It was when they still had Terry Glaze singing with them and they were so fucking cool. Obviously its unfortunate that guys still have to fight for political ends. A lot of people don't of course, and that's completely fine. His mom used to call him "JerBear" when he was a child. Iconic singer, songwriter, guitarist, and ALICE IN CHAINS co-founder Jerry Cantrell returns with the first single, "Atone", from his new solo album, "Brighten". Sports were the center of his life. 
According to Revolver, however, the band had started cracking at the seams well before Staley passed away, to the point that they even went their separate ways for quite a while. When guitarist Jerry Cantrell found himself temporarily homeless at the start of 1991, he turned to a fellow grunge legend for help. Through the darkness, the Soldiers pushed forward toward Sign up for our newsletter and receive the mighty updates! The music video featured real Vietnam War documentary/news footage as well as some very realistic, graphically re-enacted combat scenes. Jerry Cantrell's father was a consultant on the video, as it explores Cantrell Jr.'s interpretation of his father's war experience. Eventually, he decided that he couldn't miss the band's big break, so he cut off his cast and drummed on the album with a broken hand, cooling it with a bucket of ice he kept beside his drum kit. William DuVall joined the band in 2006 to sing Staley's parts at concerts, while Cantrell assumed full-time lead vocals in the first album without Staley, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), and continued this role in the follow up, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013), with DuVall doing backing vocals and harmonizing with him. By the time the band's second album, the esteemedDirt,came out, Starr's substance abuse issues were so severe that he and the band went their separate ways. WebJerry Fulton Cantrell was born in 1941 in Atoka, Oklahoma, USA. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. Also featured are scenes of a group of children playing with bubbles. Sitting in front of a four-track recorder, the song that poured out of Cantrell might have been laced with bitterness. The band was part of the Grunge movement and is known for the unique vocal harmonies between Cantrell and Layne Staley, and later between Cantrell and William DuVall. July 30, 2021. It was good for me in the long-run and it was good for him, too.. Nirvana might have been the biggest name in grunge, Pearl Jam the most enduring, and Soundgarden the most hard-hitting, but as Stephen Hill of Louder tells us, it was Alice in Chains that first brought the genre into the mainstream with their sublime 1990 debut album,Facelift. He was named "Riff Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006. I mean, I'm in it until I blow up, don't get me wrong. I did all the class plays and musicals, like South Pacific and Annie Get Your Gun, which was my first stage experience, and I had a lot of fun. Birthday: March 18, 1966 How Old - Age: 57 Recently Passed Away Celebrities and Famous People. And then Sean [Kinney, drums] calls and hes like, Why dont we do athing and well raise some money and well do it for that. When the police broke down the door of Staley's home, they found the singer's apartment in a sorry state, and its 6'1 occupant dead and so withered, he only weighed 86 pounds. Alice in Chains was a widely-successful Grunge band in the 1990s. This is what we do. The couple was already separated at that point, and while Staley had plenty of rock star money to finance his habits, Parrott's lower funds forced her to ultimately sell her body in order to finance her drug use. To be honest, I didnt really sit down intending to do any of that; it just kinda came out. [20] Along with "Rooster", other Alice in Chains songs such as "Down in a Hole", "Them Bones" and "Sea of Sorrow" were also included in the memo. But thats the great thing about music sometimes it can reach deeper than you ever would in a conversation with anybody.
Alice in Chains bassist. My mum and dad were big country music fans. It's kind of comforting to have this separate public persona from the harsh lyrical content we're known for. We created this and justbecause our friend is not here, it doesnt mean that this stuffisnt still alive and still speaks to people and is still ourwork and we have nothing to be embarrassed about it. Along with Nirvana, Alice In Chains was also one of the scenes leaders with their talented vocalist Layne Staley. Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell has announced the final leg of touring behind 2021's Brighten, his first solo album in nearly two decades.Seattle blues-rock outfit Thunderpussy will join the grunge icon and his bandmates including former Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato on the 2023 trek, which kicks off February 21st in He's heard this song. Shortly after he learned how to write, he documented his goal in a Dr. Seuss book called 'My Book About Me', filling in the sentence 'When I grow up, I want to be a _______________' with the words "Rock Star" in sprawling cursive letters. They managed to patch things up six months later, but unfortunately, there was more awfulness on the horizon. Songwriting is very simply about taking anything thats internal to you, expressing it, and if youre lucky that translates for someone else. So in the session that was meant for recording that one song [Would? Fortunately for Kinney, the producer, Dave Jerden, didn't feel that Gilmore could capture the Alice in Chains drum sound, so the band took a little while off but not enough for Kinney's hand to heal. It freaked me out when I came to and everyone else was over there. I might be fumbling a little bit at first, but Ill stay with you, What were you like as a child?I was like I am today. The musician his starsign is Pisces and he is now 57 years of age. [1] It spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at No. This was all my perception of his experiences out there. When I first played it to my father, recalls Cantrell, I asked him if Id got close to where he might have been emotionally or mentally in that situation. But on Rooster, I was trying to think about his side of it what he might have gone through.
