Former ALICE IN CHAINS, THE CULT, JANE'S ADDICTION Members Perform At Benefit Concert

November 12, 2004

DOHENY guitarist/former THE CULT bassist Billy Morrison has posted the following report regarding the Help The Homeless benefit concert he performed on Wednesday (Nov. 10) with former ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell, ex-THE CULT axeman Billy Duffy, and former JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Chris Chaney, among others:

"So [Wednesday] night was a huge success. The Falcon on Sunset [Bldv. In Hollywood, CA] was packed, and I think the charity did really well. I had been asked to put an acoustic band together for 6 or 7 songs, and so the usual suspects were gathered together for a quick soundcheck yesterday afternoon. Billy Duffy, Chris Chaney, Donovan Leitch, Jerry Cantrell, Michael Des Barres, Leif Garrett, DOHENY's own Mr. Jon Clayden [PITCHSHIFTER] and Yours Truly. I asked Dave [Navarro, ex-JANE'S ADDICTION guitarist], but unfortunately, he is really busy with stuff right now and was unable to attend. We ran through each song twice, but the dinner that they had laid on for us was calling loudly, so we abandoned trying to get it all sounding wonderful, and sat down to eat instead!!

"The stage was covered in white candles and red rose petals — it looked amazing. At 9.00pm, we kinda ambled up on the stage and sat down — three acoustic guitars, one acoustic bass, some singers and our friend Gregg on percussion.

"It actually sounded really cool. We opened with BOWIE's 'Ziggy Stardust', into ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Got Me Wrong', and then into an amazing version of THE CULT's 'Rain'. Jon then came up onto the stage (I had taught Jerry, Billy and Chris the DOHENY song 'Dust') and we started playing. I was really nervous to see how our song sat in the set with all those great rock songs. And to my suprise, it went down a storm. Jon sang his ass off, Jerry and Billy sounded great doing their thing on 'Dust', and the audience hooted and hollered when we were done. Quite a special moment, being able to do a DOHENY song with those guys.

"The rest of the set was BOWIE's 'Jean Genie', VELVET UNDERGROUND's 'White Light', and a killer version of the STONES' 'Dead Flowers' that I sang with Mr. Des Barres doing all the R+B high harmonies. It was a great night, we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully we were able to help some people who are not as fortunate."

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