Cali Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Layne Staley died of a drug overdose in his Seattle apartment. Sadly, his body wasn't found for another 2 weeks. Say what you will about him doing heroin, but theman made great f***ing music, and had a beautiful voice. Alice in Chains is and will always be my favorite band, and Layne's music will, at least in my mind, live on forever. R.I.P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfest Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 They were a good band , but I sure as hell do not feel bad for a drug addict, you spin the wheel you make the deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wsc425 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Was he one of those crappy guys who play guitars and yell as if they are constipated on a toilet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wsc425 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Was he one of those crappy guys who play guitars and yell as if they are constipated on a toilet? shut. up. those songs suck, spiff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiff Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Was he one of those crappy guys who play guitars and yell as if they are constipated on a toilet? shut. up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Was he one of those crappy guys who play guitars and yell as if they are constipated on a toilet? shut. up. those songs suck, spiff. No no no, the MTv bulls*** like 50 Cent and Simple Plan suck ass. Alice In Chains, Nirvana, etc. have more talent in one thumb than Simple Plan, 50 Cent, or whatever other bulls*** you listen to could ever hope to have in a million lifetimes. Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, these men were geniuses...and I am not gonna let some little pathetic asshat like yourself, wsc, try to demean them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wsc425 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Was he one of those crappy guys who play guitars and yell as if they are constipated on a toilet? shut. up. those songs suck, spiff. No no no, the MTv bulls*** like 50 Cent and Simple Plan suck ass. Alice In Chains, Nirvana, etc. have more talent in one thumb than Simple Plan, 50 Cent, or whatever other bulls*** you listen to could ever hope to have in a million lifetimes. Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, these men were geniuses...and I am not gonna let some little pathetic asshat like yourself, wsc, try to demean them. I have no objection to nirvana. I don't even like 50 cent or simple plan, or at least not simple plan yet. :fyou I like linkin park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 I like linkin park Wow. You like a crappy corporate band. Good for you. Want a cookie? Linkin Park sucks ass. Turn off MTv and get your own musical tastes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan420 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 I like linkin park Wow. You like a crappy corporate band. Good for you. Want a cookie? Linkin Park sucks ass. Turn off MTv and get your own musical tastes. corporate=anything apu doesnt like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Sell outs that compromise their music for dollars = corporate. i.e. the new Dead Kennedys sans Jello Biafra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan420 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Sell outs that compromise their music for dollars = corporate. i.e. the new Dead Kennedys sans Jello Biafra lol apu you hate everyone that makes money dont you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wsc425 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 cause all he can get is 10 k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan420 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 cause all he can get is 10 k yup thats why everyhing apu hates he calls corprate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 lol apu you hate everyone that makes money dont you? I just hate the ones that compromise their views for cash. Like the members of the DK did. Jello declined to let Levis use "Holiday in Cambodia" in an ad. So the band sued him and said that they weren't on MTv, VH 1, etc. enough. (Granted, they did actively perform a song entitled "MTv Get Off the Air", but I digress) And they weren't in Rolling Stone, etc. And their lawyer said that if they would have been corporatized, more CD's would have sold. So basically Jello had to pay damages on CD's that didn't exist. There are plenty of bands that have bastardized their music so they can sell more records. Look at Blink 182. They completely alienated their fan base by doing whatever the label told them to do and they became complete pricks. f***, Weezer almost got kicked off their label because they went into the studio before Maladroit came out (paid for it themselves out of pocket) and did previews of Maladroit. Then they put those up for download on their web page because they like their fans. Their label got angry and nearly booted them for that. And I really don't like MTv forcing music down my throat either. If you've heard "Pull My Strings" by the Dead Kennedys, it really shows my feelings towards the corporate music industry. I'll take my independent record shops and independent bands, thank you very much. Cuz quite simply, they are in it for the music and obviously not for the money since they don't get paid all that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan420 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 lol apu you hate everyone that makes money dont you? I just hate the ones that compromise their views for cash. Like the members of the DK did. Jello declined to let Levis use "Holiday in Cambodia" in an ad. So the band sued him and said that they weren't on MTv, VH 1, etc. enough. (Granted, they did actively perform a song entitled "MTv Get Off the Air", but I digress) And they weren't in