Duff McKagan Talks About Alice In Chains Recording With New Singer
Duff McKagan recently talked about Alice In Chains Recording with new singer William Duvall in his weekly blog column “Reverb” at Seattleweekly.com. Here is just a snippet. Click the link above if you want to read the whole thing.
“My opinion may not be a popular one, especially here in Seattle. There seems to be an attitude of ‘Who the hell do you guys think you are? You can’t go on without Layne [Staley, late ALICE IN CHAINS singer]!’ While his death was heartbreakingly sad and needless, does this mean we all must shut the door on this band that changed the landscape of modern rock? Does this mean we all must suffer the elephant-sized monkey that rode Layne straight to his tragic end? Shit, did anybody think that Layne himself could very well have wanted his brothers to carry on? I for one believe that he in fact did. Alas, in the end, this is a can of worms that I should shut at this point because speculation on what he may or may not have wanted to happen after his death is pointless.
I understand his point. It’s not like saying if Dave Mustaine died then there would be no Megadeth anymore. God forbid it happens, but if it did then that WOULD be the end of Megadeth. The band didn’t revolve around Staley. He was a big part of it, but it’s not as if he WAS the band.
I finally heard the new singer he sounds like Lenny Kravitz but not so much harmony, if ya catch my drift. I don’t think he’s wrong for some of the old stuff but they probably come off as a cover band live. Plus on the new album it’ll have all the AIC guitar riffs plus Cantrells vocals most definitely but it’ll sound like a totally different band with Duvall singing. It just won’t be AIC. It’ll be another Cantrell solo album.