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\n<\/a>Taking on the role of a singer in a band can be daunting at the best of times, but stepping into that position in the band \u2018Alice in Chains\u2019 made famous by the late Layne Staley is one that former \u2018Madfly\u2019 and \u2018Comes with the Fall\u2019 front man William DuVall has taken on.<\/p>\n

Befriended by \u2018Alice in Chains\u2019 guitarist \/ vocalist Jerry Cantrell and through touring with him on his solo tours, eventually led to what many thought would never happen, \u2018Alice in Chains\u2019 reuniting with members Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney and Mike Inez in 2005 and to begin touring with new singer William DuVall.\u00a0 The results of that led to \u2018Alice in Chains\u2019 recording a new album of all new material, their first in over 10 years, \u2018Black Gives Way To Blue\u2019 an album named, and song written as a tribute to Layne Staley who passed away in 2002.<\/p>\n

William DuVall took some time to talk to us at May The Rock Be With You about how his new position came about, the recording of the new album and about how he makes this role his own.<\/p>\n

The new album \u2018Black gives way to blue\u2019 is awesome, and receiving rave reviews from all around the world, are you in some way relieved that the reception has been so warming to it and to you?<\/strong>
\nOf course, yes of course you know, the only thing that we can control is the work that we do you know, you can\u2019t ever legislate public opinion so we\u2019re obviously thrilled and couldn\u2019t be more excited man you know, it\u2019s an amazing thing.<\/p>\n

How did you get involved with Jerry Cantrell and how did that eventually lead to you taking on the almost daunting position of replacing Layne Staley?\u00a0 Was there ever a time you thought that you wouldn\u2019t do it?<\/strong>
\nWell, ha ha, I go back almost 10 years with Cantrell, my band \u2018Comes with the Fall\u2019 moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles back in early 2000 and he was one of the first people that I met.\u00a0 He\u2019d gotten a hold of \u2018Comes with the Fall\u2019s\u2019 first album through a mutual acquaintance of ours and he flipped on it really hard and started hanging out with us every minute, we thought he was joining our band, so that\u2019s kind of what started our friendship.\u00a0 Obviously I really dug and respected his work with \u2018Alice\u2019 and we ended up touring with him for all of 2001 and 2002 around the United States and Canada and the UK when he put out his \u2018Degradation Trip\u2019 solo album.\u00a0 So we just did double duties, backing him up and his band and also as his support act, and so you know, that\u2019s kind of what provides the back story to what we\u2019re doing now in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n

There was a time when I didn\u2019t think id do it, I mean, I have to admit, I thought twice about when this was first brought up to me I did think twice about it because we know the kind of expectation and the potential baggage I would be stepping into.\u00a0 But you know initially when I was asked to join them on stage it was with a very limited, sort of finite goal of playing a few shows.\u00a0 So, that was part of what helped me say yes to it, was it wasn\u2019t like we were trying to undertake some huge resurrection of this band.\u00a0 It was just to play a few shows and those few shows expanded into playing a 23 country tour that took up all of 2006 and then all of that touring through all of those countries and all of those nights together sort of forged something that I\u2019m not sure any of us could\u2019ve really expected.\u00a0 It led to new musical ideas cause you know you get 4 musicians together in close quarters for that amount of time with instruments, new stuff\u2019s gonna happen.\u00a0 It also forged a kind of bond in the 4 of us, I already kinda had one with Cantrell but this really cemented something between all of us and we knew that we could rely on one another, certainly on stage every night and we knew that we were coming up with riffs and ideas and things that were really cool and so and I think it was only after that year of touring in 2006 that we really all knew that we were jumping into the water together to try to do something like a new album, you know what I mean? So initially, you know what I mean, when I said yes, it was yes to this whole huge gigantic thing, it was saying yes to something that was much smaller than that, that then organically led to this sort of bigger story.<\/p>\n

