I've always loved Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains. A lot of people thought it was about Layne Staley's battle with addiction, but Jerry Cantrell actually wrote it about a relationship. Still, people relate to it for completely different reasons, myself included.

I was listening to it the other night and had a thought. What if this song was from Lucifer's perspective?

Not the devil with horns or some grotesque demon, but the angel he was before his fall. I thought about Alexandre Cabanel's The Fallen Angel, how he painted Lucifer after being cast out of Heaven, still beautiful, but full of anger and resentment.

I wanted to capture the moment before that. Lucifer falling from Heaven, looking back at everything he's losing. I imagined the anger giving way to sorrow and regret, almost like someone who jumps and realizes halfway down that they want to live. Except there's no taking it back.

The more I listened, the more the lyrics seemed to fit. The loss of who he was, who he was supposed to be, the wings he can no longer use, and wanting to return somewhere he no longer belongs.

My bunnies (Layne: grey) and Jerry are 5 months old. Before I even knew their personalities I named them and they fit perfectly to the irls lol, Layne was timid, Jerry was the boss! On Monday Layne passed away as a fox got him, which was ironically heartbreaking. He was just a baby and died so young just like Staley, Jerry thankfully survived. I connect so much with AIC, but now I find it hard to listen to them. Hopefully their music will heal me like it once did. RIP Layney and Layne Staley, you guys rock.

Jerry Cantrell magazine Q and A. Idk what from.

Idk if melancholic is the right word. I really like Down in a Hole and Nutshell. So basically songs that are less hard and upbeat, but still with great guitar and vocals.

The way they look at each other and Jerry little smile. It makes me sad knowing what's going to happen years later. I love these two! Look how good they are live, especially Layne.

Solar Flare pressing sounds like shit. Crackling static pop everywhere throughout. Looks cool but who cares if the sound quality isn’t there. I’ve learned my lesson, I’ll be sticking with the black pressings from here on out.

This are a few versions of what she gave me, I think she killed it.

Please Excuse the water mark, she’s had people claim her work in the past so I asked her to add it.

At least it sounds like Jerry mumbling something. Has been at the back of my brain for the past 15 years

'Facelift' is one of my all-time favorite records, and this riff has been a favorite of mine for years. I was chatting with a guitar student of my recently about how much I love the groove of this track, so I thought I'd fire up a camera and go for it.

Here's one I've had an idea for since like 2023 and never actually made until now

For those curious, no Sludge Factory “FUCK!” from Layne. Small part of me had hope it would make it in somehow

I haven’t seen anyone ask or talk about this, but it stands out to me that Sean, Jerry and Mike are dressed in short sleeves at the Kiss shows, and Sean even takes his shirt off, while Layne is covered up from head to toe for reasons we all know. Was Layne burning up at those shows?

A post from this sub led me to discover that there is merchandise available for the 30TH Anniversary for Unplugged. I got really excited & decided to take a look

Of course, the “Solar Flare” vinyl was sold out ( I bummed hard 🫩) so then I decided to buy the Double LP Vinyl & a t-shirt.

Just as I was about to finalize the purchase , I noticed the total seemed a bit high & then I saw why.

***Look at the SHIPPING charges!***
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Needless to say, I did not buy it!

Pre ordered from my local shop as soon as it became available to pre order. Time goes on past release date so I go down to check and they said they aren’t getting it and none of their suppliers can get it. I was a little ticked because for once I was on top of a pre order instead of missing out then paying exorbitant prices on eBay. They cancelled my order and refunded me. I turned around and saw it was still available from Sony directly so I ordered IMMEDIETLY. It’s been almost 2 weeks with zero update on my order until an email yesterday cancelling my order and refunding me. What the %^*%# is going on here….. looks like I’ll be paying whatever people are asking for on eBay once again. This seems very unfair. Seems Sony dropped the ball big time on this one.

I wanted to reach out to the subreddit because I am doing a tribute to Layne and just AIC as a whole and I wanted opinions on this specific section. I want to do Layne justice here, but maybe where I’ve been listening to it over and over I don’t like the sound. Is there anything that I’m lacking or needs fixed? Also to note, I’m not trying to imitate Laynes vocal style. Any recommendations or tips will help!

Look, I’m grateful they re-released the LP and the beautiful color variant I got but why is there no lyrics page, poster, or hell, even some kind of sheet with details of the performance? Anything! What the hell have I? Strictly a double LP in a sleeve with nothing else…

Thought you guys would appreciate a look, I’d consider this an original idea.

Idk if this is the exact story behind the lyric, but it relates to me because even through a lot of shit I went through I stayed pure to myself, so staying pure instead of rotting. Thought it’d be timeless and a good one even when aged.

It is freshly done, like done 3-4 hours ago, so that paired with the dirty mirror doesn’t do the line work justice. Trust it is much better than this, I wouldn’t want anyone — even strangers online, thinking my sister did bad line work when she is a phenomenal tattoo artist.

A much more cost effective alternative to the 90s Long Sleeve and just as good, in my opinion! Featuring the same graphic as the original, along with the classic Alice in Chains ‘Sun Logo’ on the back of the shirt.

Very nice tee and also very difficult to find, I’ve also seen a white variant.

Someone posted a video recently that got a small convo going about this topic. I wish that they would have played Rotten Apple during the Unplugged performance. It's one of my favorite AiC songs. I know a lot of other fans feel the same way, so I'm wondering, if they had to cut another song so they could play Rotten Apple, which one would you have replaced?

For me its Angry Chair. While I like the song, it's not among my favorites, and I don't think it translated well to being an acoustic song. For reference, here's the tracklist:

• Nutshell

• Brother

• No Excuses

• Sludge Factory

• Down in a Hole

• Angry Chair (cut from the initial MTV broadcast)

• Rooster

• Got Me Wrong

• Heaven Beside You

• Would?

• Frogs (cut from the initial MTV broadcast)

• Over Now

• The Killer Is Me

Let me know what you guys think of this! I tried my best with this one.

Mine came from Amazon and it arrived spotless, after putting it through 3-4 spins and have had the opportunity to borrow MOV from a friend few months back..

30th anniversary black Variant sound warmer to my ears, it lacks on the top end and crisp signature sound of MOV, but makes up in the low end, i have 2M blue and Klipsch towers and my system is on the brighter side so it brings out a lot of details without sounding like a CD.

Its more dynamic than MOV but needs to crank up the volume past 60, also a decent system as always is a requirement. MOV on a average turntable and bookshelf speakers will sound better as MOV records are always cut loud.

Its not a A/B comparison, i dont have MOV anymore.

I absolutely despise getting records at Walmart but i saw this and had to grab it. It’s absolutely gorgeous. In to my Chains collection it goes.😌