Facelift- AIC; Faceless- GS
Both released a seven song acoustic EP...
Named after my favorite AIC song
Long Gone Day - Voodoo <---same song?!
Sun logo...
Yea, Dirt is amazing. I think my favorite track is Hate to Feel. That whole album became so hard to listen to after Layne's death but it's still an amazing disc.
Yea, Dirt is amazing. I think my favorite track is Hate to Feel. That whole album became so hard to listen to after Layne's death but it's still an amazing disc.
Another classic song.
Unplugged is a painfully haunting experience, very difficult to take in especially since 2002. A lot of Tripod and Jar of Flies as well. You can hear him slipping away. I don't have too much trouble with Dirt, mainly because everything sounds okay....but you can tell something's wrong post-Dirt.
Unplugged is a painfully haunting experience, very difficult to take in especially since 2002. A lot of Tripod and Jar of Flies as well. You can hear him slipping away. I don't have too much trouble with Dirt, mainly because everything sounds okay....but you can tell something's wrong post-Dirt.
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Yea, the funny thing about Dirt is back in the day I remember thinking a lot of the songs were about depressing subject matter (addiction, death, loneliness, etc) but that was ok because they seemed like just disconnected stories that didn't really have much meaning to me. Now when I hear it, it's like reading Layne's diary (even though I think Jerry wrote most of the songs) - but you hear the lyrics and can't help but feel that he was living the stories that he sang about. It's like a concept album about the Layne's destruction, even though it wasn't. I don't know, it just became very powerful and hard to hear after he died...
Rain When I Die/Sickman, the one/two of these back to back is absolutely brutal, I used to listen to this album every time I took acid when I was 15/16/17 years old, it got to the point when on acid I felt like this album was an essential part of my trip and had to be listened to, fucking incredible record and a pivotal point of my life back then.
Yea, the funny thing about Dirt is back in the day I remember thinking a lot of the songs were about depressing subject matter (addiction, death, loneliness, etc) but that was ok because they seemed like just disconnected stories that didn't really have much meaning to me. Now when I hear it, it's like reading Layne's diary (even though I think Jerry wrote most of the songs) - but you hear the lyrics and can't help but feel that he was living the stories that he sang about. It's like a concept album about the Layne's destruction. I don't know, it just became very powerful and hard to hear after he died...
Yeah when you look at the lyrics it's pretty surreal. It's funny how Jerry's writing got darker as time went on when he wasn't the one withering away. They must've been so in tune with each other.
Yeah when you look at the lyrics it's pretty surreal. It's funny how Jerry's writing got darker as time went on when he wasn't the one withering away. They must've been so in tune with each other.
it's pretty well known, but not much talked about, that Layne was not the only drug addict in AIC.
tell what? it's fairly well known that Cantrell has had drug problems. with crack cocaine if not heroin too. I think he's talked about it, and it's in many of the lyrics he writes. some of his songs from his solo albums were directed at Layne, and one off the top of my head pretty much said straight that Layne was not the only one dealing with addiction.
also AIC's first bassist, Mike Starr. I have seen several "reasons" why he was kicked out, so no one really knows for sure. but one of the reasons I've seen is that he was heroin addict and that he got Layne started on heroin to begin with.
tell what? it's fairly well known that Cantrell has had drug problems. with crack cocaine if not heroin too. I think he's talked about it, and it's in many of the lyrics he writes. some of his songs from his solo albums were directed at Layne, and one off the top of my head pretty much said straight that Layne was not the only one dealing with addiction.
also AIC's first bassist, Mike Starr. I have seen several "reasons" why he was kicked out, so no one really knows for sure. but one of the reasons I've seen is that he was heroin addict and that he got Layne started on heroin to begin with.
I've never heard Cantrell solo stuff, and never heard anything about him and drug addiction.
