Alice in Chains: The Horrific Story Behind 'Rooster' (Dirt)
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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. But it also did something else, that was unexpected. That’s what were going to explore int oday’s video.
Several of the songs found on Alice in Chains 1992 album Dirt dated back to the sessions the band did for the Cameron Crowe film Singles. The band was given money to hit the studio to record the song Would? For the film’s soundtrack. It was also during those sessions that band cut a number of other songs that would eventually become their first EP 1992’s SAP which was released in February of that year. I’ve done a whole video on SAP. The link is down below. Also recorded during these sessions was a song called Rooster, which would be held over until Dirt which came out later in the year. If you want to hear the demo of Rooster it’s up on UA-cam. Link is down below.
Guitarist Jerry Cantrell would recall where he was when he wrote the song telling Classic Rock Magazine “I was between places to live at that time,”, “so I moved in with [Soundgarden singer] Chris Cornell and his wife Susan Silver at their house in Seattle. Susan was managing Alice In Chains at the time. I stayed for a few weeks, up in this little room. Cantrell would admit staying up one night while he crashed at their place, possibly taking acid, and wanting to get a jimi hendrix type of sound on his guitar. The song was being mixed by producer David Jerden in july of 1992. The book Alice in Chains the untold story tells an anecdote about the mixing of the song. Layne showed up to the studio with his dealer and as Jerden was playing the song on the studios loudspeakers, Layne loved it but his dealer offered his unsolicited advice with Layne telling him to shut up. The book would set the scene saying “Jerden lost it ‘who the f are you? Get the f out of my studio. He turned to Layne and said “don’t bring your drug dealer around.””
"Rooster" was released as the fourth single from Dirt in February 1993.[1] It spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart where it peaked at No. 7.[7]
The term Rooster came from his father’s nickname he was given as a little kid because of his cocky attitude. Cantrell’s father would be deployed to Vietnam twice during the war and never talked about his experience to his son.. Cantrell would tell the LA Times
“Vietnam is something he never talks about,” “I asked him about it once and he said, ‘That’s dead, son, let it lie.’ When I wrote it, I was getting this vibe, thinking about him and what he’s lived through--two tours of duty in Vietnam, he’s been a prison guard. I was thinking about the things he might have thought and felt there. It was pretty close. It hit home to him.”
In a separate interview with Rolling Stone in 1996 Cantrell talked about the impact the war had on his Dad as he transitioned back into civilian life saying My dad was trained to be a f*@!ing killer … After that, you can't just come back home and say, 'OK, everything's cool. I'm going to work 9 to 5 now.' That stuff scars you forever. We had a lot of problems and occurrences because of that."
Those problems would lead Cantrell to his parents divorcing and him living with his mother and grandmother in Tacoma, Washington. The guitarist would recall to Louder Sound He didn’t walk out on us. We left him. It was an environment that wasn’t good for anyone, so we took off to live with my grandmother in Washington, and that’s where I went to school. I didn’t have a lot of my father around, but I started thinking about him a lot during that period.”
Rather than resentment Cantrell p
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Here's the story about the time Layne Staley got arrested
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Eat the rooster 🐥
@@BirdmanVeganFuture why would you write that?
can you please send me that picture of Layne?
That song sux for real. Everyone i know in the 90s stated the lyrics as she came to touch my rooster ah yeah! Legit im from the late 70s early 80s and they were not much more than a blip.
Viet Nam finally took my father in 1994. He checked himself into a motel room, and shot himself. Years of unresolved depression, PTSD, and mystery illness likely due to Agent Orange caught up with him. After his return from the war, we rarely saw him. He was constantly on the move. He stopped trying to outrun his demons in that motel room. Everyone who met him loved him- except him.
Very sorry to hear this. Also a vet. If you see someone wearing that campaign ribbon say hello.
Wow thanks for sharing that
I'm sorry to read this, please know it wasn't your dad's fault he couldn't fight the demons any longer, it's our governments for sending them off to fight and not helping them afterwards.
@@andyroo8592 I agree, but some people may think your comment is "anti-military" because they're bootlickers and can't see the bigger picture. Also, everyone gives Ted Nugent and others crap for dodging the draft, but people praise Muhammad Ali for doing the same exact thing.
