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Anybody else remember Layne Staley getting boos when he slagged David Duke?
Posted on 5/25/15 at 5:03 pm
Posted on 5/25/15 at 5:03 pm
They were opening up for Van Hagar in 1991 at the Centroplex. After a few songs into their opening set, Staley raps with the crowd and bags on David Duke, who was running for governor at the time. The crowd erupted into boos and jeers. Layne steps back from the mic, looks over at Jerry Cantrell, shrugs his shoulders, steps back to the mic, and says "frick it, let's rock", and they drove on through their awesome, Van Hagar embarassing set.
Can anyone remember exactly what it was he said about Duke and what the next song they broke into was after he stepped back to the mic?
Can anyone remember exactly what it was he said about Duke and what the next song they broke into was after he stepped back to the mic?
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Posted on 5/25/15 at 5:59 pm to Sayre
Staley should've known that anti-Duke remarks at that venue would go over like a .. lead zeppelin.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 6:32 pm to Tigerwaffe
Not really. You could tell he was a little surprised when the boos broke out. Where he was from, he would have more than likely thought the crowd, which was mostly made up of people near his age would have thought like most other people in the country did about what a piece of shite Duke was.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 9:52 am to Sayre
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Not really. You could tell he was a little surprised when the boos broke out. Where he was from, he would have more than likely thought the crowd, which was mostly made up of people near his age would have thought like most other people in the country did about what a piece of shite Duke was.
I think most musicians should usually shut the frick up when it comes to expressing their political, social, or ideological views while on stage, but good for Staley.
frick David Duke's racist arse and frick everyone in this state who supported him.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:01 am to saint amant steve
The real outrage here should be that AiC was opening for Van Hagar.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:05 am to navy
i was at that show. one of the standing memories is AiC getting booed. I was 14 and a huge van halen fan. I didn't realize what i was seeing onstage with Aic at that point in time.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:25 am to 420tiger
I remember thinking "come on Louisiana, don't embarrass me in front of Alice in chains". I also remember VH boring the shite out of me the rest of the night
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:30 am to navy
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The real outrage here should be that AiC was opening for Van Hagar.
No shite. That's almost as weird of a pairing as Rush touring with KISS back in the day.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 1:47 pm to saint amant steve
Incidentally, they blew Van Halen away. To this day, that was the single biggest disappointment I've ever had concert wise. Other than AIC, it was a total waste of time. Today I love Montrose and some of Sammy's solo stuff, but Van Hagar is utter junk and at the time I was royally pissed off. EVH reduced to using a electric drill as a stage prop. Shitty ballads. Everybody, even Sammy, getting a 15 or 20 minute solo. They played almost noting from the DLR era, just snippets. I had pretty good seats, front and center. I was yelling "SAMMY YOU frickING SUCK" at the top of my lungs for quite a bit, especially when the crowd got quiet. He heard me too. I can shout pretty god damn loud. He cocked his head a couple times my way as I'd scream that shite
Posted on 5/26/15 at 1:55 pm to saint amant steve
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The real outrage hkmere should be that AiC was opening for Van Hagar.
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No shite. That's almost as weird of a pairing as Rush touring with KISS back in the day.
As much out of place was the first time I saw AIC. Man in the Box had just hit MTV when I saw them in Houston at the old Summit with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer on the Clash Of The Titans tour. They had replaced Suicidal Tendencies in the lineup. . Tell me who seems like the odd man out !
We listened to Facelift non stop the whole way to Houston and back. We were all huge fans by the end of that trip.
This post was edited on 5/26/15 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 5/26/15 at 2:13 pm to Sayre
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As much out of place was the first time I saw AIC. Man in the Box had just hit MTV when I saw them in Houston at the old Summit with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer on the Clash Of The Titans tour. They had replaced Suicidal Tendencies in the lineup. . Tell me who seems like the odd man out !
I've heard some funny stories about Alice in Chains filling the opening act role on the Clash of the Titans tour. The metal heads gave them a ton of shite and were constantly throwing stuff on stage.
Scott Ian says that Staley and company took it all in stride and even egged on some of the hecklers. They earned the respect of a number of headbangers, as well as the thrash bands.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 2:33 pm to saint amant steve
What tripped me out was the idiots that ran the arena had the floor of the Summitt covered in folding chairs. It wasn't gen admission. You should have seen the way those chairs went flying when Slayer hit the stage. That was the most insanely violent concert I've ever been too.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 3:34 pm to Sayre
I remember this tour and that sort of behavior doesn't shock me at all. If anything came out of the Duke/Edwards elections, is that it forced people to confront and admit their racism...although many did "keep their vote a secret" at the precincts. In other words, they voted for Duke. You had a crook and a racist. Edwards could have been Bobby Kennedy and the 30-35 percent who voted for Duke maybe would have dropped to 28 percent. I remember hearing that Duke lost while Sleepy Robinson ran another 30 yard keeper on David Walkup and Ricardo Washington, who did not have a clue about how to stop an option like that one. LSU was beaten as badly as ole Grand Wizzo was that night.
As to the musical aspect of this, this was just before "Grunge" went mainstream (the Houston show was in the fall of 1991) and VH was capitalizing off of their past success with F.U.C.K -- an album to this day has one decent song on it and that would be "Judgement Day." The south being the south -- AIC was mostly unheard of and seen as, prior to the show, a filler for the awesomeness that was Van Halen in their late 30's playing cheese dicky songs like "Poundcake" and "Top of the World". The people I know who went to either the Houston or BR show have all concurred that AIC was out of this world good and that VH was as bad as they've ever been live.
As to the musical aspect of this, this was just before "Grunge" went mainstream (the Houston show was in the fall of 1991) and VH was capitalizing off of their past success with F.U.C.K -- an album to this day has one decent song on it and that would be "Judgement Day." The south being the south -- AIC was mostly unheard of and seen as, prior to the show, a filler for the awesomeness that was Van Halen in their late 30's playing cheese dicky songs like "Poundcake" and "Top of the World". The people I know who went to either the Houston or BR show have all concurred that AIC was out of this world good and that VH was as bad as they've ever been live.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 5:42 pm to saint amant steve
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frick David Duke's racist arse and frick everyone in this state who supported him.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 7:18 pm to LuckySo-n-So
AT the same time, should we show love for Edwards?
Posted on 5/26/15 at 9:14 pm to navy
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The real outrage here should be that AiC was opening for Van Hagar.
I'll second that; always thought Van Hagar was very pretentious, but I felt that way with David Lee Roth too- childish bullshite.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 11:19 pm to Sayre
Maybe he should have directed that energy into correcting his own heroin addiction...
Posted on 5/27/15 at 10:51 am to Sayre
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Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer on the Clash Of The Titans tour. They had replaced Suicidal Tendencies in the lineup
Great tour, great bands. Guys like Ian Scott and Hetfield used to give AiC shite back in the day.
Layne is the GOAT and gives two shits.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:03 pm to Solo
I'm not gonna lie. I've been a huge Suicidal Tendencies fan since they started, pretty much, and still am. I was kinda bummed they weren't on the bill.
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