ALICE IN CHAINS Covers ELTON JOHN's 'Curtains'; Tulsa Footage Posted Online

October 29, 2007

Fan-filmed video footage of ALICE IN CHAINS performing a cover of ELTON JOHN's "Curtains" on Octoebr 19, 2007 at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma can be viewed below. The concert was one of several AIC acoustic shows that are being recorded for an upcoming live album, tentatively due in early 2008.

ALICE IN CHAINS's setlist for the Tulsa concert was as follows:

01. Don't Follow
02. Heaven Beside You
03. Brother
04. I Can't Remember
05. Killer is Me
06. Nutshell
07. Love Hate Love
08. Sludge Factory
09. Angry Chair
10. Down in a Hole
11. No Excuses
12. Got Me Wrong

Encore:

13. Curtains (ELTON JOHN cover)
14. Squeeze Box (THE WHO cover)
15. Would?
16. Rooster

ALICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall recently posted a message online about the new music that the band has been writing recently. DuVall wrote, "As it says on the ALICE IN CHAINS website, we've been working on new material. The first in over 10 years. It's been deeply rewarding and the stuff is insane." DuVall also mentioned the band's just-started tour with VELVET REVOLVER, adding, "What you may not know is how f***ing ravenous we are to get out there and rock your faces again. We are coming (like a pack of wild dogs) to an amphitheater/arena near you. There will be no quarter asked. And none given. You've been duly warned."

DuVall's comments were the first made publicly by a member of ALICE IN CHAINS regarding new music from the band, although reports surfaced earlier this summer that the band was writing new songs.

ALICE IN CHAINS reunited last year, with DuVall on vocals, for its first live dates since 1996. Original singer Layne Staley died in 2002.

Guitarist Jerry Cantrell told The Pulse of Radio last year that the band hadn't given much thought yet to writing new music. "Well, you know, it's been all we can handle just to get this thing going, you know," he said. "It's quite an undertaking on a lot of different levels — professionally, musically, between us as friends and working through the loss of Layne, you know, so there's so many levels of things that we've dealt with. We intended to do exactly what we're doing right now and that pretty much takes up most of our attention, I guess."

ALICE IN CHAINS' 1996 "MTV Unplugged" album was reissued on September 18 with a bonus DVD featuring additional songs left off the original version. The tracks are "Frogs", "Angry Chair" and "The Killer Is Me".

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