Alice in Chains Today at 11:59 AM William DuVall double exposure in Vancouver, BC. William DuVall looks back on his journey from punk brat to becoming the man who helped bring Alice In Chains back from the dead“During my childhood in Washington DC, the most important thing was my discovery of music. Show Map. No-one else was doing it.

This album is so intimate by nature, it really does lend itself to self-reflection in the listener. In a recent interview for Kerrang, Alice in Chains singer William DuVall revealed his thoughts about the band’s late vocalist Layne Staley and singing his songs live on stage after his death. Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who later recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley. I listen to them from time to time. It’s great.”The singer’s extensive tour in support of One Alone kicks off on March 25, 2020 in Dublin and will last until the very last day of March, when it wraps up in Moscow, Russia.Here are 10 times rock artists topped themselves by going acoustic. You could only go if you were on the bill in the opening act, or if you had a guardian or parent to accompany you. William DuVall: Gosh, yeah, I mean, you know, the cool thing is to have met a lot of cool people over a bunch of years. Westgate Road, NE1 1SW Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. For some reason it evokes cold weather for me.”“I didn’t really start trying to sing until young adulthood, because I’d always been a guitar player and a songwriter as a kid. The song isn’t just about [the musicians] we’ve lost – it’s also about those who remain in your life and how special that is.”“I remember hearing this as a child and thinking, ‘Wow, this would be a great song to have played at your funeral.’ It’s the first time I’d ever thought that about a song, and a strange thing to think as a child, but it’s a beautiful piece of music and evokes that idea of life being over.”William’s debut solo album One Alone is out now. Live Music Venue +44 191 260 2020. Starr was replaced by Mike Inez in 1993. Limited to 500 copies. I spent a lot of time with certain records trying to see if I could do it. But when working within the context of Alice in Chains, there are certain areas that naturally overlap in terms of our influences, taste and even vocal tonalities, approaches to riffs and harmonies.What you’re really doing in a situation like that is exploiting the overlaps to their maximum – they exist, so make the most of it and, at the same time, inhabit the songs with your spirit.”“It’s incredibly powerful, especially if there’s a sea of people in front of you – it’s unbelievable. The original lead singer of Alice in Chains, Layne Staley, was known for his distinct vocal style and tenor voice.The talented musician sadly passed away in 2002, at the age of 34. It’s beautiful. “I felt the need to peel everything back,” the singer has said. Now they can see very clear, demonstrable success, so it’s all good.”“My mother would drive me to shows when I was under-age. On Friday last week (October 4), Alice In Chains frontman William DuVall released his debut solo album, One Alone. We landed in LA and hit the ground running, playing gigs anywhere that’d have us. Hendrix went the way he wanted to go. We need to figure this out, starting from a place of, ‘You’re a human just like me; you have children just like me.’ It gets tougher to do that the further you go along in life, but it becomes more important, too.”“Jerry [Cantrell, guitarist] had the music and the chorus, but nothing else. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. So that was the real impetus for me discovering music on my own terms. I don’t worry about it, because I’ve always seen how pointless it is.

Unbelievable. It’s intimate, it’s just me by myself. In fact, DuVall says it wasn't even until after he'd recorded the first track on his solo debut, One Alone, that it occurred to him to make an entire album.He tells Q104.3 New York's Out of the Box with … Put your rock and metal knowledge to the ultimate test! So I’m fooling around with this terrible guitar, trying to get a sound out of it. But that was the beginning, it was enough to get me going. William DuVall: Wow, that I’ve worked with?