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Jerry Cantrell

December 12, 2023

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966)[1] is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter[9] of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle's grunge movement, and is known for its distinctive vocal style[10] and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley (and later Cantrell and William DuVall). Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains' 1992 EP Sap. After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains' lead singer on most of the songs from the band's post-Staley albums, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013) and Rainier Fog (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley's vocals in the old songs in live concerts.[11][12]

Jerry Cantrell
Cantrell in 2010
Background information
Birth nameJerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.[1]
Born (1966-03-18) March 18, 1966 (age 57)[2]
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Guitar
  • vocals
Years active1985–present
Labels
Member ofAlice in Chains
Formerly of

He also has a solo career and released the albums Boggy Depot in 1998 and Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 in 2002. His third solo album, Brighten, was released in 2021. Cantrell has also collaborated and performed with Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Pantera, Circus of Power, Metal Church, Gov't Mule, Damageplan, Pearl Jam, The Cult, Stone Temple Pilots, Danzig, Glenn Hughes, Duff McKagan and Deftones, among others.

Cantrell was named "Riff Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006.[13] Guitar World Magazine ranked Cantrell as the 38th out of "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004,[14] and the 37th "Greatest Guitar Player of All Time" in 2012.[15] Guitar World also ranked Cantrell's solo in "Man in the Box" at No. 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008.[16] Cantrell has earned nine Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.[17]

He also contributed to the soundtrack of The Cable Guy (1996), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and Dark Nights: Metal (2018), and has made cameos in films such as Jerry Maguire (1996), Rock Slyde (2009) and Deadwood: The Movie. Cantrell also acted in the Alice in Chains mockumentaries The Nona Tapes (1995) and AIC 23 (2013).

Biography edit

Early life edit

Cantrell was born in Tacoma, Washington, on March 18, 1966,[2] to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell.[18][19] He grew up in Spanaway,[20] and is the oldest of three children.[21] His father is an Army veteran, and his mother was an amateur organist and melodica player who worked as an administrative assistant for the Clover Park School District in Pierce County, Washington.[22][23] His maternal grandmother was from Norway, and his maternal grandfather was from the Czech Republic.[24][25]

After Cantrell learned to write, he documented his goal on Dr. Seuss' book, My Book About Me, filling in the sentence "When I grow up I want to be a..." with the words "rock star".[26]

Cantrell's father, Jerry Sr., is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War.[26] Cantrell's first childhood memory is meeting his father for the first time after he had returned from war when he was three years old.[26] Due to the strain of war, his parents divorced when he was seven years old, and Cantrell was raised by his mother, Gloria, and his maternal grandmother in Tacoma.[26] The family lived on welfare and food stamps.[26] Jerry Sr. was the main subject of the song "Rooster", which Cantrell wrote as a tribute to his father,[27] and his mother Gloria is also mentioned by name in the song.[28] Father and son also appeared together on the music video for "Rooster", in which Jerry Sr. recalls the war.[26] Cantrell would later name his music publishing company as Rooster's Son Publishing.[29][30]

Cantrell moved back with his mother to Spanaway where he attended junior high.[31] His first job was delivering newspapers.[32] Cantrell attended high school at Spanaway Lake High School,[33] and, before owning his first guitar, he was a member of the high school choir which attended many state competitions.[31] In his senior year, Cantrell became choir president,[31] and the quartet sang the national anthem at basketball games and won competitions with the highest marks achievable.[31] Cantrell has cited his interest in dark musical tones as dating back to this period: "In choir we performed a cappella Gregorian chants from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was scary church music."[34] His choir teacher and drama teacher were, early on, his two greatest motivators toward a career in music. When Alice in Chains' first album went gold, Cantrell sent both teachers a gold record.[35] He graduated from high school in 1984.[33][36]

Cantrell picked up a guitar for the first time when he was in sixth grade.[32] At that time he played clarinet, and his mother was dating a guitar player who handed his guitar to Cantrell and taught him a couple of chords.[32] Cantrell picked it up very quickly, impressing his mother's boyfriend who suggested that she should buy her son a guitar, so she bought him an acoustic guitar.[32] It would not be until the age of 17 that he began seriously playing an electric guitar.[37] Cantrell learned to play guitar by ear, emulating his heroes.[38] In his mid-teens he bought his first guitar from a swap meet, a Korean-made Fender Stratocaster.[39]

His maternal grandmother, Dorothy Krumpos, died of cancer in October 1986,[40] and his mother Gloria died of pancreatic cancer at age 43 in April 1987, when Cantrell was 21 years old.[40][41] Friends recalled that Cantrell fell into depression and became a completely different person after losing both his mother and grandmother within a short span of time.[40]

The first album that Cantrell owned was Elton John's 1974 Greatest Hits compilation,[42] which was a gift he received from his father when he was 10 years old.[43] He noted in an interview that he was "raised on country music" as a youth and that he admires the emotion conveyed in the genre.[41] He also considers himself "half Yankee and half redneck".[41] However, hard rock music caught Cantrell's interest predominantly. He would later cite guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix,[44] Ace Frehley, Tony Iommi, Angus Young, Jimmy Page, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, David Gilmour, Nancy Wilson,[45] and Eddie Van Halen as major influences,[46] as well as Elton John[47] and bands Fleetwood Mac,[47] Heart[45][48] and Rush as his early songwriting idols.[48] Cantrell also cited Soundgarden as a big influence on him.[49]

Early career edit

 
Cantrell playing with Alice in Chains at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992

In 1985, Cantrell was going to winter semester of college,[50] but he decided to quit it and moved to Dallas, Texas, to join a band with a couple of friends.[50] Cantrell worked doing asbestos abatement around the Dallas and Houston area.[51] He also worked at the music store Arnold and Morgan Music Company.[52] While working at the store, Cantrell bought what he described as his first "real guitar", a 1984 G&L Rampage.[39] During that time, he had a band with Vinnie Chas (from Pretty Boy Floyd), called Sinister. Later they formed another band called Raze.[53]

While living in Dallas, Cantrell met an early incarnation of the band Pantera and started a long friendship with brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul.[51]

In 1985 or 1986, Cantrell moved back to Tacoma and began a band called Diamond Lie, which included singer Scott Damon, drummer Bobby Nesbitt and bassist Matt Muasau.[54] The band started playing concerts in Tacoma and Seattle with the goal of getting a record deal. They recorded a four-song demo at London Bridge Studio.[55]

When Cantrell was 20 years old, he was working several part-time jobs to pay his rent, one of which involved throwing boxes of frozen fish in a warehouse.[56] He spent his time outside of work playing guitar and jamming with any band he could find.[56]

Three weeks after his mother's death on April 11, 1987, Cantrell went to see the band Alice N' Chains perform at the Tacoma Little Theatre, and was impressed by the voice of the lead singer, Layne Staley.[40][57] Diamond Lie played their last concert in July 1987.[58]

Cantrell met Layne Staley, then Alice N' Chains' lead singer, at a party in Seattle around August 1987.[59] He was homeless after being kicked out of his family's house,[26] so Staley invited Cantrell to live with him at the 24-hour rehearsal studio "The Music Bank".[59][60] Shortly after Cantrell moved in with Staley at the Music Bank, Alice 'N Chains broke up.[61]

Cantrell wanted to form a new band and Staley gave him the phone number of Melinda Starr, the girlfriend of drummer Sean Kinney, so that Cantrell could talk to him.[62] Cantrell called the number and set up a meeting with Kinney.[62] Kinney and his girlfriend went to the Music Bank and listened to Cantrell's demos. Cantrell mentioned that they needed a bass player to jam with them and he had someone in mind: Mike Starr, with whom Cantrell had played in a band in Burien called Gypsy Rose.[62] Kinney pointed at his girlfriend and said: "that's weird cause that's his sister".[62] Kinney called Starr and a few days later they started jamming with Cantrell at the Music Bank, but they didn't have a singer.[62][61]

Staley was already starting up another band, but Cantrell, Starr and Kinney wanted him to be their lead singer.[61] They started auditioning terrible lead singers in front of Staley to send a hint. The last straw for Staley was when they auditioned a male stripper – he decided to join the band after that.[63] Staley, who was Cantrell's roommate at the time, agreed to join on the condition that Cantrell join his funk project (which ended shortly after),[64] and Staley joined Cantrell's band on a full-time basis.[62] The band had names like "Mothra", "Fuck" and "Diamond Lie",[63][65] the latter being the name of Cantrell's previous band.[63] Diamond Lie gained attention in the Seattle area and eventually took the name of Staley's previous band, Alice N' Chains, and was quickly renamed as Alice in Chains.[66][63][67]

Cantrell attended a Guns N' Roses concert at the Seattle Center in 1988,[68] and took an Alice in Chains demo tape to give to the band. He met Axl Rose after the show and gave him the tape. As he was walking away, Cantrell saw Rose throwing the demo away.[69] Years later, Guns N' Roses chose Alice in Chains to be the opening act of their 2016 reunion tour.[70]

Alice in Chains' final demo, The Treehouse Tapes, was completed in 1988 and found its way to the music managers Kelly Curtis and Susan Silver, who also managed the Seattle bands Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden, respectively. Curtis and Silver passed the demo on to Columbia Records.[71] After three months of negotiations, Alice in Chains signed to Columbia Records on September 11, 1989.[71]

Alice in Chains edit

Main article: Alice in Chains

Layne Staley era (1987–2002) edit

 
Layne Staley (foreground) and Cantrell performing at The Channel in Boston in 1992

Jerry Cantrell served as the lead guitarist, co-lyricist, co-vocalist and main composer of Alice in Chains until the group's near-permanent hiatus beginning in the late 1990s and leading through the death of lead singer Layne Staley in April 2002.[72] Cantrell's guitar contribution gave a heavy metal edge to the band's unique grunge style.[73] Cantrell also played bass on the track "Love Song", from the 1992 Sap EP.[74]

Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on the 1992 acoustic EP Sap, and his role continued to grow in the following albums, making Alice in Chains a two-vocal band.[75][76][77] Cantrell stated that it was Staley who encouraged him to sing.[75][78][57]

Although Alice in Chains has been labeled grunge by the mainstream media,[79] Cantrell identifies the band as primarily heavy metal. He told Guitar World in 1996, "We're a lot of different things ... I don't quite know what the mixture is, but there's definitely metal, blues, rock and roll, maybe a touch of punk. The metal part will never leave, and I never want it to".[80]

Alice in Chains was one of the most successful bands of the 1990s, selling over 20 million records worldwide,[81] and over 14 million records in the US alone.[82] Their debut album, Facelift, was released in 1990 and has been certified double-platinum by the RIAA, selling over two million copies.[83] Cantrell dedicated the album to his late mother Gloria and to his close friend Andrew Wood, lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone who died in 1990.[84] Speaking with Spin magazine in January 1991, Cantrell confirmed that the song "Sunshine" from Facelift was written about his mother's death. "When I was a little kid, I'd always tell her, "I'll be famous and buy you a house and you'll never have to work again. I'll take care of you like you took care of me.' When she passed away, it was a really shitty time for me. I didn't know how to deal with it then, and I still don't. But it gave me the impetus to do what I'm doing."[85]

In February 1992, the band released the acoustic EP Sap.[86] The EP has been certified gold,[87] and it features guest vocals by Ann Wilson from the band Heart, who joined Cantrell for the chorus of "Brother", and Staley for the chorus of "Am I Inside". The EP also features Mark Arm of Mudhoney and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, who appeared together on the song "Right Turn", credited as "Alice Mudgarden" in the liner notes.[88] The opening track, "Brother", featured Cantrell on lead vocals. The song was about Cantrell's relationship with his younger brother, David.[21] Cantrell also played bass on the last track, "Love Song".[74]

Their second full-length album, Dirt, was released in September 1992 to critical acclaim and was certified quadruple platinum.[89] The album's lead single, "Would?", was written by Cantrell as a tribute to his late friend Andrew Wood.[90] The song was also featured on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 1992 film Singles.[91] The album's fourth single, "Rooster", was a tribute to Cantrell's father.[27]

Alice in Chains' second acoustic EP, Jar of Flies, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1994,[92] becoming the first ever EP and first Alice in Chains release to top the charts.[92] It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA.[93] The album's fifth track was an instrumental song, "Whale & Wasp", described by Cantrell as "a conversation between whales and wasps".[94]

Alice in Chains broke up for six months following the cancellation of their opening act at the Metallica tour in July 1994,[26] citing "health problems within the band".[95][96] The band's self-titled third studio album was released in November 1995, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart,[92] and has been certified double platinum.[97] The singles "Grind", "Over Now", and "Heaven Beside You" feature Cantrell on lead vocals. The band did not tour in support of their self-titled album.[98]

On April 10, 1996, Alice in Chains played their first concert in two and a half years for MTV Unplugged, a program featuring all-acoustic set lists.[99][100] The show featured some of the band's highest charting singles, including "Rooster", "Down in a Hole", "Heaven Beside You", "No Excuses" and "Would?", and introduced a new song, "Killer Is Me", with Cantrell on lead vocals.[99] Cantrell stated that he was ill during the performance as a result of food poisoning from a hot dog consumed before the gig.[101][37]

Alice in Chains performed four shows supporting Kiss on their Alive/Worldwide Tour in 1996, including the final live appearance of Layne Staley on July 3, 1996, in Kansas City, Missouri. Shortly after the show, Staley was found unresponsive after he overdosed on heroin and was hospitalized.[98] Staley rarely left his condo in Seattle,[98] but in 1998 the band reunited to record two new songs, "Get Born Again" and "Died", originally intended for Cantrell's second solo album,[72] the songs were released on the 1999 box set Music Bank.[98][102] Still in 1999, the band released a 15-track compilation titled Nothing Safe: Best of the Box.[102] Their first compilation, titled "Live", was released on December 5, 2000.[102] In 2001, a second compilation titled Greatest Hits was released.[102]

