Oh lol, you actually called me a redneck. Nice, you only say that because I'm from Oklahoma. Way to stereotype.

Mudhoney and Screaming Trees are not even Alice in Chains's influences. They sound much, much different from all of the other grunge bands. Hell, they're not even that grunge as they are played out to be. They started out a glam rock band, and evolved into their own style aside from the pure grunge that was being played by Mudhoney and Screaming Trees.

I know this forum is about the opinions on music, but you still need to learn to respect others that are different from yours. You have to admit, our musical opinions are much different, and while I respect your musical opinions as I do everybody's, I still defend the music that you and others always bash ignorantly, even if I don't like that genre of music anyways. Remember when you said, "Drummer, why do you defend music like this"? It's because I know that one genre isn't dominant over the other.