LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 21, 2019- IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT’S EXACTLY 29 YEARS AGO ALICE IN CHAINS RELEASED THEIR EXCELLENT DEBUT ALBUM ‘FACELIFT.’ HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS SURROUNDING AIC AND ‘FACELIFT’:
-FACELIFT BOASTED 4 SINGLES ‘WE DIE YOUNG’ ‘BLEED THE FREAK’ ‘SEA OF SORROW’ AND ‘MAN IN THE BOX’
-FACELIFT SOLD MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES WITHIN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS OF BEING RELEASE, AND TO DATE HAS RACKED UP TOTAL SALES AND DOWNLOADS OF 4.5 MILLION COPIES.
– DRUMMER SEAN KINNEY PLAYED DRUMS ON THE RECORD WITH A BROKEN HAND. ACCORDING TO KINNEY: “I cut my cast off in the studio and kept a bucket of ice by the drum set,I tried not to do that again—your first big break, and you f–k it up.”
– THE LYRICS TO ‘MAN IN THE BOX’ ARE CRYPTIC “FEED MY EYES, CAN YOU SEW THEM SHUT/JESUS CHRIST DENY YOUR MAKER, HE WHO TRIES WILL BE WASTED.” WHEN ASKED WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT, LAYNE STALEY SAID THEY WERE CRITICIZING MEDIA CENSORSHIP, BUT “I was really, really stoned when I wrote it.”
-MAN IN THE BOX EARNED THE GROUP A GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE’
-LAYNE STALEY CLOSED HIS LAST EVER AIC PERFORMANCE BY SINGING ‘MAN IN THE BOX’
THIS IS A LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM 1991
