Alice In Chains
MIKE INEZ
The Music Is Always Around You By Freddy Villano | Photographs by Scott Dachroeden
M
ike Inez is in the home stretch of Alice In Chains’ 2019 co-headlining tour with nü-metal juggernauts Korn. It’s been a year since the release of AIC’s sixth studio album, Rainier Fog, and Inez and his cohorts — Jerry Cantrell (guitar/ vocals), William DuVall (vocals/guitar), and Sean Kinney (drums) — have been touring almost nonstop ever since. “It’s been a really good tour,” he surmises. “We’ve just been all over this damn planet.” Indeed they have, hitting places like Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Athens for the first time, as well as countries like Estonia. But it’s also been a transformative kind of tour, according to Inez, who lost his grandmother recently. “We had births and deaths on this tour,” he concedes, noting that reality intervenes on musicians’ touring lives. He’s not complaining, though; he’s sim-
18
BASS MAGAZINE ; ISSUE 5 ; bassmagazine.com
