While you actually like a sure band, you typically have a vivid reminiscence of the primary time you listened to them. Anthrax’s Scott Ian recalled the primary time he heard Alice in Chains in a brand new interview, admitting that he initially thought they have been a hair band, however was blown away.
Ian instructed Metallic Hammer that his first publicity to the Seattle rockers was when Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer have been selecting who they wished to assist them on the American leg of their large Conflict of the Titans tour. Dave Mustaine gave Ian a CD copy of Alice’s debut album Facelift to hearken to.
“I hadn’t even heard of them, and I assumed it was some hair band. And I put it on within the automobile on the best way dwelling and I used to be blown away. I couldn’t consider how fucking good it was,” he remembered. “It was not thrash and it was not ’80s laborious rock. That they had the riffs, the hooks, the vocals, however there was this pop factor to it – I imply, ‘Man within the Field’ is a straight-up pop track by way of association, however it’s so fucking heavy. Like, Black Sabbath heavy.”
Alas, Alice have been invited to affix the Conflict of the Titans tour, which ran from Could via mid-July of 1991. Setlist.fm notes that their common setlist included 7 songs on that tour, opening with “Would?” — which might initially come out the next 12 months on the soundtrack for the film Singles — and closed with “Man within the Field.”
“I keep in mind the primary present they performed on the Conflict of the Titans tour, and I anticipated them to simply be up there shoegazing, however they have been leaping round, headbanging, Layne [Staley] was within the crowd’s faces. He’d soar within the crowd and combat folks,” Ian remarked of Alice’s performances.
“There’s this delusion of darkness round them, however these guys have been simply fucking goofballs. We stayed in the identical accommodations each day, there have been many, many nights spent consuming with them, we’d go fishing with them. However when got here to going through down 1000’s of Slayer and Megadeth and Anthrax followers, they’d not again down. I had such respect for that then, and I nonetheless do right this moment.”
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