duvall but I feel no man can replace Layne's presence. When you hear the classics Duvall does not cut it. My opinion .AIC should have regrouped and added a female front singer. So many female covers of AIC that rock it. It would have put a fresh spin on them. I really feel Layne would have loved it.❤ Jerry and the gal harmonizing would sound wicked👍

I spent the 90s and on, deep in a spoon you'll be hard pressed to find a picture of me during that time . I threw them out , if you do come across one what immediately jumps out at you is the pail gont skin and freakishly thin skeleton. Something that's unmissable a tell tell sign pinned pupils . Please some one located a photo of Kurt or Stanley loaded. Don't believe the lies

The rehab thing choked me up because I thought immediately about the lyrics “if I can’t be my own, I’d feel better dead”

What if laynes wife never dies or Kirk didn’t kill himself or his wife killed him wtv but like he 100% would be alive or end up like Chris Weidman

I had that CD ❤. I fucking loved Alice in Chains! Wish I could have seen them in concert.

Would? Is my all time favorite AIC song

Rain When I Die is my favorite track on Dirt also

Dirt is awesome, but Facelift is my favourite. Sunshine is such a beautiful song, written for Jerry’s mother Gloria.❤

They keep it real, that song junkhead Layne's voice is amazing and Jerry's guitar is off the chain hard-core

Grunge......sheesh! I still dont know for sure if Alice was in the Dirt, like the album cover would imply, or in chains, as the band name says. I guess she's in chains in the dirt. Wow! Thats an extra level of horrific.

Dirt was a masterpiece! 🤘🏻

Nirvana is great but Alice in chains and Soundgarden was the heart and soul of the movement

Layne Staley died a virgin. 🎨🥁🎸

Dirt did kinda suck.....😔

on a bit of an alice kick, always wrote this band of bc the rock station by my house played rooster too death, after finding facelift and tripod i can now say i get the hype. dirt is good but a lil too much on the melodic and melancholic side, i prefer the dark angrier riffs on tripod and the dark lyricism.

one weird thing ive noticed, in videos ppl say layne started H in 91 on tour. but layne is clearly writing about H on We die Young, and man in the box, and bleed the freak.which all came out in 1990.. was he maybe talking about other drugs? or his interested in them? such an interesting band.. thanks for the vid!

Can anyone please tell me what the instrumental track playing behind the video is? It’s sooo fucking good

Please 🙏🏼 do an episode on the AIC unplugged

Sorry, did I hear that right, a deceased puppy?

I feel like AIC was more popular with millennials and Gen Z when they were in high school than any other Seattle band. Im surprised to see these days how many people my age loved and still love AIC. If the Seattle grunge scene were to blow up in the 2000s they would be the kings instead of Nirvana.

you are very missed layne we all miss you <3

One of my favorite bands alltime and many songs on my top 1000 songs I love

Dirt is easily a perfect, 10/10 album. No skips

As I've grown older. I've lost a lot of respect for many entertainers I watched or listened to growing up. The vast majority were drug addicts, alcoholics, pedophiles, murders, criminals, degenerates, and delusional lefties.

d-i-r-t unlike dirty c*** omits why because the reason is obvious

every life style choice runs into a wall and you cannot run away from yourself

the world is circular for a reason

they were rockets

Alice In Chains & in particular Dirts impact on rock music cannot be understated.

I saw Alice in chains open for VH in Montreal music was great but Layne sat in front the speakers for alot of the show

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Besides the downward spiral and einima dirt is the perfect record it's hard to find an album to press play and leave it but it does it so does jar of flys but dirt just hits different

Not really a grunge band but a metal band without the 80's girl hair.

This album is incredible! I feel like I am a 5 year-heroinaddict when I listen to it and I’ve never done that stuff before!

Opium, it's so damn good it doesn't matter who or what you are at all. Once you first feel the effects of it You'd rather DIE instead of not feeling it. And I swear on life that what I said was COMPLETELY TRUE 100%

I don’t know how anyone can listen to Dirt and think it glorifies drug use in any way. One of the heaviest and bleakest albums ever made

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Why are you censoring the album cover? This channel gets more weenie every day.

Best album about heroin addiction ever.

there were a few things about the album I didn't include because I felt like it was beating a dead horse. There were some stories of Jerden and Layne butting heads over Layne singing while high and having to redo vocals. There was also one story about Layne's dealer coming to the studio and giving advice to Jerden who obviously didn't take too kindly to the advice.