Episodio 63: Alice in Chains Man on the box year 1990. English Version.
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the Spreaker application or Google podcast to your cell phone.00:00:45 - Being more important in a podcast than to innovate, a style of music that made her metal bands disappear in the late 1980s, is grunge.
00:00:54 - The band is Alice and Jane's in the song Man on the Box.
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00:01:13 - Bruce Dickinson want to see us and you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it it's it's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy let me well it's spelled differently than everything is called old guzmachon.
00:01:43 - Rod Halford.
00:01:44 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and.
00:01:55 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley.
00:01:57 - But piano was inconceivable.
00:01:59 - I mean, you can't just go and buy a piano.
00:02:02 - Or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:02:05 - I think I was very driven period.
00:02:07 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.
00:02:37 - Listed as grunge for being originally from Seattle and for sharing with the other groups in the area that angry and depressing attitude so typical of a climate like Seattle, rainy most of the year, they instead played an authentic heavy metal, perhaps dense, dark, and slow,
00:02:59 - But it last in finally heavy metal, with a deep influence from the sound of the early black Sabbath.
00:03:09 - The Seattle sound was there, but working at the surface of heavy metal, which put Allison
00:03:14 - Chains closer to Metallica musically than to Nirvana or Pearl Gem, it wouldn't be until his last.
00:03:24 - Job Alice in Shane's studio where the Seattle sound would be more influenced but without heavy metal ceasing to be the dominant force.
00:03:33 - Then, we meet Elaine Staley with overwhelming energy, and amisticism not very common at the time, and that reminds me of the great heavy rock singers of the 70s, with very powerful vocal registers, but to the time full of a sensitivity, few singercy have known.
00:03:52 - But they convey the feeling of desolation and anguish, with the intensity that Lane Staley did.
00:03:58 - On the other hand we have Jerry Cantrell, who without being a guitar virtuoso, was above the average of the other guitarists on the scene, more experimental if in a justification, starting from a classic style and oriented to the riffs, which pay homage to the great
00:04:13 - Tony Iommi, but nevertheless.
00:04:21 - Cantrell developed his own style that even became a reference at that time, in addition to having a very good voice, which served perfect complement to that of Staley.
00:04:36 - At the time, the band was completed by Mike Starr on bass, and Sean Kinney on drums, on a 100% metal rhythmic bass, which perfectly complemented Staley's powerful voice and
00:04:47 - In Cantrell's neosobatic riffs interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine about his lyric stating that while out with some friends who were vegetarian, he found out that Ville was made from calves confined into boxes, an image that stuck with him.
00:05:02 - This influenced the overarching theme of the song, Censorship.
00:05:08 - How the government is able to put you in a box by feeding you ideas and perceptions of the world right into your own home, Jerry stated, it's about.
out of that box and looking outside of that box that has been built for you.00:05:25 - Alice and Shane saw much turbulence in the middle of their life as when as their frontman
00:05:29 - Lane Staley battled with addiction until his harrowing death, wherein he overdosed speedballing heroin and cocaine. The legacy Lane left for us is one of a band that was heavier, dirtier and theorize a grungier than any of its contemporaries, classic songs all time.
00:06:11 - And the man in the box
00:06:24 - Been reading my pain
00:06:29 - Oh, you come and save me
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00:06:50 - By my eyes
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00:06:59 - Jesus Christ
00:07:05 - Can I open your eyes?
00:07:08 - Hey, who tries
00:07:14 - I'll spend the waste of me
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00:07:43 - Serve my noses in spade
00:07:52 - Won't you come and save me?
00:08:05 - Save me
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00:08:37 - In my eyes
00:08:42 - Now you're so near
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00:09:37 - Hey, you tried to fill me with some fear in my head
00:09:52 - Now you're something else
00:09:54 - Gah!