Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley 's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Rolling Stone: With scuzzbucket, crunchy guitar lines and stabbing drums, Alice in Chains RAINIER FOG stays the course the band has been following for the. Jimi Hendrix, who Electric Mud had sought to imitate, was a fan-and it’s even hailed as an early influence on hip-hop. + Dirt is Alice in Chains ' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. Waters agreed he called it “dogshit,” complaining the album wasn’t proper blues and that his backing band lacked the equipment-large amplifiers, effects pedals, etc.-to play it live.īut other musicians picked up on it. They cut eight tracks, mostly psychedelic reworkings of Waters’ classic songs and a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Let’s Spend The Night Together.” The result was Waters’ first album to hit the Billboard charts, but critics dismissed it as disingenuous.
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Perhaps the most prominent example of this is Electric Mud, on which producer Marshall Chess put Muddy Waters in the studio with Charles Stepney, mastermind of the Rotary Connection and later Earth, Wind & Fire, and Pete Cosey, a monster of a guitarist who would go on to play with Miles Davis. Get the Alice in Chains Setlist of the concert at Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy on Februfrom the European Tour 1993 Tour and other Alice in Chains Setlists for free on setlist.
In the late 1960s, as white rock musicians were making a fortune off music that largely aped the sounds of American blues, some original bluesmen smartly recorded albums that courted this new audience.
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