Alice In Chains films show for DVD

Alice In Chains filmed its concert on Tuesday night (October 31st) in Providence, Rhode Island for a possible DVD release, guitarist Jerry Cantrell told us at the first of the band's two New York City shows on Wednesday (November 1st). The Halloween performance was two hours and forty minutes long, with the group playing additional songs for the filming. There's no indication yet of when the DVD could surface or what other features it might contain.

As it is, the group's current North American tour features the reunited band playing a two-hour show that includes an acoustic middle section as well as an eight-minute video tribute to late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley. Drummer Sean Kinney told us that the band feels the singer's presence onstage: "He's there every night. That's one of the main reasons we're doing it. I have no doubt that he'd be totally, 'Well, what took you guys so long?' It took me a long time for me personally to come to terms with even wanting to put myself in that situation, you know. This is the best way. We were all kind of in the same place, that felt like it was the right thing to do, you know. We bring him along in all our ways, you know, he's around us all the time."

Staley died in 2002 after a long struggle with drug addiction that effectively put Alice In Chains on ice in 1996.

Kinney, Cantrell and bassist Mike Inez reunited in 2005 at a tsunami benefit in Seattle before heading out this year on full European and North American tours. Comes With The Fall frontman William DuVall is handling vocals.

There's no word yet on whether this configuration of the group will record any new material. The band continues its North American trek on Saturday, November 4th, in Niagara Falls, New York.
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