I've heard a lot of stuff about Mike Starr too, don't know what is true.
here's the lyrics to Cantrell's song "Devil By His Side" from Boggy Depot
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the one-way signs
I try to clear my head
Of thoughts better left unsaid
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
The wind upon my face
No one here for to block my way
I wake the setting sun
Bullet shot by a thoughtful gun
Runnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that same
Devil from my side
Always watchin' me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the mileage signs
Not much further to go
I laugh and I'm almost home
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that old
Devil from my side
Always taunting me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
but yeah, there's been plenty of talk that Jerry was heavily into crack. I'm pretty sure I've even read that he admitted it.
"Rain When I Die" by far my favorite song AIC put out. That reunion tour with the new singer was fucking awesome, hopefully they do that again sometime.
here's the lyrics to Cantrell's song "Devil By His Side" from Boggy Depot
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the one-way signs
I try to clear my head
Of thoughts better left unsaid
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
The wind upon my face
No one here for to block my way
I wake the setting sun
Bullet shot by a thoughtful gun
Runnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that same
Devil from my side
Always watchin' me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the mileage signs
Not much further to go
I laugh and I'm almost home
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that old
Devil from my side
Always taunting me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
but yeah, there's been plenty of talk that Jerry was heavily into crack. I'm pretty sure I've even read that he admitted it.
To be honest, I feel these lyrics are more about Layne, and how Jerry suffers with him because of his (Layne's) addiction. But I could be wrong. By the way, I searched for a bit last night and didn't find anything online referring to Jerry and an addiction. I also talked to a bunch of friends and none of them knew. So this is news to me...
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Thought this was going to be a thread about the band, not the song.
Nice trickery !!!
It would be so hard to pick a favorite AIC song for me. But Dirt is my favorite album!
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And fuck Godsmack the band :mad:
Facelift- AIC; Faceless- GS
Both released a seven song acoustic EP...
Named after my favorite AIC song
Long Gone Day - Voodoo <---same song?!
Sun logo...
Unplugged is a painfully haunting experience, very difficult to take in especially since 2002. A lot of Tripod and Jar of Flies as well. You can hear him slipping away. I don't have too much trouble with Dirt, mainly because everything sounds okay....but you can tell something's wrong post-Dirt.
:(
Yea, the funny thing about Dirt is back in the day I remember thinking a lot of the songs were about depressing subject matter (addiction, death, loneliness, etc) but that was ok because they seemed like just disconnected stories that didn't really have much meaning to me. Now when I hear it, it's like reading Layne's diary (even though I think Jerry wrote most of the songs) - but you hear the lyrics and can't help but feel that he was living the stories that he sang about. It's like a concept album about the Layne's destruction, even though it wasn't. I don't know, it just became very powerful and hard to hear after he died...
Godsmack the band - Awake
Untill their will grows tired
it's pretty well known, but not much talked about, that Layne was not the only drug addict in AIC.
tell what? it's fairly well known that Cantrell has had drug problems. with crack cocaine if not heroin too. I think he's talked about it, and it's in many of the lyrics he writes. some of his songs from his solo albums were directed at Layne, and one off the top of my head pretty much said straight that Layne was not the only one dealing with addiction.
also AIC's first bassist, Mike Starr. I have seen several "reasons" why he was kicked out, so no one really knows for sure. but one of the reasons I've seen is that he was heroin addict and that he got Layne started on heroin to begin with.
I've heard a lot of stuff about Mike Starr too, don't know what is true.
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the one-way signs
I try to clear my head
Of thoughts better left unsaid
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
The wind upon my face
No one here for to block my way
I wake the setting sun
Bullet shot by a thoughtful gun
Runnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that same
Devil from my side
Always watchin' me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
Clear on the road tonight
Headlamps shine on the mileage signs
Not much further to go
I laugh and I'm almost home
Gunnin' down an old elusive high
Did I lose you
Oh friend of mine
Is it in your hardened heart to
Trust me one more time
See, I'm tryin' to shake that old
Devil from my side
Always taunting me, yeah
Laughing while I cry
While I cry
Runnin' down an old elusive high
One more time
but yeah, there's been plenty of talk that Jerry was heavily into crack. I'm pretty sure I've even read that he admitted it.
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