Alice In Chains to reunite

[davepeck]

Alice In Chains Return. It\'s Official
artist: alice in chains date: 02/22/2006 category: general music news


antiMusic reports: the admin of Jerry Cantrell\'s official website posted an update about the Alice In Chains reunion. Although he doesn\'t spill the beans about who will be taking over vocal duties for the late Layne Staley, he does confirm that the band will reunite for the Nova Rock Festival and drops a hint that more shows may be booked. Here\'s his posting:


"I hate to keep on saying, this but as most of you have heard Alice will be performing at Nova Rock in Austria. 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. 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 [Cantrell, guitar], 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.

"I feel the rumblings of more stuff coming down the road."

Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley died on Apr. 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.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alice_in_chains_return_its_official.html

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[galenas]

i love alice in chains. and i love solo jerry cantrell. i\'ve seen him a few times and the shows rock. but it\'s NOT AND NEVER WILL BE alice in chains w/out Layne Staley.

[Spacey]

Gotta agree here. Alice In Chains can not be with out Layne Staley. IMO, he was what made Alice In Chains.

[freddiewaht]

i forgot about this.
if yo uwatch vh1 classic,theyve been announcing alice in chains opening up for heart for about a month now.

[Todd]

Date     Venue     Location     Presale Details
09/22/06    The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino    Las Vegas, NV    Aug. 14 @ 11am PDT
09/25/06    Marquee Theatre    Tempe (Phoenix), AZ    Aug. 14 @ 12:30pm MDT
09/26/06    Rialto Theatre    Tucson, AZ    Aug. 14 @ 12:30pm MDT
09/27/06    El Paso County Coliseum    El Paso, TX    Aug. 14 @ 11am CDT
09/29/06    LoneStar Amphitheater    Lubbock, TX    Aug. 14 @ 11am CDT
09/30/06    Cain\'s Ballroom    Tulsa, OK    Aug. 14 @ 11am CDT
10/01/06    Nokia Theatre    Grande Prairie (Dallas), TX    Aug. 14 @ 11:30am CDT
10/03/06    Stubb\'s Bar-B-Q    Austin, TX    Aug. 14 @ noon CDT
10/04/06    Concrete Street Amphitheater    Corpus Christi, TX    Aug. 14 @ 12:30pm CDT
10/05/06    Dodge Arena    Hidalgo, TX    TBA
10/10/06    The Tabernacle    Atlanta, GA    Aug. 14 @ 9am EDT
10/11/06    Hard Rock Live    Orlando, FL    Aug. 14 @ 11:30am EDT
10/12/06    Revolution    Ft. Lauderdale, FL    Aug. 14 @ 11am EDT
10/20/06    House of Blues    Myrtle Beach, SC    Aug. 15 @ 9am EDT
10/21/06    Millenium Center    Winston-Salem, NC    Aug. 15 @ 9am EDT
10/22/06    The Norva    Norfolk, VA    Aug. 15 @ 9:30am EDT
10/24/06    Ram\'s Head Live!    Baltimore, MD    Aug. 15 @ 9:30am EDT
10/25/06    9:30 Club    Washington, DC    Aug. 15 @ 10am EDT
10/26/06    Electric Factory Ballroom    Philadelphia, PA    Aug. 15 @ 10:30am EDT
10/28/06    The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Event Center    Atlantic City, NJ    Aug. 15 @ 11am EDT
10/29/06    Washington Avenue Armory    Albany, NY    Aug. 15 @ 11:30am EDT
10/31/06    Lupo\'s    Providence, RI    Aug. 15 @ noon EDT
11/01/06    Nokia Theatre Times Square    New York, NY    Aug. 15 @ 12:30pm EDT
11/02/06    Nokia Theatre Times Square    New York, NY    Aug. 15 @ 1pm EDT
11/04/06    Dome Theatre    Niagara Falls, NY    TBA
11/05/06    Kool Haus    Toronto, ON    Aug. 15 @ 1:30pm EDT
11/07/06    Emerald Theatre    Mt. Clemens (Detroit), MI    Aug. 15 @ 2pm EDT
11/08/06    Riviera Theatre    Chicago, IL    TBA
11/09/06    House of Blues    Cleveland, OH    Aug. 16 @ 9am CDT
11/11/06    The Eagles Club    Milwaukee, WI    Aug. 16 @ 9:30am CDT
11/13/06    First Avenue    Minneapolis, MN    TBA
11/14/06    Sokol Auditorium    Omaha, NE    Aug. 16 @ 10am CDT
11/16/06    The Cotillion    Wichita, KS    Aug. 16 @ 10am CDT
11/17/06    Bricktown Events Center    Oklahoma City, OK    Aug. 16 @ 10:30am CDT
11/18/06    Uptown Theatre    Kansas City, MO    Aug. 16 @ 10:30am CDT
11/20/06    The Fillmore Auditorium    Denver, CO    Aug. 16 @ 10am MDT
11/21/06    Belly Up    Aspen, CO    Aug. 16 @ 10:30am MDT
11/22/06    Salt Air Theater    Magna (Salt Lake City), UT    Aug. 16 @ 10:30am MDT
11/24/06    Paramount    Seattle, WA    TBA
11/26/06    Warfield Theatre    San Francisco, CA    Aug. 16 @ 10:30am PDT

[Me!]

wasn\'t Alice in Chains a hard rock boy band hey hey hey relax a second, in that, they were not a band they made themselves but one put together by a record company.  I could absolutely be wrong but this is what one of my friends told me.  (and not that that makes them bad musicians or anything)