Reunion and new albums (2005–present) edit

Although never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staley's substance abuse, which resulted in his death in 2002. The band reformed in 2005 when drummer Sean Kinney had the idea to reunite the surviving members[103] to perform a benefit concert for the victims of the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia in 2004.[104] On February 18, 2005, Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney reunited to perform for the first time in 10 years as Alice in Chains at the K-Rock Tsunami Continued Care Relief Concert in Seattle.[105] The band featured Damageplan vocalist Pat Lachman, as well as other special guests including Maynard James Keenan of Tool, Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mudd and Ann Wilson of Heart.[105][106] A few months after that concert, the band called their former manager Susan Silver and Cantrell's manager Bill Siddons and said they wanted to tour as Alice in Chains again.[107]

On March 10, 2006, Cantrell, Inez and Kinney performed at VH1's Decades Rock Live concert, honoring fellow Seattle musicians Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. They played "Would?" with vocalist Phil Anselmo of Pantera and Down and bass player Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, then they played "Rooster" with Ann Wilson and Comes with the Fall vocalist William DuVall.[106] The band followed the concert with a short United States club tour, several festival dates in Europe, and a brief tour in Japan. To coincide with the band's reunion, Sony Music released the long-delayed third Alice in Chains compilation, The Essential Alice in Chains, a double album that includes 28 songs.[108]

Between 2006 and 2007, Cantrell played in a number of concerts with Alice in Chains featuring guest lead singers such as Ann Wilson,[109] Mark Lanegan,[110] James Hetfield,[111] Phil Anselmo,[111] Billy Corgan,[110] Scott Weiland[112] Sebastian Bach,[113] and William DuVall.[114] Although Cantrell acknowledges the benefits of working as a solo artist, he expressed his happiness with being back in the band culture.[citation needed]

Cantrell explained the band's reunion saying, "We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend. We have played with some [singers] who can actually bring it and add their own thing to it without being a Layne clone. We're not interested in stepping on [Staley's] rich legacy. It's a tough thing to go through. Do you take the Led Zeppelin approach and never play again, because the guy was that important? That's the approach we've taken for a lot of years. Or, do you give it a shot, try something? We're willing to take a chance on it. It's completely a reunion because the three of us who're left are back together. But it's not about separating and forgetting — it's about remembering and moving on."[115]

 
William DuVall and Cantrell performing with Alice in Chains in 2006

Cantrell met singer William DuVall in Los Angeles in 2000, through a mutual acquaintance who introduced him to the first album of DuVall's band, Comes with the Fall.[116] Cantrell started hanging out with the band and occasionally joining them onstage.[117] Comes with the Fall was both the opening act on Cantrell's tour for his second solo album, Degradation Trip, and also the singer's backing band,[118] with DuVall singing Staley's parts at the concerts in 2001 and 2002.[119][116] DuVall joined Alice in Chains as full-time lead singer during the band's reunion tour in 2006, after making his first public appearance with the band at the VH1 concert.[114][120][121]

By April 2007, Alice in Chains had been writing and demoing songs for a new album with DuVall,[122] but the band did not show further signs of progress until October 2008, when they announced that they had begun recording with producer Nick Raskulinecz in the studio.[123] The band didn't have a record label at the time and the album was funded by Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney.[56][124] The writing and recording process was completed on March 18, 2009 – Cantrell's 43rd birthday and also the same day that DuVall's son was born.[125]

About the pressure being put on DuVall for replacing Staley as lead vocalist, Cantrell said, "To put all that weight on Will's shoulders is unfair. We're just figuring out how we work as a team. Although the band has changed, we've lost Layne, we've added Will, and there was no master plan. Playing again in 2005 felt right, so we did the next thing and toured. We did it step by step. It's more than just making music, and it always has been. We've been friends a long time. We've been more of a family than most, and it had to be okay from here", Cantrell said pointing to his heart.[126]

On September 29, 2009, Alice in Chains released their first record since the death of Layne Staley, Black Gives Way to Blue, and toured in support of the album.[127] The album includes songs which Cantrell described as "the heaviest he's ever written",[128] and has Cantrell singing lead vocals on most of the songs and William DuVall as co-lead vocalist.[129][130] The title track is a tribute to Layne Staley written and sung by Cantrell, accompanied by Elton John playing piano.[42] In the months before writing the song, Cantrell had been suffering from an unexplained illness.[131] Cantrell believes the mystery illness was the pain of saying goodbye to Staley.[131] He told Guitar World, "I got deathly ill. I had these mystery migraines, intense physical pain, and I'd even gotten a spinal tap to test for certain things. They never could find anything wrong with me. I felt I was puking up all this undigested grief in losing Layne." Once Cantrell started writing the song and the rest of the album, his mystery illness disappeared.[56] Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney also thanked Staley in the album's liner notes.[132] The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in May 2010,[133] selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S.[134]

The band released their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, on May 28, 2013,[135] and Cantrell continued his role of main singer in the album.[136][137] The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (the band's highest chart position since 1995's Alice in Chains, which debuted at No. 1), selling 61,000 copies in its first week of release.[138]

In June 2017, Alice in Chains returned to Seattle's Studio X to record their sixth studio album. Studio X was the same studio where the band recorded their self-titled album, Alice in Chains (1995),[139][140] Recording was completed in January 2018.[141] On June 27, 2018, the band announced the title and unveiled the cover art of the new album, Rainier Fog, released on August 24, 2018, through BMG, Alice in Chains' first release on the label.[142] Cantrell took the album's title from the Mount Rainier in Seattle, and the title track is a tribute to the Seattle music scene.[143]

As part of the promotion of Rainier Fog, the baseball team Seattle Mariners hosted an "Alice in Chains Night" at the Safeco Field in Seattle on August 20, 2018, and Cantrell threw out the ceremonial first pitch and delivered a strike before the Mariners vs. Houston Astros game.[144]

As of 2018, Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart,[145] 5 No. 1 hits,[145] and eleven Grammy Award nominations.[146]

Solo career: Boggy Depot, Degradation Trip and Brighten (1996–present) edit

Cantrell's career outside Alice in Chains has consisted of three solo albums, as well as many appearances with other musicians and on film soundtracks. His first solo material was the song "Leave Me Alone", released exclusively on The Cable Guy soundtrack in 1996, featuring Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney on drums and Cantrell on lead vocals, guitar and bass.[147] It had a music video, which was included as a bonus feature on the 15th anniversary edition Blu-Ray of The Cable Guy in 2011,[148] and the song reached No. 14 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks.[149] In the same year, Cantrell covered Willie Nelson's "I've Seen All This World I Care to See" for the album Twisted Willie: A Tribute to Willie Nelson.[150] As the activity of Alice in Chains slowed and the band's future came into question, Cantrell reluctantly began work on his first full-length solo record. While video footage from Cantrell's official website claimed that he wanted to work solo for some time,[151] his comments in Guitar World stated otherwise:

It's something I never really wanted to do, but the way things have played out, it's like, why not? To be honest, I'd just be happy being the lead guitarist and singer for Alice In Chains. It's always been my first love, and always will be, but the situation being what it is... we've been together for a long time, and right now it's kinda played out. It's time to let it be. Now I've got to step up to the plate and take a few swings.[41]

Cantrell's debut solo album, Boggy Depot, was released on April 7, 1998,[152] and published by Cantrell's Boggy Bottom Publishing company.[153] The title comes from the ghost town of the same name in Oklahoma, which is the area that Cantrell's father grew up in.[35] The album cover shows Cantrell covered in mud standing waist-deep in a branch of the Boggy River.[35] Besides singing, Cantrell also played guitar, piano, clavinet, organ, and steel drums on the album.[154] The tracks "Cut You In", "My Song" and "Dickeye" were released as singles to promote the album.[41] Cantrell's father played the sheriff in the music video for "Cut You In".[155][156]

 
Cantrell in 2006

His touring band for the album included Alice in Chains bandmates Inez and Kinney, and Cantrell expressed hope to have a second album released by the following year.[citation needed] Cantrell opened for Metallica and Van Halen on their 1998 summer tour.[157][158] The same year of Boggy Depot, Cantrell began writing a follow-up album. He also departed from Columbia Records during this time and had trouble finding a new label.[159] Cantrell said of the writing experience:

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.[159]

In 1998, Layne Staley almost performed live again since Alice in Chains' last concert in July 1996,[160] when Cantrell went to Seattle on his solo tour for Boggy Depot.[161][162] It was Halloween night and Staley was backstage as a guest.[161] Cantrell reportedly asked Staley to join him onstage, but Staley declined.[163]

Cantrell started recording a follow-up to Boggy Depot in 2000. He was also living in San Francisco during that period.[164] He had to sell his Seattle house to fund the album and produced it himself.[20][159] Finally in June 2002, Cantrell issued his second solo album, Degradation Trip, with Ozzy Osbourne's then live rhythm section, Mike Bordin (drums) and Robert Trujillo (bass). Released on Roadrunner Records, Degradation Trip hit shelves two months after Layne Staley's death and was dedicated to him.[165] The songs on the album ranged from doom metal to pop-based hard rock.[73] The album, which received better critical reception than its predecessor, featured two singles, "Anger Rising" and "Angel Eyes", and the track "She Was My Girl" was included on the Spider-Man soundtrack.[166]

Degradation Trip has sold 100,000 copies in the U.S. as of December 2002.[167] The live show was well received by audiences on a national tour that helped build upon the solo album's success. Degradation Trip was re-released in November 2002 as a double album, featuring eleven additional tracks that were made for the album as Cantrell originally intended.[165] In the Spring of 2004, Cantrell opened a slate of shows on Kid Rock's U.S. tour.[168]

Cantrell has been rumored to be working on his third full-length solo album for several years, for a supposedly planned release in 2006. However, this album still has not been released. Subsequent work with the revamped Alice in Chains may have stalled this release.[169] When asked about releasing another solo album, he issued this statement in 2010:

Not for a while. My first and foremost love has been this band and always has been. The only reason I did those two records is because we weren't working as a band. But being a part of this band is a full time job. Some guys can do multiple things and maybe when I was younger I could do that, but not now.[170]

 
Cantrell in 2019

In November 2014, during an interview on radio 95.5 KLOS, Cantrell was asked if he had any plans on doing more solo work, to which he replied: "I don't know. Maybe somewhere down the road. The only reason I ever did anything by my own was because my band wasn't really doing anything. My band has been doing things lately, so I don't really have time to do anything. I kinda focus my energy there [in the band]. Of course, you know, possibilities..."[171] Cantrell expressed the same sentiment when asked about a new solo album during an interview with Trunk Nation in August 2017, stating that Alice in Chains has always been his number one concern, but that he would not rule out a new solo album in the future.[172]

In February 2017, Cantrell released his first solo song in 15 years, "A Job to Do", featured during the end credits of the movie John Wick: Chapter 2.[173] On February 6, 2019, Cantrell performed a two-song acoustic set for BMG's Pre-Grammy Party at the No Name bar in Los Angeles.[174]

On December 6 and 7, 2019, Cantrell performed two sold-out solo concerts at the Pico Union Project in Los Angeles. His first solo concerts since 2004. Cantrell performed his solo material along with Alice in Chains' songs and covers of other artists such as Elton John and Creedence Clearwater Revival.[175] He was joined by Greg Puciato and Terra Lopez on vocals, Tyler Bates on guitar, Johnny Scaglione on acoustic guitar, James Lomenzo on bass, Gil Sharone on drums, Jordan Lewis on keyboards and Michael Rozon on pedal steel guitar.[176][177]

On January 24, 2020, Cantrell announced that he was working on a new solo album.[178] He started recording at Dave's Room Recording Studio in North Hollywood, California on March 10, 2020.[179] On March 4, 2021, he announced via his Instagram page that he had completed the album, captioning the photo "Finished my record tonight one year to the day from when we started recording it. What a crazy journey ... always is. Look forward to setting it free upon your ear holes sometime soon."[180] On July 28, 2021, Cantrell posted a teaser trailer in his social media announcing that a new song and video titled "Atone" would be released on July 29.[181] Cantrell's third solo album is titled Brighten and was released on October 29, 2021.[182]

Collaborations edit

Recordings edit

Cantrell has appeared as guest guitarist on several albums and projects, including the Danzig album Blackacidevil (1996), in which he played on three tracks ("See All You Were", "Come to Silver" and "Hand of Doom"),[183] and the Metallica album Garage Inc. (1998) on the band's rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone".[184] He also guested on Circus of Power's 1993 album Magic & Madness for the song "Heaven & Hell", played lead guitar on Metal Church's "Gods of a Second Chance" from their 1993 album Hanging in the Balance,[185] and played on the track "Marry Me" from Pigeonhed's 1997 album, The Full Sentence.[186]

Cantrell provided background vocals for the track "Effigy" on Gov't Mule's 2001 album, The Deep End, Volume 1.[187] He also appears briefly with Warren Haynes in the documentary Rising Low, which documents the work of the band Gov't Mule following the death of bassist Allen Woody.[citation needed]

In a May 2001 interview with Metal-is.com, Cantrell revealed that he had written four songs for Ozzy Osbourne.[188] Cantrell, Osbourne, guitarist Zakk Wylde, bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Mike Bordin went to the studio and made some rough demos of those songs.[188]

Cantrell played guitar in the song "Fallen Ones"[189] from Heart's 2004 album Jupiters Darling.[190]

Cantrell was the lead guitarist in all of the tracks[191] from Ozzy Osbourne's 2005 album of cover songs, Under Cover.[192] The songs performed by Cantrell were also included on disc four of Osbourne's box set Prince of Darkness (2005).[192]

In 2007, Cantrell played guitar on Glenn Hughes's rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop", featured on Hughes' solo album Music for the Divine,[193] and played on the track "Soul Ecstacy" off the Stevie Salas's album The Sun and the Earth: The Essential Stevie Salas, Vol. 1.[194] He also played guitar on Smith & Pyle's debut album, It's OK To Be Happy, released in 2008.[195]

