DUFF MCKAGAN Says New ALICE IN CHAINS Material Is 'F**king Awesome!'

September 12, 2008

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his weeky column, which appears every Thursday on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. A couple of excerpts follow below.

"In this day and age of paint-by-numbers formula corporate rock…we fuckin' NEED ALICE IN CHAINS!

"My opinion may not be a popular one, especially here in Seattle. There seems to be an attitude of 'Who the hell do you guys think you are? You can't go on without Layne [Staley, late ALICE IN CHAINS singer]!' While his death was heartbreakingly sad and needless, does this mean we all must shut the door on this band that changed the landscape of modern rock? Does this mean we all must suffer the elephant-sized monkey that rode Layne straight to his tragic end? Shit, did anybody think that Layne himself could very well have wanted his brothers to carry on? I for one believe that he in fact did. Alas, in the end, this is a can of worms that I should shut at this point because speculation on what he may or may not have wanted to happen after his death is pointless.

"I have had the good fortune to hear a lot of the new music that the guys have put together for their upcoming recording: fucking AWESOME! I believe we need a band like ALICE IN CHAINS now more than ever. A band who always has worn their heart on their collective sleeve. A band who couldn't give two shits about what is 'hip' or current. These guys have always set trends. With what I have heard of the new music, they will continue to do so."

Read McKagan's entire column at SeattleWeekly.com.

Watch ALICE IN CHAINS performing "Them Bones" live at Germany's Rock Am Ring 2006:

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