[8] Alone, late at night, Cantrell kept thinking about his father and the psychological scars from his time in the Vietnam War that contributed to the breakdown of his family. He was standing in the back and he heard all the words and stuff. While Im able to do this, it wouldnt be good business to do a solo record. However, they decided to move on and continue with their career as a band. When it came to recording Rooster, the band turned a prior engagement to their advantage. I knew what being a rock star was from an early age. Alice in Chains and Starr parted ways in 1993.
While songs like Would? [2001], Reunited with Alice in Chains for the first time since 1996 (and after the death of lead singer, Working on his third solo album, which is the follow-up to 2002's "Degradation Trip". WebJerry Wayne Cantrell, Jr. 64, of Old Hickory, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Alice in Chains' sophomore studio album, 1992'sDirt,was a massive success that cemented the band's place in the grunge pantheon and featured landmark hits like "Angry Chair," "Would?," and "Rooster." Guitarist Birthday March 18, 1966. Actor James Elliott (Southland, Entourage, Mafia II, etc.) Armed with a brand new sound that incorporated elements from heavy metal to the famous grunge drop-D tuning, the twin vocals of guitarist Jerry Cantrell and the charismatic frontman, Layne Staley, and the album's most iconic single, "Man in The Box," the band were instrumental in grunge's breakthrough. Though his long-time issues with drug addiction were well known, Staley had also been arecluse for quite some time. I think my voice is okay. The name, Rooster, is a play on three meanings: It was a childhood nickname of his fathers. T-shirts and VIP passes were made with the X-ray of his broken hand, and Cantrell even wore one of the shirts. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. And it took a while., The impetus for the reunion, though, was the 2005 Indian earthquake and tsunami that found the band getting their friends together for a concert to raise money for victims. Live performances of the song can also be found on the "Heaven Beside You" single, the compilation album Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, and the live album Live. The band was struggling with the newfound success their first album,Facelift,had brought them, and singer Layne Staley and bass player Mike Starr in particular were turning to drugs to the point it became a big issue. Jerry Cantrell doesnt need a lot to keep him satisfied. One of the really cool things about doing what we do is that were playing places for the first time, and selling them out, which is cool as shit. While apologetic for his slight lateness, which he blames on jetlag, hes taken aback by the second-guessed lunch thats been ordered on his behalf, and tries to offload as much of it as possible on Kerrang! Only guitarist I like more than him is Nick DiSalvo from Elder Ill-Explanation93 1 yr. ago Photo credit Raymond Flotat. Cantrell also has a solo career and released the albums "Boggy Depot" in 1998, and "Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2" in 2002. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b32b5369c81d564 Jerry is best known for being in the rock band Alice in Chains as their lead guitarist, co There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. We were friends and he was in choir. Hes a really fucking sharp cat and keeps up on everything. 12 on its list of "The 100 Best Metal Songs of the 90s" in 2018, and at No. She was an amateur organist and melodica player but worked as an administrative assistant. However, after recording just one song, Cantrell started experiencing excruciating pain in his arm, which he described feeling "like an icepick in your joint." [Inked Magazine, October 2009] I think of anything off this record, obviously "Black Gives Way to Blue" is the most difficult song, without a doubt. 217.182.169.93 You don't expect to get to old age when you're a young musician, especially with the whole music and reality of live fast, die young, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ], we ended up demoing about 10 songs, which included all the stuff that ended up on the [1992] Sap EP, Rooster and a couple of others from Dirt., Rooster was taped at Eldorado Studios on LAs Sunset Boulevard, which the band co- produced with Dave Jerden. For the song by OutKast, see, Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, "Alice In Chains Rooster US Promo CD single (CD5 / 5")", "How Alice in Chains' Music Speaks to Vets", "Unexpectedly chart-topping Alice in Chains coming to Pikes Peak Center", "Alice in Chains "Rooster" Chart History Mainstream Rock", "Alice In Chains: the story behind Rooster", "Jerry Cantrell Wrote Alice in Chains' "Rooster" at Chris Cornell and Susan Silver's House", "Jerry Cantrell Reflects on Writing Alice In Chains' "Rooster" For His Father", "Bad Transmission: Clear Channel's Hit List", "It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It", "Green Jello Vid Sticks; Thrilling MTV Moments", "Watch Alice In Chains Perform with the real 'Rooster' Jerry Cantrell's Father", "Alice in Chains Chart History (Mainstream Rock)", "American single certifications Alice in Chains Rooster", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rooster_(song)&oldid=1133984537, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2018, Track listings that use the collapsed parameter, Single chart usages for Billboardmainstreamrock, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming figures, Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming footnote, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 12:44. 