Alice in Chains - Rooster

[Jerk]

Is the Rooster from Atoka?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh0__DlAOqU&search=Alice%20in%20chains

I think he's an okie.

edit - doing some reading on this. I didn't know they found Staley in his apartment 2 weeks after he died. Dayum!

[etouffee]

bet that smelled freakin fabulous.

[StoopTroup]

In the video at the end there is a mailbox that says Atoka.

Would seem they did that for a reason.

[Jerk]

In the video at the end there is a mailbox that says Atoka.

Would seem they did that for a reason.

How did I miss that?

Oh well, guess that answered my question.

Staley could sure roar for a little fella

My favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJx-q0cyyMA&mode=related&search=Alice%20in%20chains

[yermom]

story i heard was that The Rooster was Jerry Cantrell's dad, who is from Oklahoma (Atoka, i guess)

Jerry Cantrell is the guitarist and the young kid shown early on in the video

http://www.superiorpics.com/hs/jerry_cantrell/main1.jpg

[StoopTroup]

From Wikipedia...


"Rooster" is a popular single by the grunge group Alice in Chains. The single came out in 1993 and is featured on their second official full-length album Dirt. The song was written for guitarist Jerry Cantrell's father, who served in the Vietnam War.

The music video featured brutality and violence visually reminiscent of Apocalypse Now.

Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection: "It was the start of the healing process between my Dad and I from all that damage that Vietnam caused. This was all my perception of his experiences out there. The first time I ever heard him talk about it was when we made the video and he did a 45 minute interview with Mark Pellington and I was amazed he did it. He was totally cool, totally calm, accepted it all and had a good time doing it. It even brought him to the point of tears. It was beautiful. He said it was a weird experience, a sad experience and he hoped that nobody else had to go through it."



Another article... (http://people.clarkson.edu/~winklebh/vietnam2/postwar.html)

[StoopTroup]

Oklahoma gets mentioned here...

Jerry Cantrell (http://www.celebritybase.net/alpha.php?alpha=y&name=j&profession=Musician&sptr=0)


After making five platinum and multi-platinum albums with Alice In Chains, guitarist/songwriter Jerry Cantrell is taking a temporary break from the band and releasing Boggy Depot, his eagerly-awaited debut solo album on Columbia Records. Named for the area of Oklahoma where Cantrell's father, Jerry, Sr., (a/k/a "the Rooster") grew up, Boggy Depot features 12 new compositions penned by the man who's written many of Alice In Chains' most memorable radio hits including "No Excuses" (from Jar Of Flies), "Rooster," "Would?," and "Down In A Hole" (from Dirt).


Boggy Depot (http://www.civilwaralbum.com/indian/boggy1.htm)

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/indian/images/boggy1.jpg

Definitely Atoka.

[yermom]

the songs i heard on his solo album were pretty good

and Jerk, that's one of my favorites as well, i really liked the whole Dirt album a lot though

[OUDoc]

Great album.

[Norm In Norman]

My crazy neighbor from accross the street had some sort of shrine set up for AIC. She loved them. She had some sort of connection with one of the band members.

Personally, she seemed to old and crazy to be an AIC fan.

[Partial Qualifier]

I loves me some Alice in Chains threads.