Alice In Chains

[FunkyMonkey]

Here is some video of AIC watching some fans perform an AIC cover at a recent meet & greet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPs0DHfdVNg

[FunkyMonkey]

ALICE IN CHAINS Kicks Off U.S. Tour; Review, Video Footage Available - Sep. 6, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS kicked off its U.S. headlining tour this past Friday night (September 4) at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

The group's setlist was as follows:

01. Rain When I Die
02. Angry Chair
03. Man in the Box
04. Them Bones
05. Dam That River
06. A Looking In View
07. We Die Young
08. Nutshell
09. Love, Hate, Love
10. Sludge Factory
11. Acid Bubble
12. Again
13. Junkhead
14. Would?

Encore:

15. Check My Brain
16. No Excuses
17. Rooster

Check out reviews of the show:

Live-Metal.net
Rock N Roll Experience

Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be viewed below.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126517

[FunkyMonkey]

Jerry Cantrell Creeped Out By Facebook, Twitter

Posted 3 hours ago

Don't expect to find out when Jerry Cantrell is grocery shopping, unless you happen to be behind him at the checkout. The guitarist and co-vocalist for Alice in Chains will not be partaking in the social networking time depleters known as Facebook and Twitter.

"I don't Twitter. I don't Facebook," Cantrell tells Noisecreep emphatically. "I think it's ridiculous that people are that important that people really need to know they are going to the grocery store or what club they are at [laughs]. I think it's pretty ridiculous and self-indulgent."

Alice in Chains have been touring the past couple of years with new frontman William Duvall, and will drop their first studio album since 1995, 'Black Gives Way to Blue,' on Sept. 29. AiC has long had a MySpace page, presumably not managed by Cantrell, and has a dedicated Web site. But as more and more musicians interact closely with their fans on Facebook and Twitter, Cantrell says, "I'll interact with my fans when I see them."

He continues, elaborating on his distaste for today's internet trends, "We do our Web site, and that type of stuff, but I'm not interested in [social networking] at all. You shouldn't know that much about people, you know what I mean? Because when it really comes down to it, people aren't that f---in' interesting. They really aren't.

"It's more than a little creepy," Cantrell says. "You shouldn't know everything. Everything shouldn't be so transparent. There should be a little mystery and magic to life, and also people should have a little bit of privacy. Everybody deserves a little bit of that."

http://www.noisecreep.com/2009/09/08/jerry-cantrell-creeped-out-by-twitter-facebook/

[WhatIsItMan]

Here is some video of AIC watching some fans perform an AIC cover at a recent meet & greet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPs0DHfdVNg

That's really cool.

[FunkyMonkey]

A live performance of "Check My Brain". 

ALICE IN CHAINS: Performance Footage Of Two New Songs Available - Sep. 9, 2009

Fan-filmed video footage of ALICE IN CHAINS performing two new songs ? "Check My Brain" and "Acid Bubble" ? last Friday (September 4) at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. can be viewed below (courtesy of "RapeJesus").

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126692

[FunkyMonkey]

These videos are very cool, here are acoustic versions of three songs from their upcoming album...

Black Gives Way To Blue (full song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaX6eYJHzg

Check My Brain (partial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdSpf626Dg

Your Decision (partial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpji51t7qZg

[WhatIsItMan]

Here are some different/better versions:

black gives way to blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7LQj4r9Po

and

check my brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCPY1gXZ0g

[FunkyMonkey]

check my brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCPY1gXZ0g

Thanks, I wanted to hear the entire song.

[WhatIsItMan]

...And here we have a 'Black Gives Way To Blue' LIVE preview CD:

1. Check My Brain (Live/Acoustic)
2. Your Decision (Live/Acoustic)
3. A Looking In View (Live)
4. Acid Bubble (Live)
5. Black Gives Way To Blue (Live/Acoustic)

DOWNLOAD - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QBA7X1WU

[FunkyMonkey]

From an interview with William DuVall...

