Jerry Cantrell!!!!

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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.
 
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*
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
I have posted with Mr Dave since way back in the day I can confidently say the man never talks out of his ass. Very knowledgeable meraber he is. As for Cantrell being a "lyrical pussy'', that's kind of harsh.
 
Hell, why not? I rarely stop to check the dates on the forums. Oh well.

But with that being said, I'll spill my guts a bit about Cantrell: He was definitely the definitive driving force behind AIC in my opinion. Listening to his solo work only made it more obvious to me of exactly how much Alice In Chains' sound was molded by his style. Granted, AIC was a mash of excellent creative minRAB, culminating in the kind of sonic monstrosity that it came to be, but Jerry's solo work, particularly Boggy Depot, is really great. It's more subtle and bluesy, and in stepping in his own direction, I think he did something awesome, instead of trying to write music that would sound like Alice in Chains.
 
mr dave: I rather like your approach when it comes to discussing music you're knowledgeable about. I think a lot of us here google everything to come across as knowledgeable about the music we're into (or not into). I didn't know you were an old-timer. :P I would have guessed otherwise.

Crash_override: I'm well-aware that mr dave doesn't talk out of his ass. I think I'm just too quick to catch people doing that because I'm kind of a dip**** like that. And yeah, lyrical pussy was kind of harsh, but some of **** just gets to be waaay too sappy for me. I, do, however, love the lyrics to "Settling Down" off of Boggy Depot. It scared me the first few times because I thought it meant that I wasn't ready for a relationship. Go figure.
 
Cantrell wrote a lot of good lyrics post-AIC, but I didn't like the music that went with it so much. A bit more aggression would have helped. He seemed to be heading in that direction with Degradation Trip, which was better than Boggy Depot. Still not as good as AIC, though.
 
no worries. most people don't think i'm in my 30s when they see me in person either :laughing:

when it comes to older stuff i much prefer relying on the old noggin as opposed to google as it afforRAB a far more unique perspective on the issue. it's one thing to use the net to fact check dates or track lists but it's another thing entirely to base your 'opinion' on something you rewrote from wikipedia hehehe.
 
if jerry cantrell hadn't put his actual name on 'boggy depot' virtually no one would have looked at it twice.

'cut you in' might have made a minor impact, about as much as the 'seven mary three' single from around the same time. anyone else remeraber them? how about candlebox?

alice in chains got lucky in the fact that they were able to be more than the sum of their parts when everything was working to their advantage. outside of that group the individual merabers just weren't that outstanding. they don't suck, they're just not that great either.
 
I'm curious to what you've heard from them as a band (AIC) and individually. I went through a period of youtubing them and they never fail to touch me. Staley's voice on it's own is enough to give me goosebumps. I think Jerry Cantrell is as hurable as they come for all the attention the band has received. Though his solo albums can get under my skin at times when it gets way too emotional for my liking, I think Boggy Depot is phenomenal.
 
nice, next time i'm digging through my binder of discs i'll definitely have to keep an eye out for it. although i'm not sure if i still own it, may have pawned it a few years ago to help a friend pick up an autoharp.
 
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