Alice In Chains Working on New Material

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  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    I'll be very interested to see whether they actually do keep the name or not. I thought they'd previously said that they were "interested in working on new material but not as Alice In Chains".
  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    I'm not a huge AiC fan, but I like them enough to agree when people say they shouldn't use the AiC name for their new stuff. I say get a new name, branch out, and start over again. Fresh air.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    This is very cool. They can stay AIC for all I care, and especially if they plan on playing old material. That would be lame playing AIC songs for 80% of the night under another name.

    It's just like AC/DC and Van Halen, and currently Blind Melon.
  • RyeGuy
    RyeGuy Posts: 215
    i'm lookin foward to this!
    "Makes much more sense to live in the present tense." Ed Ved

    "No one cares about climbing stairs, Nothing at the top no more." Chris Cornell
  • Manstis1604
    Manstis1604 Posts: 99
    SoonForgotten2 wrote:
    "Alice in Chains" = cashing in on the name.

    If they have any artistic integrity, they'll release this album under a new name.
    I agree, its sad to see Jerry go down this route after putting out such great solo material. I'm sure Jerry loves playing with the other guys again, and they're not going to call it a Cantrell solo record with 2 of his fellow Alice in Chains members playing, so I guess they gotta call it AIC. Or call it something else, but its hard to come up with another bandname as great as Alice in Chains. Maybe its just that simple haha.
  • orig_long red
    orig_long red Posts: 2,029
    they should call themselves Alice Sans Chains.
    Jam out with your clam out.
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    smartass1235 wrote:
    if today is opposite day then this statement would be true. There are not many drummers that write as much as Matt does with PJ.

    Billy Corgan is a control freak. He basically worte Siamese Dream by himself. I would be shocked if Jimmy Chamberlain had 1 writing credit to his name, maybe on Mellon Collie since it was a double album.

    Well, we dont know how much each member contributes exactly as we arn't in the band
  • gibbits
    gibbits Posts: 522
    Any of the motherfuckers here who are trash talking and saying that without Layne this is just another Cantrell album or whatever obviously didn't see this band live. I'd love them to keep the name, after last years tour being such a tribute to Layne I think keeping the name is an extension of that. Last year in TO they played a new song and it was great - every intermission had video tributes to Layne and I could swear in some songs they had Laynes voice sample doing backing.

    The people who are smacking this up are the same people who refused to go see them because of them touring under the name Alice in Chains, I trust the bands decision more than peolpe who turned their back on a show simply due to a bands name.
  • Toshala
    Toshala Posts: 200
    I wasn't gonna add my 2 cents but I agree with gibbits! I got to see them last November and we were so happy to hear them sounding so damn good. William is a great front man, as we'd seen him back in 03 opening for Jerry, and he just melted in with the guys and really rocked the house!!! Whatever name they'll go by with the new material, I'll buy it!!
  • pearljamharmony
    pearljamharmony Posts: 120
    long red wrote:
    without Layne, its just a Jerry Cantrell album.


    Layne was great and will be missed but obviously you haven't seen the live band the new singer is a dead ringer (no pun intended) I am now anxious for new material, and btw it is nothing like an cantrell solo album, he has the rest of aic with him (I know he did on the first solo album as well) but he wrote 95% of the aic library
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    long red wrote:
    without Layne, its just a Jerry Cantrell album.

    Took the words right out of my mouth.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
    Right fuck this, here goes:
    Jerry wrote pretty much all the music
    He wrote much of the lyrics
    He sang on some tracks as well!!
    It pretty much was HIS band, so can this "Without Layne it's not Alice horseshit"
    Layne was a one-off, he was awesome, noone is trying to replicate what he did

    All this bashing stems from ignorance regarding the new line up and also how the band worked when Layne was with them, I doubted they'd be more than a parody of what they once were but I was lucky enough to catch them with DuVall live and they were fantastic.
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  • Meaningless
    Meaningless Posts: 55
    long red wrote:
    without Layne, its just a Jerry Cantrell album.

    I heart Jerry cantrell But, Imagine PJ Without ED...
    "Actually we could do a commercial for Dodge, Can't Find A Better Van"
    E.V
  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    RainierWolfcastle wrote:
    Great news! I can't wait to hear what comes out of this.

    http://www.aliceinchains.com/baldy.aspx

    Sorry, That´s NOT Alice In Chains.
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • ArtMars
    ArtMars Posts: 109
    long red wrote:
    not having your original drummer and not having Layne Staley are two completely different situations. plus PJ's original drummer sucked.

    In a way, isn't Matt Cameron the original drummer anyways? I mean, he was the one playing on the demo that got sent to Eddie!
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Binaural wrote:
    Right fuck this, here goes:
    Jerry wrote pretty much all the music
    He wrote much of the lyrics
    He sang on some tracks as well!!
    It pretty much was HIS band, so can this "Without Layne it's not Alice horseshit"
    Layne was a one-off, he was awesome, noone is trying to replicate what he did

    All this bashing stems from ignorance regarding the new line up and also how the band worked when Layne was with them, I doubted they'd be more than a parody of what they once were but I was lucky enough to catch them with DuVall live and they were fantastic.

    Jerry? Calm down dude, Layne was a better singer than you. It's okay. Breathe.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    Jerry? Calm down dude, Layne was a better singer than you. It's okay. Breathe.
    I just think its ridiculous. People are so damned closed minded. Its the same type of thing that went on with Audioslave, you couldn't talk about them without some misguided tool chirping in with their two cents about how "they're not as good as...." or "Its not the same as.....".
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