DeGarmo's post-Queensrÿche musical career includes collaborations with guitarist Jerry Cantrell (as a touring guitarist in 1998, and an appearance on the 2002 "Degradation Trip" studio album playing slide guitar on the track "Anger Rising"), and with singer Vinnie Dombroski from Sponge, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney in the short-lived project Spys4Darwin, which DeGarmo co-founded with Kinney in 1999 after they toured as part of Jerry Cantrell's band on his "Boggy Depot" tour. The group released one EP in 2001, "Microfish", and made their live debut at the Endfest in Seattle on August 4, 2001.