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Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged 2xLP (RARE!)
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Title: Alice in Chains – MTV Unplugged
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1996, Rock, Grunge, Seattle, WA
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Band Drama: This was effectively a public “are they still alive?” moment—one of their first full shows in years, filmed while Layne Staley was deep in addiction and largely isolated. The band had to operate around his unpredictability, which is why the set carries the tension of a reunion and a farewell at the same time.
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Media Narrative: MTV marketed Unplugged as authenticity theater—take away the amps, expose the band. For Alice in Chains it became something darker: a mainstream broadcast capturing a band in real decline, turning private crisis into a cultural artifact that fans still debate ethically.
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Scene Ecology: The room was stacked with peers (Metallica, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), making it a Seattle-era “witness night.” Mike Inez’s bass message (“Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Friends Haircuts”) is a snapshot of that inner-circle humor—grunge veterans ribbing Metallica’s Load-era image shift while the whole rock ecosystem was changing.
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