 
Cantrell performing with Slash (background) in 2008

In 2010, Cantrell played guitar on the song "Anything" from Pearl Aday's debut album, Little Immaculate White Fox.[196] Aday stated that she thought Cantrell would be a good person to put in some "heartbroken, haunting, crying guitar" on the track.[196]

Cantrell sings background vocals and does a lead vocal ad-lib in the final chorus of "Love Is Blind" from Richie Kotzen's 2011 album, 24 Hours.[197]

He played guitar on Duff McKagan's 2015 EP How to Be a Man,[198][199] and has also collaborated with Alternative Metal band Deftones, contributing guitar parts to the track "Phantom Bride" off their 2016 album Gore.[200][201]

Live performances edit

Cantrell performed a snippet of "Man in the Box" followed by a cover of Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" alongside Pantera during their concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum on March 1, 1992.[202][203] Cantrell joined the band again for their performance of "Walk" during a concert in San Jose, California on February 6, 2001.[204] On October 9, 1994, Cantrell joined Metallica for a performance of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" during their concert in Oklahoma City.[205]

In 2002, Cantrell played a series of summer dates with headlining rock band Nickelback.[72] Cantrell can be seen playing Alice in Chains' "It Ain't Like That" with the band on their first DVD release, Live at Home (2002).[206] He was also asked by Nickelback's frontman, Chad Kroeger, to contribute to the song "Hero" for the 2002 film Spider-Man. Cantrell was unable to attend the recording session and was replaced by Saliva's Josey Scott.[207]

Cantrell made several guest appearances with the supergroup Camp Freddy,[208][209][210] (a covers band featuring Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison),[211] performing with them for the first time at The Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2004.[212]

The experience with Camp Freddy inspired Cantrell and The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy to form their own covers band,[211] the rock supergroup Cardboard Vampyres (named after Cantrell's cats).[213] Under the moniker of the Jerry Cantrell-Billy Duffy Band, they debuted during the three-concert series for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund at The Troubadour in April 2004.[213] "This band is really just about having fun and playing tunes that we were fans of growing up," Cantrell stated. Performing mostly cover songs from bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Stooges, Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith, the group was rounded out by vocalist John Corabi, bassist Chris Wyse, and drummer Josh Howser.[214] The band played at various venues in the United States; although, they predominately played along the West Coast.[215] No formal albums were released by the band.

Cantrell joined Metallica on backing vocals during their performance of "Nothing Else Matters" at the Download Festival in Dublin on June 11, 2006.[216]

On October 6, 2009, Cantrell joined Pearl Jam during their concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Cantrell hopped on stage to close out the night with the guitar solo on "Alive".[217] The following night, Cantrell joined the band to perform "Kick Out the Jams".[218]

Cantrell made a special appearance at a Stone Temple Pilots concert in Camden, New Jersey, on May 23, 2010, playing guitar during the band's performance of "Sex Type Thing".[219]

On December 9, 2011, Cantrell joined Metallica for their 30th anniversary concert at The Fillmore in San Francisco and performed the songs "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Nothing Else Matters", "Seek and Destroy" and a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone".[220]

On May 12, 2012, Cantrell made a duet with Somar Macek accompanied by the Synergia Northwest Orchestra for a performance of Elton John's "Levon" at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, during a benefit concert for music education in Northwest public schools.[221]

Cantrell performed with Duff McKagan's band The Walking Papers during the band's concert at The Crocodile in Seattle on December 15, 2012.[222]

On April 18, 2013, the Seattle band Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Cantrell joined the band onstage for a performance of "Crazy On You".[223] Cantrell alongside Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, also played guitar for Heart's hit song "Barracuda" with Ann and Nancy Wilson at the ceremony.[224][225]

 
Cantrell in 2013

On November 20, 2015, Cantrell joined The Cult on stage at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles to perform the song "The Phoenix".[226] On December 16, 2015, Cantrell joined the supergroup Royal Machines at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood and performed Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" and Alice in Chains' "Would?" and "Man in the Box".[227]

On March 13, 2017, Cantrell made a guest appearance at Steel Panther's concert at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood and performed "Man In The Box" with the band joined by Godsmack singer Sully Erna on lead vocals.[228] On March 25, 2017, Cantrell performed with Nancy Wilson and Mike Inez at the 5th annual Rock Against MS benefit concert.[229]

Cantrell was one of the musicians who participated on the Founders Award Celebration honoring The Doors at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture on December 7, 2017.[230] Cantrell sang "Love Her Madly" accompanied by The Doors' original guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist George Laks, bassist Zander Schloss, and drummer Brian Young.[231] He came back at the end of the concert to sing "Roadhouse Blues" together with all the artists who performed at the tribute.[231]

On December 8, 2017, Cantrell joined The Hellcat Saints (a supergroup featuring members of The Cult, Velvet Revolver, Weezer and Apocalyptica), to open for Jane's Addiction at the third annual Rhonda's Kiss benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the concert benefited the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and further the mission of Rhonda's Kiss, an organization that helps cancer patients in need.[232] Cantrell performed Alice in Chains' hits "Would?" and "Man in the Box", and sang Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak".[233]

On January 16, 2019, Cantrell along with William DuVall, Pearl Jam's guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament, and drummer Josh Freese performed Soundgarden's "Hunted Down" at the Chris Cornell tribute concert "I Am the Highway".[234]

Soundtrack contributions edit

Cantrell's song "Leave Me Alone" was featured in the 1996 dark comedy The Cable Guy and can be found on that movie's soundtrack.[101] "She Was My Girl" from Degradation Trip was included on the Spider-Man (2002) soundtrack.[166]

Cantrell returned to the movie scene in 2004 to write, with the newly formed metal band Damageplan, the song "Ashes to Ashes" for the movie The Punisher. The song features Cantrell sharing lead vocals with Damageplan singer Patrick Lachman,[211] and it can be found on that movie's soundtrack, and as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Damageplan's debut album, New Found Power.[235]

In February 2017, Cantrell released the song "A Job to Do", the end-title song to John Wick: Chapter 2. Cantrell wrote the lyrics from the perspective of Keanu Reeves' title character.[173] Cantrell said in a statement: "I really dug John Wick and have always admired Keanu's work. When the opportunity arose to create a song for the second film, Tyler Bates and I wrote and recorded 'A Job To Do', a theme song for the character. Can't wait to see it!".[236]

On July 19, 2018, Cantrell released the song "Setting Sun" for the soundtrack of DC Comics' graphic novel Dark Nights: Metal. The song was released as a single in digital platforms.[237]

Style edit

Cantrell's early influences made Alice in Chains' heavy metal tones stand out among their fellow grunge/alternative rock-oriented bands of the Seattle music scene. However, his musical range also extends into elements of blues and country as heard on his solo debut album. Cantrell's guitar playing is known for its unique use of wah pedal as well as odd time signatures. In a 1998 interview with Guitar World, he was asked about the latter quality:

I really don't know where that comes from; it just comes naturally to me. I could sit down and figure it out, but what's the use? Off-time stuff is just more exciting – it takes people by surprise when you shift gears like that before they even know what the hell hit 'em. It's also effective when you slow something down and then slam 'em into the dash. A lot of Alice stuff is written that way – "Them Bones" is a great off-time song.[238]

Equipment edit

 
Cantrell with the original "Blue Dress" G&L guitar during an Alice in Chains concert in 2006

Cantrell has been most famously seen playing a G&L Guitars' Rampage model. The two models most closely identified with Cantrell are instruments manufactured in the 1980s.[239] They feature a maple body, maple neck and ebony fingerboard. The bridge is a Kahler Tremolo as opposed to a Floyd Rose tremolo which was commonly seen on instruments made throughout the 1980s and 90s.[240] The guitars feature a single-bridge humbucker wired to a volume control.

G&L Guitars makes two Jerry Cantrell Signature guitars available to the general public for purchase. The first is a Rampage model which is very similar to the instrument most closely identified with Cantrell, known as the "Blue Dress Rampage" for having an image of a vintage pin-up girl wearing a blue dress, which Cantrell taped to the top of his first guitar.[241] The second is a guitar called the 'Superhawk'.[242] This guitar features a fixed bridge and the addition of a neck pickup.[243]

Cantrell used the original "Blue Dress" guitar on the music videos for "Man in the Box",[244] "We Die Young",[245] "Sea of Sorrow",[246] "Grind",[247] and "Again".[248] The guitar can also be seen in the movie Singles.[249] In 2011, Cantrell revealed that he had to retire the guitar due to a hairline crack from the neck all the way through the back of the body. Before that, he had never gone on tour without it.[250]

Apart from his signature G&L Guitars, Cantrell has also been seen playing a Telecaster,[251] a Fender Standard Stratocaster Brown Sunburst,[252] a Gibson Les Paul[253][254] most notably an Ivory White Les Paul with torch burn marks that Cantrell made all over the guitar, which is the guitar that Cantrell has used on all of the Alice in Chains albums along with the original Blue Dress G&L.[254][255] Also a Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG,[256][254] a 1952 Goldtop Les Paul,[257] an Ernie Ball Music Man EVH[258][259] that was a gift from Eddie Van Halen in the 1990s, but has been stolen from Cantrell,[260] a dark blue Mosrite Ventures model,[261] a Dean Michael Schenker USA V,[262] and Dean Soltero guitars.[263] The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Guitar that was stolen in 2001 was returned to him and made an appearance at a gig in 2018.[264]

Cantrell used a variety of amplifiers such as those made by Bogner, Mesa Boogie and Marshall throughout his career.[265] He has most recently been using a signature amp called the, 'JJ100' made for him by Friedman Amplification.[266]

In 2010, Jim Dunlop introduced the "JC95 Cantrell Signature Cry Baby", Cantrell's signature Cry Baby wah pedal,[267][268] based on the original Jimi Hendrix Wah pedal that Cantrell used since his early days.[269] The lyrics to "Black Gives Way to Blue" are printed on the base plate of the pedal.[267] In 2013, a limited edition of the pedal was released in black and red featuring the cover artwork for the album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and the lyrics to "Stone" on the bottom.[270][271] In January 2019, Dunlop released a new version of the pedal, with a design based on Cantrell's tribal orca tattoo created by Coast Salish artist Joe Wilson, and lyrics for the Alice in Chains song "Rainier Fog" on the bottom plate.[272]

Guitars edit

  • 1984 G&L "No War" Rampage[254]
  • 1985 G&L "Blue Dress" Rampage[254]
  • Gibson Les Paul Custom[254]
  • Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG[254]
  • G&L Jerry Cantrell signature Rampage prototype[254]
  • Gibson Flying V 2018 Aged Cherry[273]
  • Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Model - Given to Jerry by Eddie

Amps edit

  • Bogner Shiva[254]
  • Bogner Fish preamp[254]
  • 2 Friedman Amplification BE100 Brown Eye heads[254]
  • Friedman JJ-100 Jerry Cantrell Signature 100W Hand Wired Tube Guitar Head[274]

Effects edit

  • Dunlop Jerry Cantrell signature Cry Baby wah[254]
  • MXR EVH117 Flanger[254]
  • MXR Bass Octave Deluxe[254]
  • MXR Smart Gate[254]
  • Xotic Effects AC Plus[254]
  • Eventide TimeFactor[254]
  • Boss CH-1 Super Chorus[254]
  • Boss CE-3 Chorus[254]
  • Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer[254]

Legacy edit

Cantrell is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock guitarists of his generation. Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell expressed his admiration for Cantrell's guitar work in an interview for Guitar International in 1995, saying that "the layering and the honest feel that Jerry Cantrell gets on [Alice in Chains' Dirt] record is worth a lot more than someone who plays five million notes".[275]

In July 2006, British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer awarded Cantrell the title of "Riff Lord" at its annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards show, held at the London Astoria.[13] He was apparently thrilled at winning the title over several famous artists such as Slash, James Hetfield, and Jimmy Page.[276]

He was ranked 38th out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World in 2004,[14] and ranked at No. 37 out of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" also by Guitar World in 2012.[15]

In October 2008, Guitar World ranked Cantrell's solo in "Man in the Box" at No. 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos".[16] Cantrell was ranked at No. 98 on the list of the "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" by Envision Radio Networks' "Chop Shop" guitar show in December 2008.[277]

Elton John stated in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone that he's been an admirer of Cantrell for quite some time, and couldn't resist the offer to play on Alice in Chains' song "Black Gives Way to Blue" at Cantrell's request.[278]

Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash stated in a 2010 interview with Epiphone.com that Cantrell is one of the most inspiring lead guitar players that have come out in the last 20 years.[279]

In a 2015 interview with Loudwire discussing five of his essential guitar albums, Slayer guitarist Kerry King said about Cantrell:

Cantrell did the harmonies with Layne, and they were haunting, especially on Dirt. Those two guys really had their thing figured out. Guitar-wise, Jerry's playing was always exciting and interesting. "Them Bones" is a heavy f---ing song. Jerry's tone on that one is insane. The title track has a really ominous intro that sets the mood for the rest of the song. So many great guitar riffs and solo performances on this record. Jerry's a really solid blues-rock guitarist, very tasteful and emotive.[280]

In 2016, Blend Guitar ranked Cantrell at No. 7 on its list of "Top 10 Underrated Guitarists",[281] and Loudwire ranked him at No. 38 on its list of "The 66 Best Hard Rock + Metal Guitarists of All Time".[282]

In 2018, Cantrell was named "Guitarist of the Year" by Ultimate Guitar's readers poll.[283] Cantrell and William DuVall were also tied at No. 10 on Total Guitar/MusicRadar's "15 best rock guitarists in the world right now" poll.[284]

Other ventures edit

Between 2009 and 2010, Cantrell co-owned a hard rock bar called Dead Man's Hand in Las Vegas with Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian.[285][286]

