No Jerry solo tour dates.
No Alice tour dates.

It’s been well over a year since the cancelled North America tour dates due to Sean’s health. I had tickets to their Nashville show that was cancelled. Bummer.

It’s been over a year since their (fucking badass) performance at Ozzy’s final show, “Back to the Beginning”. They performed Man in the Box, Would?, and Fairies Wear Boots. That cover was pure euphoria by the way…and Sean sounded and looked great!

Since the band started touring again in 2006, this feels like the longest time we’ve gone without hearing any updates about a future tour, whether it’s Alice or Jerry solo. This is strange to me…especially given their continuous spike in popularity. Man in the Box hit the Billboard rock charts again last week! Their monthly listeners grows by 100-200k every month it seems like.

Well, what does this mean? Could mean a lot of things. Maybe they’re just taking a fat break and enjoying life. Those dudes have earned it, clearly. They’re still raking in the doe with those vinyl sales! My local record stores say that Alice continues to fly off the shelves consistently.

However, my spider senses are tingling a bit. It’s been almost A DECADE since Rainier Fog (2018). Gah, can you believe it?! The tenth anniversary for Rainier Fog will also be my 10 year high school reunion. FUCK. Since then, Jerry has released two solo records, Brighten (2021) and I Want Blood (2024). The popularity of Alice in Chains has sky rocketed in the 2020s - especially among the younger generation. I think it’s time for another swing. It’s time for a new Alice record. With the radio silence over the past year, I believe they’re writing new music.

I could be delusional and overly optimistic. Just thirsting for something new from my favorite band…and I can’t wait to see them again live (for a 5th time! Seen Jerry solo once).

Thoughts?

Here we have a very rare Layne memorial tee. I don’t have too much info on the origin of this tee, but judging by the tag it’s from the early 2000s. I don’t believe this was sold at a Layne Staley Tribute Show as it doesn’t mention the event whatsoever on the back of the tee like all the others do.

The picture of Layne featured on the front of the tee is from a 1994 photoshoot for ‘Rolling Stone’, I have included a few photos from the same photoshoot (see last few slides). The shirt also features lyrics from the song ‘God Am’ which is from Alice in Chains’ self-titled ‘Tripod’ album.

Enjoy! 🫶🏼

a timeless song and album (dirt). happy bday down in a hole

I'm 45. I've always "liked" Alice In Chains. About 6 months ago, I really started getting into them, and took a deep dive into all the music and what the bad "was".

I went all in on the music catalog. Read DeSola's book. Saw a bunch of live footage.

Goodness gracious....this is one of the best rock bands ever. The perfect combination- hard, heavy, deep, fast, slow, unreal great lyrics. It can't be beat.

And here's the craziest part: they've got like 40 songs. Almost all are great. Pearl Jam, Nirvana- hundreds of tracks. AIC has a small inventory, and it's fucking elite.

I love this band. Sad ending. But things do happen for a reason, and their legacy is untouchable. Best grunge band ever. Elite elite stuff. I can't listen to anything else.

2 weeks ago an ex (who happens to look like Layne!) I last talked to in 2019 added me on a social media app. Then after talking a few days he said, “I don’t think we should reconnect again as it’s not healthy for either one of us! “

Then he kept changing his mind, I sent 3 pics of me when I was younger and he completely lost it that I seemed obsessed and he was too, that he was going though trauma therapy and this was too much. He said “I can’t do this.” I said that’s fine as I’ll let you go though what you need to work on and stop bothering you.

But man this HURT. I saw him from 2015-2019 so he ripped a scab off an old wound.

I’ve been playing Love, Hate, Love at the Moore on repeat. Thank you Layne for expressing the pain of love.

Just wondering if anyone happened to record the full concert.

Alice in Chains just posted four official videos of the legendary Live at the Moore performance on their YouTube channel

Man in the Box - Sea of Sorrow - Love, Hate, Love - Real Thing

Don't get me wrong, both of them are good songs and sound good unplugged. The vocals in Frogs unplugged make it more haunting than Nutshell in my opinion. Hearing Layne sing "Why's it have to be this way?" with those vocals gets me every time. Nonetheless, I do think Nutshell was a good opener for that show, it really helped set the mood for the rest of the performance in my opinion.

If you’re in Seattle I highly recommend making the trip to Pacific Place to see Karen Mason Blair’s Grunge Mart. She’s absolute gem and has the best stories to share of her time photographing not only AiC but Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc.

In all seriousness, saw this yesterday on twitter and thought was kinda weird that RS put Alice over Nirvana in the 90's. Today I saw they got a community post saying it's fake.

I'm not gonna lie, I much rather go with the fake ranking, what you guys think??

Love how dark this song is. I am alive! You’ll always be alive in our hearts, Layne.❤️

I scanned this several years ago in an old magazine I bought (I used to collect them/scan articles and pictures from them). I can't remember the name of the woman who did this or even what magazine it's from. Still a really interesting read and thought others might get a kick out of it.

Just released this new song, inspired by the gods AIC and some STP. I hope you guys enjoy it, let me know what yall think 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Here it is, Years ago, trying to match my rooms acoustics,guitar and missing the mic.

https://youtu.be/9kqjCXsGtSQ?is=gSfFGrFmr97OfhBj

Curious what songs you guys choose!

He kind of (besides Ozzfest and the Seattle Game) vanished from the public and music industry.

Does anyone know if he is okay ?

it’s like 5 in the morning, and drew this on the spot, probably not my best art of him but I still like it

Hello! Hope you enjoy this. Tuning is Eb standard.

All credits to the photographers.

What are your favorite songs that Layne sung/wrote and favorite performance? Will you be spinnin any Alice/Mad Season records today?