Alice in Chains Breaks My Mind!! Rooster Reaction!!
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Guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote ROOSTER about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows when AIC opened for Iggy Pop, and Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play ROOSTER and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist).
Jerry's dad was nicknamed Rooster when he was a kid and his hairstyle resembled that of a rooster comb. Although, maybe he used rooster as a call sign during his military career. But he didn't earn the nickname in the military, he had the nickname back when he was a kid.
Jerry Cantrell, Sr had multiple tours in Vietnam and like most Vietnam vets, he didn't talk about it. The most he ever said about it was at the beginning of the official video for ROOSTER which he agreed to be a part of after hearing the song. Like all kids who hate their parents, Jerry Cantrell was no different. He was staying in a small guest room in Chris Cornell's house (Cornell was married to AIC manager Susan Silver) and the guest room had a tiny window. He was staying there and thought about what his dad may have experienced and wrote the lyrics.
They demoed ROOSTER and WOULD? when they spent two days working on the acoustic songs for the SAP EP. The songs on SAP and those two songs were demoed using the money Cameron Crowe gave them for recording WOULD? for the SINGLES movie. Layne sang the hell out of WOULD? and ROOSTER.
The harmony in the beginning and end on the album is Ann Wilson of Heart, but Layne does the harmonies on the official video and live versions perfectly.
The Unplugged show in 1996 is so heartbreaking to watch because he was deep in his heroin addiction (and yes, I know he was doing other drugs on top of Heroin). His liver was damaged from the years of drug use. He was just high enough to do the show so he didn't get dope sick and chase away withdrawal symptoms. He was such a ghost of himself during Unplugged. (Of course, Jerry had food poisoning) All Jerry saw when he looked over at Layne was his best friend was going to die soon due to the path Layne had taken with his life. That show was filmed in April, 1996, premiered in May 1996. They did four shows with KISS in June-July 1996, after which Layne survived an overdose and became a recluse. After that, it was a six-year-long slow suicide.
With Unplugged... Sean Kinney (drummer) and Mike Inez (bass player) argued with Jerry about whether Layne could even pull off the high notes in some of the songs in his condition, which is why Jerry gave them that “I told you so” smirk after Layne hit that long, high note in DOWN IN A HOLE. He did the same thing again when Layne hit a high note in ROOSTER.
Layne was one of the few singers who was always better live than studio version. The fact that Sean and Mike didn’t have any confidence that Layne could do the show and Jerry being the only one that knew deep in his heart that Layne could do it because Layne had done so many things against the odds over the years no matter how high he was at the time. When Jerry needed him to be there where it counted, Layne always pulled through.
Knowing how he sang ROOSTER in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 1993 when his “yeahs” and screams were so loud and high I’m surprised the rafters didn’t come crashing down around him and then watch him sing the same song so low-key on Unplugged knowing he could do to the song what he did in Tilburg is heartbreaking. Knowing he initially sang the hell out of WOULD? on the official video and album and seeing the end of WOULD? on Unplugged . . . and knowing how deep into his addiction he had gotten by that point is heartbreaking.
The entire show was a success because Layne DID have a powerful performance despite his condition. He proved to his cynical bandmates that he could still sing the high notes and he pulled it all off beautifully while the same four guys (Metallica) who had mocked him for his addiction sidelining Alice In Chains from ever doing extended tours back in 1994 sat in the front row. The mistakes he made screwing up SLUDGE FACTORY (and I think he screwed up GOT ME WRONG once or twice, but Toby Wright didn’t keep that in editing) were endearing, at least to me. They didn’t take away from the performance, it added something to the performance that, had it been removed after everyone had seen it, wouldn’t have made the show what it was.
That line "they spit on me in my homeland." TV News anchor Walter Kronkite basically told the American public that we lost the war and between that and the college kids (who went to college to escape being drafted into the military) would protest the soldiers coming home. They would do protest rallies at the airports and protest the returning soldiers by spitting at them, throwing urine and other stuff on them. An uncle of mine drove a supply truck in Vietnam (to this day he won't talk about his experience). A family friend of ours said that he and his buddies came home, saw the protesters at the airport, and re-enlisted because it was safer in Vietnam than in the US with the protesters. At least in Vietnam, they knew who the enemy was. I'm NOT saying Vietnam was anything the US should have ever been in. I'm just relating stories of people I know who served there.
Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12-year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne kept his humor and wit even to the end of his life.
Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He stacked his own vocals with melodies and harmonies underneath. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He knew that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and found out Sean Kinney was dating original bass player Mike Starr's sister. He wrote the lyrics for the original songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons. At the age of 34, he looked more like an 80 year old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it.
Layne encouraged Jerry to sing more, after all, they were Jerry's lyrics he should sing them. Vice-versa, Jerry encouraged Layne to play the guitar which is how you get Layne playing guitar on HATE TO FEEL and ANGRY CHAIR as well as I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING on the Mad Season above album. Jerry encouraged him on the guitar and was proud that Layne grew as a guitarist. Though, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine taught Layne more chords than ANGRY CHAIR and HATE TO FEEL.
The friendship between Jerry and Layne was unbreakable. Jerry NEVER once thought of replacing Layne as the singer while Layne was still alive. He always wanted Layne to sing whenever he had AIC do something. If there were ever cosmic soulmates ... Layne and Jerry would be it. (And by that I mean, they were Sympatico with each other. The way they sang together was a perfect pitch where two voices make one. What you hear and see between Jerry and Layne was a genuine friendship. They looked after each other. When one had problems with a song, the other picked up the slack. They were a team.
Jerry was doing a solo concert in Charlotte, NC when he heard that Layne was found two weeks after he died and Jerry was trying to get through the concert and crying. He did shows between the time he found out about Layne until Layne's funeral because if he had taken a break then, he didn't think he'd want to continue anything later after the mourning period.
Layne had done so much for Jerry, giving him a place to live, money, clothes, food, guitars and gear, a band. But getting a front-row seat to watch what had happened to Layne over the years, Jerry had to watch his best friend deteriorate in a span of 12 years (1990-2002), and Jerry couldn't do anything about it. Jerry had talked himself blue in the face but Layne didn't want help. Alice In Chains was a band, but they were also a family. They had internal issues just like any family. When Layne died, it was like losing a loved one, a family member, you don't think of the fights you had with the person who died. You defend their memory. There is a reason Jerry wrote NO EXCUSES about Layne and the line "You, my friend, I will defend / And if we change, well, I'll love you anyway."
"My grandmother and mother were such huge losses, but I got Layne, the guys, and I got this.” - Jerry Cantrell, Kerrang! (December 1, 2018)
“Jerry really loved Layne [Staley]. They had a bond I haven't seen before,” Jerry’s former manager Bill Siddons, April 19, 2002 (the day Layne was found two weeks after he died).
Man, I knew Alice in Chains’ story was tragic due to Layne’s addiction and eventual passing, but I never knew the reality of the situation. I think often when we hear about drug related deaths in music, we have a tendency to place them in that “musician drug overdose stereotype” category. But we often don’t appreciate the tragic nuance of the full story. Sometimes even glorifying the drug use as a means to be exceptionally creative.
Thank you for filling me in on the details and history of AIC!
@@PrymalChaos When Layne wrote whole songs about his addiction, he wasn't glorifying his addiction. He was warning his fans NOT to take the path he had taken. Those songs are THE MOST brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings about his own addiction and what that addiction was doing to him personally.
"I wrote about drugs, and I didn’t think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. Here’s how my thinking pattern went: When I tried drugs, they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they’re turning against me - and now I’m walking through hell, and this sucks. I didn’t want my fans to think that heroin was cool. But then I’ve had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs-up, telling me they’re high. That’s exactly what I didn’t want to happen.” -- Layne Staley
"We all partied, man, so to point the finger at [Layne] - might as well point the finger at all of us. Unfortunately, he's the lead singer, and the lyrical content of what he was writing - he was putting it out there. I always thought that was very brave of him, and I always stood behind that. It's the type of thing that we always supported ourselves in - going all the way with it, whether it was good or bad. I mean about expressing it artistically. We dicked around - I don't think none of us can say we didn't try it, in one form or another. I was first introduced to it in Europe on one of our first tours. There was, like, two days missing that I don't remember very clearly - except all of us being very ill on a bus. I guess it's something that spoke to Layne, but his experience wasn't anything different than ours. We all had our little vices. If you fuck around with that long enough, it's going to turn on you." -- Jerry Cantrell, "Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music"
"That darkness was always part of the band [Alice in Chains], but it wasn’t all about that. There was always an optimism, even in the darkest shit we wrote. With Dirt, it’s not like we were saying ‘Oh yeah, this is a good thing.’ It was more of a warning than anything else, rather than ‘Hey, come and check this out, it’s great!’ We were talking about what was going on at the time, but within that there was always a survivor element - a kind of triumph over the darker elements of being a human being. I still think we have all of that intact, but maybe the percentage has shifted." -- Jerry Cantrell Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
@@PrymalChaos I bet if you knew this before you did this reaction you would have praised AIC more for this video and not made it seem like a feeble attempt to educate kids on war. That take you gave wasn't fair to Jerry.
