Alice In Chain Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

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Alice in Chains, a alternative rock or grunge band founded in the late 80’s. With their Late guitar and singer Layne Staley, Lead guitar Jerry Cantrell, late bass guitar Mike Starr, current bass guitar mike inez, drummer Sean Kinney, and their current rhythm guitar William DuVall. Alice in Chains should be inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame because of their contributions to Rock in roll. Their success as a band. Also Alice in Chains impact on people.
The first reason Alice in Chains should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is that they contributed new sound and style to the into Rock. “ Layne Staley was truly a on of a kind singer In Fact, so many more artists have tried to sing like him since his passing in 2002.
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On Alice in Chains first album. “The song “We Die Young” Became popular, becoming a top 5 metal track. Alice in Chains single, Man in the Box made significant amount time on MTV and radio, and within a month made in to “MTV Top 20.” (“Alice In Chains “Discogs” ) Man in the Box also got its “ first GRAMMY nomination for best hard Rock Performance With vocals”. (“Hope is on...GRAMMY.com”) Alice in Chains second album Dirt. In my opion dirt is there best album they ever made. Dirt one SPIN’s Album of the Year. (“Alice In Chains “Discogs”) Alice in Chains song Would? Mad it on the movie Singles, and then won “MTV’s music/movie Awards Best song from a movie.” would also got nominated for the Grammy, “best heavy metal performance.” Their third studio album Jar of Flies becomes” #1 on the Billboard top 100 chart.” Jar of Flies later becomes double platinum selling more that 2 million copies. (“Alice In Chains “Discogs” ) The dropped a single called grind and hits on The top 20 countdown. (“Alice In Chains “Discogs” ) #3 Alice in Chains fourth album “Alice in Chains”. The song Grind gets “nominated for a Grammy.” Alice in Chain fifth album Unplugged goes platinum in under 30 days. (“Alice In Chains “Discogs” ) Later Alice in Chains drops the signal Again Which gets a Grammy nomination. (“Alice In Chains “Discogs

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