No shortage of feelings' for Alice in Chains

Thursday September 10, 2009, 3:10 PM

"I think you can expect a really dense, really heavy but really ethereal and cathartic sonic experience," DuVall said during a recent interview with The Flint Journal.

"We took our time with this record. There was certainly no shortage of thoughts and feelings to address with everything that's gone down. It's a snapshot of our journey from early 2006 to this point right now. It's the story of our coming together. It's also the story of a band that is both celebrating its legacy but also opening the door to the future, and mourning the loss of a friend, one of the great singers of all time, Layne Staley. But it really is a testament to for every door that closes, there's another one that opens, if you chose to open it. They lost somebody but they also gained somebody."

Continue reading here: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2009/09/no_shortage_of_feelings_for_al.html

[FunkyMonkey]

black gives way to blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7LQj4r9Po

The song is Jerry Cantrell?s tribute to late singer Layne Staley.  Someone has taken a stab at the lyrics...what a great song.

I don?t want to feel no more
It?s easier to keep falling
Imitations are pale
The emptiness of tomorrows, haunted by your ghost
Lay down black gives way to blue
Lay down I remember you

Fading out by design
Consciously avoiding changes
Curtains drawn now it?s done
Silencing all tomorrows, forcing a good-bye
Lay down black gives way to blue
Lay down I?ll remember you

[FunkyMonkey]

ALICE IN CHAINS: European Tour Dates Announced - Sep. 11, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS has scheduled the following dates:

Nov. 19 - Tilburg, Holland - 013
Nov. 20 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Zaal
Nov. 21 - Weisbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
Nov. 24 - Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna
Nov. 25 - Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
Nov. 27 - Budapest, Hungary - Petofi Csarnok
Nov. 29 - Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
Nov. 30 - Munich, Germany - Thearterfabrick
Dec. 02 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
Dec. 03 - Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-son
Dec. 04 - Paris, France - Bataclan

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126790

[FunkyMonkey]

ALICE IN CHAINS: 'Check My Brain' Video To Premiere On Monday - Sep. 11, 2009

The video for "Check My Brain", the first official single from ALICE IN CHAINS much-anticipated new album, "Black Gives Way To Blue", will premiere this Monday, September 14 on MTV2 and MTVu. The clip, which was helmed by U2 and WHITE STRIPES video director Alex Courtes, will be shown on MTV2 at 6 a.m., and air again at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., and 5 a.m.

The premiere starts on MTVu at 6 a.m. and continues throughout the day.

The video will also have homepage placement on MTV2.com, MTVu.com and MTVmusic.com on September 14 as well.

Regarding "Black Gives Way To Blue", new ALICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall told The Flint Journal, "I think you can expect a really dense, really heavy but really ethereal and cathartic sonic experience.

"We took our time with this record. There was certainly no shortage of thoughts and feelings to address with everything that's gone down. It's a snapshot of our journey from early 2006 to this point right now. It's the story of our coming together. It's also the story of a band that is both celebrating its legacy but also opening the door to the future, and mourning the loss of a friend, one of the great singers of all time, Layne Staley. But it really is a testament to for every door that closes, there's another one that opens, if you chose to open it. They lost somebody but they also gained somebody."

On the topic of how he came to join ALICE IN CHAINS as the replacement for Layne Staley, who died of a drug overdose in 2002, DuVall said, "I've known [AIC guitarist Jerry] Cantrell for 10 years now. There's a long, long backstory that got us to that point. None of us saw this stuff coming. This is where it naturally evolved to, from even when I met him back in 2000. In the beginning of 2006, the four of us, Mike [Inez, bass], Sean [Kinney, drums], Cantrell and myself, we all came together and bonded on the road, in a way any real band should.

"This is the result. This is an honest look at our lives, unflinching look at a journey of personal growth and collective growth that it took for us to get here. Like I said before, I think it provides a lesson for people who want to see that lesson: You might get knocked down and from there you have a choice ? you can lay there and die or you can get up and start walking. If you get up and start walking, life has a way of rewarding you. Even if you're walking through the desert, you're blind and you don't know where the hell you're going, you'll eventually come to an oasis if you keep putting one foot in front of the other. This is all that record has to say and more.

