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Former ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist Makes Rare Public Appearance At METALLICA Gig

August 12, 2003

Former ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who is once again without a record deal after releasing the critically acclaimed "Degradation Trip" CD through Roadrunner Records last year, attended the Summer Sanitarium Tour in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The following live report was filed by William Duvall (of COMES WITH THE FALL),who attended the gig with Cantrell and who was a member of Jerry's backing band during his most recent solo tour:

"Went to see METALLICA [Saturday] night with Cantrell. They played mostly old stuff. It fucking RULED. Guess they know which side their bread is buttered on after all. We watched the first half of the set from onstage, right behind La-ye-rs on the drums. Rick Rubin and Chris Rock were standing right next to me. It was kinda funny to see Chris Rock bobbing his head, doing the 'no sex in the champagne room' nasty face to, like, 'Harvester Of Sorrow'. He was clearly getting his proverbial groove on. The other personal highlights for me included: 1) The fact that they played 'Sanitarium', 'For Whom The Bell Tolls', and 'No Remorse' and 2) Our boy Roberto Trujillo doing his patented Human Tornado move during 'Seek & Destroy'. It was so kick-ass that Hetfield messed up going into the third verse of the song from laughing so hard. And, by the way, did I mention that James Hetfield just looks like fucking money? Seriously, no matter what he wears or what he happens to be doing at any given moment, everything about him looks like he's worth about $50 million dollars. It's insane. Anyway, they were really good. They did nothing off of 'Load/Reload' and only two songs from their new record. The whole experience flooded both Cantrell and me with all sorts of sense memories from touring. What the hell are we going to do about it? Still too soon to say."

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