@@nckhed
My comment is most definitely not anti military.... My father is a Vietnam vet. I'm just not happy with governments who train people to fight and kill, pack them off to a war some greedy politicians started and then after the fighting is done they throw them away like a used condom. These soldiers need help. My Dad still has bad dreams that courtesy of the Vietnam war.
One of the greatest songs AIC ever wrote. Sounded phenomenal live with Layne on vocals.
YES, Rooster was the one that forced me to buy Dirt. Kinda X-Ray Mind on Mad Season's "Above".
The last time I saw AIC in 1993, they were already burned out playing Rooster. Layne introduced Rooster in Charlotte N.C. as "This is a song about a f**kin' chicken". The next day in Raleigh N.C., "This is a song about a bird", but he did it with a really thick New York accent... "Dis is a sawng abowt a boyd" ....lol
Dirt is insanely awesome
@@pablodelsegundo9502 that mad season album is fire. Love it. Wake up, lifeless dead, above of course. Had that album. Well still do some were
Correct. A few have covered this song, no one could ever fill Layne’s shoes, however
I missed Layne Staley, I met him in 1994 backstage he is very gentle and very friendly guy,
😒
Jerry Cantrell is a powerhouse. He is stuck with deep scar over Layne Stayley, and Mike Star. Both Layne and Mike were amazing and it is a sad thing to die. Jerry rose from the ashes like a Phoenix! He is still working on music. Love him!
Jerry Cantrell is an awesome individual. I can relate, everything he said about his dad. My dad also served 2 tours in Nam...
i will ask no man what he seen there. one long nightmare you couldnt wake up from if i was guessing .
My father was drafted at age 17 for boot camp to serve in Vietnam at 18… ended up up a Purple Heart decorated, fully disabled Marine… he never spoke about it either. He passed away with not much help from the government and some deep rooted psychological issues
My dad served 2 tours as well. He passed last year. I had to kick in his door and find him there. He had peace on his face, so there's that.
Mine too...with the chicken men. 2/502
This song is deep and brings out something in everyone. I remember driving around with some chicano gangster dudes I used to know and I had my music library on random. This song came on and I quickly turned the volume down thinking they'd be like wtf? Instead they told me to turn it up and put it on repeat. Just me and some tatted up eses cruising screaming this song at the top of our lungs! Music knows no boundaries, it's a universal language.
Indeed.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached peak "bro"
That’s so brosome
My question is what were you doing in a car with gangsters?
Indeed....That's a beautiful memory man!
My dad listen to nothing but 50's music like The Four Tops and The Temptations heard this song when dirt first came out and it became his Anthem he would literally listen to it every morning over and over. My father has never opened up about his time in Vietnam until that song he passed about a year-and-a-half after that album came out at only 49 years old due to complications from Agent Orange and gunshot wounds he received while in Vietnam I'm forever thankful 2 AIC for giving me the chance to learn about my father's service
One of my most vivid concert memories of the '90s was seeing AIC headline Lollapalooza in '93! When they played "Rooster" the hairs on the back of my neck stood up! PLAY LOUD!
One of my first memories in life was sitting in the car with my dad at a car wash in our small town in Missouri we lived in and I had to be 3 to 4 years old. Rooster had just been released as a single and was playing on 98.9 the rock and my dad said this was about the guitarist dad in the Vietnam war. Love this song n every time I hear it, it makes me feel so nostalgic and miss being a young kid. That’s one of the many reasons Alice is so important to my life is things like that
Huge Alice in Chains fan. I was briefly in an Alice in Chains tribute band and I loved it!
This song had a big impact on me, not only because I was a huge fan of AIC when I was young, but the fact that I ended up being in Ramadi, Iraq years later with the 101st Airborne and the song came back to me. I never compare Iraq to Vietnam because they were two different wars but I can relate to the words in this song in many ways. I made it home from that place but it’s always been with me. It changed me forever. I have to revisit the memories with this song and think about my friends and fellow Soldiers who never made it back.
When I was deployed to Northern Iraq in the 90's, Alice In Chain's music was part of our soundtrack. I had several friends killed on April 14, 1994, one of which was Sgt. Jeffery Colbert. Although no one ever called him the Rooster (that I know of), I have always thought of him that way because of his personality. I always think of Jeff every time I hear this song.
Why were you in northern Iraq?
@@TeensierPython Operation Provide Comfort
Hey, Marc? Thank you for your service, and I'm sorry for your losses.
Thank you for your service.