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According to Revolver, however, the band had started cracking at the seams well before Staley passed away, to the point that they even went their separate ways for quite a while. When guitarist Jerry Cantrell found himself temporarily homeless at the start of 1991, he turned to a fellow grunge legend for help. Through the darkness, the Soldiers pushed forward toward Sign up for our newsletter and receive the mighty updates! The music video featured real Vietnam War documentary/news footage as well as some very realistic, graphically re-enacted combat scenes. Jerry Cantrell's father was a consultant on the video, as it explores Cantrell Jr.'s interpretation of his father's war experience. Eventually, he decided that he couldn't miss the band's big break, so he cut off his cast and drummed on the album with a broken hand, cooling it with a bucket of ice he kept beside his drum kit. William DuVall joined the band in 2006 to sing Staley's parts at concerts, while Cantrell assumed full-time lead vocals in the first album without Staley, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), and continued this role in the follow up, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013), with DuVall doing backing vocals and harmonizing with him. By the time the band's second album, the esteemedDirt,came out, Starr's substance abuse issues were so severe that he and the band went their separate ways. WebJerry Fulton Cantrell was born in 1941 in Atoka, Oklahoma, USA. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. Also featured are scenes of a group of children playing with bubbles. Sitting in front of a four-track recorder, the song that poured out of Cantrell might have been laced with bitterness. The band was part of the Grunge movement and is known for the unique vocal harmonies between Cantrell and Layne Staley, and later between Cantrell and William DuVall. July 30, 2021. It was good for me in the long-run and it was good for him, too.. Nirvana might have been the biggest name in grunge, Pearl Jam the most enduring, and Soundgarden the most hard-hitting, but as Stephen Hill of Louder tells us, it was Alice in Chains that first brought the genre into the mainstream with their sublime 1990 debut album,Facelift. He was named "Riff Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine Metal Hammer in 2006. I mean, I'm in it until I blow up, don't get me wrong. I did all the class plays and musicals, like South Pacific and Annie Get Your Gun, which was my first stage experience, and I had a lot of fun. Birthday: March 18, 1966 How Old - Age: 57 Recently Passed Away Celebrities and Famous People. And then Sean [Kinney, drums] calls and hes like, Why dont we do athing and well raise some money and well do it for that. When the police broke down the door of Staley's home, they found the singer's apartment in a sorry state, and its 6'1 occupant dead and so withered, he only weighed 86 pounds. Alice in Chains was a widely-successful Grunge band in the 1990s. This is what we do. The couple was already separated at that point, and while Staley had plenty of rock star money to finance his habits, Parrott's lower funds forced her to ultimately sell her body in order to finance her drug use. To be honest, I didnt really sit down intending to do any of that; it just kinda came out. [20] Along with "Rooster", other Alice in Chains songs such as "Down in a Hole", "Them Bones" and "Sea of Sorrow" were also included in the memo. But thats the great thing about music sometimes it can reach deeper than you ever would in a conversation with anybody. Alice in Chains bassist. My mum and dad were big country music fans. It's kind of comforting to have this separate public persona from the harsh lyrical content we're known for. We created this and justbecause our friend is not here, it doesnt mean that this stuffisnt still alive and still speaks to people and is still ourwork and we have nothing to be embarrassed about it. Along with Nirvana, Alice In Chains was also one of the scenes leaders with their talented vocalist Layne Staley. Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell has announced the final leg of touring behind 2021's Brighten, his first solo album in nearly two decades.Seattle blues-rock outfit Thunderpussy will join the grunge icon and his bandmates including former Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato on the 2023 trek, which kicks off February 21st in He's heard this song. Shortly after he learned how to write, he documented his goal in a Dr. Seuss book called 'My Book About Me', filling in the sentence 'When I grow up, I want to be a _______________' with the words "Rock Star" in sprawling cursive letters. They managed to patch things up six months later, but unfortunately, there was more awfulness on the horizon. Songwriting is very simply about taking anything thats internal to you, expressing it, and if youre lucky that translates for someone else. So in the session that was meant for recording that one song [Would? Fortunately for Kinney, the producer, Dave Jerden, didn't feel that Gilmore could capture the Alice in Chains drum sound, so the band took a little while off but not enough for Kinney's hand to heal. It freaked me out when I came to and everyone else was over there. I might be fumbling a little bit at first, but Ill stay with you, What were you like as a child?I was like I am today. The musician his starsign is Pisces and he is now 57 years of age. [1] It spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at No. This was all my perception of his experiences out there. When I first played it to my father, recalls Cantrell, I asked him if Id got close to where he might have been emotionally or mentally in that situation. But on Rooster, I was trying to think about his side of it what he might have gone through.