Rolling Stone, etc. And their lawyer said that if they would have been corporatized, more CD's would have sold. So basically Jello had to pay damages on CD's that didn't exist. There are plenty of bands that have bastardized their music so they can sell more records. Look at Blink 182. They completely alienated their fan base by doing whatever the label told them to do and they became complete pricks. f***, Weezer almost got kicked off their label because they went into the studio before Maladroit came out (paid for it themselves out of pocket) and did previews of Maladroit. Then they put those up for download on their web page because they like their fans. Their label got angry and nearly booted them for that. And I really don't like MTv forcing music down my throat either. If you've heard "Pull My Strings" by the Dead Kennedys, it really shows my feelings towards the corporate music industry. I'll take my independent record shops and independent bands, thank you very much. Cuz quite simply, they are in it for the music and obviously not for the money since they don't get paid all that much. so if you change to sell more records you suck??? i consider that a smart buisness move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 cause all he can get is 10 k Ah yes, the pontification of the backwoods dips***, WSC425. I'm actually in college and if I want to after I graduate can get a job in a law firm. That can be a VERY well paying job. With my teaching degree that I am working towards, I can also go to affluent districts and get paid lots of money. But something that you may not understand, doing a job is not always about the f***ing money. It's about the job satisfaction of doing a job that you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 so if you change to sell more records you suck??? i consider that a smart buisness move. They compromised their entire belief structure in order to make money...that's selling your soul. Not a business move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan420 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 cause all he can get is 10 k Ah yes, the pontification of the backwoods dips***, WSC425. I'm actually in college and if I want to after I graduate can get a job in a law firm. That can be a VERY well paying job. With my teaching degree that I am working towards, I can also go to affluent districts and get paid lots of money. But something that you may not understand, doing a job is not always about the f***ing money. It's about the job satisfaction of doing a job that you like. nah you got to have both high $$$ job. and job satifaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wsc425 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 cause all he can get is 10 k Ah yes, the pontification of the backwoods dips***, WSC425. I'm actually in college and if I want to after I graduate can get a job in a law firm. That can be a VERY well paying job. With my teaching degree that I am working towards, I can also go to affluent districts and get paid lots of money. But something that you may not understand, doing a job is not always about the f***ing money. It's about the job satisfaction of doing a job that you like. And teaching kids communism? thats gonna get u far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 And teaching kids communism? thats gonna get u far... wsc, do a little research into the wonderful civilizations around the world that were not tainted by European feudalism etc. Take the Andean region for instance. They had ayllus, or common lands that they all shared and there was no mutually exclusive territory. That's communism and it worked wonderfully well and they flourished for generations until the Spaniards came with their diseases, ethnocentrism and guns and FORCED them to change. Authentic Marxist revolution towards communism is quite possibly the greatest government ever. The events that happened in Hungary, Russia, and Poland would have had Marx rolling in his grave. (Realized from my own readings of Marx and Engels and also being able to talk with a 40 year emeritus professor in socialist theory) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 nah you got to have both high $$$ job. and job satifaction. Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life...Thousands of years ago, the question was asked; 'Am I my brother's keeper?'....Yes, I am my brothers keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death? -Eugene V. Debs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 Wow! This has gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off-topic But, seriously, there's no way in hell you've never heard an Alice in Chains song. It's not like they're some underground band or something, and even if you listen to the radio now for Linkin Park, they'll throw in a Alice in Chains song in between the rest of the crap they play on the radio. P.S. Layne didn't play guitar, he just sang, not screamed. No better fourth interval harmonies than the ones that come out of Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiff Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 the reason i said shut up is b/c regardless of what you think of metal, you have to pick your battles. if cali wants to pay tribute to layne staley, let him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Critic Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Wow, it doesn't seem like a year already since that happened. My opinion, not that it matters: AIC was a good band that had a few great songs Layne Staley was a good enough singer, but not really the kind of singer I enjoy all that much - I prefer a rougher, lower voice in the bands I like. His death was a shame, but not a tragedy, because he did it to himself. I'm sure it was a tragedy to those he was close to, but I was not in that number, so to me it was just sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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