Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2002 album Degradation Trip.
Music from Degradation Trip
Artists on Degradation Trip
Gear Used On Degradation Trip
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip (2002). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
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Guitars used by Jerry Cantrell on Degradation Trip
This guitar was most likely one of his first electric guitars, built by Jerry himself sometime in the early 80s. According to an interview he gave to GuitarWorld Magazine in 2014, Jerry worked at the Boogie Bodies shop and was offered to pick out one of the Boogie necks that the owner (Lynn Ellsworth) prepared to send to Eddie Van Halen.
Rest of the guitar Jerry allegedly built himself using instructions given to him by Lynn. He built the body in his high-school wood shop class,which included drilling all the holes and adding contours to the body. The hardware that he used is unfortunately a mystery, but it based of the pictures he used a single humbucker placed in the bridge pickup cavity, a Kahler tremolo system, and a locking nut.
According the June 1998 Guitar World interview "Jerry Cantrell Unchained" by Marc Weingarten, Cantrell dubbed the guitar "EMBO" and used for "Cut You In":
GW: There are some really interesting departures for you on this record. 'Cut You In', for example, is almost like a samba, but it has that bizarre, inverted riff.
Cantrell: I was pretty hammered when I wrote that tune – I just started humming this thing I had in my head, and I grabbed this guitar I made in high school – it's a white Strat that I call EMBO, which stands for Eat My Butt Out. Anyway, I grabbed the guitar and wrote it in about 20 to 30 minutes.
