JAMES HETFIELD, ALCOHOLIC, MAKES FUN OF LAYNE STALEY, JUNKIE
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 4:11pm by Axl RosenbergThis video is from ‘94, but still… I’d never seen it before and found it, well, not funny, but, uh, interesting? Let’s say interesting.
I guess Cantrell and company weren’t too offended, though, ’cause in 2006, they performed with Hetfield:
So, yeah. That happened.
-AR
Thanks to Brandon Marvin for the tip.
Didn’t the bassist of AIC write something like “Friends Don’t Let Friends Get ‘Friends’ Haircuts” on his bass right after “Load” came out?
Yeah they did it on the mtv unplugged, but in that same show they did a quick cover of enter sandman.
Funny shit! I love that video!!!!!!
Hmm lets see, AIC is about to drop album of the year (i dont give a fuck ill say it over and over) after losing their original vocalist, persevered through that hell without the help of a fucking A-list celebrity shrink. They continue to write great music without the help of a fucking sham producer. Oh yes friends, ol’ Papa Het has strong legs to stand on.
Ya i know its old, i just cant stand Metallica’s sense of Entitlement.
They may have birthed it, but better bands have raised it.
Yeah, but Metallica will still sell way more records than AIC, so I gues they basically don’t give a shit…
You’d seriously never seen this before til now?
Yeah but that joke was no beef they just did it for fun.. they still close friends. anyways Alcohol/ drugs same shit, same death walkaway/ thats Y James enTered Rehab if not it was going to be the same shit Metallica with a new Vocals.. I dont think so they prob change the name
learn to use a keyboard.
Yes, I’m a dick.
I agree. It’s like there’s some hidden message in there somewhere…
I have provided a translation:
“Indeed, but this act was merely for the purposes of entertainment and would harbor no ill will towards the band Alice in Chains. However, the consumption of alcohol and drugs will inevitably lead to demise so it is better to turn away from these horrific vices. Sir Hetfield realized this and had decided to seek out (seek and destroy, I am chuckling at this quote) rehabilitation lest he would leave his bandmates Metallica to find a new vocalist. THat would be quite preposterous unless they were to go under a new pseudonym.”
haha. nice
You’re a credit to the name ‘Mark’
1994? C’mon, it’s not like they made shit out of him in June of 2002 or anything. And AIC (Jerry & Sean, anyway) and Metallica have always been pretty tight.
I mean, yeah, I get it, sort of – in 15 year hindsight it’s not very funny and comes off as pretty hypocritical, I agree, given Het’s alcoholism and Kirk & Lars’ coke binges. But I mean, come on – Layne was still healthy-ish at the time and it was still neary a *decade* before he’d be found dead. And, let’s see… 1994… without looking it up, I’m guessing that’s right around the time AIC had to cancel the remainder of their headlining tour because Layne had collapsed on stage due to *ahem* “exhaustion.” I remember this pretty well, because I had tickets for that show and it was all cancelled only a week or two before. I never got to see them again after that.
Anyway, I’m guessing that that is what they were poking fun at – his “exhaustion.”
But you’re right – 15 years later it’s not so cute or funny.
I still remember seeing them do this at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta on the Summer Shit tour after Alice cancelled. Dunno if its the same show or not because I don’t recall the shoe incident. Could be though. I was like 15 and stoned out of my mind.
That’s def. the Sumemr Shit Tour – I remember Kirk’s faux-dreads/braids/things. Also, James intoduced “Seek & Destroy” the same way in Des Moines because they/he never fucking ever changed the stage banter ever. Probably because he was drunk. Or too preoccupied with trying to remember the exact techniques for pantomiming heroin useage.
i was at that how as well i think…maybe it was binge and purge.
was it candlebox and suicidal tendencies supporting?
It was Danzig & Suicidal. It was for our leg of the tour, anyway.
I must say that was a pretty good catch by Hetfield though.
Completely accidental though. It landed in his drunk ass ratclaw out of shear providence.
“Shear Providence” is the name of a dog grooming place around here
They put Mutt Cutts out of business. It’s too bad too – the owners were gonna open a bitchin worm farm store. Instead they moved away.
Ain’t that the same old story, fuck these are hard times
Win sir! +1
On “Sunrise Island”?
hahaha
Metallica bag on other people all the time. Lame.
Why oh why couldn’t that ol’ bus roll have “KIlled ‘em All”?
you’d be listening to rap music, because the influence of Metallica wouldn’t have been the same…
Rap > Metallica
No, I already do that. My musical tastes aren’t nearly as one-sided as most of the folks on this site. I just happen to love metal above all other genres of music.
Metallica make it easy to dislike them as people. Not funny now, and I wouldn’t have found it funny then either.
RIP Layne.
Im buying the new Alice In Chains on the 29th. And I still havent bought death magnetic. Metallica’s best album was Garage days RE-visited, cause they didnt write any songs on it.
+!
It was 1994 get the fuck over it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLlsEnOJyg
Oh and “Black Gives Way to Blue” is a pretty good album but not as good as this site is making it out to be.