What about the expectations and the pressure of being the new singer for Alice in Chains?\u00a0 Did you feel any of that at all?<\/strong>
\nWell sure, but, it doesn\u2019t exceed the pressure that I put on myself, you know, that\u2019s one thing about the 4 of us in this band we are really our own harshest critics, so if something passes muster with us then that\u2019s really kinda where we draw the line of measuring success you know?\u00a0 But its like I said before, you can\u2019t legislate what public reaction\u2019s gonna be to anything you do, the only thing you can control is what you put into it and then you hope for the rest you know.\u00a0 So, my thing from the beginning was I\u2019m not gonna try to be anything but myself.\u00a0 Obviously I don\u2019t look anything like Layne. In actual fact I don\u2019t even think our voices are that similar, there\u2019s only the most passing resemblance there.\u00a0 I\u2019m not someone that can do a Layne, a dead on Layne impersonation or any of that kind of thing like a lot of people I hear ha ha trying to do that.\u00a0 I\u2019m not one of those guys so I went out and have just done it my way and that\u2019s partly out of respect for Layne you know as well as the band and all of the bands supporters around the world.\u00a0 What a disservice that would be and also what a disservice to myself you know, like Layne was so great in part because he was unique, you know, so to come out and try and do anything but sing the songs from your own place of truth and write new songs from your own place of truth and go out and perform and coming out and accessing it from your own point of experience, that\u2019s the only way to tackle it in my view.\u00a0 Yeah I felt the pressure, I was aware of the pressure from the outside obviously but I don\u2019t think it could in any way compare to the kind of pressure that I would put on myself to do my best, like if I\u2019m gonna say yes to something, I\u2019m going all the way or I\u2019m not gonna do it at all.<\/p>\n

As a singer coming into a band with such powerful songs that obviously had special meaning to Layne, given he wrote a large bunch of the Alice in Chains songs, how have you connected with them given that you may interpret them differently?\u00a0 Did you make them your own?<\/strong>
\nYeah, I think that\u2019s the only way you can do it, you have to make them your own and sing them from your own place of truth, and just as all those listeners around the world are listening to the songs from their place of truth and experience.\u00a0 You know not everyone that listens to the \u2018Dirt\u2019 album was struggling with any sort of addiction, they were responding to the universal emotions in those songs. Even though they may come from specific experiences, the emotions behind them are quite universal, that\u2019s why so many people responded to them in the first place.\u00a0 So as a singer that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m coming at it from my place of experience, and my life and that\u2019s really the power of music, you know, it\u2019s so transferable and so easily personalized, that\u2019s the greatness of it.<\/p>\n

At what point did the decision come to record “Black Gives Way To Blue”?<\/strong>
\nI would say that, as I said there was a pile of new ideas after the initial touring we did in 2006, and then we were going to take 2007 off from the road and just use that time to assess all the new ideas that we had and see if it was worth maybe taking it a step further.\u00a0 At that point Velvet Revolver asked us to do a North American tour with them in 2007 so we did that and at the end of that tour we were coming up in to the holidays in 2007 late November.\u00a0 Oh and we also accumulated another pile of new song ideas and riffs and things on that Velvet Revolver tour, so at that point we had this major pile of stuff, from that collective, you know from all of that touring we did over those few years.\u00a0 At the end of 2007 was when we said we should really take some time and maybe rent a space and see what we have here, really dig into this stuff and so that\u2019s when. By early 2008 we were like \u2018ok we should take this into a studio, we should meet with producers and see what they say\u2019 and then we found Nick Raskulinecz and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

How many songs were written for the album and how were they narrowed down to what we have seen as the final product?<\/strong>
\nI would say we recorded close to 20 things pretty much all the way through you know, we finished them and we whittled it down to the 11 on the album, just really kind of through I don\u2019t know I mean there was just kind of a loose consensus on what fit together best for this particular record, for this particular step we were taking, so all the stuff is really good, and it may, some of that other stuff that didn\u2019t make it onto this album may see the light of day at some point, but for this particular step, for this album, it was just kind of a consensus.<\/p>\n

