Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains. He also has a solo career and released the albums Boggy Depot in 1998 and Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 in 2002...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth18 March 1966
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
public react strongly
It's my stuff, so I'm always going to feel strongly about it, but you never know how the public is going to react to it.
want musician sound
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
space different feels
You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.
dream people able
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
proud one-thing written
To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
real hard-work luck
Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.
crowds band difficult
Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
player trying needs
I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
thoughtful play guitar
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
making-up
Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.
band i-can
I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.
alice chains fan great guys half metallica playing time
I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.
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And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
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Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.