mentalmark wrote:
Through the dark days of grunge, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains were the heaviest and most technically gifted bands to emerge from that scene. I was fan of them both, at the time, but I'd grown out of it around the time of Down on the Upside and Grind came along and so when I heard of Layne Staley's death years later, for me, it drew a line under what remained of that era, full stop.
Now Alice are coming back and the question simply is why? Jerry Cantrell's solo stuff was sometimes ok, but it never received the commercial success of his Alice days, so one last pay check does seemed to be the obvious answer.
Cantrell has seen what the Pixies did a year or two ago and thought, 'use nostalgia for vindicating the pay-cheque! Bring back the dead as the kids back then are reaching or are in their thirties and can pay more for us now than they ever did back then!'
I'm now in my thirties and I say to all-ignore this reunion. Somethings are best left in the past. Don't encourage them as your 'idols' will end up shitting on the grave of whatever your particular scene stood for(Black was the time Metallica should have gone and look at the huge amount of shit they've crapped on their heritage!)!
For the sake of sanity-Jerry fuck off, continue doing your own thing and leave your past glory with Layne. Dead, buried, but immortalised for it's time and fondly remembered!
except for Metallica (I won't condemn them after a sole crappy album), I agree with pretty much everything...
very few are the bads thet get back together because they have more to say... shame... :?
