So proud of Jerry, he survived & is proof you CAN overcome. Sadly, most didn't & don't. One of the best guitarist in the whole world & inspires so many!👍
Its hard to see Jerry like that. So glad he and Sean were able to win their battles with addiction. Fucking sucks that Layne and Mike couldn't win theirs... Rest In Peace
This was when he was writing /recording _Degradation Trip Vol 1 & 2_ . If you know the album, you'll know he sank to the bottom of the pit at that time and it shows on that album. The material was too dark even for Alice in Chains. I love that album and I love Jerry. That album for me shows that sometimes you need to reach the bottom before you can crawl back up.
The full 25 track deg trip is so so fuckin good. Dark and depressing and a lot of heaviness but also some dark softer songs, he was in a bad bad place forsure but it made for some great music, luckily he was able to save himself and is still around kicking ass today. Jerry is the man tho, one of the best songwriters ever.
Just listened to the whole thing this afternoon...between bouts of weeping! MAN, Jerry really was "down in a hole" and undoubtedly freaking out about Layne's death and the end of AIC. His lyrics are so heavy and brutal!
Get born again and died was originally written for this album but he decided to make them alice in chains songs and put them on the music bank in 1999.
So glad to know that Jerry would find his way and have a legacy that is not highlighted by a premature death from substance abuse. So sad that Staley & Starr got lost and paid the price. Jerry is one of the coolest people in rock & an amazing talent.
He suffered through alcoholism and why, he never threw Layne under the bus cause they were all going through their personal battles. Such a big difference from how he looked during the unplugged session in 96 😕 really happy to see him doing much better now though. Just seen him twice in concert with the band out in LA and Sacramento at the aftershock festival and they rocked out big time.
@@rsohlich1 completely agree. Friends in nursing...have heard plenty of horror stories of alcohol withdrawal. But Jerry was a full blown coke/crackhead too.
@@achildr1 got any actual proof he was a crackhead? He 100% had a big problem will coke and that’s known but never seen any sort of reliable source saying he was a crackhead
Not knowing the actual circumstances myself, I'll just say that it appears as if this was a pivotal point in Jerry's life. I'm so happy he made it back.
Whatever Jerry did to get past the addiction.. he's been made stronger from it and I'm very proud of his hard work in getting it contained. You go Jerry!🤘🎸💋
He's been my favourite guitarist since the nineties. It's so hard to watch this and see what bad condition her was in, but he's a survivor and has worked his arse off and really given back to the music community and charities that are involved in rehabilitation.
I crash landed here almost 9 years ago, in Los Angeles. Sean 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 black berry 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.” “I’m as imperfect as they come, and I just try to do what I can to not get high today. That’s pretty much got me to where I am today, I just don’t get high today and wake up the next day and try to do the same thing.
It’s so great reading something like this know the man is still around kicking ass today. It’s so sad there isn’t a statement like this from Layne for us to read. Rip Layne. Anyway we’re truly lucky as fans that Jerry overcame his issues and now many years later is still kicking ass
Oh yeah, those were his cocaine and boozing days. He references it in the music he wrote for that album. Seeing him there makes me sooooo happy he's clean.
Wasn’t just drugs it was hard living in general, he wasn’t taking good care of himself, staying inside all day, not showering much doing Drugs etc. he was at a really rough point in his life for a few years there, it’s why degradation trip is just a dark record
Come on people. On July 1st 2013 Jerry celebrated 10 years of sobriety. Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 is an amazing body of work. Stunning. Lets just enjoy the music and be thankful for what we have. Lets celebrate life for a change. Check out his speech for the MusiCares MAP (the 5.33 one).
peter fox I’ve seen a picture from Christmas 2003 of him and Dimebag from Pantera looking pretty happy about the huge bag of white powder jerry was holding..... the math doesn’t add up....
@@puppetmaster8551 it could be, but I’ve heard account from people who were supposedly at this Xmas party. Rumor is that there was a lot of coke going around, provided by Jerry, and he even taped rolled dollar bills to the bags for people to use
Did jerry ever have a heroin problem? or just coke and alcohol. I'm sure he's tried it before. I thought i heard somewhere once that he was on h for a while, can't find it anywhere though.