Wow… all I can say is wow… these stories give me the chills. Rip sgt. Jeffrey Colbert
Omg, weird..I just started playing The Rooster for a friend of mine who I just found out died today and then you upload this video.
Awesome video as always.❤
I'm very sorry to hear ♡ :(
Sorry to hear that :(
Following the “Blackhawk Down” crash, I heard this song played over loud speakers from the helicopters circling Mogadishu when Michael Durant was being held by Mohammed Farrah Aidid’s regime in 1993.
It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it.
Magical vocal harmony in this song.
That's every AIC song lol. The harmony between Stanley and Cantrell can never be replicated and is the best ever imo.
Funny thing is that this song was almost totally Layne singing solo. Jerry only harmonizes in a couple of specific spots and that's it. This song is almost totally Layne, just like with the nearly equally amazing "Down In A Hole."
Their Very lucky to have(Harmony) what is many times a gift afterthought to bands, maybe a dozen bands, musicians have it, U2, Everley Bros. Beach Boys, CSN, etc.
Even the backup vocals are ace.
@@bobthebear1246 agreed, but I'm uncertain this song would have such an impact without those harmonies.
“Walking tall-Machine gun man….they spit on me…in my homeland”
I fucking felt that one.
-an OIF vet
Many years, this song made me cry actually. My dad served in Nam, and from what I was told, he was right in the thick of it in Da nang . I dad spent 8 years after the war battling drinking and mental health issues. He grew up in a time where men didnt admit mental health problems or even cried. In 1980, at the age of 31, he died of a supposed self inflicted gun shot.
That’s awful
Sorry to hear that Lisa. My mum used to tell me about an uncle of hers who came back from WW1, supposedly died from an accidental self shooting as he was crossing a fence. She thought otherwise. They called PTSD/PTSS "Shell Shock" back then. It was only talked about in hushed tones or covered up in some way.... Cos if you had it you were considered weak. The anguish so many veterans have gone through after returning from their conflicts, because of an uncaring or non-understanding society, I can only half guess at!
I expect a lot of us have this same story about our fathers. Viet Nam took my father through his own hand in 1992, but he was gone from us long before that,even when he was there.
Good stuff. Keep em coming. Loving this channel.
Jerry Cantrell has always been an enigmatic figure where he has had alot of the same broken home disfunctional past combined with a gift that he was fortunate enough to discover....my dads best friend Sgt. Dave Carroll came back from vietnam and my mom and dad took him in to recover in Hawaii..my dad has faked the hearing exam to get out of going or I wouldnt be here today...he got his healing done and I have had some deep talks with him about his experiences there...it took him 30 years to have the courage to relive what happened....I lived in Seattle at the time and went to all the shows...this song isnt my favorite and I usually would skip it on the record just becasue it was played out...and because it deserved more....it is a stand alone song that brings up feelings that connect to our past traumas and a hope for forgiveness and compassion....
I remember hearing a lot of Vietnam vets loved this song, even if they didn't like other Alice In Chains songs.
A lot of people have issues readjusting after the war. Its sad. Some of them never get it together and just end up lost forever with that war stuck in their head.
I explain it to people like this. How can I teach you to un-learn how to ride a bicycle,no matter how many years go by you'll always be able to jump on a bike and ride it,you'll never forget. Now imagine instead of un-learning how to ride a bike it's un-learning the skills and experiences that have literally kept you alive and vastly more important. It can't be done,you can adapt,but you'll never forget.
1. I hate opiates. My heart goes out to everyone struggling with addiction but especially opiates. You are loved, rise above
2. These guys had it bad. They fought a war they didn't want to, came home to a public that put the blame on them instead of where it belonged and then were abandoned by the same people who sent them to die
3. I've always known what this song was about but this adds a whole other level to it. It makes me appreciate the repair that's been done to my own relationship to my father recently all that much more
This I believe was your best video yet! Like holy shit dude!!
My father was drafted and fought in Vietnam. He never talked about it. I played him the song and asked him if it sounded like it was about the Vietnam war. Its the only time I saw him tear up. He told me he didn't get the music, but the words got it right. I asked him what they got right and he told me not to ask him. I never did.
Alice in chains forever!! I listen to them every single day!
this song always held a special place in my Dads heart as my Gpa was in WW2. Their relationship was fractured some how but my father wud never talk about it. War is hell
I’m a Gen xer and my dad just passed away and he also wouldn’t talk about his time in Vietnam and he suffered from the horrible side effects of Agent Orange that they sprayed on our fathers and also the people of Vietnam. Our government did horrible things to everyone involved and still has not been transparent. I will have to listen to this song all over again now.
