ALICE IN CHAINS Tribute Album Report Was A Hoax

August 7, 2005

A spokesperson for the surviving members of ALICE IN CHAINS has told Launch that guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney are unaware of any plans for a proposed tribute album that was previously reported to be in the works. MUDVAYNE's manager also told Launch that the album was a "rumor."

News spread online last week that the project, titled "We Pay Our Debt Sometimes: A Tribute to Alice In Chains", would be released through Bullygoat Records, the label founded by MUDVAYNE singer Chad Gray. Artists reportedly involved included MUDVAYNE, COLD, AUDIOSLAVE, BREAKING BENJAMIN, STATIC-X and the members of ALICE IN CHAINS themselves.

On Saturday (August 6),a BLABBERMOUTH.NET visitor by the name of Matt Davidson contacted this site to "apologize" for "fabricating" the story that resulted in the above-mentioned report. "I fabricated the ALICE IN CHAINS tribute album rumor as part of a simple experiment to see if I could get a music news rumor published on a site such as Blabbermouth," Davidson wrote. "After I created the story, I posted the rumor in a fairly official sounding tone on exactly three music-related message forums. That didn't stop someone, I don't know who, from Launch Radio Networks, from running with this totally untrue rumor of Bullygoat Records releasing a tribute to ALICE IN CHAINS."

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