Jerry Cantrell

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Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, singer-songwriter, and guitarist best known as the band's founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter.

The band emerged to international prominence in the early 1990s during Seattle's grunge movement, and it is best known for its distinctive vocal style and harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley (and later Cantrell and William DuVall).

Cantrell began to sing lead vocals on Alice's 1992 album Sap.

Cantrell performed Alice in Chains' post-Staley albums, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), The Devil Putsaurs Here (2013), and Rainier Fog (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and performing Staley's vocals in the old songs in live concerts.

Cantrell has worked with Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Pantera, Circus of Power, Government Mule, Gov't Mule, Damageplan, Pearl Jam, The Cult, Stone Temple Pilots, Danzig, Glenn Hughes, Duff McKagan, and Deftones, among other things. Cantrell was dubbed "Riff Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006.

Cantrell was ranked 38th out of "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004, and the 38th "Best Guitar Player of All Time" in 2012.

In "Man In The Box" at No. 1, Guitar World ranked Cantrell's solo in the "Man In The Box" series. He appeared on "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008, John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and Metal (2018), as well as Deadwood: The Movie, and Jerry Maguire (2004).

Cantrell appeared in the Alice in Chains mockumentaries The Nona Tapes (1995) and AIC 23 (2013).

Personal life

Cantrell lived in Monroe, Washington, from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. He has lived in Studio City, California, since 2003, and he has had a home in Burien, Washington, since 2012.

Cantrell was homeless in the early 1990s and spent some time at the home of Pearl Jam's boss Kelly Curtis. Cantrell, a student at Curtis' home, was roommates with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder. Cantrell and his then-wife Susan Silver married at their Seattle home in 1991. Alice was also the manager of Chains. Cantrell performed "Rooster" at the Cornell's house and stayed there for a few weeks. During the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 14, 2018, Cantrell will pay their respects to Cornell, as well as singer Ann Wilson for a recreation of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun." On the one-year anniversary of Cornell's death, Alice in Chains paid tribute to him. The band performed two Soundgarden songs, "Hunted Down" and "Boot Camp," respectively, before deciding to close their headlining set at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio. The lights on stage spelled out "CC" for Chris Cornell and "SG" for Soundgarden as feedback rang out.

Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains' lead singer Layne Staley, who was described by Cantrell as his closest friend. Staley died on April 5, 2002, the same time as Cantrell's Degradation Trip tour, but Cantrell said, "It's impossible to do interviews - it's impossible to write about it [Staley's death]. I'm just grateful to have a tour and work, something I can concentrate on." "I loved the shows I watched between the time I heard about Layne and Layne's funeral, and it was really important to me to continue." It's one of those things where taking a break and allowing things to settle in can be difficult to get up again." Jerry was a huge fan of Layne, and the couple had a friendship he hadn't seen before, according to Bill Siddons, Cantrell's boss at the time. In an interview with MTV in July 2002, Cantrell said: "I'm still dealing with it and I don't feel like he's here." I miss him terribly. I adore him and but we have to move forward. I'll recall him and respect the memories of what we did together as well as enjoying life... and that's all I'll say about it." "I lost my grandfather in the same week," William DuVall, a member of Staley's solo concerts, delved into this emotional period, so Cantrell and I were both carrying heavy personal losses. There were times on stage, but there was one show in Charlotte where it was just so heavy. I'm holding my tears back onstage, and Jerry will start weeping onstage, and a lot of times we'd just look at each other when we were singing the music because it was the only way...it was heavy. I can't quantify it properly in terms."

Cantrell cancelled the performance that had been scheduled to appear at 98 Rock's Livestock Festival in Zephyrhills on April 28 in order to attend Staley's funeral in Seattle on the same day. Cantrell dedicated Degradation Trip, his solo album that was released two months after Staley's death, to his memory. After his death, he adopted Staley's cat, a female siamese named Sadie. The cat appeared on Cantrell's episode of MTV Cribs, which was shot at his ranch in Oklahoma in September 2002. Sadie died in Seattle on October 8, 2010, aged 18.

Cantrell's 2013 album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, is skeptical of faith and Young Earth creationism, mocking them both. "You should never want to get into a discussion or debate about politics or religion," Cantrell said. But fuck, I think we're going to be talking about this for a long time." "No one in the band claims to be an expert on religion, but the song [The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here] comes from something that a lot of people don't believe in." Cantrell also said he is sick of the hypocrisy that has taken over so many elements of organized religion. "I believe there are a lot of reasons that things aren't working right now." We need to start growing as individuals. When you're teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin, a large problem is faced by a large one.

Cantrell broke his left hand while playing football after a concert at the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 2001, during his solo tour for Degradation Trip before the album was released. Cantrell was running full throttle, his guitar player at the time, Bryan Kehoe, was also running full speed toward him, and Cantrell's pinky finger was caught in Kehoe's T-shirt sleeve. Cantrell was admitted to the emergency room, but they couldn't do anything for him there since the bone had fallen back in his hand and he would need reconstructive surgery, but he had to wait for a few weeks for that to happen. Cantrell wanted to stay on the tour, but he didn't have to worry about his first performance as a frontman at Cheap Trick in Atlanta. To repair the bones, Cantrell needed a titanium plate and four screws. Cantrell described his hand breaking as the worst physical pain he had ever had. The injury caused the remainder of Cantrell's solo tour to be postponed. On July 1, 2001, he appeared at the Key Club in West Hollywood for his first show after the surgery.

Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice. A cartilage reconstruction in December 2005 was performed in his left shoulder, removing bone fragments and rebuilding cartilage. Cantrell revealed that he had undergone another operation earlier this year, this time in his right shoulder and that the recovery process was ongoing. Cantrell's recording session was postponed until he recovered, but he could not play guitar for eight months. "I had some bone spurs [and] cartilage issues in my shoulders," Cantrell explained during the surgery. About six years ago, I had the same problem in the other shoulder, so I've had them both done now. Playing has a repetitive motion injury. Cantrell heard a riff in his head and turned it into his computer as he was recovering at home in a sling. The riff evolved into the song "Stone," The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, the first single from The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.

Cantrell, a recovering addict and alcoholic, has been sober since 2003. MusiCares' 2012 Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his service to other addicts in the recovery process. "I crash landed here almost nine years ago, in Los Angeles," Cantrell said in his acceptance address. Sean [Kinney] was at the door with my brother, so my choices were either open the door and go to recovery or leap out the back window into some blackberry bushes. That was the option I made. Thankfully 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 want to get here, but I'm extremely grateful that I am here, and a lot of people helped me get here. It's been an amazing day. It's overwhelming. I'm as imperfect as they come. I'm not up today; awakene the next morning and do the same thing. After plummeting, a number of people stand and fuck it back up. Some people are unaware of the possibility. My band has been a sarcastic example of this – what happens if you don't deal with it?" At the awards function, Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates performed a five-song set, and Cantrell said, "We really miss Layne [Staley] and Mike [Starr] [Starr], and we carry them with us."

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