With New Year’s Eve (otherwise known as “Amateur Night”) right around the corner, for our final Manic Monday of 2024, we’re throwing it back to this killer NYE performance by Alice In Chains on MTV from 1992. This video not only captures the band in top form, with rad renditions of “Would?”, “Angry Chair”, and “Them Bones”, but also in fittingly good spirits to boot, as evidenced by the brief parting interview at the end of the clip. Granted, it’s somewhat bittersweet, considering the band would slowly start to unravel in subsequent years as a result of Layne Staley’s heroin addiction, which ultimately led to his untimely death in 2002. That said, it’s still cool to witness them jamming at the height of their powers back in ’92, in all their grungy glory. Crank it. R.I.P. Layne:
