Violet Deliriums's video: Alice in Chains - Man in the Box guitar cover

This is my cover of the Alice in Chains song "Man in the Box" (1990). Of all the Seattle grunge bands, I think AIC sounded the most like what metal was at the time and made a good link between the two styles. Yet, like alternative rock they did not do stupid songs about girls and cars and getting wasted like glam metal bands did (kind of like surf rock), and they didn't do what Dave Mustaine of Megadeth called songs about "Dungeons and Dragons" (which I have nothing against). This is the first AIC tune I ever heard when they first came out on MTV, and it is still the one I like the best. The whole mood of being imprisoned and treated poorly resonates in a way, even though I am in no way as bad off as the song's protagonist. But it might help you empathize with those who are imprisoned. I played it on my Fender Violet Deliriums ESM Signature Model Blacktop HH Jaguar (ESM = Explosive Space Modulator) which has Seymour Duncan SH-1 pickups, a killswitch, and some neato stickers on the pickguard. I have made a special pedalboard for this song consisting of a Crybaby 535Q Wah Pedal (set up similar to what the manual says for Jerry Cantrell's sound) + Line 6 DM4 distortion (set on "Line 6 Distortion" patch) + E-H Memory Boy delay (for a slight analog echo ambience) running into Silverface Twin Reverb. Between the DM4 and the wah pedal, it was quite noisy but worth it. The guitar is tuned a half-step low. I'm the man in the box Buried in my shit Won't you come and save me, save me Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut I'm the dog who gets beat Shove my nose in shit Won't you come and save me, save me Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut