Alice in Chains vocalist William DuVall talked about the band performing Soundgarden’s “Hunted Down” and “Boot Camp” as a tribute to late Chris Cornell, telling James McMahon during a recent interview:
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“That was a very moving and poignant experience. We didn’t say much about it beforehand, and we didn’t say much about it afterward, because we thought the music said enough.
“I wanted to do ‘Boot Camp’ because that was my favorite song on [Soundgarden’s 1996 album] ‘Down on the Upside’, so I went and learned it. But the thing with Chris is, he would tune the guitar to his voice, so it’s kinda complicated to learn from following YouTube!
“In the end, and in the spirit of Chris, I just made up my own version and we practiced it in a hotel room in Chicago. [Jerry] Cantrell wanted to do ‘Hunted Down,’ because he already knew it and it’s a rad song.
“But what I really liked about it is it ended up being these really nice bookends to the first song on the first Soundgarden EP [1987’s Screaming Life], and the last song on the last record Soundgarden made during their first phase.”