This song touches me deeply and I never knew anyone who was in Vietnam. Much respect!!!
One of my favorite songs by AIC. Our local radio station plays it and others by them regularly and I always listen to them loud!
Unforgettable guitar riff, thanks for the story!
One of my old neighbors was a Nam Vet named chris. He was a very nice man, I remember one day at a BBQ chris told my father and I a crazy story from the war. He basically survived a helicopter crash. The helicopter was shot down they landed in the jungle, helicopter on fire, chris ended up saving one other person. They sat in the jungle with critical injuries for a whole day and had to rally to a point to be picked up. He has no idea why he survived all the blood shed. Almost like he had guilt because he survived the war.
His mental strength was something to admire, because I would have never guessed he endured such adversity. He ended up passing away naturally, Rest In Peace Chris Williams.
Great story man. Art is maybe the best thing we've done as humans
My Dad enlisted in the Navy when he was 17 during WWII. His cousin/best friend enlisted with him. There were a couple of stories he told. One was being on a LSM during a tsunami. The details are very scary. He never boarded a ship/boat again after WWII. The other was how he entertained his shipmates. He would invent full baseball games on the PA. After the war he served as a Police Officer. He retired after 28 years on the force. He was Chief for 11 of those years. He passed away 32 years after retirement. The police and fire departments still called him "Chief". He was the best man I've ever known.
You're lucky to have had such a great dad.
When I heard the song “Rooster”
I immediately felt like it was an anthem of my life.
AIC really got it right!
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of “Just Cause” in Panama 🇵🇦
in 1989, later that year The Persian Gulf would light up. The 90’s didn’t start off real well for some people.
I was pretty surprised when I first heard this song. (I mentally cannot listen to a song without decrypting the lyrics) it was nice to hear something like this, it really struck a chord with me.
Same. Always assumed it had something to do with war.
I loved this song! I carried SAW in the Marine Corps and it reminded me of the lyrics of this song. Semper Fi!
I knew about the about the “Rooster” Machine Gun but I didn’t know about his Father’s nickname being “Rooster” when he was younger. Thanks for sharing.
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LOVE playing the bass of this song. I learned it while playing in a 90s grunge band, everyone loves that song. I'll never forget the time I heard it live when they were on tour with Korn.
That song was always my favorite during the MTV years. Great upload!
0:41 two legends! Literally my two favorite lead singers. Layne and Chris Cornell. I hate that I’m from Michigan and that’s where we lost Chris tho.
I never get enough of you covering AIC
Great story, their are many of us Sons that had interesting relationships with our veteran fathers. Great song Thank you for sharing ✌️
My dad is a vietnam vet and he really likes this song too.
I can never get enough of these AIC videos ..
This story hits really close to home with me. Much like most of the grunge era. I was about their age, certainly well within the same generation as the scene was, and I was full of angst.
My own relationship with my father was rough, for many of the same reasons. Only in time, through therapy, did I see what was going on, and this video was really close to it.
I was not a fan of my dad, then he died. Over the course of the years since then, I have grown, and grew much more introspective. In the end, Jerry got to mend a bridge that I could only mend in response to my dad's death. I can say now, though, that learning to see things from an older perspective, that not only should I have let go of the angst and bitterness of our living relationship, but now.... I cannot even feel a little bit resentful of the man I would have liked to still knw, but cannot.
I am so glad that Jerry got to get the experience of mending things with his pops. And this song is one of my all time favorite songs.
This was a good story.
My dad was also in Vietnam , when I hear this song it reminds me of him. My memories are very similar to those I knew that had dads there. My dad definitely has been changed . Lot of years of pain
Thats something the government is clearly to blame for, at least the past one responsible for this war started on a lie.
Everytime I see an AIC story I know it's gonna be a good day.
My friend’s dad used to work with Jerry Cantrell back in day and met his dad (Rooster) . He also told us stories about Jerry playing rooster and other Alice In Chains songs.
Every time I hear Rooster, I think of the scene in Terminator Salvation.
"Ain't found a way to kill me yet"
One of the best songs of generation x imo
You should do story of 99 red balloons. I hear it was about bombs tied to balloons.