Jerry looked like he'd aged overnight, poor guy. You could really see the wear on his face here. Really thin and pale. And kinda twitchy. Oh BTW, he had to sell his house to fund recording Degradation Trip!
that's why he needed to check his brain :D. I think it may have been because Jerry was locked up accidentally in his garage without food and water for days in winter time and had to be rescued. I can't find the original article online anymore.
stunning what drugs/achole does...on the unplugged Jerry looked so young and healthy here is is only early 30's....and where was layne? 2 years till he died...i wonder what Layne was doing. RIP
Layne was pretty much in his condo all day at this point doing drugs and playing video games and shit. I’m sure Layne situation plus AIC basically dissolving did a lot of damage to Jerry, he was struggling bad with drugs and mental health while making degradation trip. Luckily he cleaned up and has been sober since 03 and is still making kickass music and happy and in good health.
This was his low point in his life it’s why degradation trip is so fuckin dark and depressing. Luckily he got clean in 03 and has been kicking ass since. Thank god he did because he was on a similar path as Layne. So glad you overcame his shit because he still had so much of his talent to give to the world
Unlike Layne and starr Jerry’s problems weren’t with heroin, for him it was mainly coke and Alcohol, don’t think jerry was ever super into opiates. Luckily jerry got sober in 03 and is still kickin ass now.
Alcoholics=drunks, cocaine=cokehead/crackhead, marijuana=pothead, stoner, heroin=junkie. Just sayin, if you're gonna trash someone over their personal addiction problems, at least get the nomenclature right.
These days a junkie more just refers to an addict on heavy drugs be it coke/crack/meth/heroin. Obviously it used to just be mainly for Heroin addicts but the term is common for a lot more than just heroin today.
Oh dear, this is heartbreaking to see, compare 1996 to his appearance here.... FUCK DRUGS and ALKOHOL. Its just NOT cool how he looks here. He is such a wonderful musician and sweet man with weirdo humour. We need to clone him.
I wish Jerry had a kid, sadly after his longtime relationship with Courtney Clarke ended it seems he’s never been in a serious longterm relationship since. She was the women who down in a hole was about and heaven beside you and his solo song settling down. Even in settling down he basically says she was the one and seems like he never found a soulmate after that sadly. The good thing is Jerry is still around kickin ass and is happy & healthy making good music.
Sorry to keep arguing this point, but my final comment is YES, A HEROIN JUNKIE. THIS IS WHAT I MEANT WHEN I WROTE JUNKIE. It is not a personal attack; I love Cantrell. I just found out some info about him and shared it. That is all. I'm glad he and his band are alive and well. Good day.
@@puppetmaster8551 yeah from what I heard Jerry tried heroin like a small few times but wasn't a fan I swear I saw it in a interview somewhere just can't remember where
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So proud of Jerry, he survived & is proof you CAN overcome. Sadly, most didn't & don't. One of the best guitarist in the whole world & inspires so many!👍
Kaydee Ole right on
Its hard to see Jerry like that. So glad he and Sean were able to win their battles with addiction. Fucking sucks that Layne and Mike couldn't win theirs... Rest In Peace
I'm happy that Jerry has finally got sober.
This was when he was writing /recording _Degradation Trip Vol 1 & 2_ . If you know the album, you'll know he sank to the bottom of the pit at that time and it shows on that album. The material was too dark even for Alice in Chains. I love that album and I love Jerry. That album for me shows that sometimes you need to reach the bottom before you can crawl back up.
The full 25 track deg trip is so so fuckin good. Dark and depressing and a lot of heaviness but also some dark softer songs, he was in a bad bad place forsure but it made for some great music, luckily he was able to save himself and is still around kicking ass today. Jerry is the man tho, one of the best songwriters ever.
Just listened to the whole thing this afternoon...between bouts of weeping! MAN, Jerry really was "down in a hole" and undoubtedly freaking out about Layne's death and the end of AIC. His lyrics are so heavy and brutal!
Get born again and died was originally written for this album but he decided to make them alice in chains songs and put them on the music bank in 1999.
So glad to know that Jerry would find his way and have a legacy that is not highlighted by a premature death from substance abuse. So sad that Staley & Starr got lost and paid the price. Jerry is one of the coolest people in rock & an amazing talent.
He suffered through alcoholism and why, he never threw Layne under the bus cause they were all going through their personal battles. Such a big difference from how he looked during the unplugged session in 96 😕 really happy to see him doing much better now though. Just seen him twice in concert with the band out in LA and Sacramento at the aftershock festival and they rocked out big time.
