DUFF MCKAGAN Performs With ALICE IN CHAINS At ROCK ON THE RANGE; Video Available

May 20, 2009

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan joined ALICE IN CHAINS on stage at this past weekend's Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio for a haunting rendition of "Rooster".

Watch fan-filmed video footage of the performance below.

"The thing about Rock on the Range, I didn't understand it until VELVET REVOLVER played here a couple years ago," Duff told Rolling Stone magazine. "It's in Columbus, a little college town — how big a festival can you have here? But people come here from Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indiana, West Virginia, from Kentucky, Tennessee. They all converge, and this is the big thing of the summer."

ALICE IN CHAINS' performance at Rock on the Range was one of just two American summer shows before the band unveils a new album. Slated for September release, the as-yet-untitled disc is — according to McKagan — "the best rock record I've heard in the last 15 years."

Regarding the new album's lyrical direction, ALICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall told Rolling Stone, "I think there's always been a little bit of death trip element [and a] survivor element. I think maybe the percentage has been a bit inverted [on the new album]. Where some of the records might have been more 'Scarface', this one is more 'Shawshank Redemption'."

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