99 luft balloons
99 Luft Balloons is actually about something even more interesting (the German version that is, as the English version carries a different meaning.) The original song speaks of a balloon release with flares attached to the balloons by some guys in the hope that people will think it’s a UFO. Governments from the different countries bordering the release send jets to check out the anomaly, leading to a series of events that culminate in a devastating 99 year war... without a victor. The song ends with the singer walking across the ruins and coming across the one missing balloon (the 100th) and she says “I think of you and let go.”
I never had a proper appreciation of this song until I read what it’s about. Devastatingly sad, but also quite awesome.
@@Statsy10 what 99year war is this you speak of
SIT LUX ET LUX FUIT Great song! 🎈
Red/luft great song idk I always just heard it was written bout some deeper stuff.
Good clip many don’t know about. Primus playing Harold of the Rocks at Woodstock. Jerry cameos the guitar solo. Good stuff
My old band used to cover this. Fun song to play.
My dad served in Vietnam, and I also was in the Army. This song has always been important to me.
I bought that tape at a flea market in 1993 for a buck, strange thing though, the woman who sold it to me said what a shame that the singer died, I had never heard of the band and went home and played it, wow, I loved that record so much, I was hooked at the time so it really made sense to me, I kept up with alice and then mad season which I also really liked, but I could see how frail lane was getting, then the end came, I miss lane. His haunting voice was like no other and also a real nice guy, I do wish he could have beat the Junk before it took him out.
Layne didnt die in 1993..u may be mistaken on when u bought the tape.
@@dwade6322 No thats what made it so strange, The lady at the flea market told me he had died, I found out a month later that it was not true, but I just thought that it was weird that she told me that back in 93 and then many yrs later it did, by the way Im 60yrs old and still love the band, there will never be another voice like lane's.
Must have thought of Kurt from nirvana perhaps?
@@intothevoid5027 gotcha..and yea,all Seattle singers were great,but Layne....man,he was different than most.
@@FoxUnitNell Kurt died 1994, don´t think it´s strange that someone thinks that someone is dead and then years later they die. I mean people die. I do miss hiim though.
There Two Voices were seamless one of my Favorite MTV unplugged
00;38 Crazy In this particular picture how much Layne resembles Woody Harrelson
I remember a live version of this where the intro was was in a few keys lower it actually sounded really haunted would of been cool if the og release was like that.. Nevertheless amazing track kind of AICs "One" from MetallicA.
Great video about a great song! AIC nailed it...
My grandfather has never mentioned what he did in Vietnam and I’ll never ask him. I’ve got so much respect for those men and what they did.
RIP dad RIP Uncle Jimmy ✌&❤ to all of u who have served or has parents or grandparents that served in Vietnam. Thank you
I met the Rooster with Jerry before they played the OKC Fairgrounds in 1993. Circus of Power opened.
My dads a Vietnam veteran and doesn't talk about those days...those veterans of that war and different kind of vets
merry christmas great video ty..............
Excellent piece.
Thanks for your passion.
We appreciate 🙏 that!
Rooster is my favorite song of of theirs.
Think I know why he had a heroine issue. Heroin kind of simulates the chemicals that are released when you love people like your father. It could simulate that wonderful love feeling. The type of drug you get addicted to says a lot about what's wrong with you. I never didn't feel loved but I did feel a lot of stress so alcohol and Benzodasapine's my drug of choice
Cantrel is an incredible songwriter.
What inspired Man In A Box was cool as well
Just to add to the M60 machine gunner being called roosters... the term, "the whole nine nards" comes from the 9-yard long ammunition belt for the M60.
Not a big AIC fan, I do like some tracks of theirs but I feel like they are one of the most depressing bands ever lol. Despite this, the Rooster has always been a song special to my heart. It makes me regret not committing to the Marines after high school (I guess that is a good thing now) God Bless America and our soldiers. Don’t hate the soldier for the war they fought. They didn’t start it.
I was trained by 101st
In basic training
& deployed with 101st Airborne
aka
“SCREAM’IN EAGLES”❤️🇺🇸,
As a soldier of “BIG RED ONE”❤️
- 1st Infantry Division🇺🇸
After basic, in Big Red One
I was chosen by the Army
As a Candidate for Green Beret Selection.
Greatest honor of my life.🙏🏽
But declined, to deploy to war.
My job
-50 cal. Convoy Machine-gunner.
101st Airborne Eagles are KNOWN
-For the way we MOVE.
