14 Years Ago: Alice In Chains Frontman Layne Staley Dies From a Drug Overdose

DerekJohnson

I hung out with Layne one evening and we drove to the Des Moines 7-11 together and sat in the car talking philosophy for a long while. Interesting guy.

ThomasFremont

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Rip to the best musician to come from seattle, in my opinion. Yes, I know of hendrix

Disagree.

Macklemore.

RoadDawg55

Love Layne. I love Kurt, but the best live frontman from that era was Scott Weiland.

I'm on my broke phone, but google stp down live 1999. If you aren't feeling that, I don't know what to tell you.

dnc

RoadDawg55 said:

Love Layne. I love Kurt, but the best live frontman from that era was Scott Weiland.

I'm on my broke phone, but google stp down live 1999. If you aren't feeling that, I don't know what to tell you.

Some would argue Weiland was from a different era, though I agree about live performance. Layne and Kurt were far more compelling songwriters and individuals though. And Cornell probably had the best voice of them all. Definitely has the best voice now...

Swaye

Cornell is the best voice of the 90's, period. If you disagree you pick the 7-11 and I'll be there.

dnc

Swaye said:

Cornell is the best voice of the 90's, period. If you disagree you pick the 7-11 and I'll be there.

Agree. Best voice of the 80s is a tougher call. I'd probably go Axle but some say Steve Perry. I'm sure there are plenty of hairband noyds who would nominate there* own guy.

Edit: The right answer is probably Michael. I'm sure Spooge agrees.

bananasnblondes

Cornell vs. the Staley/Cantrell harmonies is a toss up for me. Both are absolutely iconic in their own ways.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Alice in Chains opened for Poison and Extreme.

DerekJohnson

Jerry Cantrell was a dick.

RoadDawg55

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

dnc

RoadDawg55 said:

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

My rankings

AIC
Nirvana
Soundgarden






Pearl Jam

dnc

bananasnblondes said:

Cornell vs. the Staley/Cantrell harmonies is a toss up for me. Both are absolutely iconic in their own ways.

I think the harmonies make AIC's vocals the best of the decade, but as an individual voice Cornell >>> all

Swaye

Soundgarden

AIC

Nirvana




Pearl Jam



"All my friends are brown and red."

GrundleStiltzkin

2001400ex

dnc said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

My rankings

AIC
Nirvana
Soundgarden





Temple of the dog
Pearl Jam















Cal
Mudhoney

Crisped

PurpleThrobber

dnc said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

My rankings

AIC
Nirvana
Soundgarden






Pearl Jam

Fuck all y'all for not including Heart (ILTC Bellevue "Seattle").

Especially Nancy, not chunky Ann though she was fairly doable back in the day.

DerekJohnson

Green River
Mother Love Bone
Screaming Trees
Citizen Dick (HaHa)

Fire_Marshall_Bill

If we're including heart we had better include Queensryche.

RaceBannon

PurpleThrobber said:

dnc said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

My rankings

AIC
Nirvana
Soundgarden






Pearl Jam

Fuck all y'all for not including Heart (ILTC Bellevue "Seattle").

Especially Nancy, not chunky Ann though she was fairly doable back in the day.

A wild guess bit pretty sure Heart has sold more albums than anyone in the north west

dflea

RaceBannon said:

PurpleThrobber said:

dnc said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Cornell is great, but the rest of the band is subpar to any other 90's grunge type band.

They used to be my favorite. Not anymore though. I still like them better than Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam and their fans are awful.

My rankings

AIC
Nirvana
Soundgarden






Pearl Jam

Fuck all y'all for not including Heart (ILTC Bellevue "Seattle").

Especially Nancy, not chunky Ann though she was fairly doable back in the day.

A wild guess bit pretty sure Heart has sold more albums than anyone in the north west

To girls and homos maybe.