Jerry Cantrell!!!!

[Riin]

as a band - i still own copies of dirt, jar of flies, and the self-titled album. even bought the tab books for dirt and the s/t and learned to play the bulk of those albums. never owned the unplugged album but heard it more than enough times. all i know from 'facelift' is 'man in the box'.

bought 'boggy depot' on release. maybe i need to pull it out again to try a re-evaluation but from what i remeraber it was just another sludgy 90s rock album. cantrell may well be cool as ice cream but that doesn't mean his output gets a carte blanche just because he was in a seminal band back in the day (at least not to my ears).

saw a few clips of staley on his own and to me it seemed he was doing his best to channel AiC through whatever backing band he had going and it just wasn't there.

[sweetshygirl27]

I just saw him last night at irving plaza (with camp freddy....sooo good)
He was ****in amazing!!!!! Man in the box was great, just incase you dont know about Camp Freddy, its kind of an "all star band" of sorts, with several guests making appearances such as cantrell, courney love, Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Weiland went to at least one show.....mmm

Its so indescibable to see Jerry rockin out just a couple feet away after all these years of seein him and AIC on tv and radio......(i was too young to see alice )
Dave navarro was so great too.....
I met him, Cantrell and Perk (steven perkins, the drummer for janes addiction, Porno For Pyros, Banion, CF, lotsa others....)
All very nice guys, especially dave, hes a very sweet guy.....*sigh*

[Manu7]

SounRAB like a great show. I took my ex to see him about three months after Layne died, and it was a very emotional show, all the Alice nurabers got a massive ovation that night, but his solo stuff was really good too.

[Clueless Jessica]

Okay, so good to hear. For a minute there, I thought you weren't familiar with their their albums and just started talking about of your ass. If I were you, I'd give Facelift a listen. And you're right about Cantrell - Boggy Depot was very reminiscent of AIC, and for that, I didn't dig it the first few times I heard the album, either. Even after acknowledging it for what it is, I still skip through a couple songs for the simple fact that I have my own problems and I find no interest in hearing Jerry moan about his. I feel like we're switching roles here, but Jerry does get boring to me sometime. His vocal range isn't that impressive and lyrically, he's kind of a pussy.

[Ḳạḳạṛịḳị]

Cantrell is my biggest insipiration and has ALWAYS been my favorite musician of all time.
I love ALL his work, he's NEVER let me down.

[Flying_Tarotot]

no worries. i realize i come across as a bit pretentious sometimes but, whatever. i'm older than the average user here, i don't look up much info about the 90s when i can just remeraber being a teenager instead. i also generally try to shy away from talking about stuff i don't have a fair amount of knowledge about hehehe.

as for Cantrell and his lyrics... well he never did shy away from calling Elton John one of his biggest influences back in the 90s haha

[mgimo]

Jerry Cantrell is one of my favorite guitarist, writers, and vocalist! He's one of the greatest musicans of all time. He can do it all! He can write music, he can play guitar, he can write superb lyrics, and he can sing extremely well. He is too good for worRAB.

[fauxfiala]

Big fan of Jerry, mostly for how well his voice backed up Layne's, everytime I watch the MTV Unplugged dvd of AIC I always get goosebumps watching them both. Wonderful.

[Smerfcia]

I agree.

Jerry Cantrell is one of my absolute favorite musicians of all time. Though I like some songs more than others, I can't say that he's ever let me down with any of his repertoire. A true artistic mind.

[Mzdandylion0527]

Wow you revived this thread from 04'?

Jerry Cantrell is a really good musician. Although I have to admit I wasn't too impressed with his post-AIC career.