Similar to ' Heaven Beside You', it features mostly vocal work from guitarist Jerry Cantrell, with lead vocalist Layne Staley only harmonizing in the chorus. It was performed again 23 years later at Jerry Cantrell's solo concert at the Pico Union Project in Los Angeles on December 6, 2019. The MTV Unplugged concert was the first and (as of 2019) only time that Alice in Chains performed the song. The song was included on the live album Unplugged (1996), on the box set Music Bank (1999), and the compilation album The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). 24 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1996. 4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and at No.

The B-side is the original studio version. The song closed the televised broadcast of Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged performance, and that version was released as a single in 1996. Written by Jerry Cantrell, who also sings lead vocals, the song is the last track on the band's third studio album, Alice in Chains (1995), and it is about the 1995 breakup of the band. I think that’s a good way to remember someone who has and will be missed.' Over Now' is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains. They played outside in the sunshine, and they were awesome. I saw Alice in Chains at one of their final performances, opening for Kiss at Tiger Stadium. “He was different because his heaviness was in that voice. “Layne had an amazing voice that had such a beautiful, sad, haunting quality about it,” said Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, in an official statement following Staley’s death. Sadly, Staley would only make a handful of live appearances after this.

It’s almost as if, at least for a moment, he was once again able to tap into the internal fire that powered his vocals in the early days. Staley looks considerably worse for the wear, and his vocals on “Again” – a single from 1995’s Alice in Chains, which the band was performing live for the first time – seem tentative, but the way he rips into the Facelift classic “We Die Young” is absolutely goosebump-raising. One month after taping Unplugged, Alice in Chains fired up their amps for a guest appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

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Just the way they address their melodies and harmonies – and his vocal style in general was so different than anything that anyone was writing … you couldn’t help but be influenced by it.” This live version of the song shows that Staley and Cantrell had no problem at all duplicating that same magical blend onstage. “Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley were the coolest team to me since Joe Perry and Steven Tyler. “He was single-handedly the guy that got me to start singing,” Godsmack frontman Sully Erna told MTV News following Staley’s death. The song was also an excellent example of Staley and Cantrell’s unique vocal arrangements not only did the timbre of their voices mesh beautifully, but their droning harmonies were part of what gave the band such a striking sonic presence. Written by Jerry Cantrell, “Would?” – inspired by the guitarist’s friendship with Andrew Wood, the late Mother Love Bone frontman who died of a heroin overdose in 1990 – became one of Alice in Chains’ signature songs, distilling the very essence of the band into three-and-a-half minutes of killer riffs, haunting hooks, foreboding vibes and an air of utter defiance in the face of addiction.

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