[8] Alone, late at night, Cantrell kept thinking about his father and the psychological scars from his time in the Vietnam War that contributed to the breakdown of his family. He was standing in the back and he heard all the words and stuff. While Im able to do this, it wouldnt be good business to do a solo record. However, they decided to move on and continue with their career as a band. When it came to recording Rooster, the band turned a prior engagement to their advantage. I knew what being a rock star was from an early age. Alice in Chains and Starr parted ways in 1993.
While songs like Would? [2001], Reunited with Alice in Chains for the first time since 1996 (and after the death of lead singer, Working on his third solo album, which is the follow-up to 2002's "Degradation Trip". WebJerry Wayne Cantrell, Jr. 64, of Old Hickory, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Alice in Chains' sophomore studio album, 1992'sDirt,was a massive success that cemented the band's place in the grunge pantheon and featured landmark hits like "Angry Chair," "Would?," and "Rooster." Guitarist Birthday March 18, 1966. Actor James Elliott (Southland, Entourage, Mafia II, etc.) Armed with a brand new sound that incorporated elements from heavy metal to the famous grunge drop-D tuning, the twin vocals of guitarist Jerry Cantrell and the charismatic frontman, Layne Staley, and the album's most iconic single, "Man in The Box," the band were instrumental in grunge's breakthrough. Though his long-time issues with drug addiction were well known, Staley had also been arecluse for quite some time. I think my voice is okay. The name, Rooster, is a play on three meanings: It was a childhood nickname of his fathers. T-shirts and VIP passes were made with the X-ray of his broken hand, and Cantrell even wore one of the shirts. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. And it took a while., The impetus for the reunion, though, was the 2005 Indian earthquake and tsunami that found the band getting their friends together for a concert to raise money for victims. Live performances of the song can also be found on the "Heaven Beside You" single, the compilation album Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, and the live album Live. The band was struggling with the newfound success their first album,Facelift,had brought them, and singer Layne Staley and bass player Mike Starr in particular were turning to drugs to the point it became a big issue. Jerry Cantrell doesnt need a lot to keep him satisfied. One of the really cool things about doing what we do is that were playing places for the first time, and selling them out, which is cool as shit. While apologetic for his slight lateness, which he blames on jetlag, hes taken aback by the second-guessed lunch thats been ordered on his behalf, and tries to offload as much of it as possible on Kerrang! Only guitarist I like more than him is Nick DiSalvo from Elder Ill-Explanation93 1 yr. ago Photo credit Raymond Flotat. Cantrell also has a solo career and released the albums "Boggy Depot" in 1998, and "Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2" in 2002. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b32b5369c81d564 Jerry is best known for being in the rock band Alice in Chains as their lead guitarist, co There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. We were friends and he was in choir. Hes a really fucking sharp cat and keeps up on everything. 12 on its list of "The 100 Best Metal Songs of the 90s" in 2018, and at No. She was an amateur organist and melodica player but worked as an administrative assistant. However, after recording just one song, Cantrell started experiencing excruciating pain in his arm, which he described feeling "like an icepick in your joint." [Inked Magazine, October 2009] I think of anything off this record, obviously "Black Gives Way to Blue" is the most difficult song, without a doubt. 217.182.169.93 You don't expect to get to old age when you're a young musician, especially with the whole music and reality of live fast, die young, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ], we ended up demoing about 10 songs, which included all the stuff that ended up on the [1992] Sap EP, Rooster and a couple of others from Dirt., Rooster was taped at Eldorado Studios on LAs Sunset Boulevard, which the band co- produced with Dave Jerden. For the song by OutKast, see, Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, "Alice In Chains Rooster US Promo CD single (CD5 / 5")", "How Alice in Chains' Music Speaks to Vets", "Unexpectedly chart-topping Alice in Chains coming to Pikes Peak Center", "Alice in Chains "Rooster" Chart History Mainstream Rock", "Alice In Chains: the story behind Rooster", "Jerry Cantrell Wrote Alice in Chains' "Rooster" at Chris Cornell and Susan Silver's House", "Jerry Cantrell Reflects on Writing Alice In Chains' "Rooster" For His Father", "Bad Transmission: Clear Channel's Hit List", "It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It", "Green Jello Vid Sticks; Thrilling MTV Moments", "Watch Alice In Chains Perform with the real 'Rooster' Jerry Cantrell's Father", "Alice in Chains Chart History (Mainstream Rock)", "American single certifications Alice in Chains Rooster", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rooster_(song)&oldid=1133984537, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2018, Track listings that use the collapsed parameter, Single chart usages for Billboardmainstreamrock, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming figures, Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming footnote, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 12:44. 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