Jerry Cantrell Doesn't Rule Out Recording New Music With Alice In Chains Bandmates
ALICE IN CHAINS members Sean Kinney (drums), Jerry Cantrell (guitar) and Mike Inez (bass), along with DAMAGEPLAN singer Pat Lachman, will take the stage of Seattle's Premier club on February 18 as part of a benefit concert to aid the victims of the Southeast Asia tsunami distaster.
"When something like this happens, you want to help," Kinney told RollingStone.com. "I called people up here in the Northwest to see who was available, and Jerry and Mike were the first guys I called."
The show will be Kinney, Cantrell and Inez's first together in nine years — as well as their first without lead singer Layne Stanley, who died from a drug overdose in 2002. "Obviously we all needed to take some time and all deal with the situation of the band and Layne's death," said Cantrell.
The three thought Lachman, who lost a bandmate himself in December when guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was fatally shot in an Ohio nightclub, was a natural choice to join them. "I've known Pat through the PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guys for years," Cantrell explained. "We were all down in Dallas to support the family, and we actually played a couple of ALICE songs at Dime's memorial, so it made sense."
For the benefit, the reunited group will perform material from the ALICE IN CHAINS catalog, and recording new music remains a possibility. "We're just starting with the gig, and we'll see what happens," Cantrell said. "But we can't wait to get into the room together. I've done plenty of [projects] without Sean and Mike, and, as far as having that silent chemistry, nobody really compares.
"If the last couple of months have shown me anything," he continued, "it's that it's still a really dangerous world we live in. You have to put one foot in front of the other . . . and if you look too far down the trail, you'll fall on your face."
Source: Blabbermouth
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2. writes:
I think it´s kinda cool that Pat will do the vox for those guys, Alice in Chains is with out a doubt the one of the best band that I´ve listened to. But still if they are gonna go and record some sh**, I think should form a new group, ´cause Layne was just to much of a character to Alice that it would never be the same, would´t be right. I am a big fan of Cantrell, and for him, Sean and Mike to find a new singer start playin´good music would be crazy! f***in miracle, but not as Alice. No Layne no Alice in Chains. Just my oppinion, Just my Point of view
4. writes:
That's right Porky, it was only the name that changed.
But here's your basic Alice timeline,(with no dates, just an order of things);
AIC forms, AIC break up, Layne dies, AIC get back together.
A name change could help, but not as many people would take notice. But like in the Drowning Pool case, where they just got a new singer after Dave died, this could still work. You just have to remember who's playing and who's not.
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1. DerailTheTrain writes:
Ill be dammed AIC making a new album even the remote possibilty is stunning...if a bit odd... i havent heard a whole lot of Pat Lachmans vox......wouldnt know how good this match up would be really but worrth a shot....Jerry vocals have improved alot over his last 2 solo records...may just work...