I mean the band Metallica was in the audience just to watch this performance as fans. Who else can ever say that.
Here's a link with video of them performing the full concert. I saw it on MTV when it first came out almost 30 years ago, still gives me chills to listen to it today. Never bought a DVD of a concert except for this one.
During Alice in Chains' hiatus, reports of Staley's
drug addiction began to gain widespread circulation in fan and media communities, in part due to changes in his physical condition brought on by prolonged heroin abuse.
[8] On April 10, 1996, the band returned with a performance on
MTV Unplugged in New York; it was Alice in Chains' first concert in two-and-a-half years.
[9] The band performed three more shows, supporting
Kiss on their
reunion tour, with Staley's final live performance on July 3, 1996 in
Kansas City, Missouri. Aside from recording two more songs with Alice in Chains – "
Get Born Again" and "
Died" – and a cover of
Pink Floyd's "
Another Brick in the Wall" with Class of '99 during 1998, Staley had been out of the public spotlight by the late 1990s.
Staley struggled with drug addiction for much of his adult life; he later died from a
speedball overdose on April 5, 2002, at the age of 34. He was ranked at No. 27 on
Hit Parader's list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" in 2006, and at No. 42 on
Complex's magazine list of "The 50 Best Lead Singers of All Time" in 2012. Seattle officially declared August 22, 2019 as "Layne Staley Day". Staley earned six
Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.
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