In 2011, Cantrell appeared on a spot for NADCP, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.[287]

In 2012, Cantrell's voice was featured on a smoking policy ad at the Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle.[288]

On May 18, 2019, it was announced that Cantrell will compose the score for Shane Dax Taylor's upcoming sci-fi film, Salvage.[289]

On January 17, 2020, Cantrell officially joined Gibson as a brand ambassador.[290]

Acting edit

In his teens, Cantrell was acting in lead roles in high school plays.[26] In a 1998 Q&A, Cantrell revealed that acting has always been an interest to him.[37]

Cantrell is featured in the 1992 movie Singles, along with the rest of Alice in Chains performing the songs "It Ain't Like That" and "Would?".[291]

In the early 1990s, Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates Layne Staley and Mike Starr were featured on the music video "Never a Know, But the No", from the Seattle thrash metal band Forced Entry.[292]

In 1995, Cantrell played journalist Nona Weisbaum on the Alice in Chains mockumentary The Nona Tapes.[293]

In 1996, he had a cameo in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire playing "Jesus of CopyMat", the CopyMat worker who helped Tom Cruise's character make copies of his manifesto.[294] Cantrell said about the film; "I get more people coming up to me telling me my line. It was such a big movie and it was really fun to do."[37] Cantrell was also Crowe's first choice for the role of Stillwater bass player Larry Fellows in Almost Famous (2000), but he was busy writing the songs for his solo album Degradation Trip and had to turn the role down. Mark Kozelek was cast instead.[295]

He also had a cameo as himself in the 2009 film noir comedy Rock Slyde,[296] appeared on the background of two scenes from the first episode of season three of the HBO TV series Deadwood in 2006,[297] and made a cameo in Deadwood: The Movie in 2019.[298]

In 2013, Cantrell played country singer Donnie "Skeeter" Dollarhide Jr. on the Alice in Chains mockumentary AIC 23.[299]

In 2018, Cantrell played Terry, a plumber who plays bass in a garage band in the short film Dad Band, co-starring W. Earl Brown. Cantrell also composed the film score along with Carl Restivo.[300]

Personal life edit

Cantrell lived in Monroe, Washington, from the mid-1990s until the early 2000s.[301][302] He has lived in Studio City, California, since 2003, and he has maintained a residence in Burien, Washington since 2012.[303][304][305][306]

Cantrell was homeless in the early 1990s and lived for some time at the house of Pearl Jam's manager Kelly Curtis. While living in the basement of Curtis' house, Cantrell was roommates with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder.[307] At the start of 1991, Cantrell moved in with Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell and his then-wife Susan Silver at their house in Seattle. Silver was also Alice in Chains' manager.[27] Cantrell wrote the song "Rooster" at the Cornells' house and stayed there for a few weeks.[27] Cantrell would later pay tribute to Cornell during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on April 14, 2018, joining singer Ann Wilson for a rendition of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun".[308] Alice in Chains also paid tribute to Cornell on the one year anniversary of his death on May 18, 2018. The band covered two Soundgarden songs, "Hunted Down" and "Boot Camp", closing their headlining set at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio. Towards the end of "Boot Camp", the lights on stage spelled out "CC" for Chris Cornell and "SG" for Soundgarden as feedback rang out.[309][310]

Friendship with Layne Staley edit

Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains' lead singer Layne Staley, who was described by Cantrell as his best friend.[311] Staley died on April 5, 2002, at the same time of Cantrell's Degradation Trip tour, but Cantrell opted not to cancel any shows, stating, "It's difficult to do interviews - it's hard to talk about it [Staley's death]. I'm just thankful to have a tour and work - something I can focus on."[312] "The shows I played between the time I got the word about Layne and Layne's funeral were very important to me in terms of being able to continue on. It's one of those things where if you take a break and allow things to settle in, it might be harder to get up again."[20] Cantrell's manager at the time, Bill Siddons, said that Jerry really loved Layne and they had a bond he hadn't seen before.[313] Asked about Staley's death in an interview with MTV in July 2002, Cantrell said: "It's something I'm still dealing with, and I still think like he's here. I miss him tremendously. I love him and have to move on. I'll remember him and respect the memories of what we did together and just enjoy life... and that's all I'll say about it."[314] William DuVall, who performed Staley's vocals during Cantrell's solo concerts, elaborated on this emotional period saying: "I lost my grandfather in the same week, so Cantrell and I both hit the road with immense personal losses dogging us. There were times on stage—there was one show in Charlotte where it was just so heavy. I'm holding back tears onstage, and Jerry would start crying onstage too a lot at that point, and a lot of times we would just look at each other when we were singing the stuff because it was the only way... it was heavy. I can't quantify it really in words."[118]

Cantrell canceled the show that he was scheduled to perform at 98 Rock's Livestock Festival in Zephyrhills on April 28 in order to attend Staley's funeral in Seattle in the same day.[315][316] Cantrell dedicated his solo album, Degradation Trip, released two months after Staley's death, to his memory.[165] He also adopted Staley's cat, a female siamese named Sadie, after his death. The cat appeared on Cantrell's episode of MTV Cribs, which was shot at his ranch in Oklahoma in September 2002.[317] Sadie died on the same night of Alice in Chains' concert in Seattle on October 8, 2010, aged 18.[318]

Religious views edit

Cantrell is critical of religion[319] and Young Earth creationism, satirizing them both in Alice in Chains' 2013 album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.[319] Cantrell stated, "There are two things you never want to get into a conversation or argument about: politics and religion. But fuck, I guess we're going to be talking about this for awhile."[319] "No one in the band claims to be an expert on religion, but the title of the song [The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here] comes from something that a lot of people actually believe in."[320] Cantrell also stated that he's sick of the hypocrisy that's taken over many facets of organized religion. "I think there's overwhelming evidence that things aren't working right now. We need to start growing up as a people. When you're teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin, yet a good portion of the people teaching this are fucking kids, there's a huge problem."[320]

Surgeries edit

During his independent tour for Degradation Trip before the album was released, Cantrell broke his left hand while playing football after a concert at the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 2001.[321][322] While Cantrell was running full speed, his guitar player at the time, Bryan Kehoe, was also running full speed towards him and Cantrell got his pinky finger caught in Kehoe's T-shirt sleeve. Cantrell went to the emergency room but they could not do anything for him there, since the bone had slipped back in his hand and he would need a reconstructive surgery, but he had to wait for a couple of weeks for that to happen. Cantrell wanted to continue the tour, and although he was in a lot of pain, he played his first concert as a frontman without a guitar opening for Cheap Trick in Atlanta.[321] Cantrell needed a titanium plate and four screws to put the bones back together.[321] Cantrell reported that breaking his hand was the worst physical pain he ever had.[321] The injury caused the remainder of Cantrell's solo tour to be postponed. His first concert after the surgery was at the Key Club in West Hollywood on July 1, 2001.[323]

Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice. In December 2005, a surgery in his left shoulder removed bone fragments and repaired cartilage.[324][325] During a chat at ESPN.com on November 29, 2011, Cantrell revealed that he had gone through another surgery earlier that year, this time in his right shoulder[326] and that he was in the tail end of the rehabilitation process.[327] The surgery postponed the recording sessions of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here as Cantrell could not play guitar for eight months while he was recovering.[328] Cantrell explained the surgery saying, "The thing that set me back is I had some bone spurs [and] cartilage issues in my shoulders. I had the same issue in the other shoulder about six years ago so I've had them both done now. It's a repetitive motion injury from playing."[329] While recuperating at home in a sling, Cantrell heard a riff in his head and sang it into his phone.[330] The riff later became the song "Stone", the first single from The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.[331]

Substance abuse edit

Cantrell is a recovering addict and alcoholic and has been sober since 2003.[329][332] He was awarded the 2012 Stevie Ray Vaughan Award from MusiCares, for his work helping other addicts with the recovery process. Cantrell said in his acceptance speech, "I crash landed here almost 9 years ago, in Los Angeles. Sean [Kinney] was at the door with my brother, so my choices were open the door and go to rehab or jump out the back window down a cliff into some blackberry bushes. That's the choice I took. Luckily they caught me because I couldn't go anywhere, I was kind of stuck in a bush at the bottom of a cliff bleeding, and I ended up here. I didn't intend to get here but I'm very grateful I am here, and it took a lot of people to help me get here. It's been an amazing day. It's overwhelming. I'm as imperfect as they come. I just don't get high today and wake up the next morning and try and do the same thing. A lot of people stand and get the fuck back up after falling. Some people don't get that chance. My band's been a harsh example of that – what happens when you don't deal with it." Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates played a five-song set at the awards event and Cantrell stated, "We really miss Layne [Staley] and Mike [Starr], and we carry them with us in our hearts".[333][332]

Charity contributions edit

 
Cantrell and Slash playing an acoustic show for Road Recovery on The Nightwatchman's Justice tour at the Nokia Theater, New York on April 17, 2008

Cantrell is a longtime supporter of MusiCares MAP Fund,[329] which helps musicians who are struggling with addiction, financial and health issues.[334] He also supports Road Recovery, an organization dedicated to helping young people battling addiction.[335][336][337]

In 1996, Cantrell became involved with anti-racism organisation Artists for a Hate Free America,[338] alongside other musicians including Jeff Ament, Beck and Michael Stipe, to film public service announcements, and pose for a national ad campaign.[338]

On April 12, 2004, Cantrell and his then-band Cardboard Vampyres performed at a benefit concert for Sweet Relief, a nonprofit organization that helps needy musicians cover medical expenses.[213] On November 10, 2004, Cantrell was among the musicians who performed a short acoustic set to benefit Help The Homeless in Hollywood, California.[339]

In 2007, Cantrell auctioned off some of his favorite clothes from key moments in his career to benefit MusiCares and the Layne Staley Fund,[340][341] which provides support and treatment for heroin recovery in the Seattle music community.[342]

Since 2009, Cantrell has hosted the Alice in Chains & Friends Charity Fantasy Football League. Each participant puts up an item for an online auction and all of the proceeds goes to the charity chosen by the champion of the league.[343] Cantrell founded the league to combine his love of fantasy football with the goal of helping a worthy cause.[344] Cantrell won the league for the first time in 2016, and in 2017 he decided to donate the proceeds to MusiCares in Chris Cornell's memory, and to Music for Relief in memory of Chester Bennington. Both musicians died in 2017.[345] In 2018, Cantrell named the league's trophy after his friend Vinnie Paul, who had died recently.[346]

On May 15, 2015, Cantrell performed at the second annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert in benefit of the Pediatric Cancer Program at the University of California, San Francisco.[347]

Cantrell is a supporter of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and has performed at benefit concerts and charity golf tournaments to raise funds for the hospital that treats children with cancer.[348][349][350]

Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates offer special seating at their concerts for veterans from Operation Ward 57, a fund for wounded soldiers.[349]

In 2015, Alice in Chains donated two dollars from every pre-sold ticket of their summer tour to help the family of a fan named Stefan Dayne-Ankle, who died after a battle with leukemia.[351]

Cantrell also supports Music for Relief,[352] Autism Speaks,[353][327] Rock Against MS Foundation,[229][354] and the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation.[355]

Filmography edit

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Singles Himself
1995 The Nona Tapes Nona Weisbaum Short film
1996 Jerry Maguire Jesus of CopyMat
1998, 2006 Behind the Music Himself 2 episodes
2004 I Love the '90s Himself
2006 Deadwood Man drinking at bar Cameo
2009 Behind the Music: Remastered Himself Episode: "Heart"
2009 Rock Slyde Himself
2013 AIC 23 Donnie "Skeeter" Dollarhide Jr. Short film
2018 Dad Band Terry Short film
2019 Deadwood: The Movie Townsman Cameo

Awards and nominations edit

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Jerry Cantrell

Discography edit

With Alice in Chains edit

Main article: Alice in Chains discography

Solo edit

Year Album details Chart positions
US
[356]		 AUS
[357]		 CAN
[358]		 NZ
[359]
1998 Boggy Depot 28 25 39 46
2002 Degradation Trip 33 85 — —
Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
  • Released: November 26, 2002
  • Label: Roadrunner
 — — — —
2021 Brighten
  • Released: October 29, 2021
  • Label: Double J
 — 63 — —
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Singles edit

Year Song Chart positions Album
US
Alt. 		US
Main.
[360]
1996 "Leave Me Alone" — 14 The Cable Guy soundtrack
1998 "Cut You In" 15 5 Boggy Depot
"Dickeye" — 36
"My Song" — 6
2002 "Anger Rising" — 10 Degradation Trip
"Angel Eyes" — —
2017 "A Job to Do" — — John Wick: Chapter 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2018 "Setting Sun" — — Dark Nights: Metal Soundtrack
2021 "Atone" — — Brighten
"Brighten" — 19
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Official videos edit

  • 1996: Leave Me Alone
  • 1998: Cut You In
  • 1998: My Song
  • 2002: Anger Rising
  • 2017: A Job to Do
  • 2021: Atone
  • 2021: Brighten
  • 2022: Siren Song
  • 2022: Had to Know
  • 2022: Prism of Doubt