"Just the fact that we're putting it out at all, that it's seeing the light of day is the testament to how we feel about it," he added. "This was a totally self-funded, self-directed endeavor. At any point we could have pulled the plug. We weren't contractually obligated to anyone. There was no agenda being pushed from anyone on the outside. This was all us doing this thing for all the right reasons. Just the fact that it's coming out at all was a big thing."

Although there was no pressure from outside sources, ALICE IN CHAINS did put pressure on themselves to release a stellar record.

"We are our own worst critics," DuVall said. "We are gonna be harder on ourselves than anyone can possibly be on us. In that respect, certainly there was a lot of pressure. We want to do the best work we can. We only wanted to put something out that was going to add to the incredible legacy this group already has.

"In that respect there was pressure, but that's good pressure. That's the kind that makes you strive, and dig deeper and work harder. And we did. We put in the hours and we did the digging. It was painful sometimes. But I think the results are well worth it and I just mean that in terms of outside pressure. Had there been some label commissioning or demanding something from us, that would have tipped it over into something else that we wouldn't really want to be a part of. Luckily we are able to do this thing the way we wanted. It was that much more liberating and rewarding."

Read more from The Flint Journal.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126807

[FunkyMonkey]

Oh yeah

ALICE IN CHAINS: 'Check My Brain' Video Released - Sep. 14, 2009

The video for "Check My Brain", the first official single from ALICE IN CHAINS much-anticipated new album, "Black Gives Way To Blue", can be viewed below. (Note: The video stream may not be available to some non-U.S. residents.) The clip, which was helmed by U2 and WHITE STRIPES video director Alex Courtes, will be shown today (MOnday, September 14) on MTV2 at 6 a.m., and air again at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., and 5 a.m.

Video here: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126898

[Chief]

Thanks dude!  That is a pretty cool video...it didn't take that long to come out! 

Loved the background imagery too.

[FunkyMonkey]

ALICE IN CHAINS: U.K. Dates Added To European Tour - Sep. 14, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS has scheduled the following European tour dates:

Nov. 12 - Glasgow, UK - Barrowlands
Nov. 13 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 14 - Manchester, UK - Academy
Nov. 16 - London, UK - HMV Forum
Nov. 17 - London, UK - HMV Forum
Nov. 19 - Tilburg, Holland - 013
Nov. 20 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Zaal
Nov. 21 - Weisbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
Nov. 24 - Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna
Nov. 25 - Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
Nov. 27 - Budapest, Hungary - Petofi Csarnok
Nov. 29 - Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
Nov. 30 - Munich, Germany - Thearterfabrick
Dec. 02 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
Dec. 03 - Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-son
Dec. 04 - Paris, France - Bataclan

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126908

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I got Dirt last week.

[Chief]

Dirt kicks ass.. definitely in my top 10 of the 90s!

[FunkyMonkey]

Alice in Chains catchy new single storms the charts

Wed, 16 Sep 2009

Alice in Chains? new single entitled ?Check My Brian? has rocketed to No.1 in both the Billboard Rock Songs Chart and the R&R Rock Chart ahead of their forthcoming album release.

Alice in Chains first album in 14 years is set to mark their return to form on Sep 29th. And judging by the reception their latest single ?Check My Brain? is receiving, Alice In Chains? new album ?Black Gives Way To Blue? is sure to be a success.

With much talk in the media of Elton John?s appearance on the title track of the album, the band?s reformation has been big news. Since the tragic death of vocalist Layne Staley in 2002 after the singer?s battles with Cocaine and Heroin addiction, Alice In Chains have rarely been on the music scene. However, the band reunited to perform a benefit concert in 2005, and are now working with Comes With The Fall front-man, William DuVall.

Although originally released over a month ago (Aug) ?Check My Brain? is only now receiving chart success. This could be due to the video for the song debuting yesterday on a host of MTV channels, and being played hourly throughout the day.

[WhatIsItMan]

! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gkE7mdW8Q&feature=player_embedded#t=325 !