Guitarist ACTUALLY Exorcized His Father’s Demons With THIS Metal Rock Epic | Professor of Rock

How Guitarist Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains honored his Father in the harrowing 90s classic song Rooster. Coming up, a story about a guitarist from a Jerry’s Father, a Vietnam vet who suffered from a war that wouldn’t stop playing in his head. Jerry put himself in his Father’s boot and captured the experience. Riddled with bullets, fallen soldiers, and enduring psychological scars, the song became one of the greatest of the decade with a beautiful interpretation by singer Layne Staley. Today we honor an anthem and it’s story... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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Back in 1991, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell found himself temporarily homeless, so he turned to a fellow Seattle rocker for help. Chris Cornell and his wife Susan Silver agreed to take him in until he could figure other living arrangements. So, Jerry moved into a little guest room that resembled something like a converted closet with just enough room for a bed.

While there, Jerry’s thoughts turned to his father. The two didn’t speak very often and really weren’t involved in each other’s lives at all.When Jerry was a baby, his father Jerry Cantrell Sr., left to fight in the Vietnam War. He would be there for two tours and three years of his life. His physical absence then, and his emotional absence after he came back would have a devastating effect on Jerry’s mother Gloria, and Jerry as well.

Jerry was three years old, when his mother introduced him to a stranger in uniform that she said was his dad. The psychological trauma Cantrell Sr. accrued from the war put a tremendous strain on the family. And in Jerry’s words, it splintered his family apart. His parents divorced a few years later, when he was seven.

Jerry would later say of his dad, “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... I didn’t have a lot of my father around, but I started thinking about him a lot during that period.”