#JERRYS GUITAR BAR SOUND PLUS#

When an acoustic is called for, Cantrell evidently borrows a custom-made Giffin made for Mike Inez.ДЄmpwise, proceedings are a little more involved. Original Cantrell guitars usually featured Duncan pickups, Kahler locking trems and a nicely battered finish. G&L have apparently reissued the model but, with a mere 70 in the pipeline, they are going to be scarce. These guitars do occasionally turn up on eBay and similar sites, but expect to pay a pretty penny or three. Responsible for a major part of the unique sound was Jerry Cantrell, who is now a solo artist in his own right, and his gear, complex though it may be, proves that, first and foremost, tone comes from the fingers.ДЄlthough he leans more towards Seymour Duncan-loaded Gibson Les Pauls, it was with the long-deleted G & L Rampage that he made his original mark.

Since the death of vocalist Layne Staley in April 2002, Alice In Chains, one of the most innovative bands of the 90's, was lost forever. Although Jerry almost never played it, he was extremely happy with the final product.THE TONE ZONE (Guitar Techniques, June 2004) Which made it the first guitar that he ever sold. When he sent Top Hat, Cripe told JerryвЂ™s staff to pay him whatever they thought it was worth-he received a check for $6,500, The namesake inlay was made of warthog tusk.

It consisted of a walnut core with laminated cocobolo top and back, maple and rosewood neck, laminated headstock,ДЇret board with recycled ivory inlays, and black Schaller hardware. If I don't like it, I'll send it back.' The guitar he eventually built came to be known as Top Hat. He said a member of the staff suggested he simply wing it. Jerry briefly met Stephen Cripe backstage at a 1994 Florida concert, where he commissioned him to build a backup copy of Lightning Bolt.Д¬ripe was flattered, but unprepared since he hadn't measured or photographed the original. Share Delivered in April 1995 Stephen Cripe commission - $6,500 It came to be called Lightning Bolt due to the inlay that Cripe designed. For the body, Cripe reused East Indian rosewood taken from a bed once used by opium smokers in Asia-acknowledging the irony, but insisting it was about the quality of wood. Cripe constructed the neck with an unusual accuracy in the higher end, which allowed Jerry to play where he usually avoided. Jerry quickly pronounced the piece 'the guitar I've always been waiting for' and began playing it exclusively.Д«uilt totally by feel, the instrument honored JerryвЂ™s interest in preserving the rainforests, using recycled rosewood originally harvested in Brazil for the fingerboard. In 1993 he sent the completed guitar off to the Grateful Dead offices. He studied the 'Dead Ahead' video until he wore it out, and replicated IrwinвЂ™s Tiger-with some flourishes of his own. View more details SEEВ IMAGES VIEWВ MORE DETAILSДЄfter spending years building custom interiors for Caribbean yachts, Stephen Cripe decided to try his hand at crafting guitars. I mostly work off the middle pickupвЂ¦and I can get almost any sound I want out of that.вЂќ And thatвЂ™s just the electronics the rest of it is touch. In one interview he said, вЂњ like twelve discreet possible voices that are all pretty differentвЂ¦That gives me a lot of vocabulary of basically different tones. Jerry loved Tiger for the wealth of sounds it gave him to play with.

#JERRYS GUITAR BAR SOUND PLUS#

Named after the tiger inlay just below the tailpiece, the body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a 'hippie sandwich.' The combination of heavy woods (cocobolo, vermilion, maple), plus solid brass binding and hardware resulted in a 13.5 lb. Irwin obliged, and six years later Tiger hit the stage and became his most-played guitar.

When Jerry asked Doug Irwin, immediately after receiving Wolf, to make another guitar, he told him, вЂњdonвЂ™t hold back.вЂќ He was told to make it the way he thought was best, and not worry about cost.

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