I didn't even have a guitar I just f-kin' hummed it into the phone." Ĭantrell showed the original voice mail of him humming Stone's riff into his phone during an interview with Team Rock Radio in 2014. Give me a guitar and I'll f-kin' work it out.' So that song I actually came up with just off a voice message on a phone. Check this out.' I started f-kin' playing it to him and it was me singing into the f-kin' phone. I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I got a good one, man. When I could play a little bit and we were going through riffs, I remember doing some riffs with Paul Figueroa, our engineer. He told : "My arm was f-ked up and I couldn't play guitar so I just hummed that riff into a phone and that's how that song came to be. Singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell came up with the song's riff whilst recovering from surgery to repair his damaged shoulder cartilage in 2011. 16 on Guitar World's 2019 list of the 20 best guitar riffs of the decade. The riff to "Stone" - that Cantrell hummed into his phone while recovering from a shoulder surgery - was ranked No. The lyrics to "Stone" are printed on the bottom plate of a limited edition of Jerry Cantrell's signature Dunlop Cry Baby Wah pedal released in 2013. The song was first played live on April 10, 2013, during Alice in Chains' appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles. A music video directed by Robert Schober was released for the song. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. The song was released as a single on March 25, 2013, reached No. " Stone" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains and the second single from their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013).