I really don't know where that comes from; it just comes naturally to me. I could sit down and figure it out, but what's the use?
Off-time stuff is just more exciting — it takes people by surprise when you shift gears like that before they even know what the hell hit 'em. It's also effective when you slow something down and then slam 'em into the dash.
A lot of Alice stuff is written that way — "Them Bones" is a great off-time song. Cantrell stated, "There are two things you never want to get into a conversation or argument about: politics and religion. But fuck, I guess we're going to be talking about this for awhile".
Cantrell also stated that he's sick of the hypocrisy that's taken over many facets of organized religion. We need to start growing up as a people. When you're teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin, yet a good portion of the people teaching this are fucking kids, there's a huge problem".
On May 12, , 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.
Cantrell sings background vocals and does a lead vocal ad-lib in the final chorus of "Love Is Blind" from Richie Kotzen's album, 24 Hours. The guitar can also be seen in the movie Singles. In , Cantrell revealed that he had to retire the guitar due to a hairline crack from the neck all the way through the back of the body.
Before that, he had never gone on tour without it. Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice. In December , a surgery in his left shoulder removed bone fragments and repaired cartilage.
During a chat at ESPN. The surgery postponed the recording sessions of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here as Cantrell could not play guitar for eight months while he was recovering. Cantrell explained the surgery saying, "The thing that set me back is I had some bone spurs [and] cartilage issues in my shoulders. I had the same issue in the other shoulder about six years ago so I've had them both done now.
It's a repetitive motion injury from playing. Aday stated that she thought Cantrell would be a good person to put in some "heartbroken, haunting, crying guitar" on the track. The lyrics to "Black Gives Way to Blue" are printed on the base plate of the pedal. In , a limited edition of the pedal was released in black and red featuring the cover artwork for the album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and the lyrics to "Stone" on the bottom.
In January , Dunlop released a new version of the pedal, with a design based on Cantrell's tribal orca tattoo created by Coast Salish artist Joe Wilson, and lyrics for the Alice in Chains song "Rainier Fog" on the bottom plate. Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash stated in a interview with Epiphone. Cantrell canceled the show that he was scheduled to perform at 98 Rock's Livestock Festival in Zephyrhills on April 28 in order to attend Staley's funeral in Seattle in the same day.
Cantrell dedicated his solo album, Degradation Trip, released two months after Staley's death, to his memory. He also adopted Staley's cat, a female siamese named Sadie, after his death.
Sadie died on the same night of Alice in Chains' concert in Seattle on October 8, , aged By April , Alice in Chains had been writing and demoing songs for a new album with DuVall, but the band did not show further signs of progress until October , when they announced that they had begun recording with producer Nick Raskulinecz in the studio.
The band didn't have a record label at the time and the album was funded by Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney. The writing and recording process was completed on March 18, — Cantrell's 43rd birthday and also the same day that DuVall's son was born. The album includes songs which Cantrell described as "the heaviest he's ever written", and has Cantrell singing lead vocals on most of the songs and William DuVall as co-lead vocalist.
The title track is a tribute to Layne Staley written and sung by Cantrell, accompanied by Elton John playing piano. In the months before writing the song, Cantrell had been suffering from an unexplained illness.
Cantrell believes the mystery illness was the pain of saying goodbye to Staley. He told Guitar World, "I got deathly ill. I had these mystery migraines, intense physical pain, and I'd even gotten a spinal tap to test for certain things. They never could find anything wrong with me. I felt I was puking up all this undigested grief in losing Layne.
Cantrell hopped on stage to close out the night with the guitar solo on "Alive". Elton John stated in a 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. He also had a cameo as himself in the film noir comedy Rock Slyde, appeared on the background of two scenes from the first episode of season three of the HBO TV series Deadwood in , and made a cameo in Deadwood: The Movie in Each participant puts up an item for an online auction and all of the proceeds goes to the charity chosen by the champion of the league.
Cantrell founded the league to combine his love of fantasy football with the goal of helping a worthy cause. Cantrell won the league for the first time in , and in he decided to donate the proceeds to MusiCares in Chris Cornell's memory, and to Music for Relief in memory of Chester Bennington.