Alcohol was the least of his problem...he was a coke and crackhead.
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@@achildr1 alcohol is just as bad. The addiction to alcohol is crazy scary. All 3 of those are heavily toxic long term
@@rsohlich1 completely agree. Friends in nursing...have heard plenty of horror stories of alcohol withdrawal. But Jerry was a full blown coke/crackhead too.
@@achildr1 got any actual proof he was a crackhead? He 100% had a big problem will coke and that’s known but never seen any sort of reliable source saying he was a crackhead
Not knowing the actual circumstances myself, I'll just say that it appears as if this was a pivotal point in Jerry's life.
I'm so happy he made it back.
Whatever Jerry did to get past the addiction.. he's been made stronger from it and I'm very proud of his hard work in getting it contained. You go Jerry!🤘🎸💋
He's been my favourite guitarist since the nineties. It's so hard to watch this and see what bad condition her was in, but he's a survivor and has worked his arse off and really given back to the music community and charities that are involved in rehabilitation.
Jerry is strong as frick. I'm so proud of him
Bro...Jerry looks reaaaaalllllly bad here. Glad he made it.
He looks totally unrecognisable here. Grey skin, dead eyes, sheesh. He looks better nowadays.
I crash landed here almost 9 years ago, in Los Angeles. Sean 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 black berry 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.”
“I’m as imperfect as they come, and I just try to do what I can to not get high today. That’s pretty much got me to where I am today, I just don’t get high today and wake up the next day and try to do the same thing.
It’s so great reading something like this know the man is still around kicking ass today. It’s so sad there isn’t a statement like this from Layne for us to read. Rip Layne. Anyway we’re truly lucky as fans that Jerry overcame his issues and now many years later is still kicking ass
Oh yeah, those were his cocaine and boozing days. He references it in the music he wrote for that album. Seeing him there makes me sooooo happy he's clean.
He could look like crap and I'll still love him more than my existence and I always will💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
.... from 96 to 2000 he goes from looking 25 to looking 45. drugs dude.....
Don't forget almighty booze
Wasn’t just drugs it was hard living in general, he wasn’t taking good care of himself, staying inside all day, not showering much doing Drugs etc. he was at a really rough point in his life for a few years there, it’s why degradation trip is just a dark record
he looks better today jeez that beard
American legend
Come on people. On July 1st 2013 Jerry celebrated 10 years of sobriety. Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 is an amazing body of work. Stunning. Lets just enjoy the music and be thankful for what we have. Lets celebrate life for a change. Check out his speech for the MusiCares MAP (the 5.33 one).
peter fox I’ve seen a picture from Christmas 2003 of him and Dimebag from Pantera looking pretty happy about the huge bag of white powder jerry was holding..... the math doesn’t add up....
@@stonemaster234 that was clearly just a joke lol, they wouldn’t be taking pictures with massive bags of cocaine.
@@puppetmaster8551 it could be, but I’ve heard account from people who were supposedly at this Xmas party. Rumor is that there was a lot of coke going around, provided by Jerry, and he even taped rolled dollar bills to the bags for people to use
He really looked in bad shape here. Yikes.
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Dora Robertson Yeah, it's the cocaine mixed with popping downers. A LOT of people have said he was very different while using.
Layne's demons were more public but that didn't mean the rest of the guys didn't battle theirs. Jerry's hurting a lot here. So proud he got clean.
Did jerry ever have a heroin problem? or just coke and alcohol. I'm sure he's tried it before. I thought i heard somewhere once that he was on h for a while, can't find it anywhere though.
jack nah to my knowledge jerry never did heroin his problems was the booze and coke
Jerry looked like he'd aged overnight, poor guy. You could really see the wear on his face here. Really thin and pale. And kinda twitchy. Oh BTW, he had to sell his house to fund recording Degradation Trip!
Surprised at that, weren’t they loaded from the success of Alice?
Jeez la weez. Thank golly my mans Jerry got sober.
He looks so unhealthy here. I’m so glad he got clean and is still around.
looks like he has been in hiding for years
1:20 "L.A. sucks"
18 years later and he still lives in L.A. 😂
that's why he needed to check his brain :D. I think it may have been because Jerry was locked up accidentally in his garage without food and water for days in winter time and had to be rescued. I can't find the original article online anymore.
I think in a recent interview with Lars Ulrich he said he lives in Oklahoma and Seattle.
