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- " Rooster " is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains, featured on their second studio album, Dirt (1992), and released as the fourth single from the album on February 22, 1993. It is the fifth song on the original pressing of the album and sixth on others.
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"Rooster" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains, featured on their second studio album, Dirt (1992), and released as the fourth single from the album on February 22, 1993. It is the fifth song on the original pressing of the album and sixth on others.
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Alone, late at night, Cantrells thoughts kept turning to his estranged father, whose psychological scars from his service in the Vietnam War had contributed to the breakdown of the family some years earlier. That experience in Vietnam changed him forever, explains Cantrell, and it certainly had an effect on our family, so I guess it was a defining ...
Sitting in front of a four-track recorder, the song that poured out of Cantrell might have been laced with bitterness. Instead, its harrowing lyrics were written from the standpoint of his father; describing the stinging sweat and mosquito death of a trek through the jungle, and an imagined skirmish with the Vietcong. The title was the nickname giv...
When it came to recording Rooster, the band turned a prior engagement to their advantage. Cameron Crowe had already come to us to ask for a song for his movie Singles, recalls Cantrell. So in the session that was meant for recording that one song [Would?], we ended up demoing about 10 songs, which included all the stuff that ended up on the [1992] ...
Similarly powerful was the video, in which director Mark Pellington [fresh from Pearl Jams Jeremy] interspersed scenes of Apocalypse Now-style brutality with an interview with Cantrells father.
He was totally cool, totally calm, accepted it all and had a good time doing it, Cantrell added in the notes for 1999s Music Bank box set. It even brought him to the point of tears. He said it was a weird experience, a sad experience and he hoped that nobody else had to go through it.
Released as a single in 1993. Rooster drew immediate praise, both among followers of grunge and further afield.
And yet Roosters greatest triumph was ultimately a personal one. Against all the odds, the song repaired the fractured relationship between father and son.
May 5, 2022 · While Alice in Chains’ 1992 album, Dirt is often associated with mental health, drugs, and relationships, one of the album’s tracks encapsulates the horrors of war. The song “Rooster” offered a chance for a son to understand his father’s pain and it would result in healing a fractured relationship.
Mar 18, 2023 · The emotional song was written by Alice in Chains’ guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell about his father, who had served in the Vietnam war, and Cantrell once explained that ‘Rooster’ was his father’s nickname.
Sep 29, 1992 · It was written by Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell for his father Jerry Cantrell Sr., who went by the nickname “Rooster” while serving with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Nov 4, 2022 · Here's the true story of Jerry Cantrell, his father, and one of Alice in Chains' most personal songs, “Rooster."
Sep 16, 2020 · Rooster was written by Jerry Cantrell and tells the story about his dad and his experience he had in Vietnam. In this video i go in-depth on the lyrics and the music behind this classic AIC...
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