[230] Cantrell sang "Love Her Madly" accompanied by The Doors' original guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist George Laks, bassist Zander Schloss, and drummer Brian Young. On the sixth night of the festival of lights, the duo covered Elasticas Connection as the The cat appeared on Cantrell's episode of MTV Cribs, which was shot at his ranch in Oklahoma in September 2002. Im sure Ill never be completely 100 percent at peace with myself and the world. 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". Alice in Chains Mark the Latest Song Rights Sale as Estates of OG Members Cash Out [285][286], In 2011, Cantrell appeared on a spot for NADCP, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. 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[27], Alice in Chains' second acoustic EP, Jar of Flies, debuted at No. [181] Cantrell's third solo album is titled Brighten and was released on October 29, 2021. Cantrell made a name for himself in rock but was raised on country music. 2. "@type": "WebPage", I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. [186], Cantrell provided background vocals for the track "Effigy" on Gov't Mule's 2001 album, The Deep End, Volume 1. [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. 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. Or, do you give it a shot, try something? In December 2005, a surgery in his left shoulder removed bone fragments and repaired cartilage. "[115], Cantrell met singer William DuVall in Los Angeles in 2000, through a mutual acquaintance who introduced him to [54] The band started playing concerts in Tacoma and Seattle with the goal of getting a record deal. [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. "[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. [343] Cantrell founded the league to combine his love of fantasy football with the goal of helping a worthy cause. [62] Cantrell called the number and set up a meeting with Kinney. "[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. [298], In 2013, Cantrell played country singer Donnie "Skeeter" Dollarhide Jr. on the Alice in Chains mockumentary AIC 23. $2.50 + $3.49 shipping . [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?" [52] While working at the store, Cantrell bought what he described as his first "real guitar", a 1984 G&L Rampage. [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. The opening performance will be the first full show by Alice in chains, live since September [132] The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in May 2010,[133] The whips come down hard at the Basement in Dallas, an underground club where the last night of every weekend is celebrated as Sadistic Sunday. Cantrell was born in Tacoma, Washington, on March 18, 1966,[2] to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell. [217] The following night, Cantrell joined the band to perform "Kick Out the Jams". For the time being, he is intent on making music that can purge his pain. It's a repetitive motion injury from playing. Guitar-wise, Jerry's playing was always exciting and interesting. Alice in Chains is an American metal /rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. 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). 1 hits,[145] and eleven Grammy Award nominations.[146]. [26] In a 1998 Q&A, Cantrell revealed that acting has always been an interest to him. ] and "Man in the Box". 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. For all the albums out-of-the-box success, the making of Dirt was plagued by bad luck. I dont think it hurt us, though. Although its the night after Sadistic Sunday, Staley is having a grand time. 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. A Vietnam veterans son who cut his teeth on old AC/DC, Kiss and Ted Nugent albums, Cantrell had joined up with bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney but couldnt convince Staley to join the group. [190], Cantrell was the lead guitarist in all of the tracks[191] from Ozzy Osbourne's 2005 album of cover songs, Under Cover. 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. Cantrell was unable to attend the recording session and was replaced by Saliva's Josey Scott. 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. 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. [131] He told Guitar World, "I got deathly ill. A few feet away, taking this all in, sits Layne Staley, the troubled, enigmatic twenty-five-year-old lead singer of the Seattle hard-rock band Alice in Chains. He was also living in San Francisco during that period. It's a tough thing to go through. [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. [41], Cantrell's debut solo album, Boggy Depot, was released on April 7, 1998,[152] and published by Cantrell's Boggy Bottom Publishing company. It was in this huge warehouse called the Music Bank that had fifty different rooms, Cantrell says. [170], 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. It was scary church music. "@type": "ListItem", The accident couldnt have come at a worse time: Staley only recently kicked a nasty drug habit; Alices powerful sophomore album, Dirt, just entered the Billboard album chart at Number Six; and the band is on the road opening for Ozzy Osbourne. Its calledDead Mans Handand is in Las Vegas. Once Cantrell started writing the song and the rest of the album, his mystery illness disappeared. [224][225], On November 20, 2015, Cantrell joined The Cult on stage at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles to perform the song "The Phoenix". They fooled around with several incarnations, going glam for a while and even gigging under the name Fuck. Alice in Chains formed during the late eighties when Staley, then singing in a different band, offered aimless Tacoma guitarist Jerry Cantrell his rehearsal studio as a place to crash. [164] He had to sell his Seattle house to fund the album and produced it himself. It was boring., Aside from his busted foot, Staley appears to be in fine shape these days. [51] He also worked at the music store Arnold and Morgan Music Company. It reached 14 on Billboards Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Since I quit doing it, I tried it a couple of times to see if I could recapture the feeling I once got off it, but I dont. [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. #aliceinchains #dionnefarris #grammys.. It's completely a reunion because the three of us who're left are back together. 