When you are a younger band, opening for an artist as huge as Van Halen can really feel fairly daunting. Regardless, when Alice In Chains went on tour with the legends in 1991, they nonetheless discovered a solution to make it lighthearted, as you’ll be able to see in newly-surfaced footage from one of their soundchecks.
The footage, which was break up into two elements, was uploaded to the YouTube channel Alt Copperpot5 on the finish of final month. The soundcheck happened earlier than the band’s present with Van Halen on Aug. 16, 1991, which was only a few days earlier than Layne Staley’s twenty fourth birthday. The rockers had already launched their debut album Facelift the yr prior, and the tune “Man in the Box” earned them a gap slot on the Clash of the Titans tour with Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, which had taken place just a few months earlier than they went again out with Van Halen.
The movies present the unique lineup of Staley, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney and Mike Starr, who left the group in 1993. In the primary video, Cantrell is proven taking part in guitar by himself, after which Staley is proven performing some vocal warm-ups. It ends with a efficiency of the tune “Would?,” which really hadn’t been launched on the time the video was recorded, adopted by “Love Hate Love” from Facelift.
The second video gives much more gold for Alice followers, as there’s interview clips with the members, a bus tour, extra clips from their soundcheck, Cantrell and Kinney watching Eddie Van Halen soundcheck and their precise opening set throughout from the night.
See each movies under.
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Sammy Hagar, who sang for Van Halen when Alice In Chains opened for them, as soon as recalled fearing the band in an interview with Jenny McCarthy. In reality, he mentioned it was his thought to ask them on the tour as a result of of that worry.
“When you’re in Van Halen in the ’90s when grunge came along, that was freaky, man,” the singer mentioned. “I was so insecure about it that I invited Alice In Chains — with their first album, their first single when they had ‘Man in the Box’ — to open for Van Halen. They came on the whole tour with us… But that’s how insecure I was! I said, ‘Let’s get them on the damn show so that way their fans will know that we’re cool.’
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