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this was one of my favorite bands when I was learning to play guitar. i LOVED jerry cantrell. i haven't listened to them much lately, but every once in a while i bust out the AIC. sick, sick band. and i remember getting that guitar ONE magazine in the mail with that backline in it!!
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Anyone know for sure which model of G&L Cantrell used?
How about the pickups?'Howling in shadows
Living in a lunar spell
He finds his heaven
Spewing from the mouth of hell'Comment
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A Rampage, with a Duncan JB, I believe.Originally posted by metalchurch79 View PostI feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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I've got that CD in my collection somewhere. Pretty good, from what I remember. Now I gotta go see if I can dig it out.Originally posted by AK47 View PostJust wondering if anyone has heard the Mad Season stuff? Some people really like it others just think it was OK.
I Dont Know Anything Video:
River of Deceit Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1muV...eature=channelI feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Well, now I don't feel so alone - I thought I was the only one.Originally posted by AK47 View Post
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Tool with Layne Staley. I wish there was a soundboard recording of this...
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I used to try and count, Whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step. Last I remember he sang in a lot of 7th's flat 5th's or some shite, been a while since I listened to it. Now I got to go do it all over again.Originally posted by Cleveland Metal View PostComment
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Layne Staley's last live show ever. Opening for the KISS renunion tour.
If you can checkout the Laney amp head to the left of Sean's drum kit it says "Layne" it hard to see.
Also listen to his voice during "Sludge Factory" during the verses. Crazy...
Alice in Chains - Again/God Am (last show w/layne)pt1
Alice in Chains - Sludge Factory/WDY (last show w/layne)pt2
Alice in Chains - Them Bones/Rooster (last show w/layne)pt3
Alice in Chains - Would?/Angry Chair (last show w/layne)pt4
Alice in Chains - ALB/Dam that River (last show w/layne)pt5
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box (last show w/layne)pt6
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killer thread ak47 looking forward to seeing more on the G&L and the rest of the rigComment
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Great stuff AiC is in rotation atleast every other day!Comment
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The entire Live at the Moore Mad Season show was uploaded here is the link:
If you can download this the VHS was discontinued many years ago...Comment
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Gear:
Overview:
Guitars: G&L Rampage, G&L ASAT, Gibson Les Pauls, Ernie Ball Music Man, Custom Fender Style, Danelectro Baritone, Guild Acoustic
Amps: Bogner Fish Preamp, Shark, Bogner Shiva, Peavey 5150, Marshall, Soldano, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Fender, Marshall Cabinets
Rack: Eventide Harmonizer, Alesis Intelliverb, BBE Sonic Maximzer, MosValve Poweramp
Misc: Dunlop Crybaby, Dunlop Rotovibe, Boss TU-2 Tuner, Big Muff, Pro Co Rat, Dean Markley Strings
Gear information culled from Guitar World articles:
A pair of distinctive G&L axes - the creatively decorated ASAT and Rampage - along with a healty arsenal of Gibson Les Pauls made up the rocker's six-string arsenal on his recent sojourn with the Jerry Cantrell Band.
Cantrell's rack includes a pair of Bogner Fish preamps feeding a pair of Mesa Simul-Class 2 Ninety power amps (the duplication is for backup purposes), plus a pair of Rocktron RPS Intelliverbs and a BBE 462 Sonic Maximizer.
Floor effects include a couple of well-worn wah pedals. Less glamorous, but equally important, tools include wireless systems by Nady and Samson, a Furman line conditioner, and a Digital Music Corp. Ground Control GCX switcher with foot controller. Cantrell's metallic grunge is then fed to a bank of Marshall cabinets.
Gear information culled from Guitar One article:
I used everything in the studio. I had a really great experience in the studio. Actually, for amps I used the Bogner Fish before and the Shark, which is a preamp and a power amp, but what I'm using now is just a straight head, the Bogner Shiva. I use those heads almost exclusively on this record. It's a little smaller than a regular head. I was very cocky about my sound, so I was like, "Well, this is what I use, I use these." My engineer, Jeff Tomei, said, "Man, you gotta try this amp out, it's really cool." I like all Bogner amps pretty much, but I've got my thing, which I thought was my sound, and really, your sound is in your hands anyway. It really doesn't matter what you play through. So, I ended up blowing out my amp about five or six songs in, and then I had to use this amp. But after I used it, I went back and re-recorded all of my tracks. It's so good, and that's what I'm using live, the Bogner Shiva.
