VELVET REVOLVER bassist
Duff McKagan (ex-
GUNS N' ROSES) has confirmed to
RollingStone.com that he will be playing second guitar for
ALICE IN CHAINS at the opening gig of
AIC's upcoming world tour, which is scheduled to kick off May 18 at L.A.'s Roxy.
"These guys are my bros from way back, and for me it's kind of a dream come true to play with
ALICE IN CHAINS,"
McKagan said.
McKagan will be joining the band for selected gigs, including England's
Download festival. "It's a band I've always wanted to play in," he added. "I played with them in their first gig in L.A. I got up and played
'Man in a Box'."
COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist
William DuVall, who will be touring with the band full-time as a guest vocalist, is also thrilled to join the group. He and
Cantrell actually became friends on tour around the time — April 2002 — when founding
ALICE vocalist
Layne Staley died of a drug overdose.
"
Cantrell and I suffered through touring through
Layne's death and the aftermath of that," says
DuVall. "We were on the road, so that was something I experienced in very close proximity to him. One of the first gigs we did was at the Key Arena in Seattle right after
Layne had died. It was a really emotional thing. So you go through those kinds of things together, and when something like this comes up it kind of settles the score a bit."
Read more at
RollingStone.com.