Well sometimes what you hate the most is paradoxically what you like the most, I guess.
In 2020 quarantining with his cats in LA, having exotic snakes visiting his backyard. I think he likes the weather our there.
@@thesmokinggun8674 well that may true but has a house in the hill somewhere for a few years now .
I wonder if Layne ever saw this interview and how he felt seeing Jerry in this state :(
Holmes wasn’t doing too good right here
Me too my bro, cheers!
He used to live HERE, in San Fran?? Man if only he'd move back.
definitely the meanest thing he did since dirt😳😳😳😳
Poor Jerry...
Degredation Trip. In real time.
stunning what drugs/achole does...on the unplugged Jerry looked so young and healthy here is is only early 30's....and where was layne? 2 years till he died...i wonder what Layne was doing. RIP
Layne was pretty much in his condo all day at this point doing drugs and playing video games and shit. I’m sure Layne situation plus AIC basically dissolving did a lot of damage to Jerry, he was struggling bad with drugs and mental health while making degradation trip. Luckily he cleaned up and has been sober since 03 and is still making kickass music and happy and in good health.
Sorry about your kid man, breaks my heart. Don't worry about what i said i was venting, have a nice day
he said he was a junkie not a heroin user
Junk is heroin.
Jimmy Saboter A junkie means you’re an addict. Not necessarily with heroin.
@@jimmysaboter3 junk is referred to any drug that is derived from the poppy plant. Either natural, synthetic or semi synthetic
Quem perdeu não foi o Pablo Marçal! Quem perdeu foi o Estado de São Paulo.
Wow. He’s in a really bad way here. His state here is VERY evident in the way Degradation Trip sounds. Jerry Cantrell is the absolute man.
Jerez Jerry looked rough here glad it’s not that way anymore
This was his low point in his life it’s why degradation trip is so fuckin dark and depressing. Luckily he got clean in 03 and has been kicking ass since. Thank god he did because he was on a similar path as Layne. So glad you overcame his shit because he still had so much of his talent to give to the world
look at that scar on his cheeks.. so junkhead.. but jerry survive.. unfortunately layne wasn't..
Mike Starr (sadly) didn't too...anyway...their music "lives"on. AIC rules!!!
Unlike Layne and starr Jerry’s problems weren’t with heroin, for him it was mainly coke and Alcohol, don’t think jerry was ever super into opiates. Luckily jerry got sober in 03 and is still kickin ass now.
Alcoholics=drunks, cocaine=cokehead/crackhead, marijuana=pothead, stoner, heroin=junkie. Just sayin, if you're gonna trash someone over their personal addiction problems, at least get the nomenclature right.
Meth=tweaker
These days a junkie more just refers to an addict on heavy drugs be it coke/crack/meth/heroin. Obviously it used to just be mainly for Heroin addicts but the term is common for a lot more than just heroin today.
Damn Jerry looked awful here
Oh dear, this is heartbreaking to see, compare 1996 to his appearance here.... FUCK DRUGS and ALKOHOL. Its just NOT cool how he looks here. He is such a wonderful musician and sweet man with weirdo humour. We need to clone him.
he worships satan! and he probably already is cloned! them hook em hand signs shows who his master is!
@@shebamaree9026 "hook em hand signs shows who his master is!" is that so?
I wish Jerry had a kid, sadly after his longtime relationship with Courtney Clarke ended it seems he’s never been in a serious longterm relationship since. She was the women who down in a hole was about and heaven beside you and his solo song settling down. Even in settling down he basically says she was the one and seems like he never found a soulmate after that sadly. The good thing is Jerry is still around kickin ass and is happy & healthy making good music.
Omg😱 he looks terrible
WtF..........
Sorry to keep arguing this point, but my final comment is YES, A HEROIN JUNKIE. THIS IS WHAT I MEANT WHEN I WROTE JUNKIE. It is not a personal attack; I love Cantrell. I just found out some info about him and shared it. That is all. I'm glad he and his band are alive and well. Good day.
Junkie is such a dehumanizing word anyway. Not attacking your comment, just saying in general.
Jerry was never a heroin addict, he was addicted to cocaine and alcohol not heroin.
@@puppetmaster8551 yeah from what I heard Jerry tried heroin like a small few times but wasn't a fan I swear I saw it in a interview somewhere just can't remember where
What are you talking about?? The interviewer looks like a junkie, not Jerry. XDD