Fittest Combatants in entire U.S. military.
Because,
WE ARE FORCED TO RUN “EVERYWHERE”.
Our motion Is called:
The “AIRBORNE-SHUFFLE”🦅
We’ll be the soldiers you see,
-running all over the place ♠️
Before deployment, I Was told:
“Specialist, you have 2 jobs down-range.
1. Live
2. KILL...”
I sat atop an up-armored max-pro
In an open-air turret.
-ROOSTER/CROW’S NEST💡
Like being in a rolling pill-box.
Thus,
We are the “main target”, on the battlefield.
As,
50 cal. Round can go through cinder-block walls
&
Engine blocks.
“MA DEUCE”
aka
KING of BATTLE🇺🇸
Makes you the most valued kill...
No other song is like THIS one.
It’s like he’s DONE it...
-FOREVER “SREAM’IN EEEEEEAGLEEEEES”!🇺🇸
So much like in this story, a marine squadron I was attached to was called the thunder chickens. So the story goes they were known as the thunder eagle's before deploying to Vietnam. They then became know as the thunder chickens there and embraced the goofy nick name and kept it.
I love the themes in Alice In Chains songs. Especially the ones dealing with inner struggles.
Probably my first real deep dive favorite song before I fell into zeppelin for...too long. Tool rehabilitated my led zeppelin addiction.
In first with -cool story bro
One of my favorite bands and songs!
Great background about a great song. They were so talented.
This song has always grabbed my soul.
first time when you clean the framework. excellent
This song helped me out when I was young.
Nice coverage. thank you!
Hey guy. Make sure you get someone to proof read your disclaimer at the beginning. That’s all!
Always think about my dad(also a Vietnam vet) whenever this comes on…. Wish he was still here.
as an Iraq vet myself, Rooster is a song that any time I hear it I get goosebumps. and holy shit I didn't know Dale Dye was an advisor for the video, that's pretty epic.
A song that always gives me chills.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows what the story behind the song is. Especially if you've seen the video. Cantrell's Dad is interviewed in that and he explains that back during Vietnam having to live in fear of dying every single day while seeing all the suffering not just of the people he had to kill but also his friends and brothers in arms who died, it messed with him. And then you realize that if he was killed we wouldn't have Jerry Cantrell and from that standpoint we may not have Alice in Chains at all -- that's the story behind the song as well as the point behind the song. Cantrell's dad's nickname was "Rooster" hence the song. "Yeah, they've come to snuff the Rooster". The whole kill or be killed thing and the damage it does to you psychologically whether you live or die. It's really not that difficult of a song to comprehend.
My favorite chains song
RIP Mike and Layne
Best rock channel.
Some US or UK people talk about war as something out of their control, something that just happen. Oh, casually my father was a soldier and casually was sent to Vietnam. Look, no one forced him to be a soldier. It was him chosing to be one. Many countries don't have the experience of going to war or having veterans. I don´t feel sorry for a war veteran. War is something rich class sell as patriotism to make more money. If a kid wants to be a soldier to manage tools that KILL people, maybe someone in his family is in the army, but if not... is something very psychopatic don´t you think? Maybe you love guns but you forget a detail, guns are for killing. Maybe you dream to be a soldier because you make easy money and retire sooner, hoping never going to war? That can be the case on every country except US and their allies as UK and Israel. So, I don´t care about the Rooster. He went to Vietnam twice? To do what, maybe kill and rape viet girls? Who knows. The guy was made prisioner there, poor dad right? lol, he went TWICE, the man loved Vietnam. I see AIC is a very peculiar band, republican junkies I guess. Their music is dope anyway.
A terrific band and a song true to it's meaning! Our Viet Nam vets were/are awesome warriors caught up in an unfair, unwindable war thanks to our politicians and their complete lack of understanding of what war is. Sound familiar? Those guys and girls who served in the Nam should be regarded as winners and true heroes!!
Shouldn't Jerry Cantrell *technically* be the one on the Thumbnail? 🤔
love this song
"Walking tall, machine gun man, they spit on me in my homeland"...
What of their best song ever, and one of the saddest also :/
Thanks for another informative and interesting video
I would love to see the full interview of Jerry and his Dad, that they cliped for the video
One of the best albums ever.
My mom told me it was a cover of a blue grass song from her youth , idk if it's true ,but that might be why he don't remember writing it