Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (March 18th 1966) born with Tacoma, Washington, the United States, is the guitarist of the group Grunge Alice in Chains.

Biography

Resulting from a family from musicians on the maternal side (his mother was organist, its grandmother Accordéon nist and its aunt threshing-machine) and music lovers on the paternal side, the Jerry young person early starts to practice the clarinet on the instrument which belonged to his/her uncle and who will be used then by his sister then his niece. Large music lovers country, his/her parents transmit the love of the music to him and it starts to appreciate the broadcast artists of the Seventies, of Ted Nugent with Elton John while passing by the Bee Gees and Fleetwood Mac, before discovering AC/DC and KIS. It is to imitate Ace Frehley, the guitarist of KIS that Jerry Cantrell will require Gibson the Paul of his parents for Christmas, but the latter will offer finally an acoustic guitar to him on which it will make his first weapons.

It makes its first experiment of the scene with the choral society of its college or it takes again traditional the " Bye Bye Birdy" , " South Pacific" and " Annie Get Your Gun". It meets thereafter the bass player Mike Starr with whom it assembles Diamond Lie. During the year 1987, it becomes acquainted with Layne Staley at the time of one evening which will become singer of Diamond Lie. They then recruit the beater Sean Kinney which is being the boyfriend of the sister of Starr, before renaming the Alice group in Chains of the name of a ex-group of Staley, Alice Chainz.

The formation based in Seattle manages to obtain a contract at Columbia Record in 1989. After having recorded a series of demonstrations at the beginning of 1989, the group leaves its first maximum, We Die Young , in July 1990. The song of the same name is a success moderated on the radios metal, but prepares the ground for the first album of the group, Facelift . The title " Man in the Box" will have an unexpected success and makes it possible the group to make its first appearances on MTV. The group leaves in round to make the first parts of Van Halen and Iggy Pop, with the end of the year Facelift is certified disc of gold in the United States.

The group will leave then maximum acoustics, Sap , before reaching the international recognition with the album Dirt in 1992, past with more than two million specimens, grace in particular to individual the " Would? ". The remainder of the productions of the group will be encensé by criticism. Alice in Chains will thus leave successively:

  • We Die Young , 1989 (EP)
  • Facelift , 1989
  • Sap , 1992 (EP)
  • Dirt , 1992
  • Gravel bank off Flies , 1994 (EP written and recorded in one week)
  • Alice in Chains , 1995
  • MTV Unplugged , 1996

The group will leave still thereafter a best off , a greatest hits , an album live and a retrospective of its career into 3 CDs, Music Bank . However, in 1995, all is not pink for the formation of Cantrell. The texts of Dirt easily let guess a dependence with drug and more precisely with heroin on behalf of the frontman Layne Staley, a fear confirmed by the absence of the singer during the promotion of the album éponyme. During the same year 1995 the day it video The Nona Tapes sees which shows the formation of Seattle in a way comic and even frankly shifted with, in particular, of the appearances of Sean Kinney disguised as a clown, of Cantrell occupied to take care of horses in a farm or Mike Inez in the hairdresser with hair-curlers. However, the lightness of the document does not attenuate of anything fears relating to Staley which will make its last great appearance at the time of MTV Unplugged thinned down and obviously under the influence of drug.

The body of Layne Staley will be found by the police force two weeks after her death in its house of Seattle. The police force, alerted by an anxious relative not to receive a news, discovers a body in decomposition. Layne Staley died the five April 2002 of an overdose of speedball , mixture of heroin and cocaine. In spite of the death of her singer emblematic, Alice in Chains reforms itself after a pause by using a multitude of singers, of James Hetfield of Metallica in Phil Anselmo of Pantera, the latest to date being to be the ex-Comes With the Fall: William Duval. The group does not exclude the possibility of entering again in studio.

Meanwhile, Jerry Cantrell leaves under its name Boggy Depot into 1998 which will gain a mitigated success, then definitely more made a success of Degradation Trip flight 1&2 at the end of 2002, album dedicated to Layne Staley.

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  • Official site
  • Site of fans
  • Site of Road Runner Records

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