Alice in Chains news - Page 4

shakesthecat · 04-12-2006, 02:56 PM

Just heard on the radio that the remaining memebers of AIC are getting back together for a tour.

No word on who would be replacing Lane.

Anyone one else hear about this?

Fairplay · 10-28-2009, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

It probably shouldn't count, but I might include Temple of the Dog.

I'm Going Hungry.

Jawshco · 10-28-2009, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Lzen

I just picked up this new AIC album last week. It is a very solid effort from a great band. The new singer is not Layne Staley, but he sure does a pretty good impression. And Jerry Cantrell's guitar work and vocals are as good as ever. AIC lost a part of the band when Staley died, but you can still hear the big influence of Cantrell in their music. I highly recommend this album.

Yeah, I don't think Will reminds me of Layne at all. He sounds more like maynard to me. His lyrics aren't nearly as good as Laynes. They are way too typical stock rock lyrics for my taste. Worst of all Kinney and Inez sound so boring! Gone are all the cool drum bass breaks. I'm a huge fan of most of Inez's stuff, but this album has some of the most boring vanilla bass playing I've heard in a long while. It makes me wish that Mike Starr had been the guy with the low strings on this album. He may not have been as technically good as Inez, but always created an interesting sound, and that's what I'm missing the most from this album

**Gadzooks** · 10-28-2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

It probably shouldn't count, but I might include Temple of the Dog.

Agree with the list, though.

Mad Season was also pretty cool for a second.

**DaneMcCloud** · 10-28-2009, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Jawshco

Yeah, I don't think Will reminds me of Layne at all. He sounds more like maynard to me. His lyrics aren't nearly as good as Laynes. They are way too typical stock rock lyrics for my taste. Worst of all Kinney and Inez sound so boring! Gone are all the cool drum bass breaks. I'm a huge fan of most of Inez's stuff, but this album has some of the most boring vanilla bass playing I've heard in a long while. It makes me wish that Mike Starr had been the guy with the low strings on this album. He may not have been as technically good as Inez, but always created an interesting sound, and that's what I'm missing the most from this album

I blame this on Nick Raskulinecz. The bass "tone" doesn't even have any "tone". It's just a wash of bottom end with no grit and no definition. The drums are stale and boring, especially the snare, which sounds like a bad 80's sample. The whole rhythm session sounds like he overused Beat Detective.

AIC was always a loose band (due more to the heroin than the players) and he "tightened" the album up so much that it doesn't have any vibe. I also don't care for the overuse of the Eventide Harmonizer on both Jerry & Will's vocals, which makes them sound undefined and washed out. Why use a Tele 251, Neve 1073 and an 1176 if you're just going to bury it with a harmonizer?

Jerry's sound is pretty cool but he's missing that nastiness of "Dirt" by stacking too many amps. The main amp is Dave Friedman's "Marsha", which is a suped up, custom made version of a Marshall Super Lead but with a master volume and 20 times the gain. It's a cool amp and Dave's a cool guy but I would have used Reinhold's 20th Anniversary Ecstasy more prominently in the mix because that amp sounds like Jerry.

Overall, I give this album 2 stars out of 5. It's a major disappointment.

Demonpenz · 10-28-2009, 12:48 PM

matchbox twenty is due out too

Pitt Gorilla · 10-28-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Fairplay

I'm Going Hungry.

I'm going hung-gray-e-ay-e-aaaayy.

Demonpenz · 10-28-2009, 03:07 PM

Say hello to heaven

HEEAAAVEEENEENNENEN
YEAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHH!
GLASS BREAKS IN THE BACK GROUND.
btw did anyone remember Hunger strike coming out and like the video had ants or different video then a year later it gets popular with a different vide with them on a beach? I don't remember if it was alt nation or 120 minutes but I remember 2 video's and I remember seeing it first then it going away then getting super popular like 9 months after sweet tits nerdy kennedy off of 120 minutes introduced it

DMAC · 10-28-2009, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Say hello to heaven

HEEAAAVEEENEENNENEN
YEAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHH!
GLASS BREAKS IN THE BACK GROUND.
btw did anyone remember Hunger strike coming out and like the video had ants or different video then a year later it gets popular with a different vide with them on a beach? I don't remember if it was alt nation or 120 minutes but I remember 2 video's and I remember seeing it first then it going away then getting super popular like 9 months after sweet tits nerdy kennedy off of 120 minutes introduced it

Energy drinks, munchos, and sunflower seeds again?

Jawshco · 10-28-2009, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I blame this on Nick Raskulinecz. The bass "tone" doesn't even have any "tone". It's just a wash of bottom end with no grit and no definition. The drums are stale and boring, especially the snare, which sounds like a bad 80's sample. The whole rhythm session sounds like he overused Beat Detective.

AIC was always a loose band (due more to the heroin than the players) and he "tightened" the album up so much that it doesn't have any vibe. I also don't care for the overuse of the Eventide Harmonizer on both Jerry & Will's vocals, which makes them sound undefined and washed out. Why use a Tele 251, Neve 1073 and an 1176 if you're just going to bury it with a harmonizer?

Jerry's sound is pretty cool but he's missing that nastiness of "Dirt" by stacking too many amps. The main amp is Dave Friedman's "Marsha", which is a suped up, custom made version of a Marshall Super Lead but with a master volume and 20 times the gain. It's a cool amp and Dave's a cool guy but I would have used Reinhold's 20th Anniversary Ecstasy more prominently in the mix because that amp sounds like Jerry.

Overall, I give this album 2 stars out of 5. It's a major disappointment.

How do you know he's using the Eventide Harmonizer? I usually like that sound. I think the drum and bass work is just plain uninspired. No, sound mix can make up for that.

Demonpenz · 10-28-2009, 03:27 PM

When I am producing I usuaully have a raptor peavy guitar with a line 6 spider

**DaneMcCloud** · 10-28-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jawshco

How do you know he's using the Eventide Harmonizer? I usually like that sound. I think the drum and bass work is just plain uninspired. No, sound mix can make up for that.

Uh...

Honestly, he (Nick) just used too much Beat Detective to make everything in perfect time and the record lost its soul.

**Gadzooks** · 10-28-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Uh...

Honestly, he (Nick) just used too much Beat Detective to make everything in perfect time and the record lost its soul.

How do you know what amps Jerry used? Is it in an article or somthing?!?

**DaneMcCloud** · 10-28-2009, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Gadzooks

How do you know what amps Jerry used? Is it in an article or somthing?!?

I wouldn't know about any article.

**DaneMcCloud** · 10-28-2009, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

When I am producing I usuaully have a raptor peavy guitar with a line 6 spider

That's an industry insider's secret.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 10-28-2009, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

It probably shouldn't count, but I might include Temple of the Dog.

Agree with the list, though.

They absolutely count, and the band that everyone forgot was Mother Love Bone. Before he died of a heroin overdose, Andrew Wood was Pearl Jam's front man. It was when he died Eddie Vedder joined the group and Mookie Blaylock was born.

The band none of you ever heard of, but should've is a band out of Kennewick, WA called Small. They had an MTV commercial and were about to pop when they ****ing broke up. I don't think it would even be possible, but if anyone finds their album "Friends" I will pay you for the link to either buy it, or download. I miss it dearly.

04-12-2006, 02:56 PM
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