Both musicians died in In , Cantrell named the league's trophy after his friend Vinnie Paul, who had died recently. Cantrell was ranked at No. In , Cantrell auctioned off some of his favorite clothes from key moments in his career to benefit MusiCares and the Layne Staley Fund, which provides support and treatment for heroin recovery in the Seattle music community.
They played "Would? The band followed the concert with a short United States club tour, several festival dates in Europe, and a brief tour in Japan. To coincide with the band's reunion, Sony Music released the long-delayed third Alice in Chains compilation, The Essential Alice in Chains, a double album that includes 28 songs. Although Cantrell acknowledges the benefits of working as a solo artist, he expressed his happiness with being back in the band culture.
Cantrell has been rumored to be working on his third full-length solo album for several years, for a supposedly planned release in However, this album still has not been released. Subsequent work with the revamped Alice in Chains may have stalled this release. When asked about releasing another solo album, he issued this statement in He was apparently thrilled at winning the title over several famous artists such as Slash, James Hetfield, and Jimmy Page.
Although never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from onwards due to Staley's substance abuse, which resulted in his death in The band reformed in when drummer Sean Kinney had the idea to reunite the surviving members to perform a benefit concert for the victims of the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia in A few months after that concert, the band called their former manager Susan Silver and Cantrell's manager Bill Siddons and said they wanted to tour as Alice in Chains again.
About the pressure being put on DuVall for replacing Staley as lead vocalist, Cantrell said, "To put all that weight on Will's shoulders is unfair.
We're just figuring out how we work as a team. Although the band has changed, we've lost Layne, we've added Will, and there was no master plan. Playing again in felt right, so we did the next thing and toured. We did it step by step. It's more than just making music, and it always has been. We've been friends a long time.
We've been more of a family than most, and it had to be okay from here", Cantrell said pointing to his heart. Cantrell was the lead guitarist in all of the tracks from Ozzy Osbourne's album of cover songs, Under Cover. The songs performed by Cantrell were also included on disc four of Osbourne's box set Prince of Darkness The band played at various venues in the United States; although, they predominately played along the West Coast.
No formal albums were released by the band. Cantrell returned to the movie scene in to write, with the newly formed metal band Damageplan, the song "Ashes to Ashes" for the movie The Punisher. The song features Cantrell sharing lead vocals with Damageplan singer Patrick Lachman, 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. On April 12, , Cantrell and his then-band Cardboard Vampyres performed at a benefit concert for Sweet Relief, a nonprofit organization that helps needy musicians cover medical expenses.
On November 10, , Cantrell was among the musicians who performed a short acoustic set to benefit Help The Homeless in Hollywood, California. Cantrell is a recovering addict and alcoholic and has been sober since He was awarded the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award from MusiCares, for his work helping other addicts with the recovery process.
Cantrell said in his acceptance speech, "I crash landed here almost 9 years ago, in Los Angeles. Sean [Kinney] was at the door with my brother, so my choices were open the door and go to rehab or jump out the back window down a cliff into some blackberry bushes.
That's the choice I took. Luckily 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 intend to get here but I'm very grateful I am here, and it took a lot of people to help me get here. It's been an amazing day. It's overwhelming. I'm as imperfect as they come. I just don't get high today and wake up the next morning and try and do the same thing.
A lot of people stand and get the fuck back up after falling. Some people don't get that chance. My band's been a harsh example of that — what happens when you don't deal with it. Degradation Trip has sold , copies in the U. The live show was well received by audiences on a national tour that helped build upon the solo album's success.
Degradation Trip was re-released in November as a double album, featuring eleven additional tracks that were made for the album as Cantrell originally intended. He was also asked by Nickelback's frontman, Chad Kroeger, to contribute to the song "Hero" for the film Spider-Man.
Cantrell was unable to attend the recording session and was replaced by Saliva's Josey Scott. Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains' lead singer Layne Staley, who was described by Cantrell as his best friend.
Staley died on April 5, 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]. I'm just thankful to have a tour and work - something I can focus on. It's one of those things where if you take a break and allow things to settle in, it might be harder to get up again. I miss him tremendously.
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