Alice In Chains Revealing Bromance With Chris Cornell Will Melt Your Heart

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Alice In Chains singer/guitarist William DuVall recently gave shout outs on Twitter to Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and Rage Against The Machine. Read the tweets below, followed by a touching tribute DuVall recently posted, and photos of Cornell and Alice In Chains members over the years.

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DuVall also recently wrote the following on Facebook:

“Woke up to the news today that the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton collapsed onstage last night toward the end of his 70th Birthday Tribute Concert at the Fox Theater and died shortly thereafter. I am in shock. This man was a titan. When I started the band, No Walls, in 1988, with Matt Cowley and Hank Schroy, we were privileged – EXTREMELY privileged – to become close with Bruce Hampton’s Aquarium Rescue Unit during the late eighties and early nineties. Their full flower as a band coincided with our own. We played many shows together in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. Those remain some of the greatest shows that I ever played (or ever witnessed) in my entire career as a musician.

Many of the guys in the ARU were about our age – Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Mosier, Jeff Sipe, etc. We all loved one another. And we ALL loved Bruce. He was like a sage and a father figure to us. I SO wish I had been at the Fox last night. But, as many of the legendary musicians who were there have already stated, if Bruce had to go, one cannot imagine a better setting for him to make his exit. Surrounded by friends who loved him playing amazing music in TRIBUTE to him. I’m sending my love out to Bruce Hampton and to all my friends in the music community who loved him as I did. Thank you for the memories. Thank you for the lessons. And thank you for the JOY you brought to my life and to the world.”