+1. Love AiC to death but like most new stuff on this site, definitely much over-hyped. Definitely a few gems on it though…but just as many pedestrian tracks.
AGREED! Holy Shit! I’ve listened to that whole record a few times and I like it. But, it is NOT (!) the album of the year by any means. It’s the best album put out by a classic metal band, Heaven and Hell and Metallica (plus others) couldn’t hold a candle to it. However, this site makes it seem like it’s this ridiculous comeback by a band that lost it’s heart and soul when a member died and blahblahblah. It’s a good record, especially good considering they haven’t put out a record in a long time. But that’s it.
All that matters to me now is that Metallica has great bands openning for them, and in this way they still push the genre forward. As far as their music goes though…. they need to stop releasing new albums.
I fucking hate Metallica.
I really love both bands here, but I am sure that Layne did something to deserve that. They had to drop off of that tour. I have no patience personally for dealing with Junkies.
God he sucks live…I mean yeah, it’s been that way for most of my lifetime but shit, I can never get over how horrendous Hetfield’s live vocals are. You’d think that at some time in the last 15 years (at the very, very least) he’d have the wisdom to admit he can’t sing worth a shit and maybe he should work on improving that. Real musicians get better over time and never stop learning!
He tried that. Which is why we now get “Country James Hetfield” whenever we hear him live.
Its sad!!!!!!!!!!!
i cringed every time his voice changed keys. you could tell william duvall was like “uh… ok. that was… something.” at the end.
you’re deluding yourself if you think that most metal vocalists can replicate live what they do on record. hetfield is no more egregious than anyone else. sure, there are definite exceptions to this generalisation, but that’s why it’s called generalisation.
tis a sad indictment indeed that they usually fail to reaching the dizzying heights of monotonic and unintelligible grunting that usually pass for ‘metal vocals’
I hate Metallica because they have done way too much for this genre of music for anyone to like them. I mean look at Slayer. Constantly writing new and awesome material that doesn’t sound like anything they have ever played before. Kerry King is the best guitarist and the world and I would be happy to fellate him on any given day.
/end sarcasm
Lol….until I read the last line my jaw was dropped
Kill ‘Em All
Ride The Lightning
Master of Puppets
Garage Days Re-revisted
And Justice For All (although it needs bass)
Death Magnetic (yeah, I fucking said it)
Those albums are all fan-fucking-tastic, if I decided to like bands based upon their personalities, I probably wouldn’t have very many CD’s, I’d probably just own Death: Symbolic…because how do you not make an exception for that….? I love AIC, but I still hold a slight grudge against them for inspiring terrible bands like Godsmack. In fact, I hold a grudge against all of those Seattle bands for inspiring Nickleback and Creed. I will definitely be picking up the new AIC, I must say that I am thoroughly impressed thus far.
“So I made a big mistake, I tried to be as good as Layne Staley and FAILED!” One, James is NOTHING when compared to Layne, and two, in MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION, nobody in Metallica matches the talent that is in Alice in Chains. Lars ain’t nothing when compared to Sean Kinney, and James and Kirk are nothing when compared to Jerry Cantrell. The only Metallica guys that have that kind of talent are Cliff and Jason. But then again, this is my own opinion.
….. but then again, thats how the world is…..
Jerry Cantrell is the living genius that came from that grunge era and that blonde loser that only played three power chords over and over again is the one who gets the title of ” artist of the decade “, ” inspiration of a generation ” and all that mindless titles………..
What’s really funny is the fact that 4 years after this video was made, James and Jerry Cantrell played in studio together for the Garage, Inc. cover of “Tuesday’s Gone”.
…and yet everyone is getting their panties in a twist about this!
Cantrell also opened Metallica’s ‘98 tour. Bogey Depot had just come out and Cantrell had Kinney on the drums. Good ass show, all around, except this weird dude on the keys.
Metallica was sitting front row at AIC’s Unplugged (’96) with the new haircuts, which inspired Inez to write that shit on his bass. Can’t imagine this video did much of anything at the time so why give a shit about it now?
Well they did this August 5th in Dallas at the Starplex as well and I was GD pissed that AIC wasn’t there. I cold give a rats ass if James mocked them, at least they were there. Such a freaking letdown, think you’re going to see AIC and Metallica and AIC bails, never got another chance to see them after that. I’m still pissed about it. Candlebox was GD lame. I do like me some ST though, was always great seeing those guys live, SUICIDAL!!!!
Quit playing the victim card for Layne already, he was a damn junkie with an incredible voice, but still a junkie.
man, they are just playing around. they have always talked highly of alice and chains and as a matter of fact I saw cantrell and co. as you put it with metallica in 97 or 98 so… not even as late as 2006. get over the butthurtness.
If it had been after Layne died, it would be fucked up. But honestly, it’s not uncool to point out to someone
HEY BRO YOUR KILLING YOURSELF WITH HEROIN ASSHOLE.
Poor Layne. RIP.
That aside, I never liked Metallica except for the Black Album. I thought that was some inspired writing.
Testament anyday over Metallica.
TESTAMENT!! \m/. SKOLNICK 4EVER .\m/