Set to appear on Mancow’s show here on The Loop next Friday before they open up for Guns N’ Roses at Soldier Field next weekend, Alice In Chains singer William Duvall chatted with WRIF radio in Detroit before last night’s tour kick-off at Ford Field in the Motor City. Duvall replaced the late Layne Staley as the band’s singer in 2006, and has two albums with the band under his belt.
But it’s been since 2013’s “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here” that we’ve heard new music from Alice In Chains. And while there were rumors the band has something in the works. Not so, says Duvall and they won’t focus on new material until they’ve wrapped up a summer of headlining shows, festival appearances and opening concerts on the Guns N’ Roses tour.
“I know we’ll be probably talking about that kind of thing over the next few months. It’s still early yet – we’ve got to get through this tour first. We make a habit of starting pretty much with a clean slate every time we’ve gone in. That challenges you. We’ll have to see how it manifests this time. But we’re not there yet.”
And Duvall’s thoughts on the Guns N’ Roses tour? “They call the tour Not In This Lifetime for a reason – they never thought it would happen,” DuVall says. “We were very excited just even hearing that it was going to happen, let along getting to join them for part of it.
“We’re honoured to do it. We did first two gigs in Vegas a couple of months ago, so it was a natural fit that we join them on the stadium leg.”
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