@@stangcobra592 yeah you're probably right. At the end of the day, the video had a pretty emotional effect on me and I can only be honest with how I feel at the time on camera. The only context I have is what is in front of me at on the screen.
Just subscribed! Alice in Chains is one of my absolute favorite hard rock bands of all time. Layne's voice still sends chills up my spine. Love him ❤RIP Layne Staley and Mike Starr. Shout out to Jerry Cantrell & Sean Kinney too. They are a total class act. Love these guys.
Thanks Leah! I can’t believe it took this long to get around to them.
Alice in Chains and the grunge era was a pretty big part of my growing up. Glad you are checking them out
Yeah I was way into grunge and somehow missed some of the most seminal acts!! It’s embarrassing.
@@PrymalChaos Any plans to get back to anything heavy? Lorna Shores new album is quite good but specifically the Pain Remains Trilogy is just amazing and gut wrenching. If anything give Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames a try. If it doesn't pull on your heart strings Id be impressed. First time I ever cried from the genre XD Love your content either way and hope you are doing well
Vietnam Veteran and Military Technical Advisor Dale Dye served as advisor on both the "Rooster" video and on the movie Platoon (1986).
James Elliott portrayed the title role of "Rooster", the Team Leader of a Long Range Recon Patrol (LRRPs) in the combat scenes. Elliott, who is right-handed, had to learn how to handle multiple combat weapons left handed for the production in order to match the real Cantrell Sr.'s footage (Cantrell Sr. is left handed and holds his knife/rifle that way in the video).
That’s amazing! I had no idea this much detail went into it! Thank you!
@@PrymalChaos 🇨🇦 you're welcome, ❤ your channel for the detail and obvious dedication & hard work you devote to it and us.
Staley, Cantrell, Cornell, Vedder etc etc have all been incredibly instrumental in tapping into and evoking, for myself anyway on a cognitive level, suppressed or intentionally ignored emotions which is confronting yet very therapeutic.
Like many great artists, their lyrics, their voices are literally pictures and Layne’s voice, you nailed it on the head. It’s beautifully haunting. Yet another devastating loss.
I can relate to your journey with Alice, in a sense. I'm a pinch younger than you (turning 40 next month), and the first song by them that I took notice of at all was "Again" in 1995. I have vivid memories of taping it off the radio - there's that access to music in the '90s thing again! - because I heard it and was like "what is THIS?" and was totally about it. Before that, I think I was peripherally, at best, familiar with them. When Facelift and Dirt came out, I was about 8 and 10 years old and too young to really grasp anything the band was saying, or even really care. But even after "Again", it took me some time. I was still that little bit too young, born that little bit too late.
Fast forward however many years. I don't even remember why or when, perhaps just whim, but I went and took a deep dive into the band, and it was over. I was done for. Everything resonated; even if their experiences didn't match my own, the feeling and emotion did. I may have been "late" - personally, I think the only time it's too late to discover something is never - but I *truly* found them when I needed to, when I was meant to.
I've never had a band speak to me the way Alice has, never had a voice so consistently move me the way Layne's can. I have other bands I love, but none of them mean to me what Alice does, and I don't think any of them ever could. I hope you continue to look into their work, because I sincerely think you'll be glad you did.
Thanks Trish. I will certainly do more.
Jerry Cantrell’s father was in Vietnam and his nickname was Rooster
I remember hearing that the rooster is the puff of blood which goes into a needle when you inject, which looks like a rooster's comb.