With Ozzy Osbourne edit

Other appearances edit

References edit

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jerry, cantrell, jerry, fulton, cantrell, born, march, 1966, american, guitarist, singer, songwriter, best, known, founder, lead, guitarist, lead, vocalist, main, songwriter, rock, band, alice, chains, band, rose, international, fame, early, 1990s, during, sea. Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr born March 18 1966 1 is an American guitarist singer and songwriter He is best known as the founder lead guitarist co lead vocalist and main songwriter 9 of the rock band Alice in Chains The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle s grunge movement and is known for its distinctive vocal style 10 and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley and later Cantrell and William DuVall Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains 1992 EP Sap After Staley s death in 2002 Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains lead singer on most of the songs from the band s post Staley albums Black Gives Way to Blue 2009 The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here 2013 and Rainier Fog 2018 with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley s vocals in the old songs in live concerts 11 12 Jerry CantrellCantrell in 2010Background informationBirth nameJerry Fulton Cantrell Jr 1 Born 1966 03 18 March 18 1966 age 57 2 Tacoma Washington U S GenresAlternative metal 3 grunge 4 heavy metal 5 6 doom metal sludge metal hard rock 7 8 Occupation s MusiciansingersongwriterInstrument s GuitarvocalsYears active1985 presentLabelsColumbiaRoadrunnerBMGMember ofAlice in ChainsFormerly ofDiamond LieGypsy RoseOzzy OsbourneCardboard Vampyres He also has a solo career and released the albums Boggy Depot in 1998 and Degradation Trip Volumes 1 amp 2 in 2002 His third solo album Brighten was released in 2021 Cantrell has also collaborated and performed with Heart Ozzy Osbourne Metallica Pantera Circus of Power Metal Church Gov t Mule Damageplan Pearl Jam The Cult Stone Temple Pilots Danzig Glenn Hughes Duff McKagan and Deftones among others Cantrell was named Riff Lord by British hard rock metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006 13 Guitar World Magazine ranked Cantrell as the 38th out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time in 2004 14 and the 37th Greatest Guitar Player of All Time in 2012 15 Guitar World also ranked Cantrell s solo in Man in the Box at No 77 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos in 2008 16 Cantrell has earned nine Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains 17 He also contributed to the soundtrack of The Cable Guy 1996 John Wick Chapter 2 2017 and Dark Nights Metal 2018 and has made cameos in films such as Jerry Maguire 1996 Rock Slyde 2009 and Deadwood The Movie Cantrell also acted in the Alice in Chains mockumentaries The Nona Tapes 1995 and AIC 23 2013 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1 2 Early career 1 3 Alice in Chains 1 3 1 Layne Staley era 1987 2002 1 3 2 Reunion and new albums 2005 present 1 4 Solo career Boggy Depot Degradation Trip and Brighten 1996 present 2 Collaborations 2 1 Recordings 2 2 Live performances 3 Soundtrack contributions 4 Style 5 Equipment 5 1 Guitars 5 2 Amps 5 3 Effects 6 Legacy 7 Other ventures 7 1 Acting 8 Personal life 8 1 Friendship with Layne Staley 8 2 Religious views 8 3 Surgeries 8 4 Substance abuse 9 Charity contributions 10 Filmography 11 Awards and nominations 12 Discography 12 1 With Alice in Chains 12 2 Solo 12 3 Singles 12 4 Official videos 12 5 With Ozzy Osbourne 12 6 Other appearances 13 References 14 External linksBiography editEarly life edit Cantrell was born in Tacoma Washington on March 18 1966 2 to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell 18 19 He grew up in Spanaway 20 and is the oldest of three children 21 His father is an Army veteran and his mother was an amateur organist and melodica player who worked as an administrative assistant for the Clover Park School District in Pierce County Washington 22 23 His maternal grandmother was from Norway and his maternal grandfather was from the Czech Republic 24 25 After Cantrell learned to write he documented his goal on Dr Seuss book My Book About Me filling in the sentence When I grow up I want to be a with the words rock star 26 Cantrell s father Jerry Sr is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War 26 Cantrell s first childhood memory is meeting his father for the first time after he had returned from war when he was three years old 26 Due to the strain of war his parents divorced when he was seven years old and Cantrell was raised by his mother Gloria and his maternal grandmother in Tacoma 26 The family lived on welfare and food stamps 26 Jerry Sr was the main subject of the song Rooster which Cantrell wrote as a tribute to his father 27 and his mother Gloria is also mentioned by name in the song 28 Father and son also appeared together on the music video for Rooster in which Jerry Sr recalls the war 26 Cantrell would later name his music publishing company as Rooster s Son Publishing 29 30 Cantrell moved back with his mother to Spanaway where he attended junior high 31 His first job was delivering newspapers 32 Cantrell attended high school at Spanaway Lake High School 33 and before owning his first guitar he was a member of the high school choir which attended many state competitions 31 In his senior year Cantrell became choir president 31 and the quartet sang the national anthem at basketball games and won competitions with the highest marks achievable 31 Cantrell has cited his interest in dark musical tones as dating back to this period In choir we performed a cappella Gregorian chants from the 14th and 15th centuries It was scary church music 34 His choir teacher and drama teacher were early on his two greatest motivators toward a career in music When Alice in Chains first album went gold Cantrell sent both teachers a gold record 35 He graduated from high school in 1984 33 36 Cantrell picked up a guitar for the first time when he was in sixth grade 32 At that time he played clarinet and his mother was dating a guitar player who handed his guitar to Cantrell and taught him a couple of chords 32 Cantrell picked it up very quickly impressing his mother s boyfriend who suggested that she should buy her son a guitar so she bought him an acoustic guitar 32 It would not be until the age of 17 that he began seriously playing an electric guitar 37 Cantrell learned to play guitar by ear emulating his heroes 38 In his mid teens he bought his first guitar from a swap meet a Korean made Fender Stratocaster 39 His maternal grandmother Dorothy Krumpos died of cancer in October 1986 40 and his mother Gloria died of pancreatic cancer at age 43 in April 1987 when Cantrell was 21 years old 40 41 Friends recalled that Cantrell fell into depression and became a completely different person after losing both his mother and grandmother within a short span of time 40 The first album that Cantrell owned was Elton John s 1974 Greatest Hits compilation 42 which was a gift he received from his father when he was 10 years old 43 He noted in an interview that he was raised on country music as a youth and that he admires the emotion conveyed in the genre 41 He also considers himself half Yankee and half redneck 41 However hard rock music caught Cantrell s interest predominantly He would later cite guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix 44 Ace Frehley Tony Iommi Angus Young Jimmy Page Glenn Tipton K K Downing David Gilmour Nancy Wilson 45 and Eddie Van Halen as major influences 46 as well as Elton John 47 and bands Fleetwood Mac 47 Heart 45 48 and Rush as his early songwriting idols 48 Cantrell also cited Soundgarden as a big influence on him 49 Early career edit nbsp Cantrell playing with Alice in Chains at The Channel in Boston Massachusetts in 1992In 1985 Cantrell was going to winter semester of college 50 but he decided to quit it and moved to Dallas Texas to join a band with a couple of friends 50 Cantrell worked doing asbestos abatement around the Dallas and Houston area 51 He also worked at the music store Arnold and Morgan Music Company 52 While working at the store Cantrell bought what he described as his first real guitar a 1984 G amp L Rampage 39 During that time he had a band with Vinnie Chas from Pretty Boy Floyd called Sinister Later they formed another band called Raze 53 While living in Dallas Cantrell met an early incarnation of the band Pantera and started a long friendship with brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul 51 In 1985 or 1986 Cantrell moved back to Tacoma and began a band called Diamond Lie which included singer Scott Damon drummer Bobby Nesbitt and bassist Matt Muasau 54 The band started playing concerts in Tacoma and Seattle with the goal of getting a record deal They recorded a four song demo at London Bridge Studio 55 When Cantrell was 20 years old he was working several part time jobs to pay his rent one of which involved throwing boxes of frozen fish in a warehouse 56 He spent his time outside of work playing guitar and jamming with any band he could find 56 Three weeks after his mother s death on April 11 1987 Cantrell went to see the band Alice N Chains perform at the Tacoma Little Theatre and was impressed by the voice of the lead singer Layne Staley 40 57 Diamond Lie played their last concert in July 1987 58 Cantrell met Layne Staley then Alice N Chains lead singer at a party in Seattle around August 1987 59 He was homeless after being kicked out of his family s house 26 so Staley invited Cantrell to live with him at the 24 hour rehearsal studio The Music Bank 59 60 Shortly after Cantrell moved in with Staley at the Music Bank Alice N Chains broke up 61 Cantrell wanted to form a new band and Staley gave him the phone number of Melinda Starr the girlfriend of drummer Sean Kinney so that Cantrell could talk to him 62 Cantrell called the number and set up a meeting with Kinney 62 Kinney and his girlfriend went to the Music Bank and listened to Cantrell s demos Cantrell mentioned that they needed a bass player to jam with them and he had someone in mind Mike Starr with whom Cantrell had played in a band in Burien called Gypsy Rose 62 Kinney pointed at his girlfriend and said that s weird cause that s his sister 62 Kinney called Starr and a few days later they started jamming with Cantrell at the Music Bank but they didn t have a singer 62 61 Staley was already starting up another band but Cantrell Starr and Kinney wanted him to be their lead singer 61 They started auditioning terrible lead singers in front of Staley to send a hint The last straw for Staley was when they auditioned a male stripper he decided to join the band after that 63 Staley who was Cantrell s roommate at the time agreed to join on the condition that Cantrell join his funk project which ended shortly after 64 and Staley joined Cantrell s band on a full time basis 62 The band had names like Mothra Fuck and Diamond Lie 63 65 the latter being the name of Cantrell s previous band 63 Diamond Lie gained attention in the Seattle area and eventually took the name of Staley s previous band Alice N Chains and was quickly renamed as Alice in Chains 66 63 67 Cantrell attended a Guns N Roses concert at the Seattle Center in 1988 68 and took an Alice in Chains demo tape to give to the band He met Axl Rose after the show and gave him the tape As he was walking away Cantrell saw Rose throwing the demo away 69 Years later Guns N Roses chose Alice in Chains to be the opening act of their 2016 reunion tour 70 Alice in Chains final demo The Treehouse Tapes was completed in 1988 and found its way to the music managers Kelly Curtis and Susan Silver who also managed the Seattle bands Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden respectively Curtis and Silver passed the demo on to Columbia Records 71 After three months of negotiations Alice in Chains signed to Columbia Records on September 11 1989 71 Alice in Chains edit Main article Alice in Chains Layne Staley era 1987 2002 edit nbsp Layne Staley foreground and Cantrell performing at The Channel in Boston in 1992Jerry Cantrell served as the lead guitarist co lyricist co vocalist and main composer of Alice in Chains until the group s near permanent hiatus beginning in the late 1990s and leading through the death of lead singer Layne Staley in April 2002 72 Cantrell s guitar contribution gave a heavy metal edge to the band s unique grunge style 73 Cantrell also played bass on the track Love Song from the 1992 Sap EP 74 Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on the 1992 acoustic EP Sap and his role continued to grow in the following albums making Alice in Chains a two vocal band 75 76 77 Cantrell stated that it was Staley who encouraged him to sing 75 78 57 Although Alice in Chains has been labeled grunge by the mainstream media 79 Cantrell identifies the band as primarily heavy metal He told Guitar World in 1996 We re a lot of different things I don t quite know what the mixture is but there s definitely metal blues rock and roll maybe a touch of punk The metal part will never leave and I never want it to 80 Alice in Chains was one of the most successful bands of the 1990s selling over 20 million records worldwide 81 and over 14 million records in the US alone 82 Their debut album Facelift was released in 1990 and has been certified double platinum by the RIAA selling over two million copies 83 Cantrell dedicated the album to his late mother Gloria and to his close friend Andrew Wood lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone who died in 1990 84 Speaking with Spin magazine in January 1991 Cantrell confirmed that the song Sunshine from Facelift was written about his mother s death When I was a little kid I d always tell her I ll be famous and buy you a house and you ll never have to work again I ll take care of you like you took care of me When she passed away it was a really shitty time for me I didn t know how to deal with it then and I still don t But it gave me the impetus to do what I m doing 85 In February 1992 the band released the acoustic EP Sap 86 The EP has been certified gold 87 and it features guest vocals by Ann Wilson from the band Heart who joined Cantrell for the chorus of Brother and Staley for the chorus of Am I Inside The EP also features Mark Arm of Mudhoney and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden who appeared together on the song Right Turn credited as Alice Mudgarden in the liner notes 88 The opening track Brother featured Cantrell on lead vocals The song was about Cantrell s relationship with his younger brother David 21 Cantrell also played bass on the last track Love Song 74 Their second full length album Dirt was released in September 1992 to critical acclaim and was certified quadruple platinum 89 The album s lead single Would was written by Cantrell as a tribute to his late friend Andrew Wood 90 The song was also featured on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe s 1992 film Singles 91 The album s fourth single Rooster was a tribute to Cantrell s father 27 Alice in Chains second acoustic EP Jar of Flies debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1994 92 becoming the first ever EP and first Alice in Chains release to top the charts 92 It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA 93 The album s fifth track was an instrumental song Whale amp Wasp described by Cantrell as a conversation between whales and wasps 94 Alice in Chains broke up for six months following the cancellation of their opening act at the Metallica tour in July 1994 26 citing health problems within the band 95 96 The band s self titled third studio album was released in November 1995 debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart 92 and has been certified double platinum 97 The singles Grind Over Now and Heaven Beside You feature Cantrell on lead vocals The band did not tour in support of their self titled album 98 On April 10 1996 Alice in Chains played their first concert in two and a half years for MTV Unplugged a program featuring all acoustic set lists 99 100 The show featured some of the band s highest charting singles including Rooster Down in a Hole Heaven Beside You No Excuses and Would and introduced a new song Killer Is Me with Cantrell on lead vocals 99 Cantrell stated that he was ill during the performance as a result of food poisoning from a hot dog consumed before