Jerry Cantrell

Jerry Cantrell can be seen holding his signature model Rampage guitar from G&L in this ad.

Here is the product description from G&L's website. "Rampage shares the originals Soft Maple body, sleek Hard Rock Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard and Kahler 2320 vibrato. While the early Rampage had locking nut designed by Leo Fender, Jerry modded his necks to fit a beefier Floyd Rose locking nut. The Rampage Jerry Cantrell has the shelf for the Floyd Rose nut engineered in for greater stability and sustain. What's more, the Kahler vibrato is slightly recessed into the body, allowing lower action than those early Rampages. Then there's the pickup. Early Rampages came equipped with a Schaller humbucker, but the Rampage Jerry Cantrell model has one of Jerry's favorite humbuckers, a Seymour Duncan JB which pairs spectacularly with the Soft Maple body."

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.

In the Guitar World video titled "The Ultimate Alice in Chains Guitar Lesson," Jerry Cantrell discusses his G&L Rampage "No War," highlighting its significance as his second Rampage guitar.

In an Instagram post, Jerry Cantrell shared his experience performing at Rock Im Park, where he used his Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar.

as seen in Jerry Cantrells RigRundown via Premier Guitar video. 5:25

****** i only noticed after the fact of entering this that there was already another one including the same picture so apologies!******

I just wanted to update this as i saw members had posted a generic white Strat photo.

Here is what is stated on the website www.groundguitar.com:

https://www.groundguitar.com/jerry-cantrell-gear/

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.

The guitar was most famously used in the Them Bones video. Jerry still has it, although he never used/uses it live at least according to what we’ve were able to learn.

can be seen at the 8-9 second mark.

To get the thick guitar sound on Alice In Chain's 1992 album Dirt, Cantrell mixed three amps together - a Bogner Fish for the low end, a Bogner Ecstacy for the mid-range, and a Rockman Headphone amp for the high frequencies.

During the credits of this interview with Gibson, Jerry Cantrell can be seen playing a Gibson Hummingbird.

The CE-5 Chorus Ensmble can be seen in Jerry Cantrell’s pedalboard at (5:32) in this premier guitar Rig Rundown.

"...are you still using the Dunlop 1.14s?" "Yup"

I was at an Alice in Chains/KoRn show at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA on August 9, 2019. Jerry Cantrell brought this guitar out for songs like 'Check My Brain' as seen in the video link.

In this interview from Gibson, Jerry Cantrell talks about his cousin Kyle’s guitar as the first electric he had.

This guitar was so beat up, it had like two strings on it. Like the action, strings were like this far off the fretboard. I think it was called a Victoria. A Victoria guitar, and it looked like a bastardized kind of mustang or whatever, with kind of a weird headstock.

In the live performance of "Man In The Box" at the 2014 Main Square Festival, Jerry Cantrell uses a Shure SM57 microphone for his talkbox setup.

Cleary seen right next to him

Appears only in the " What the Hell Have I " Music video

Jerry Cantrell frequently uses the Dean Michael Schenker Retro guitar, as evidenced by images found through Google.

According to Tone Freak's website, Cantrell uses the Tone Freak Buff Puff boost pedal.

Reinhold Bogner modded a JCM 800 2204 for Jerry Cantrell and called it the "Bogner Snorkler".

In this video interview with Gibson, Jerry Cantrell discusses how he traded in his first guitar to buy a Hamer V.

... my first real guitar, which was like a Hamer V, or something like that. A brown Hamer V.

Jerry Cantrell uses Dunlop Tortex Pitch Black Standard 1.14mm Guitar Picks, as confirmed by Dunlop's official artist page for Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains.

In the YouTube Video at 1:16 you can see the Amp.

The EVH Flanger by MXR can be seen in Jerry Cantrell’s pedalboard at (5:14) in this premier guitar Rig Rundown.

Used on “Jar Of Flies”.

Jerry Cantrell uses the DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal, as noted in the Groundguitar article "Jerry Cantrell's Guitar Gear." This pedal is part of his extensive collection, which includes other notable effects like the Dunlop Heil Talkbox—famously used on "Man in the Box"—and the Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi, featured on his solo album "Boggy Depot."

The item can be seen 10:00 into this video…

The item can be seen 10:00 into this video…

Photographed on Jerry's pedalboard at the Pico Union Project on December 6, 2019.

Photographed by Jerry in the studio.

Jerry Cantrell used the Dunlop Cry Baby GCB-95 Wah Pedal during his early career, likely with modifications, as noted by Groundguitar in their overview of his gear.

Jerry Cantrell frequently uses the 2" Classic Guitar Strap by Red Monkey, as seen in images from Google Search.