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"...there's gonna be a new CD, I'll be the first one to buy it!"
Hi guys,
I saw your show on Graspop Metal Meeting at Dessel last year, it was awesome! Too bad Jerry had a terrible headache but I only read it afterwards, so I didn't notice anything during the show.
I had a band myself and we used to play covers of you guys. It's an honor to perform AiC songs on stage! Tomorrow I'll be heading to Dessel again, back to the Metal Fields of Dessel at GMM. I wished you'd be there like last year. I'm looking forward to see you again on tour in Europe, and if there's gonna be a new CD, I'll be the first one to buy it!
I'm 20 and I never saw Layne on a show, I was shocked when "it" had happened. I'm happy we've got advanced technology these days to record music. Otherwise his voice would only be an echo through our heads. But he's still there when I'm listening and he was also there when I saw the show. William did real good out there, he's got a strong voice. Layne was flowing through the soul of the music.
I'm gonna go now, still got some work to do before I leave to Dessel. AiC, keep going! You are the thorned rose on the fields of Music.
Tim M.
"...stumbled across your music a few years back, I was awestruck..."
Hey guys,
Writing from all the way down under, Perth, Australia. I'm 19, studying environmental science at university and am a huge fan. When I stumbled across your music a few years back, I was awestruck... I always had this restless pent-up bunch of emotions that was just sitting there with no way out, and then I heard "Nutshell". Never has a song hit home so hard but left me so at ease. I've been through some pretty rough patches since then and you guys have made it so much easier, there's nothing worse than having everything just rage inside of you with nowhere to go, but all I have to do is chuck on Jar of Flies and it all goes away, if only for half an hour. I just want to say thanks for that, and I wish there was a way to thank Layne.
Last but not definitely not least, I know you guys are touring again and I don't know where you're planning to take your show, but please, please make one last detour down under and make a massive fan, and many more like me unbelievably happy.
Yours truly,
Ryan W
"Cantrell and Staley were the hard rock equal to Lennon and McCartney..."
I have been a fan of Alice in Chains ever since I heard the Facelift album in 1991!!! I knew of "Man In The Box" before that, but I didn't really become a major fanatic for this band until I bought this first album and heard "We Die Young" I was very impressed with that song. Then, when I heard "Sea Of Sorrow" I was hooked, so to speak. I had never heard two hard rock guys sing together like that. I knew then that these guys were something VERY special!!!!
Then came Sap, which was VERY different but no less brilliant. Then came the mighty Dirt!!!! That is by far the best hard rock album of the last twney years!!! Forget the Black album by Metallica, or Nevermind by Nirvana, which were great albums, but they could not even touch Dirt, in my opinion. This was the grunge Sgt. Peppers!!!! So much emotion and darkness, the likes of which had never been heard and probably never will again!!!
Jar of Flies followed that, after a cancellation of a tour with Metallica, which, by the way, I had tickets to for the specific reason to see the greatest rock band since Led Zeppelin. Alas, it was not to be, for they cancelled out. My friends and I were crushed!!! But, that was the beginning of some trouble, apparently, for the band!!! This is sad to say, but all you heard were rumors that it was Layne having problems with addiction. I truly thought that was the end of the band, and I was bummed out severely!!!
In the summer of 1995 I heard they were back in the studio!!!! We were ELATED!!!!!! There has never been a band that has touched me the way AIC has!!! Staley's voice is a BIG part of that!!! I saw the band's last performance with Layne on July 3rd in Kansas City opening for KISS!! I always hoped that Layne would pull out of it somehow, but sadly I knew from the lyrics, he was destined to leave us behind.
In April of 2002 I got an early morning phone call from my brother, who was just as big a fan as me, that Layne was gone - I was heartbroken!!!! I know that I never knew the man personally but I shed tears nevertheless!!! That may sound stupid, but I don't care. Through his music I felt he spoke to me directly, I felt a lot of pain in my teenage years and early 20's and Layne always hit the nail on the head. The man truly had a way with words, I will miss his music until the day I die. Cantrell and Staley were the hard rock equal to Lennon and McCartney, I truly believe that. They should have been bigger than Metallica but it just wasn't meant to be!!!
I am truly excited over this new incarnation of the Chains. I am not mad that they have continued on, I am grateful to see these guys back together again. When I saw them twice on the fall 06 tour Duvall did an excellent job. It won't be the same without 'the man' but I'll take whatever I can get.
Thank you guys for doing what you are doing!!!!
artificialred
"Move over Metallica, it was time for Alice in Chains."
Let me just start by saying thank you for being the soundtrack to my high school years. I first got the pleasure of watching you guys when I saw you open for Warrant at the Paramount in Seattle back in 1989. You guys stole the show and from the second I got my hands on a copy of Facelift I had found my new favorite band. Move over Metallica, it was time for Alice in Chains. Over the next few years I went to every Alice show I could, and even with all the other great bands and shows going on at the time, Alice always was a notch above everyone else.
I was able to share your music with my younger brother in California, but never the experience of a show. Until last Thanksgiving. After years of thinking that I would never again get to see Alice in Chains live, I got news of the tour, and it worked out that you passed through Denver (where I live now) just before Thanksgiving, right when my brother would be in town. So 13 years after my last Alice show, I was finally able to take my little brother to see Alice in Chains. It was obviously a little different, it would be impossible to replace Layne, but William did a good job of singing the songs without coming across as a "wannabe" Layne. All in all, it was another great performance. I see the rumors that Alice will be touring again, I only hope that there is a stop in Denver and I can add another memory of seeing the greatest band in my lifetime live again. Thanks for everything!
brandon