In the studio, we probably used about 40 or 50 guitars. And I was lucky enough to have a guitar tech who works out of L.A. and also has a vintage guitar and equipment rental company, so basically, I had his store in the studio. So there where guitars and amps lined up everywhere. I mean, you name it, we used it. I've always been into layering sound and layering tracks and different guitars and stuff. We made full use of about every parameter or every combination of guitar and amp that you could thing of on this album. And because it's such a big record, we tried to make the songs as individual as possible. We really listened to what the songs needed, instead of what you think the song needs. That's the trick.
Guitars: Cantrell owns four G&L Rampages, each equipped with a singles Seymoue Duncan Jeff Beck pickup in the bridge position and a Kahler tremolo. About his penchant for these guitars, he says, "When I picked up my first Rampage, it was the most comfortable thing I'd ever played. I'm not sure what the body is made of; I think it's alder. It's also got ebony fretboard and a hard rock maple neck.
"The stickers on my main Rampage came from KISW, a Seattle radio station that was always my main conduit to rock music. I cut the word 'rock' out of three KISW stickers and stuck them on the middle of the guitar. I did this when I was 18 or 19, so they've really been there for a while. The sticker of the naked girl is a different story. I cut her out of a Oui magazine, I think."
Cantrell's other guitars include an Earnie Ball Music Man Van Halen signature model that was a gift from Eddie himself, and a variety of Fender Strats and Teles. Lately he's been playing Les Pauls frequently, including black and white Les Paul Customs, a '52 goldtop, a Seventies goldtop Standard and a Les Paul Junior that he bought from Heart's Nancy Wilson. To record his acoustic parts on Jar Of Flies, Cantrell borrowed a Guild acoustic from Mike Inez.
Strings & picks: Dean Markley Custom strings, .009-.046, black Jim Dunlop Tortex picks. "I used to use the purple Tortex picks," says Cantrell, "whick are the heaviest, but now I use the black ones, which are the next to the heaviest. I've eased up in my old age!"
Amplifiers: In the early Nineties, Cantrell's amp rig consisted of a Bogner Fish preamp running through a Tubeworks MosValve 500 power amp. After Alice In Chains toured with Van Halen in 1992, Eddie gave Jerry several Peavey 5150 stacks, which have remained part of his backline since then. "The 5150s ended up taking the place of the Mesa Dual Rectifiers that we used on Dirt, which were there to back up the sound of Bogner," says Cantrell, "The 5150 is fatter and nastier, and a little bit more out-of-control kind of tone."
Cantrell records with a variety of amps in the studio, his favorites including Mesa Dual Rectifiers and various Marshalls, Fenders and Soldanos. For his clean electric and amplified "acoustic" parts on Jar Of Flies, Jerry plugged his guitar into a Sixties Fender Twin Reverb. On stage he plays thorugh eight 4x12 Marshall speaker cabinets equipped with Celestion 30-watt Vintage and 25-watt Greenback speakers.
Effects: Alesis Intelliverb digital reverb unit, an Eventide Harmonizer, a Dunlop Crybaby wah from playing songs like "Man in the Box." For his solo album Boggy Depot, Cantrell experimented with several distortion stomp boxes including ProCo Raat and a vintage Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Cantrell's wirelles unit is a Sony WR-820 modelComment
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ProCo Rat?
Hmmm.
I thought I was on the right track.
As for the rest, it was (and is) way out of my gear budget.Comment
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I remember them when they were kinda glam, actually they weren't even called Alice in Chains yet i don't think - i really didn't think much of them back then i have to say you know when your younger it's like if it isn't what you like then it sucks, but really didn't think they were going anywhere, they were playing just parties and skating rinks then, i think they got signed at said skating rink show too.
I didn't think much of Facelift or give it much a listen, but when i did finally give it a fair shake, i was like really? That's the same band? Now of course i eat my words ever saying they sucked, it was like a whole nother band by Dirt and i personally like theyre last album the best.
Layne was a cool guy, it's really a damn shame about him, it was pretty evident early he would end up a dead rockstar i think, but he was a really cool person, and polite without any ego - acted like he was nobody special, run into him at local clubs after they were already HUGE, and he was the same dude, and hung out and partied like just anyone else.
Cool Cat, unmesurable talented band.Comment
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