If you’re compiling a list of essential grunge tracks, the Alice In Chains hit “Rooster” needs to have a spot. How do you find the inspiration to make such a track? Well, we’ll yield that part to Jerry Cantrell.
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“Rooster” comes from the second Alice In Chains studio album Dirt and is one oft the most notable tracks on the record. The album is celebrating its 30th anniversary and Cantrell took to social media to give fans a sneak peek behind the making of the song.
“I was staying over at Chris Cornell’s place, had a little guest room at the place out in West Seattle,” Cantrell recalled.
“I was thinking about my dad… I started to think about putting myself in his shoes, and what he’d been through in his life, multiple tours in ‘Nam – just where he came from, things he had to deal with, and I started asking myself, ‘Would I have done any better? Could I have done any better?'”
Just in time for its 30th anniversary, Dirt received its long overdue respect as it was recently certified 5X platinum.
A full 22 years after the RIAA certified Dirt 4X-platinum in 2000, the iconic sophomore Alice In Chains record featuring late singer Layne Staley who passed in 2002 has now reached another milestone, moving another million units thanks to digital streaming, solidifying the 1992 offering 5X-platinum this year.
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