the gig 101 37 Alice in Chains performed four shows supporting Kiss on their Alive Worldwide Tour in 1996 including the final live appearance of Layne Staley on July 3 1996 in Kansas City Missouri Shortly after the show Staley was found unresponsive after he overdosed on heroin and was hospitalized 98 Staley rarely left his condo in Seattle 98 but in 1998 the band reunited to record two new songs Get Born Again and Died originally intended for Cantrell s second solo album 72 the songs were released on the 1999 box set Music Bank 98 102 Still in 1999 the band released a 15 track compilation titled Nothing Safe Best of the Box 102 Their first compilation titled Live was released on December 5 2000 102 In 2001 a second compilation titled Greatest Hits was released 102 Reunion and new albums 2005 present edit Although never officially disbanding Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staley s substance abuse which resulted in his death in 2002 The band reformed in 2005 when drummer Sean Kinney had the idea to reunite the surviving members 103 to perform a benefit concert for the victims of the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia in 2004 104 On February 18 2005 Cantrell Mike Inez and Sean Kinney reunited to perform for the first time in 10 years as Alice in Chains at the K Rock Tsunami Continued Care Relief Concert in Seattle 105 The band featured Damageplan vocalist Pat Lachman as well as other special guests including Maynard James Keenan of Tool Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mudd and Ann Wilson of Heart 105 106 A few months after that concert the band called their former manager Susan Silver and Cantrell s manager Bill Siddons and said they wanted to tour as Alice in Chains again 107 On March 10 2006 Cantrell Inez and Kinney performed at VH1 s Decades Rock Live concert honoring fellow Seattle musicians Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart They played Would with vocalist Phil Anselmo of Pantera and Down and bass player Duff McKagan of Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver then they played Rooster with Ann Wilson and Comes with the Fall vocalist William DuVall 106 The band followed the concert with a short United States club tour several festival dates in Europe and a brief tour in Japan To coincide with the band s reunion Sony Music released the long delayed third Alice in Chains compilation The Essential Alice in Chains a double album that includes 28 songs 108 Between 2006 and 2007 Cantrell played in a number of concerts with Alice in Chains featuring guest lead singers such as Ann Wilson 109 Mark Lanegan 110 James Hetfield 111 Phil Anselmo 111 Billy Corgan 110 Scott Weiland 112 Sebastian Bach 113 and William DuVall 114 Although Cantrell acknowledges the benefits of working as a solo artist he expressed his happiness with being back in the band culture citation needed Cantrell explained the band s reunion saying We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend We have played with some singers who can actually bring it and add their own thing to it without being a Layne clone We re not interested in stepping on Staley s rich legacy It s a tough thing to go through Do you take the Led Zeppelin approach and never play again because the guy was that important That s the approach we ve taken for a lot of years Or do you give it a shot try something We re willing to take a chance on it It s completely a reunion because the three of us who re left are back together But it s not about separating and forgetting it s about remembering and moving on 115 nbsp William DuVall and Cantrell performing with Alice in Chains in 2006Cantrell met singer William DuVall in Los Angeles in 2000 through a mutual acquaintance who introduced him to the first album of DuVall s band Comes with the Fall 116 Cantrell started hanging out with the band and occasionally joining them onstage 117 Comes with the Fall was both the opening act on Cantrell s tour for his second solo album Degradation Trip and also the singer s backing band 118 with DuVall singing Staley s parts at the concerts in 2001 and 2002 119 116 DuVall joined Alice in Chains as full time lead singer during the band s reunion tour in 2006 after making his first public appearance with the band at the VH1 concert 114 120 121 By April 2007 Alice in Chains had been writing and demoing songs for a new album with DuVall 122 but the band did not show further signs of progress until October 2008 when they announced that they had begun recording with producer Nick Raskulinecz in the studio 123 The band didn t have a record label at the time and the album was funded by Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney 56 124 The writing and recording process was completed on March 18 2009 Cantrell s 43rd birthday and also the same day that DuVall s son was born 125 About the pressure being put on DuVall for replacing Staley as lead vocalist Cantrell said To put all that weight on Will s shoulders is unfair We re just figuring out how we work as a team Although the band has changed we ve lost Layne we ve added Will and there was no master plan Playing again in 2005 felt right so we did the next thing and toured We did it step by step It s more than just making music and it always has been We ve been friends a long time We ve been more of a family than most and it had to be okay from here Cantrell said pointing to his heart 126 On September 29 2009 Alice in Chains released their first record since the death of Layne Staley Black Gives Way to Blue and toured in support of the album 127 The album includes songs which Cantrell described as the heaviest he s ever written 128 and has Cantrell singing lead vocals on most of the songs and William DuVall as co lead vocalist 129 130 The title track is a tribute to Layne Staley written and sung by Cantrell accompanied by Elton John playing piano 42 In the months before writing the song Cantrell had been suffering from an unexplained illness 131 Cantrell believes the mystery illness was the pain of saying goodbye to Staley 131 He told Guitar World I got deathly ill I had these mystery migraines intense physical pain and I d even gotten a spinal tap to test for certain things They never could find anything wrong with me I felt I was puking up all this undigested grief in losing Layne Once Cantrell started writing the song and the rest of the album his mystery illness disappeared 56 Cantrell Mike Inez and Sean Kinney also thanked Staley in the album s liner notes 132 The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in May 2010 133 selling over 500 000 copies in the U S 134 The band released their fifth studio album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here on May 28 2013 135 and Cantrell continued his role of main singer in the album 136 137 The album debuted at No 2 on the Billboard 200 the band s highest chart position since 1995 s Alice in Chains which debuted at No 1 selling 61 000 copies in its first week of release 138 In June 2017 Alice in Chains returned to Seattle s Studio X to record their sixth studio album Studio X was the same studio where the band recorded their self titled album Alice in Chains 1995 139 140 Recording was completed in January 2018 141 On June 27 2018 the band announced the title and unveiled the cover art of the new album Rainier Fog released on August 24 2018 through BMG Alice in Chains first release on the label 142 Cantrell took the album s title from the Mount Rainier in Seattle and the title track is a tribute to the Seattle music scene 143 As part of the promotion of Rainier Fog the baseball team Seattle Mariners hosted an Alice in Chains Night at the Safeco Field in Seattle on August 20 2018 and Cantrell threw out the ceremonial first pitch and delivered a strike before the Mariners vs Houston Astros game 144 As of 2018 Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart 145 5 No 1 hits 145 and eleven Grammy Award nominations 146 Solo career Boggy Depot Degradation Trip and Brighten 1996 present edit Cantrell s career outside Alice in Chains has consisted of three solo albums as well as many appearances with other musicians and on film soundtracks His first solo material was the song Leave Me Alone released exclusively on The Cable Guy soundtrack in 1996 featuring Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney on drums and Cantrell on lead vocals guitar and bass 147 It had a music video which was included as a bonus feature on the 15th anniversary edition Blu Ray of The Cable Guy in 2011 148 and the song reached No 14 on Billboard s Mainstream Rock Tracks 149 In the same year Cantrell covered Willie Nelson s I ve Seen All This World I Care to See for the album Twisted Willie A Tribute to Willie Nelson 150 As the activity of Alice in Chains slowed and the band s future came into question Cantrell reluctantly began work on his first full length solo record While video footage from Cantrell s official website claimed that he wanted to work solo for some time 151 his comments in Guitar World stated otherwise It s something I never really wanted to do but the way things have played out it s like why not To be honest I d just be happy being the lead guitarist and singer for Alice In Chains It s always been my first love and always will be but the situation being what it is we ve been together for a long time and right now it s kinda played out It s time to let it be Now I ve got to step up to the plate and take a few swings 41 Cantrell s debut solo album Boggy Depot was released on April 7 1998 152 and published by Cantrell s Boggy Bottom Publishing company 153 The title comes from the ghost town of the same name in Oklahoma which is the area that Cantrell s father grew up in 35 The album cover shows Cantrell covered in mud standing waist deep in a branch of the Boggy River 35 Besides singing Cantrell also played guitar piano clavinet organ and steel drums on the album 154 The tracks Cut You In My Song and Dickeye were released as singles to promote the album 41 Cantrell s father played the sheriff in the music video for Cut You In 155 156 nbsp Cantrell in 2006His touring band for the album included Alice in Chains bandmates Inez and Kinney and Cantrell expressed hope to have a second album released by the following year citation needed Cantrell opened for Metallica and Van Halen on their 1998 summer tour 157 158 The same year of Boggy Depot Cantrell began writing a follow up album He also departed from Columbia Records during this time and had trouble finding a new label 159 Cantrell said of the writing experience In 98 I locked myself in my house went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs I rarely bathed during that period of writing I sent out for food I didn t really venture out of my house in three or four months It was a hell of an experience The album is an overview of birth to now 159 In 1998 Layne Staley almost performed live again since Alice in Chains last concert in July 1996 160 when Cantrell went to Seattle on his solo tour for Boggy Depot 161 162 It was Halloween night and Staley was backstage as a guest 161 Cantrell reportedly asked Staley to join him onstage but Staley declined 163 Cantrell started recording a follow up to Boggy Depot in 2000 He was also living in San Francisco during that period 164 He had to sell his Seattle house to fund the album and produced it himself 20 159 Finally in June 2002 Cantrell issued his second solo album Degradation Trip with Ozzy Osbourne s then live rhythm section Mike Bordin drums and Robert Trujillo bass Released on Roadrunner Records Degradation Trip hit shelves two months after Layne Staley s death and was dedicated to him 165 The songs on the album ranged from doom metal to pop based hard rock 73 The album which received better critical reception than its predecessor featured two singles Anger Rising and Angel Eyes and the track She Was My Girl was included on the Spider Man soundtrack 166 Degradation Trip has sold 100 000 copies in the U S as of December 2002 167 The live show was well received by audiences on a national tour that helped build upon the solo album s success Degradation Trip was re released in November 2002 as a double album featuring eleven additional tracks that were made for the album as Cantrell originally intended 165 In the Spring of 2004 Cantrell opened a slate of shows on Kid Rock s U S tour 168 Cantrell has been rumored to be working on his third full length solo album for several years for a supposedly planned release in 2006 However this album still has not been released Subsequent work with the revamped Alice in Chains may have stalled this release 169 When asked about releasing another solo album he issued this statement in 2010 Not for a while My first and foremost love has been this band and always has been The only reason I did those two records is because we weren t working as a band But being a part of this band is a full time job Some guys can do multiple things and maybe when I was younger I could do that but not now 170 nbsp Cantrell in 2019In November 2014 during an interview on radio 95 5 KLOS Cantrell was asked if he had any plans on doing more solo work to which he replied I don t know Maybe somewhere down the road The only reason I ever did anything by my own was because my band wasn t really doing anything My band has been doing things lately so I don t really have time to do anything I kinda focus my energy there in the band Of course you know possibilities 171 Cantrell expressed the same sentiment when asked about a new solo album during an interview with Trunk Nation in August 2017 stating that Alice in Chains has always been his number one concern but that he would not rule out a new solo album in the future 172 In February 2017 Cantrell released his first solo song in 15 years A Job to Do featured during the end credits of the movie John Wick Chapter 2 173 On February 6 2019 Cantrell performed a two song acoustic set for BMG s Pre Grammy Party at the No Name bar in Los Angeles 174 On December 6 and 7 2019 Cantrell performed two sold out solo concerts at the Pico Union Project in Los Angeles His first solo concerts since 2004 Cantrell performed his solo material along with Alice in Chains songs and covers of other artists such as Elton John and Creedence Clearwater Revival 175 He was joined by Greg Puciato and Terra Lopez on vocals Tyler Bates on guitar Johnny Scaglione on acoustic guitar James Lomenzo on bass Gil Sharone on drums Jordan Lewis on keyboards and Michael Rozon on pedal steel guitar 176 177 On January 24 2020 Cantrell announced that he was working on a new solo album 178 He started recording at Dave s Room Recording Studio in North Hollywood California on March 10 2020 179 On March 4 2021 he announced via his Instagram page that he had completed the album captioning the photo Finished my record tonight one year to the day from when we started recording it What a crazy journey always is Look forward to setting it free upon your ear holes sometime soon 180 On July 28 2021 Cantrell posted a teaser trailer in his social media announcing that a new song and video titled Atone would be released on July 29 181 Cantrell s third solo album is titled Brighten and was released on October 29 2021 182 Collaborations editRecordings edit Cantrell has appeared as guest guitarist on several albums and projects including the Danzig album Blackacidevil 1996 in which he played on three tracks See All You Were Come to Silver and Hand of Doom 183 and the Metallica album Garage Inc 1998 on the band s rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd s Tuesday s Gone 184 He also guested on Circus of Power s 1993 album Magic amp Madness for the song Heaven amp Hell played lead guitar on Metal Church s Gods of a Second Chance from their 1993 album Hanging in the Balance 185 and played on the track Marry Me from Pigeonhed s 1997 album The Full Sentence 186 Cantrell provided background vocals for the track Effigy on Gov t Mule s 2001 album The Deep End Volume 1 187 He also appears briefly with Warren Haynes in the documentary Rising Low which documents the work of the band Gov t Mule following the death of bassist Allen Woody citation needed In a May 2001 interview with Metal is com Cantrell revealed that he had written four songs for Ozzy Osbourne 188 Cantrell Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Mike Bordin went to the studio and made some rough demos of those songs 188 Cantrell played guitar in the song Fallen Ones 189 from Heart s 2004 album Jupiters Darling 