It's Official: ALICE IN CHAINS Is Back! - Feb. 21, 2006

ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell's official web site administrator, who goes by the name of "ceojc", has confirmed that the band will be reuniting for an appearance at the Nova Rock festival in Austria in mid-June (web site), with "a lot more" concert dates yet to be announced.

"I hate to keep on saying this, but as most of you have heard, ALICE will be performing at Nova Rock in Austria," "ceojc" writes on Cantrell's official message board. "This is true. ALICE is back.

"Europe is a long way to go for just one show, so I feel that we are going to have a lot more to do.

"Because this is Europe and a big festival, don't count on any special ALICE tickets but you never know what the future brings.

"Let me explain why things went down the way they went down. It was not the way we wanted it to happen. The festival promoter secured a bunch of really big bands like METALLICA, GUNS N' ROSES and ALICE. The promoter decided to have a big press conference on Monday [Feb. 2 . We had not finished securing the 'business side' of the show by the time Monday rolled around. Because Monday was President's Day, our office was closed and we could not make a decission regarding releasing the info to you guys. Our European agent, because our office was closed, made an executive decision to release the show info. We fully support his choice but could not say anything untill we spoke to him to get the full stroy and due to the time difference and travel we could not make the announcement untill just now.

"Guys, please remember that nothing is official unless it comes from our office. We like to surprise you but sometimes that is not always possible.

"Jerry, Mike [Inez, bass], Sean [Kinney, drums] and the managment team are doing our best to keep you guys informed. You mean a lot to the guys and they want you to know that."

ALICE IN CHAINS frontman Layne Staley died on April 5, 2002 from a mixture of heroin and cocaine. Staley was found dead two weeks later, surrounded by intravenous drug paraphernalia in his Seattle apartment. The death certificate reads Staley's death resulted from "an acute intoxication due to the combined effects of opiate (heroin) and cocaine." The death was classified as "accidental."

As previously reported, COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist/guitarist and member of Jerry Cantrell's touring band William DuVall has been tapped to sing lead vocals with ALICE IN CHAINS at the taping of an episode of VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live!", a tribute to HEART that will take place March 10 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. It is not presently clear if DuVall will be joining the group on any of the other dates that are currently being scheduled


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JERRY CANTRELL Talks About ALICE IN CHAINS Reunion: 'We're Making It Up As We Go Along' - Feb. 24, 2006

ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell has confirmed to MTV.com that "there will be some ALICE IN CHAINS shows this year — that's a fact." At this point, the guitarist said, all he can really say is that the band is active, and that the remaining members of ALICE — himself, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney — will be taking the stage this summer to perform songs from the band's catalog.

"We're making it up as we go along," Cantrell explained to MTV.com. "It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend." [Referring to late ALICE frontman Layne Staley, who died in April 2002 from a mixture of heroin and cocaine.]

"We have played with some [singers] who can actually bring it and add their own thing to it without being a Layne clone," Cantrell explained, adding that the three remaining AIC members will be meeting with several would-be Staley proxies in the coming months, to front the group at European festival gigs. ALICE IN CHAINS have been listed as one of the acts performing at Austria's NovaRock Festival in June, but the guitarist said nothing's been confirmed yet.

"We're not interested in stepping on [Staley's] rich legacy," Cantrell said. "It's a tough thing to go through. Do you take the LED ZEPPELIN approach and never play again, because the guy was that important?" (In 1980, ZEPPELIN broke up after the death of drummer John Bonham.) "That's the approach we've taken for a lot of years. Or, do you give it a shot, try something? We're willing to take a chance on it. It's completely a reunion because the three of us who're left are back together. But it's not about separating and forgetting — it's about remembering and moving on."

"We're going to go and play the songs one more time," said Kinney. "It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point."

Certainement la reformation qui me faisait baver le plus (avec Faith No More) alors moi je dis oui oui oui !

Oui sauf que Patton, lui, il est pas mort... Keep on dreaming...

Cool!
Bonne chance au gars William DeVille ou je ne sais quoi qui va devoir "faire" Layne Staley...

Ouais bof...sans layne plus d'alice...

Alors, pas de nouvelles ? De toute façon, Alice in Chains, pour moi, ça s'appelle plus Alice in Chains sans Layne... Il était vraiment le coeur du groupe ! Sans lui, c'est vide, c'était LUI Alice !

Qu'ils continuent à faire des concerts avec ce DuVall mais surtout pas de retour en studio, s'il-vous-plaît !!!

Je dirais pas que AIC c'était Layne staley tout seul, mais c'est sur que AIC n'est pas AIC sans lui, c'est évident!

Le problème c'est que l'alchimie entre staley & cantrell faisait des merveilles... alors sans l'un des deux... Pourtant, j'aime bien les deux albums solo de jerry cantrell

J'ai pas encore entendu de news concernant un nouvel album. Mais c'est à prévoir. Ca m'étonnerait qu'ils se reforment uniquement pour tourner.

NAAAAAAAAAAN

Le degradation trip volume 1 est vfraiment enorme pourquoi pas un nouveazu alice a trois avec cantrell au chant ça pourrait le faire

Ouaip ça serait bien parce que moi j'aime pas DuVall

Cantrell était de toute façon la tête d'AIC, ça peut toujours être bon si il en est encore. Le pb, c'est que Staley, c'est le coeur d'AiC. JE suis bien content s'ils rejouent ensemble, avec Inez et Kinney, mais ils devraient changer de nom. Ca m'a déjà fait chier qu'ils tournent sous ce nom légendaire ... C'est un point de vue ...

Voilà tout à fait Sinoc ! Je pense exactement la même chose.

On m'avait dit qu'un retour en studio se ferait sous un autre nom (Alice Unchained je pense)...

Ca serait plus juste en effet. Trop de groupes salissent leur image en se reformant pour faire n'importe quoi.