{"id":792783,"date":"2019-02-06T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790279"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:25:04","slug":"see-jerry-cantrell-reflect-on-alice-in-chains-reunion-with-lars-ulrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-jerry-cantrell-reflect-on-alice-in-chains-reunion-with-lars-ulrich\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jerry Cantrell Reflect on Alice in Chains Reunion With Lars Ulrich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alice in Chains<\/a> vocalist-guitarist Jerry Cantrell<\/a> reflects on how his band reunited in a new interview with Metallica<\/a> drummer Lars Ulrich<\/a> for the latter\u2019s Apple Music\/Beats 1 radio show It\u2019s Electric<\/em>. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive clip from the show, Cantrell says that he felt it was time to get the band back together after Layne Staley\u2019s death once he realized that singer-guitarist William DuVall was the right fit. \u201cWe had to think\u00a0about this,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is our life. We created this and just\u00a0because our friend is not here, it doesn\u2019t mean that this stuff\u00a0isn\u2019t still alive and still speaks to people and is still our\u00a0work and we have nothing to be embarrassed about it. We\u00a0have full ownership. This is us. This is what we do. And it took a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impetus for the reunion, though, was the 2005 Indian earthquake and tsunami that found the band getting their friends together for a concert to raise money for victims. \u201cYou saw this compassion and people [pitching] in to help people,\u00a0the tsunami and all of these relief concerts and donations and\u00a0stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd then Sean [Kinney, drums] calls and he\u2019s like, \u2018Why don\u2019t we do a\u00a0thing and we\u2019ll raise some money and we\u2019ll do it for that. We\u2019ll\u00a0just do like a one-time show and like we\u2019ll get together and\u00a0we play the songs will invite some friends, I\u2019ll do a couple of\u00a0tunes so and so and whatever.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Cantrell goes on to explain that he met DuVall while working on his solo album, Degradation Trip<\/em>, and brought him into the band. He invited DuVall to play with the surviving members of Alice in Chains, and when the singer nailed \u201cLove Hate Love,\u201d he felt it was time to get back to being a band seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of exhilarating, in a\u00a0way, because part of what we do is a\u00a0little bit of conquering a fear,\u201d he tells Ulrich. \u201cI\u2019m a really introverted guy. You know that about me and I\u2019m very\u00a0insular a lot. I can be very outgoing as well and real chatty\u00a0and stuff and I can really not be, and I find that a lot of\u00a0musicians are like that. And part of the thrill of\u00a0doing what you do is standing in front of a fucking audience\u00a0which terrifies the shit out of a lot of us and fucking\u00a0conquering that and fucking throwing down, you know? And\u00a0starting something or unleashing something from yourself and\u00a0also unleashing something from the people in front of you and\u00a0then that all mixes together and it\u2019s like some amazing\u00a0magical potion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Cantrell discusses his writing process, the differences between Seattle and Los Angeles and how Alice in Chains maintains their band dynamic. The band is currently nominated for a Grammy for their latest album, Rainier Fog<\/em>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice in Chains vocalist-guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflects on how his band reunited in a new interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for the latter\u2019s Apple Music\/Beats 1 radio show It\u2019s Electric. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. In an exclusive clip from the show, Cantrell says that he felt it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:32:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}