190 Cantrell was the lead guitarist in all of the tracks 191 from Ozzy Osbourne s 2005 album of cover songs Under Cover 192 The songs performed by Cantrell were also included on disc four of Osbourne s box set Prince of Darkness 2005 192 In 2007 Cantrell played guitar on Glenn Hughes s rendition of Led Zeppelin s Misty Mountain Hop featured on Hughes solo album Music for the Divine 193 and played on the track Soul Ecstacy off the Stevie Salas s album The Sun and the Earth The Essential Stevie Salas Vol 1 194 He also played guitar on Smith amp Pyle s debut album It s OK To Be Happy released in 2008 195 nbsp Cantrell performing with Slash background in 2008In 2010 Cantrell played guitar on the song Anything from Pearl Aday s debut album Little Immaculate White Fox 196 Aday stated that she thought Cantrell would be a good person to put in some heartbroken haunting crying guitar on the track 196 Cantrell sings background vocals and does a lead vocal ad lib in the final chorus of Love Is Blind from Richie Kotzen s 2011 album 24 Hours 197 He played guitar on Duff McKagan s 2015 EP How to Be a Man 198 199 and has also collaborated with Alternative Metal band Deftones contributing guitar parts to the track Phantom Bride off their 2016 album Gore 200 201 Live performances edit Cantrell performed a snippet of Man in the Box followed by a cover of Motorhead s Ace of Spades alongside Pantera during their concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum on March 1 1992 202 203 Cantrell joined the band again for their performance of Walk during a concert in San Jose California on February 6 2001 204 On October 9 1994 Cantrell joined Metallica for a performance of For Whom the Bell Tolls during their concert in Oklahoma City 205 In 2002 Cantrell played a series of summer dates with headlining rock band Nickelback 72 Cantrell can be seen playing Alice in Chains It Ain t Like That with the band on their first DVD release Live at Home 2002 206 He was also asked by Nickelback s frontman Chad Kroeger to contribute to the song Hero for the 2002 film Spider Man Cantrell was unable to attend the recording session and was replaced by Saliva s Josey Scott 207 Cantrell made several guest appearances with the supergroup Camp Freddy 208 209 210 a covers band featuring Jane s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro former Guns N Roses drummer Matt Sorum Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison 211 performing with them for the first time at The Sundance Film Festival on January 19 2004 212 The experience with Camp Freddy inspired Cantrell and The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy to form their own covers band 211 the rock supergroup Cardboard Vampyres named after Cantrell s cats 213 Under the moniker of the Jerry Cantrell Billy Duffy Band they debuted during the three concert series for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund at The Troubadour in April 2004 213 This band is really just about having fun and playing tunes that we were fans of growing up Cantrell stated Performing mostly cover songs from bands like Led Zeppelin AC DC The Stooges Black Sabbath and Aerosmith the group was rounded out by vocalist John Corabi bassist Chris Wyse and drummer Josh Howser 214 The band played at various venues in the United States although they predominately played along the West Coast 215 No formal albums were released by the band Cantrell joined Metallica on backing vocals during their performance of Nothing Else Matters at the Download Festival in Dublin on June 11 2006 216 On October 6 2009 Cantrell joined Pearl Jam during their concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles Cantrell hopped on stage to close out the night with the guitar solo on Alive 217 The following night Cantrell joined the band to perform Kick Out the Jams 218 Cantrell made a special appearance at a Stone Temple Pilots concert in Camden New Jersey on May 23 2010 playing guitar during the band s performance of Sex Type Thing 219 On December 9 2011 Cantrell joined Metallica for their 30th anniversary concert at The Fillmore in San Francisco and performed the songs For Whom the Bell Tolls Nothing Else Matters Seek and Destroy and a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd s Tuesday s Gone 220 On May 12 2012 Cantrell made a duet with Somar Macek accompanied by the Synergia Northwest Orchestra for a performance of Elton John s Levon at the Paramount Theater in Seattle during a benefit concert for music education in Northwest public schools 221 Cantrell performed with Duff McKagan s band The Walking Papers during the band s concert at The Crocodile in Seattle on December 15 2012 222 On April 18 2013 the Seattle band Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cantrell joined the band onstage for a performance of Crazy On You 223 Cantrell alongside Pearl Jam s Mike McCready and Soundgarden s Chris Cornell also played guitar for Heart s hit song Barracuda with Ann and Nancy Wilson at the ceremony 224 225 nbsp Cantrell in 2013On November 20 2015 Cantrell joined The Cult on stage at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles to perform the song The Phoenix 226 On December 16 2015 Cantrell joined the supergroup Royal Machines at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood and performed Thin Lizzy s Jailbreak and Alice in Chains Would and Man in the Box 227 On March 13 2017 Cantrell made a guest appearance at Steel Panther s concert at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood and performed Man In The Box with the band joined by Godsmack singer Sully Erna on lead vocals 228 On March 25 2017 Cantrell performed with Nancy Wilson and Mike Inez at the 5th annual Rock Against MS benefit concert 229 Cantrell was one of the musicians who participated on the Founders Award Celebration honoring The Doors at Seattle s Museum of Pop Culture on December 7 2017 230 Cantrell sang Love Her Madly accompanied by The Doors original guitarist Robby Krieger keyboardist George Laks bassist Zander Schloss and drummer Brian Young 231 He came back at the end of the concert to sing Roadhouse Blues together with all the artists who performed at the tribute 231 On December 8 2017 Cantrell joined The Hellcat Saints a supergroup featuring members of The Cult Velvet Revolver Weezer and Apocalyptica to open for Jane s Addiction at the third annual Rhonda s Kiss benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles Proceeds from the concert benefited the Cedars Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and further the mission of Rhonda s Kiss an organization that helps cancer patients in need 232 Cantrell performed Alice in Chains hits Would and Man in the Box and sang Thin Lizzy s Jailbreak 233 On January 16 2019 Cantrell along with William DuVall Pearl Jam s guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Josh Freese performed Soundgarden s Hunted Down at the Chris Cornell tribute concert I Am the Highway 234 Soundtrack contributions editCantrell s song Leave Me Alone was featured in the 1996 dark comedy The Cable Guy and can be found on that movie s soundtrack 101 She Was My Girl from Degradation Trip was included on the Spider Man 2002 soundtrack 166 Cantrell returned to the movie scene in 2004 to write with the newly formed metal band Damageplan the song Ashes to Ashes for the movie The Punisher The song features Cantrell sharing lead vocals with Damageplan singer Patrick Lachman 211 and it can be found on that movie s soundtrack and as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Damageplan s debut album New Found Power 235 In February 2017 Cantrell released the song A Job to Do the end title song to John Wick Chapter 2 Cantrell wrote the lyrics from the perspective of Keanu Reeves title character 173 Cantrell said in a statement I really dug John Wick and have always admired Keanu s work When the opportunity arose to create a song for the second film Tyler Bates and I wrote and recorded A Job To Do a theme song for the character Can t wait to see it 236 On July 19 2018 Cantrell released the song Setting Sun for the soundtrack of DC Comics graphic novel Dark Nights Metal The song was released as a single in digital platforms 237 Style editCantrell s early influences made Alice in Chains heavy metal tones stand out among their fellow grunge alternative rock oriented bands of the Seattle music scene However his musical range also extends into elements of blues and country as heard on his solo debut album Cantrell s guitar playing is known for its unique use of wah pedal as well as odd time signatures In a 1998 interview with Guitar World he was asked about the latter quality I really don t know where that comes from it just comes naturally to me I could sit down and figure it out but what s the use Off time stuff is just more exciting it takes people by surprise when you shift gears like that before they even know what the hell hit em It s also effective when you slow something down and then slam em into the dash A lot of Alice stuff is written that way Them Bones is a great off time song 238 Equipment edit nbsp Cantrell with the original Blue Dress G amp L guitar during an Alice in Chains concert in 2006Cantrell has been most famously seen playing a G amp L Guitars Rampage model The two models most closely identified with Cantrell are instruments manufactured in the 1980s 239 They feature a maple body maple neck and ebony fingerboard The bridge is a Kahler Tremolo as opposed to a Floyd Rose tremolo which was commonly seen on instruments made throughout the 1980s and 90s 240 The guitars feature a single bridge humbucker wired to a volume control G amp L Guitars makes two Jerry Cantrell Signature guitars available to the general public for purchase The first is a Rampage model which is very similar to the instrument most closely identified with Cantrell known as the Blue Dress Rampage for having an image of a vintage pin up girl wearing a blue dress which Cantrell taped to the top of his first guitar 241 The second is a guitar called the Superhawk 242 This guitar features a fixed bridge and the addition of a neck pickup 243 Cantrell used the original Blue Dress guitar on the music videos for Man in the Box 244 We Die Young 245 Sea of Sorrow 246 Grind 247 and Again 248 The guitar can also be seen in the movie Singles 249 In 2011 Cantrell revealed that he had to retire the guitar due to a hairline crack from the neck all the way through the back of the body Before that he had never gone on tour without it 250 Apart from his signature G amp L Guitars Cantrell has also been seen playing a Telecaster 251 a Fender Standard Stratocaster Brown Sunburst 252 a Gibson Les Paul 253 254 most notably an Ivory White Les Paul with torch burn marks that Cantrell made all over the guitar which is the guitar that Cantrell has used on all of the Alice in Chains albums along with the original Blue Dress G amp L 254 255 Also a Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG 256 254 a 1952 Goldtop Les Paul 257 an Ernie Ball Music Man EVH 258 259 that was a gift from Eddie Van Halen in the 1990s but has been stolen from Cantrell 260 a dark blue Mosrite Ventures model 261 a Dean Michael Schenker USA V 262 and Dean Soltero guitars 263 The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Guitar that was stolen in 2001 was returned to him and made an appearance at a gig in 2018 264 Cantrell used a variety of amplifiers such as those made by Bogner Mesa Boogie and Marshall throughout his career 265 He has most recently been using a signature amp called the JJ100 made for him by Friedman Amplification 266 In 2010 Jim Dunlop introduced the JC95 Cantrell Signature Cry Baby Cantrell s signature Cry Baby wah pedal 267 268 based on the original Jimi Hendrix Wah pedal that Cantrell used since his early days 269 The lyrics to Black Gives Way to Blue are printed on the base plate of the pedal 267 In 2013 a limited edition of the pedal was released in black and red featuring the cover artwork for the album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and the lyrics to Stone on the bottom 270 271 In January 2019 Dunlop released a new version of the pedal with a design based on Cantrell s tribal orca tattoo created by Coast Salish artist Joe Wilson and lyrics for the Alice in Chains song Rainier Fog on the bottom plate 272 Guitars edit 1984 G amp L No War Rampage 254 1985 G amp L Blue Dress Rampage 254 Gibson Les Paul Custom 254 Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG 254 G amp L Jerry Cantrell signature Rampage prototype 254 Gibson Flying V 2018 Aged Cherry 273 Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Model Given to Jerry by EddieAmps edit Bogner Shiva 254 Bogner Fish preamp 254 2 Friedman Amplification BE100 Brown Eye heads 254 Friedman JJ 100 Jerry Cantrell Signature 100W Hand Wired Tube Guitar Head 274 Effects edit Dunlop Jerry Cantrell signature Cry Baby wah 254 MXR EVH117 Flanger 254 MXR Bass Octave Deluxe 254 MXR Smart Gate 254 Xotic Effects AC Plus 254 Eventide TimeFactor 254 Boss CH 1 Super Chorus 254 Boss CE 3 Chorus 254 Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer 254 Legacy editCantrell is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock guitarists of his generation Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell expressed his admiration for Cantrell s guitar work in an interview for Guitar International in 1995 saying that the layering and the honest feel that Jerry Cantrell gets on Alice in Chains Dirt record is worth a lot more than someone who plays five million notes 275 In July 2006 British hard rock metal magazine Metal Hammer awarded Cantrell the title of Riff Lord at its annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards show held at the London Astoria 13 He was apparently thrilled at winning the title over several famous artists such as Slash James Hetfield and Jimmy Page 276 He was ranked 38th out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World in 2004 14 and ranked at No 37 out of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time also by Guitar World in 2012 15 In October 2008 Guitar World ranked Cantrell s solo in Man in the Box at No 77 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos 16 Cantrell was ranked at No 98 on the list of the Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time by Envision Radio Networks Chop Shop guitar show in December 2008 277 Elton John stated in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone that he s been an admirer of Cantrell for quite some time and couldn t resist the offer to play on Alice in Chains song Black Gives Way to Blue at Cantrell s request 278 Guns N Roses guitarist Slash stated in a 2010 interview with Epiphone com that Cantrell is one of the most inspiring lead guitar players that have come out in the last 20 years 279 In a 2015 interview with Loudwire discussing five of his essential guitar albums Slayer guitarist Kerry King said about Cantrell Cantrell did the harmonies with Layne and they were haunting especially on Dirt Those two guys really had their thing figured out Guitar wise Jerry s playing was always exciting and interesting Them Bones is a heavy f ing song Jerry s tone on that one is insane The title track has a really ominous intro that sets the mood for the rest of the song So many great guitar riffs and solo performances on this record Jerry s a really solid blues rock guitarist very tasteful and emotive 280 In 2016 Blend Guitar ranked Cantrell at No 7 on its list of Top 10 Underrated Guitarists 281 and Loudwire ranked him at No 38 on its list of The 66 Best Hard Rock Metal Guitarists of All Time 282 In 2018 Cantrell was named Guitarist of the Year by Ultimate Guitar s readers poll 283 Cantrell and William DuVall were also tied at No 10 on Total Guitar MusicRadar s 15 best rock guitarists in the world right now poll 284 Other ventures editBetween 2009 and 2010 Cantrell co owned a hard rock bar called Dead Man s Hand in Las Vegas with Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian 285 286 In 2011 Cantrell appeared on a spot for NADCP the National Association of Drug Court Professionals 287 In 2012 Cantrell s voice was featured on a smoking policy ad at the Sea Tac Airport in Seattle 288 On May 18 2019 it was announced that Cantrell will compose the score for Shane Dax Taylor s upcoming sci fi film Salvage 289 On January 17 2020 Cantrell officially joined Gibson as a brand ambassador 290 Acting edit In his teens Cantrell was acting in lead roles in high school plays 26 In