Album: Live
Original release date: Dec. 5, 2000
Label: Columbia

Personnel:

• Jerry Cantrell - Vocals, Guitar
• Mike Inez - Bass
• Layne Staley - Vocals, Guitar
• Sean Kinney - Drums
• Mike Starr - Bass
• Mark Naficy - Engineer, Mixing
• Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
• Tony Wilson - Producer, Mixing
• Peter Fletcher - Compilation Producer
• Mike Walter - Engineer
• Mary Maurer - Art Direction, Design
• Marty Temme - Photography
• Brandy Flower - Design

Track list:

1. "Bleed the Freak" (12/22/90, Moore Theater, Seattle, WA) (Cantrell) – 4:33
2. "Queen of the Rodeo" (11/5/90, Dallas, TX) (Silver/Staley) – 4:40
3. "Angry Chair" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Staley) – 4:22
4. "Man in the Box" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Cantrell/Staley) – 4:57
5. "Love, Hate, Love" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Cantrell/Staley) – 7:47
6. "Rooster" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Cantrell) – 6:48
7. "Would?" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Cantrell) – 3:48
8. "Junkhead" (3/2/93, Glasgow Barrowland) (Cantrell/Staley) – 5:20
9. "Dirt (Drunk and Disorderly Version)" (10/24/93, Nagoya, Japan) (Cantrell/Staley) – 5:23
10. "Them Bones" (7/2/96, Kiel Center, St. Louis, MO) (Cantrell) – 2:39
11. "God Am" (7/2/96, Kiel Center, St. Louis, MO) (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley) – 3:58
12. "Again" (7/2/96, Kiel Center, St. Louis, MO) (Cantrell/Staley) – 4:23
13. "A Little Bitter" (7/3/96, Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO) (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley) – 3:51
14. "Dam That River" (7/3/96, Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO) (Cantrell) – 3:32

 Singles:
"Man in the Box"

Billboard Top 200 peak: #142

 

AIC's only official, full-length, live album to date, aside from the Unplugged album. A great live assortment, which compiles performances spanning 6 years of touring.

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A decent live album. I love Angry Chair into Man in the Box. Also, nothing beats the intro to God Am.

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Evacuate, assemble here

http://www.last.fm/user/BlackSession323

Junkhead is one the best live recordings of a song ever.

After listenening to the studio albums to death, this album was a refreshing suprise. It was neat to hear God Am live. Wish it would have been a double CD set. You can tell Layne is somewhat drifting away in the 1996 material. They were pretty tight live.

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RIP Layne. The music lives on..........

You'd think Hate to Feel and It Ain't Like That would be included on this cd, as they're on the Angry Chair single.

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Evacuate, assemble here

http://www.last.fm/user/BlackSession323

Own it.  Love it!!!  For all of the fans, who didn't get to see Layne perform live, we are lucky to have these live recordings.

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"Walls of thought strong and high"

i like many of the songs on here better than the original recordings ( bleed the freak) good album considering i never saw them live

Live is a extraordinaire album. It really shows that Alice in Chains is a great band. They can sound a lot better alive than in studio!!! For me, this album has the best version of "Bleed the freak" "God am" "Again" and "A Little bitter". Perfect!!

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~ I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me ~

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I love Again on this. Especially Layne's second scream, for want of a better word. SO much power, from such a skinny guy!

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"Whats my motivation here?" - Layne Thomas Staley, April 10, 1996

http://www.freewebs.com/jakethegamereviewer/index.htm

I have to admit, I have never owned this album. I saw AIC with Layne twice, and attended the 7/3/96 show, which was their last with Layne. A Litlle Bitter, and Dam That River on this disc are from that show. I lived it man, I don't need to own the disc. Plus, I thought it was just a way for the record company to cash in on Alice's name because everyone KNEW they were not coming back while Layne was still alive. I truly believe that AIC would have NEVER got back together while Layne was still around, unless he found a way to get clean. He shut these guys out at the end. He did want to even speak to them, much less make more music!! Just my opinion, for what it's worth!!! (Probably not much)

THE CRACKS AND LINES FROM WHERE YOU GAVE UP

THEY MAKE AN EASY MAN TO READ

FOR ALL THE TIMES YOU LET THEM BLEED YOU

FOR LITTLE PEACE FROM GOD YOU PLEAD AND BEG

FOR LITTLE PEACE FROM GOD YOU PLEAD

 

 

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The fact that you were there is all the more reason for you to own the album.

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That is a good point!! Never thought of it that way. Changing my tune as we speak!! You learn something new everyday>

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I listen to this album every day on the way home from work.   It sounds ritualistic, and perhaps it is, but I just have to listen to it over and over again.  In the car I can jack up the volume to a level my neighbors would never tolerate. 

A LITTLE BITTER is a masterpiece on this cd, as is every single track here.   Sometimes it's the little things -- Layne's "yeaya" right before MAN IN THE BOX or the deliciously cathartic F*ck You! in QUEEN OF THE RODEO.   It's not just that Layne rips tiles off the ceiling with that voice on this one: everyone in the band is in their glory on track after track.  They were so tight, musically.  When Layne goes slightly off key for "Have I gone, and left you here alone" in WOULD, I sigh at the beauty of AIC.   

The ONLY thing that drives me nuts in the middle of this cerebral infusion of reminders of why being alive is a good thing are those missed words on DIRT.  I don't know when Layne started leaving them out -- but they freaking make the song, or let's say add a lot to it.

"I want you to scrape me from the walls and go crazy ...." (omitted on later versions: LIKE YOU MADE ME!).  

 

 

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"I live for you, but I'm not alive."

Morvi:

I listen to this album every day on the way home from work.   It sounds ritualistic, and perhaps it is, but I just have to listen to it over and over again.  In the car I can jack up the volume to a level my neighbors would never tolerate. 

A LITTLE BITTER is a masterpiece on this cd, as is every single track here.   Sometimes it's the little things -- Layne's "yeaya" right before MAN IN THE BOX or the deliciously cathartic F*ck You! in QUEEN OF THE RODEO.   It's not just that Layne rips tiles off the ceiling with that voice on this one: everyone in the band is in their glory on track after track.  They were so tight, musically.  When Layne goes slightly off key for "Have I gone, and left you here alone" in WOULD, I sigh at the beauty of AIC.   

The ONLY thing that drives me nuts in the middle of this cerebral infusion of reminders of why being alive is a good thing are those missed words on DIRT.  I don't know when Layne started leaving them out -- but they freaking make the song, or let's say add a lot to it.

"I want you to scrape me from the walls and go crazy ...." (omitted on later versions: LIKE YOU MADE ME!).  

 

 

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"I live for you, but I'm not alive."

TEE HEE.  GOOD ONE!

You must have the telepathy thing going!

Really? Not trying to stir anything up here or anything, but I thought this album sucked... I've listened to it straight through under 5 times, probably 3 times the more I think about it, and I decided to just put it away. It's not like I only listen to album versions and think that's the band, it's just that there are a lot of bootlegs (even low quality ones) that I think show off the band better. I don't know exactly what it is about the cd that drives me crazy, but I can't stand to listen to it. I clicked on this thread expecting to see everyone sharing my opinion on this, but maybe I'm alone here in hating it.

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