This is like the whole Alice In Chains are-they-together-still-or-not that went on for years. Nobody will really know the whole story. Jerry Cantrell had hopes they would get back together and work, and he said that publicly over and over, and even Layne Staley had hopes, but it still never came to fruition. We'll just have to see what develops. I think much of it boils down to contractual obligations, which might be why they don't want to say definitively that they are over, if indeed they are. Alice (or I should say Sony Columbia) is coming out with yet ANOTHER AIC compilation, an AIC Essentials CD, which will have just about everything I already have. They will have as many compilations as studio releases
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