It was Staley in a nutshell, but it was also the '90s zeitgeist in a nutshell. Staley embodied that ("if I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead"). The spirit of '90s youth was a refusal to submit to "the machine," not in a political sense so much as a personal and spiritual one. The grunge era of the '90s was largely a reaction to the '80s, which were seen as a decade of conformity, soulless corporatism, and formulaic music (this epitaph is oversimplified yet is almost universal). Staley also reveals his problems with fame ("we chase misprinted lies") and his general battle with modern life. There's more to the song than heroin struggles, though. He was deep into that fight while recording this song, and we can hear it in the opening lyrics. The rest of the band (guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney) wrote the music.Īfter completing the Jar Of Flies album, Staley entered rehab for his well-documented heroin addiction. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends)."Nutshell" is Alice in Chains (AIC) vocalist Layne Staley "in a nutshell," meaning a tight summation of his internal world. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends.
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"Well, you know, it's been all we can handle just to get this thing going, you know," he said. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell told The Pulse of Radio last year that the band hadn't given much thought yet to writing new music. Original singer Layne Staley died in 2002. You've been duly warned."ĭuVall's comments were the first made publicly by a member of ALICE IN CHAINS regarding new music from the band, although reports surfaced earlier this summer that the band was writing new songs.ĪLICE IN CHAINS reunited last year, with DuVall on vocals, for its first live dates since 1996. We are coming (like a pack of wild dogs) to an amphitheater/arena near you. It's been deeply rewarding and the stuff is insane." DuVall also mentioned the band's just-started tour with VELVET REVOLVER, adding, "What you may not know is how f***ing ravenous we are to get out there and rock your faces again. DuVall wrote, "As it says on the ALICE IN CHAINS website, we've been working on new material. 21 - Uptown Theater - Kansas City, MOĪLICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall recently posted a message online about the new music that the band has been writing recently. 16 - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium - Asheville, NC
Remaining ALICE IN CHAINS "Acoustic Hour" shows (in between regular dates with VELVET REVOLVER): The concert was one of several AIC acoustic shows that are being recorded for an upcoming live album, tentatively due in early 2008.ĪLICE IN CHAINS's setlist for the St. Fan-filmed video footage of ALICE IN CHAINS' Septemacoustic performance at the Pageant in St.
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