Alice in Chains - Man in the Box - Solo

This article is part 44 of 52 in the 2022 music project series.

My friends and I had a garage band in the late 90s. We played Man in the Box and Metallica's Enter Sandman at the end-of-year assembly in 9th grade. It was possibly the most cliche late 90s setlist of all time.¹ It was a good time. I wore a white wig (?) and our bass player dyed his hair green. Truly the halcyon days of our youth.

I used to love this song and then we practiced it like 200 times and then I was pretty much over it. But time is a flat circle and here I am again, unable to escape the allure. You could say I am that man. That man in the box.

Or whatever.

man-in-the-box-solo-book.jpeg (image/jpeg, 853x480, 92,911 bytes) — Transcription of the solo from *Man in the Box* from the 1990 album *Facelift*

Recording

man-in-the-box-solo-480p.mp4

Cover of Jerry Cantrell's solo from Man in the Box

ardour-man-in-the-box-solo-thumb.jpeg (image/jpeg, 960x270, 32,570 bytes) — Screenshot of my Ardour/Hydrogen setup

Luckily for us Papa Roach's Last Resort was still a few months away from taking over America.