Speaking of intense videos, I always go back to Runaway Train from Soul Asylum with the pictures of the missing 'milk carton' kids. Because of that video, most of the those kids were found and it really put that issue in the spotlight for a minute. That video literally saved lives.
Great review, bro. See you soon.
Wow! Didn’t know that about Soul Asylum! See you soon man!
Other Alice in Chains songs to check out: Love, Hate, Love, Man in the Box, Nutshell, Would, Them Bones, Down in a Hole.
Thanks for the tips!
Chris Cornell too often gets somewhat overlooked, yet he had one of the most amazing voices. Listen to "Slaves and Bulldozers" recorded version. Chris's voice is so incredible.
We were so fortunate to have had so many great grunge bands up here. So sad that some took their lives. 😔. RIP Layne, Chris, Kurt
As an American, and a son of a Vietnam vet, I've never really considered the role of other western countries in the Vietnam War. I don't know if I ever realized that Australia was involved. I wonder if there are any good books or movies that provide an Australian perspective on the war.
I love AIC! Their music is awesome, has meaning and you feel it. Thank you for the reaction video.
Just listen to the music....Greatest band of all time....Trust me.
Oh man, I loved this so much. Thank you for this. 💜
Alice In Chains and Pantera are my most favorite bands Layne Staley the singer was so so good Rip oh how we miss him
thank you for taking this video so seriously i lived through that era but alice in chains are my second greatest groups next to zeppelin they are aesome play more they were unplugged too try the concert at the moore the sone Love hate love you must listen to it thanks
Thanks Sharon. It was extremely eye opening. I didn’t think I’d find this much depth there, but here we are! Amazing song, Great band!
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Wow, I watch a lot of reactions but nailed how it was in the 90’s preinternet and how we had to obtain and listen to music. Radio was a lot more important back then especially to poor people like me. We were into Hendrix’s too and like you said a lot of people were. Are group was heavy AIC and Soundgarden I was one of the only people to like Pearl Jam. But I didn’t like Nirvana much except for the unplugged. You took me right back there I’m definitely subbed. For context I’m 49 from California
Yeah I just turned 45 and I was way into pearl Jam, a fair bit of Soundgarden, but I also liked a little hair metal particularly Extreme (Nuno was my hero) and stuff like Skid Row.
I somehow missed out on AIC, but not only that, quite embarrassingly, I actually listened to a bit of Temple of The Dog today and it turns out it’s freaking awesome! I’m gonna have to take a look at that too. Not sure how that one hit by me either. As I said in the video, no one around me had it to share! I had heard about this side project thing, and I think I assumed it would be fairly average compared to the two bands’ separate work.
@@PrymalChaos I’m assuming you know the band Mad Season the side project with Layne and Mike McCreedy from PJ? It’s really good too. Don’t listen to those two “super groups” you should react to them on here for sure.
@@td315 again. I know the name, but didn’t know who’s project it was. Pretty sure I even know the album art. Yeah I’ll check it out! Thanks mate!
Alice in Chains are awesome and I was aware of them in the 90's but not a real fan until recently.
Yeah I feel like they have loads to offer me. I will dive deeper.
No, they stood apart from every band.
Wtf kind of headphones you got? I need them shits lol
Haha. They are amazing! beyerdynamic dt 1990 pro. Strap in though, they cost about US$600! Also they need a headphone amp of some kind cause they’re pretty high impedance. I just use the headphone output on my mixer.
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If you wanna have your mind blown, check out Post Malone covering this somg.
No im not messing with you, he actually did it justice.
That would be cool!
Could you please react to BTS? For example: Fake Love, Black Swan, Mic Drop ❤
Check out the song would?
Yeah gonna have to. The only reason I’m familiar is I remember back in the day they had a TAB (guitar music notation) for it in a guitar magazine I had in the 90s. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.
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Do some research dude!!! I believe it would help... And no it's not Charlie Sheen. Lol.
Yeah I have to go in blind with reactions, so I’m not always prepared. I am reading a book called Not for you about Pearl Jam and it’s filling in a bunch of details from the scene back then. I was into grunge as a 16 year old, but being from Australia we didn’t get a whole lot of context at the time. Like I didn’t even realise STP were like ‘second wave’ grunge. People hated how much they ripped off Pearl Jam. I didn’t even know there was a distinction. I just figured that was just the “Seattle Sound”.