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. [309][310], Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains' lead singer Layne Staley, who was described by Cantrell as his best friend. A more personal downer for the band was Staleys drug abuse, which led the singer to a failed rehab visit and, finally, a cold-turkey kick of his own while reading The Bad Place, by horror novelist Dean R. Koontz. 2 on the Billboard 200 (the band's highest chart position since 1995's Alice in Chains, which debuted at No. But the bands are different. [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. Cantrell went on to release two solo albums, 1998sBoggy Depotand2002s Degradation Trip, which got reissued later that year as the expanded edition Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2. 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. 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. [99] Cantrell stated that he was ill during the performance as a result of food poisoning from a hot dog consumed before the gig. .ai-viewport-1 { display: inherit !important;} 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008. [321] Cantrell reported that breaking his hand was the worst physical pain he ever had. [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. Alice In Chains; Classic Rock: 1 band: Classic Rock: Ozzy Osbourne; Glam He also has a solo career and released the albums Boggy Depot in 1998 and Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 in 2002. 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. [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. 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. Before recording Dirt, the foursome kept busy by quietly releasing a mellow, guest-laden EP titled Sap and making an appearance in Cameron Crowes recent Seattle-based film, Singles. It's also effective when you slow something down and then slam 'em into the dash. [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. As it stands now, Staley will be wearing the foot cast well into the new year. "[85], In February 1992, the band released the acoustic EP Sap. [323], Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice. 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[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. We were going to have this band that dressed in drag and played heavy metal as a joke., As the quartet refined its musical direction, the Puget Sound scene was erupting with promising groups like the flamboyant Mother Love Bone, the hard-edge Sound-garden and the grunged-out Mudhoney. Both musicians died in 2017. The song was released as a single in digital platforms.[237]. The resulting Facelift featured violent, tortured Cantrell numbers like We Die Young and Bleed the Freak, as well as several Staley-Cantrell collaborations, including Man in the Box, a song inspired by thoughts of food and fascism. They played "Would?" }, To celebrate the. Shortly after the show, Staley was found unresponsive after he overdosed on heroin and was hospitalized. [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. Everybody thought I was getting the worst of the bunch, says Terzo. [82] Their debut album, Facelift, was released in 1990 and has been certified double-platinum by the RIAA, selling over two million copies. Snootyparrot. [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. Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966)[1] is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. was born in Tacoma, Washington. "@type": "WebPage", [231] He came back at the end of the concert to sing "Roadhouse Blues" together with all the artists who performed at the tribute. [294] Cantrell said about the film; "I get more people coming up to me telling me my line. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time My first and foremost love has been this band and always has been. Alice In Chains Man In The Box cassingle 1990 Columbia + 3 Excerpts off Facelift . [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. Jerrys first solo material was a song called Leave Me Alone that made the soundtrack to the 1996Jim Carrey andMatthew BroderickfilmThe Cable Guy. } "name": "Alice In Chains’ William DuVall Details Beautiful 1996 Layne Staley Connection" [91] The album's fourth single, "Rooster", was a tribute to Cantrell's father. [165] In the Spring of 2004, Cantrell opened a slate of shows on Kid Rock's U.S. [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. For Columbia, signing Alice in Chains was a deliberate move to regain the A real trouper, Staley has been performing on crutches, bellowing his cathartic anthems of despair as he hobbles around the stage. I had these mystery migraines, intense physical pain, and I'd even gotten a spinal tap to test for certain things. [288], On May 18, 2019, it was announced that Cantrell will compose the score for Shane Dax Taylor's upcoming sci-fi film, Salvage. [32] It would not be until the age of 17 that he began seriously playing an electric guitar. [167] The live show was well received by audiences on a national tour that helped build upon the solo album's success. "@type": "ListItem", [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. Later they struck a compromise Cantrell would play guitar for Staleys ill-fated funk-rock band, and the singer agreed to howl for the warehouse metal crew. 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. [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. As you can see, Cantrell says, Im into some twisted shit. Indeed, he endures a four-hour-plus session, getting a strange array of gruesome faces inked onto his arm, reaching from the wrist all the way up to the crook of his elbow. 100% Buyer Guarantee. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist [62][61], Staley was already starting up another band, but Cantrell, Starr and Kinney wanted him to be their lead singer. "I think there's overwhelming evidence that things aren't working right now. Cantrell owns a hard rock bar with his buddy,AnthraxsScott Ian. "name": "Home" "@context": "http://schema.org", [163], Cantrell started recording a follow-up to Boggy Depot in 2000.