Now you talk about the pressure and being your own worst critic and what not, but what kind of pressure did you feel as a band recording “Black Gives Way To Blue” versus outside pressure regarding deadlines and maybe influences of what others may of wanted from this album? \u00a0<\/strong>
\nWell that was part of the beauty of making this album, was that we weren\u2019t on anyone else\u2019s schedule and we weren\u2019t contractually obligated to anyone. This was a completely self financed, self motivated undertaking, so we were liberated from label people coming down and deadlines and all of that stuff.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have any of that, we finished this album before we even started negotiating with anyone to partner with to put it out.\u00a0 So I think that was essential to the working process just as I think the 2 years of touring we did prior to entering the studio was essential to our entire, to this whole story.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t have worked any other way, we had to bond together as a band through a lot of hard touring on the road and then we had to go into the studio free of any outside pressure from anyone else in order to see what we really had and to work at our own pace, to come up with something that either we believed in or that we said \u2018hey that\u2019s good but its just not, we don\u2019t need to put this out\u2019 and it could\u2019ve gone either way but again, the fact that we weren\u2019t pressured by anyone and that we didn\u2019t have anyone lording over us was key to the whole thing and the way it came out.<\/p>\n

I have to ask how cool it was to have Elton John perform on the title track \u2018Black Gives Way To Blue\u2019?<\/strong>
\nOh very cool man, we had a demo for that song \u2018Black Gives Way To Blue\u2019 and the demo had piano on it that was played by a friend of ours who works for the band as one of our guitar techs. When it came time to consider the proper studio version of that song for the album, the question was, should it have piano like the demo? And if so, who should play it?\u00a0 Should we just get our friend back?\u00a0 Then another person who works for the band and who also worked for Elton John for a period said \u2018why don\u2019t you give Elton a call?\u2019.\u00a0 We said \u2018yeah right, sure we\u2019ll get right on that and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be right over.\u00a0 Sir Elton John\u2019!\u00a0 But then after a couple of days of thinking about it, what\u2019s the worst that can happen, you don\u2019t ask, you don\u2019t get.\u00a0 So we floated a note to him and it turns out he totally got what the song was about and liked it and he said yes.\u00a0 So sometime just about after we\u2019d completed just about all the tracks for the record, we found ourselves in a studio at the Palms Hotel in Vegas and Elton John walked in ha ha!\u00a0 It was a totally surreal experience for all of us because he means a lot to all of our childhood, his music has been an inspiration for all of us. Especially I think for Cantrell, Elton John kinda represents the start of his musical journey, even before the guitar based hard rock.\u00a0 It also turns out that Layne Staley\u2019s first concert was Elton John, so there was a lot of really cool circle things there, stars lining up.<\/p>\n

Elton was just a really gracious guy, with his time and with his energy and you know he\u2019s a master musician so he didn\u2019t come in there with any \u2018This is what I\u2019m going to play on your song\u2019 you know. He was really open to trying it many different ways, he was open to our suggestions and like any true master of his craft, who is secure in his own being like Elton was cool like that.\u00a0 He was also very self deprecating in his humour, if he messed up in the middle of a take, he\u2019d curse himself with the most funny curses, like one time he messed up and he was like \u2018Damn it woman!\u2019 ha ha. you know, that kind of thing and it was funny to hear him laugh at himself and obviously the song is really heavy and has all these somber emotions so it was great to undercut it with that kind of humour.\u00a0 Yeah man, we\u2019re still peaking out over it frankly; we\u2019re like \u2018God! That actually happened you know\u2019 cool guy, great musician, great experience for all of us.<\/p>\n

You have just played a bunch of shows during September in the USA, mainly playing clubs as opposed to larger venues?\u00a0 How is the new material coming across live?<\/strong>
\nMan, its ripping, like its totally ripping and its so gratifying for us to see how well the new stuff sits seamlessly along side the older stuff.\u00a0 Its great to watch fans even before this stuff was out, it was great to see them reacting to it the way they were.\u00a0 It was a real gas for us and now that the records out, obviously we\u2019re gonna see more and more of that, so that was a great thing.<\/p>\n

Now, Europe is next and we got to see you perform in February this year at the Soundwave festival and were blown away.\u00a0 Were you nervous what the reception would be like?\u00a0 Can we expect to see you back in Australia any time soon?<\/strong>
\nOh, that tour was a great deal of fun for us, I had never been to Australia before so it was really special to me to finally see your country and I thought it was beautiful.\u00a0 I though the audiences were amazing and met a lot of really wonderful people there.\u00a0 So yeah, I was very warmed by the reception we got and I cant wait to get back there, we cant wait to get back there.\u00a0 It seems like people are really responding to the album there so we will definitely be back for sure<\/p>\n

Not another 15 years like it was before then?<\/strong>
\nNot another 15 years, no sir ha ha<\/p>\n

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