Subsequent work with the revamped Alice in Chains may have stalled this release. [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. [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. [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]. . [106] The band followed the concert with a short United States club tour, several festival dates in Europe, and a brief tour in Japan. [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". He grew up in Spanaway, and is the oldest of three children. 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. Jerry Cantrell Net Worth, Salary, Cars & Houses. He grew up in Spanaway, and is the oldest of three children. [334] He also supports Road Recovery, an organization dedicated to helping young people battling addiction. He is the eldest child of his parents. You can get close enough to fake it, but you will never get it right. Yes, Jerry Cantrell is part of Alice In Chains, one of the biggest hard rock groups of the last 30 plus years. [38] In his mid-teens he bought his first guitar from a swap meet, a Korean-made Fender Stratocaster. [33][36], Cantrell picked up a guitar for the first time when he was in sixth grade. 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They recorded a four-song demo at London Bridge Studio. Cantrell's father, Jerry Sr., is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War. . [28] Father and son also appeared together on the music video for "Rooster", in which Jerry Sr. recalls the war. [231] He came back at the end of the concert to sing "Roadhouse Blues" together with all the artists who performed at the tribute. . Cantrell also acted in the Alice in Chains mockumentaries The Nona Tapes (1995) and AIC 23 (2013). [citation needed], In a May 2001 interview with Metal-is.com, Cantrell revealed that he had written four songs for Ozzy Osbourne. 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. 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". [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. [71], 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. [114] Although Cantrell acknowledges the benefits of working as a solo artist, he expressed his happiness with being back in the band culture. 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. He is well known for founding the rock band . [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. The song was about Cantrell's relationship with his younger brother, David. 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. [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. Having seen him live, having my hands on his rig, watching his tech play through his rig, then hearing Jerry play, during soundcheck, I can tell you, most of the tone is in his playing style. [92] It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA. It's been an amazing day. A 26-year-old employee at Microsoft faces decades in prison after allegedly stabbing another Microsoft employee more than a dozen times near the tech behemoth's campus in an unprovoked . His dad owned an insulation company in Dallas, Texas. Jerry's first job was delivering newspapers. . They never could find anything wrong with me. Jerry endures the weather. [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? [205], In 2002, Cantrell played a series of summer dates with headlining rock band Nickelback. Jerry Cantrell started his music career with the Marshall JCM800. Cantrell was born in Tacoma, Washington, on March 18, 1966,[2] to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell. [41] Cantrell's father played the sheriff in the music video for "Cut You In".[155][156]. "I was thinking about my dad; my folks got divorced when I was pretty young, so my dad wasn't a big part of my teen years, but he was a badass and a hardass; he was an army sergeant, but I didn't see a whole lot of him. [321] The injury caused the remainder of Cantrell's solo tour to be postponed. [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). Cantrell's father, Jerry Sr., is a combat . One night at a party in 1987, he ran into Alice in Chains' future guitarist, Jerry Cantrell. [248] The guitar can also be seen in the movie Singles. [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. According to our records, Jerry Cantrell is possibly single. 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Cantrell first learned to drive when he was very young, sitting on his dad's lap steering a pickup truck. [206] He was also asked by Nickelback's frontman, Chad Kroeger, to contribute to the song "Hero" for the 2002 film Spider-Man. [282], In 2018, Cantrell was named "Guitarist of the Year" by Ultimate Guitar's readers poll. [345] In 2018, Cantrell named the league's trophy after his friend Vinnie Paul, who had died recently. [50] Cantrell worked doing asbestos abatement around the Dallas and Houston area. [138], In June 2017, Alice in Chains returned to Seattle's Studio X to record their sixth studio album. 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. [318], Cantrell is critical of religion[319] and Young Earth creationism, satirizing them both in Alice in Chains' 2013 album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. [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. 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