The standout performances are mainly the acoustic or more slower and melodic tracks like "Rooster", "Down in a hole" and "Heaven beside you". ![]() But his voice improves and he settles well into the rest of the live performance. Layne Staley's looking a bit frail and unwell when he first comes on stage and when the band are playing the first few tracks. I just brought this DVD a few days ago and I have to say this is a truly great memorable live performance buy one of my favourite bands. If you've got a lot of Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Soundgarden music, you will love this, whether you've got all of AIC's studio albums or never heard of them before today. All thirteen tracks are original works (where half the Nirvana equivalent are covers of one sort or another) and, while "the concentrated catharsis in Alice in Chains' music is still best heard with the amps cranked up to eleven" according to Sandy Masuo of The Rolling Stone Magazine, I think that this really captures the talent of AIC as a group and will appeal to anyone who loved the music coming out of Seattle at that time, particularly and obviously AIC fans. Where I think Alice In Chains' Unplugged set offers more than Nirvana's undoubted classic is down to the music itself, AIC capturing the dark beauty of the Seattle scene, Layne Staley's vocals particularly haunting given his state of health, and barely out of tune despite the fact that the band hadn't played a gig for nearly two-and-a-half years. ![]() Both Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley were heavily dependent on heroin at the times of recording yet both managed to not only perform to an incredible level, but also manage to bring subtlety and melody to a genre previously decried as post-punk garage music. Nirvana's 1994 Unplugged CD was certainly ground-breaking, and has many similarities with Alice In Chains' 1996 effort.
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