a 1998 Q amp A Cantrell revealed that acting has always been an interest to him 37 Cantrell is featured in the 1992 movie Singles along with the rest of Alice in Chains performing the songs It Ain t Like That and Would 291 In the early 1990s Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates Layne Staley and Mike Starr were featured on the music video Never a Know But the No from the Seattle thrash metal band Forced Entry 292 In 1995 Cantrell played journalist Nona Weisbaum on the Alice in Chains mockumentary The Nona Tapes 293 In 1996 he had a cameo in Cameron Crowe s Jerry Maguire playing Jesus of CopyMat the CopyMat worker who helped Tom Cruise s character make copies of his manifesto 294 Cantrell said about the film I get more people coming up to me telling me my line It was such a big movie and it was really fun to do 37 Cantrell was also Crowe s first choice for the role of Stillwater bass player Larry Fellows in Almost Famous 2000 but he was busy writing the songs for his solo album Degradation Trip and had to turn the role down Mark Kozelek was cast instead 295 He also had a cameo as himself in the 2009 film noir comedy Rock Slyde 296 appeared on the background of two scenes from the first episode of season three of the HBO TV series Deadwood in 2006 297 and made a cameo in Deadwood The Movie in 2019 298 In 2013 Cantrell played country singer Donnie Skeeter Dollarhide Jr on the Alice in Chains mockumentary AIC 23 299 In 2018 Cantrell played Terry a plumber who plays bass in a garage band in the short film Dad Band co starring W Earl Brown Cantrell also composed the film score along with Carl Restivo 300 Personal life editCantrell lived in Monroe Washington from the mid 1990s until the early 2000s 301 302 He has lived in Studio City California since 2003 and he has maintained a residence in Burien Washington since 2012 303 304 305 306 Cantrell was homeless in the early 1990s and lived for some time at the house of Pearl Jam s manager Kelly Curtis While living in the basement of Curtis house Cantrell was roommates with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder 307 At the start of 1991 Cantrell moved in with Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell and his then wife Susan Silver at their house in Seattle Silver was also Alice in Chains manager 27 Cantrell wrote the song Rooster at the Cornells house and stayed there for a few weeks 27 Cantrell would later pay tribute to Cornell during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on April 14 2018 joining singer Ann Wilson for a rendition of Soundgarden s Black Hole Sun 308 Alice in Chains also paid tribute to Cornell on the one year anniversary of his death on May 18 2018 The band covered two Soundgarden songs Hunted Down and Boot Camp closing their headlining set at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus Ohio Towards the end of Boot Camp the lights on stage spelled out CC for Chris Cornell and SG for Soundgarden as feedback rang out 309 310 Friendship with Layne Staley edit Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley who was described by Cantrell as his best friend 311 Staley died on April 5 2002 at the same time of Cantrell s Degradation Trip tour but Cantrell opted not to cancel any shows stating It s difficult to do interviews it s hard to talk about it Staley s death I m just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on 312 The shows I played between the time I got the word about Layne and Layne s funeral were very important to me in terms of being able to continue on It s one of those things where if you take a break and allow things to settle in it might be harder to get up again 20 Cantrell s manager at the time Bill Siddons said that Jerry really loved Layne and they had a bond he hadn t seen before 313 Asked about Staley s death in an interview with MTV in July 2002 Cantrell said It s something I m still dealing with and I still think like he s here I miss him tremendously I love him and have to move on I ll remember him and respect the memories of what we did together and just enjoy life and that s all I ll say about it 314 William DuVall who performed Staley s vocals during Cantrell s solo concerts elaborated on this emotional period saying I lost my grandfather in the same week so Cantrell and I both hit the road with immense personal losses dogging us There were times on stage there was one show in Charlotte where it was just so heavy I m holding back tears onstage and Jerry would start crying onstage too a lot at that point and a lot of times we would just look at each other when we were singing the stuff because it was the only way it was heavy I can t quantify it really in words 118 Cantrell canceled the show that he was scheduled to perform at 98 Rock s Livestock Festival in Zephyrhills on April 28 in order to attend Staley s funeral in Seattle in the same day 315 316 Cantrell dedicated his solo album Degradation Trip released two months after Staley s death to his memory 165 He also adopted Staley s cat a female siamese named Sadie after his death The cat appeared on Cantrell s episode of MTV Cribs which was shot at his ranch in Oklahoma in September 2002 317 Sadie died on the same night of Alice in Chains concert in Seattle on October 8 2010 aged 18 318 Religious views edit Cantrell is critical of religion 319 and Young Earth creationism satirizing them both in Alice in Chains 2013 album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here 319 Cantrell stated There are two things you never want to get into a conversation or argument about politics and religion But fuck I guess we re going to be talking about this for awhile 319 No one in the band claims to be an expert on religion but the title of the song The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here comes from something that a lot of people actually believe in 320 Cantrell also stated that he s sick of the hypocrisy that s taken over many facets of organized religion I think there s overwhelming evidence that things aren t working right now We need to start growing up as a people When you re teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin yet a good portion of the people teaching this are fucking kids there s a huge problem 320 Surgeries edit During his independent tour for Degradation Trip before the album was released Cantrell broke his left hand while playing football after a concert at the Kentucky Derby on May 3 2001 321 322 While Cantrell was running full speed his guitar player at the time Bryan Kehoe was also running full speed towards him and Cantrell got his pinky finger caught in Kehoe s T shirt sleeve Cantrell went to the emergency room but they could not do anything for him there since the bone had slipped back in his hand and he would need a reconstructive surgery but he had to wait for a couple of weeks for that to happen Cantrell wanted to continue the tour and although he was in a lot of pain he played his first concert as a frontman without a guitar opening for Cheap Trick in Atlanta 321 Cantrell needed a titanium plate and four screws to put the bones back together 321 Cantrell reported that breaking his hand was the worst physical pain he ever had 321 The injury caused the remainder of Cantrell s solo tour to be postponed His first concert after the surgery was at the Key Club in West Hollywood on July 1 2001 323 Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice In December 2005 a surgery in his left shoulder removed bone fragments and repaired cartilage 324 325 During a chat at ESPN com on November 29 2011 Cantrell revealed that he had gone through another surgery earlier that year this time in his right shoulder 326 and that he was in the tail end of the rehabilitation process 327 The surgery postponed the recording sessions of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here as Cantrell could not play guitar for eight months while he was recovering 328 Cantrell explained the surgery saying The thing that set me back is I had some bone spurs and cartilage issues in my shoulders I had the same issue in the other shoulder about six years ago so I ve had them both done now It s a repetitive motion injury from playing 329 While recuperating at home in a sling Cantrell heard a riff in his head and sang it into his phone 330 The riff later became the song Stone the first single from The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here 331 Substance abuse edit Cantrell is a recovering addict and alcoholic and has been sober since 2003 329 332 He was awarded the 2012 Stevie Ray Vaughan Award from MusiCares for his work helping other addicts with the recovery process Cantrell said in his acceptance speech I crash landed here almost 9 years ago in Los Angeles Sean Kinney was at the door with my brother so my choices were open the door and go to rehab or jump out the back window down a cliff into some blackberry bushes That s the choice I took Luckily they caught me because I couldn t go anywhere I was kind of stuck in a bush at the bottom of a cliff bleeding and I ended up here I didn t intend to get here but I m very grateful I am here and it took a lot of people to help me get here It s been an amazing day It s overwhelming I m as imperfect as they come I just don t get high today and wake up the next morning and try and do the same thing A lot of people stand and get the fuck back up after falling Some people don t get that chance My band s been a harsh example of that what happens when you don t deal with it Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates played a five song set at the awards event and Cantrell stated We really miss Layne Staley and Mike Starr and we carry them with us in our hearts 333 332 Charity contributions edit nbsp Cantrell and Slash playing an acoustic show for Road Recovery on The Nightwatchman s Justice tour at the Nokia Theater New York on April 17 2008Cantrell is a longtime supporter of MusiCares MAP Fund 329 which helps musicians who are struggling with addiction financial and health issues 334 He also supports Road Recovery an organization dedicated to helping young people battling addiction 335 336 337 In 1996 Cantrell became involved with anti racism organisation Artists for a Hate Free America 338 alongside other musicians including Jeff Ament Beck and Michael Stipe to film public service announcements and pose for a national ad campaign 338 On April 12 2004 Cantrell and his then band Cardboard Vampyres performed at a benefit concert for Sweet Relief a nonprofit organization that helps needy musicians cover medical expenses 213 On November 10 2004 Cantrell was among the musicians who performed a short acoustic set to benefit Help The Homeless in Hollywood California 339 In 2007 Cantrell auctioned off some of his favorite clothes from key moments in his career to benefit MusiCares and the Layne Staley Fund 340 341 which provides support and treatment for heroin recovery in the Seattle music community 342 Since 2009 Cantrell has hosted the Alice in Chains amp Friends Charity Fantasy Football League Each participant puts up an item for an online auction and all of the proceeds goes to the charity chosen by the champion of the league 343 Cantrell founded the league to combine his love of fantasy football with the goal of helping a worthy cause 344 Cantrell won the league for the first time in 2016 and in 2017 he decided to donate the proceeds to MusiCares in Chris Cornell s memory and to Music for Relief in memory of Chester Bennington Both musicians died in 2017 345 In 2018 Cantrell named the league s trophy after his friend Vinnie Paul who had died recently 346 On May 15 2015 Cantrell performed at the second annual Acoustic 4 A Cure concert in benefit of the Pediatric Cancer Program at the University of California San Francisco 347 Cantrell is a supporter of St Jude Children s Research Hospital and has performed at benefit concerts and charity golf tournaments to raise funds for the hospital that treats children with cancer 348 349 350 Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates offer special seating at their concerts for veterans from Operation Ward 57 a fund for wounded soldiers 349 In 2015 Alice in Chains donated two dollars from every pre sold ticket of their summer tour to help the family of a fan named Stefan Dayne Ankle who died after a battle with leukemia 351 Cantrell also supports Music for Relief 352 Autism Speaks 353 327 Rock Against MS Foundation 229 354 and the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation 355 Filmography editYear Title Role Notes1992 Singles Himself1995 The Nona Tapes Nona Weisbaum Short film1996 Jerry Maguire Jesus of CopyMat1998 2006 Behind the Music Himself 2 episodes2004 I Love the 90s Himself2006 Deadwood Man drinking at bar Cameo2009 Behind the Music Remastered Himself Episode Heart 2009 Rock Slyde Himself2013 AIC 23 Donnie Skeeter Dollarhide Jr Short film2018 Dad Band Terry Short film2019 Deadwood The Movie Townsman CameoAwards and nominations editMain article List of awards and nominations received by Jerry CantrellDiscography editWith Alice in Chains edit Main article Alice in Chains discography Solo edit Year Album details Chart positionsUS 356 AUS 357 CAN 358 NZ 359 1998 Boggy Depot Released March 31 1998 Vinyl record April 7 1998 CD Label Columbia 28 25 39 462002 Degradation Trip Released June 18 2002 Label Roadrunner 33 85 Degradation Trip Volumes 1 amp 2 Released November 26 2002 Label Roadrunner 2021 Brighten Released October 29 2021 Label Double J 63 denotes a release that did not chart Singles edit Year Song Chart positions AlbumUSAlt USMain 360 1996 Leave Me Alone 14 The Cable Guy soundtrack1998 Cut You In 15 5 Boggy Depot Dickeye 36 My Song 62002 Anger Rising 10 Degradation Trip Angel Eyes 2017 A Job to Do John Wick Chapter 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2018 Setting Sun Dark Nights Metal Soundtrack2021 Atone Brighten Brighten 19 denotes a release that did not chart Official videos edit 1996 Leave Me Alone 1998 Cut You In 1998 My Song 2002 Anger Rising 2017 A Job to Do 2021 Atone 2021 Brighten 2022 Siren Song 2022 Had to Know 2022 Prism of DoubtWith Ozzy Osbourne edit Prince of Darkness 2005 disc four Under Cover 2005 Other appearances edit Magic amp Madness Heaven amp Hell w Circus of Power February 1993 Last Action Hero Music from the Original Motion Picture various guitar ques June 1993 Hanging in the Balance Gods of a Second Chance w Metal Church October 1993 Twisted Willie A Tribute to Willie Nelson I ve Seen All This World I Care to See January 1996 The Cable Guy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Leave Me Alone May 1996 Blackacidevil See All You Were Come to Silver and Hand of Doom w Danzig October 1996 The Full Sentence Marry Me w Pigeonhed January 1997 Garage Inc Tuesday s Gone w Metallica November 1998 The Deep End Volume 1 Effigy w Gov t Mule October 2001 Live at Home appeared on stage with Nickelback in January 2002 performing It Ain t Like That The Punisher The Album Ashes to Ashes w Damageplan also featured on the Japan version of New Found Power March 2004 Jupiters Darling Fallen Ones w Heart June 2004 190 Music for the Divine Misty Mountain Hop w Glenn Hughes January 2007 The Sun and the Earth The Essential Stevie Salas Vol 1 Soul Ecstacy w Stevie Salas April 2007 It s OK to Be Happy w Smith amp Pyle July 2008 Little Immaculate White Fox Anything w Pearl Aday January 2010 24 Hours Love Is Blind w Richie Kotzen November 2011 How to Be a Man w Duff McKagan May 2015 Gore Phantom Bride w Deftones April 2016 201 John Wick Chapter 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack A Job to Do February 2017 361 Dark Nights Metal Soundtrack Setting Sun July 2018 References edit a b Brown Jake July 1 2010 Alice in Chains In the Studio SCB Distributors ISBN 9780983471646 Retrieved July 2 2018 a b March 18 2009 Billboard March 18 2009 Retrieved July 2 2018 Reed Ryan May 9 2016 Alice in Chains Plot Headlining North American Tour Rolling Stone Archived from the original on August 20 2016 Retrieved August 8 2016 McGovern Kyle May 28 2013 Alice in Chains Advice to Young Bands Quit Now Spin Retrieved March 23 2015 Prato Greg Jerry Cantrell Music Biography Credits and Discography Allmusic Retrieved November 24 2012 The Top 25 Modern Metal Guitarists 16 Jerry Cantrell MetalSucks May 13 2011 Retrieved May 23 2017 Zaleski Annie May 28 2013 Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here The A V Club Archived from the original 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