Fan-filmed video footage of
ALICE IN CHAINS performing the new song
"A Looking In View" live on July 18, 2009 at Comerica Park in Detroit as special guests of
KID ROCK can be viewed below. (Note: camera work is a little shaky at the beginning of the clip.) Also available is an excerpt from an interview
AIC guitarist
Jerry Cantrell and drummer
Sean Kinney gave to comedian
Jim Breuer of
Raw Dog, an uncensored comedy station on
Sirius Satellite Radio.
Although it's been posted online and is not an official single,
"A Looking In View" has already begun climbing the rock radio charts as the first new music released by the group in 14 years.
Cantrell told
The Pulse of Radio what the song was about. "The song is kind of generally about how easy it is to remain in a bad groove (laughs), you know, remain in a bad rut," he said. "The most difficult and at the same time easy thing is just to step out of it, you know what I mean? It's like being in a cell that you're locked in, with a door that's not locked. That could be anything, you know. It could be any sort of behavioral or thought process that keeps you there and basically keeps you from growing."
"A Looking In View" is taken from the new
ALICE IN CHAINS album,
"Black Gives Way To Blue", which arrives on September 29.
The group's setlist for the Detroit concert was as folows:
01.
Angry Chair02.
Man In The Box03.
Them Bones04.
A Looking In View05.
Down In A Hole06.
No Excuses07.
Would?08.
Again09.
RoosterCheck out photos and the band's official recap of the concert at
AliceInChains.com.
ALICE IN CHAINS has tapped
U2 and
WHITE STRIPES video director
Alex Courtes to shoot a clip for the first single from the record,
"Check My Brain".
Fans and members of the press heard
"Black Gives Way To Blue" in its entirety at a private listening party in Los Angeles on July 14, followed by a three-song acoustic set by the band in which it debuted two songs from the album live — the title track and
"Your Decision".
The group's tour starts on September 4 in Washington D.C.
"A Looking In View" live in Detroit:
Interview by
Jim Breuer:
