![]() ![]() He said it was a weird experience, a sad experience and he hoped that nobody else had to go through it. It even brought him to the point of tears. He was totally cool, totally calm, accepted it all and had a good time doing it. 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. ![]() This was all my perception of his experiences out there. It was the start of the healing process between my Dad and I from all that damage that Vietnam caused. In September 1992, Alice in Chains released Dirt. In the liner notes of 1999’s Music Bank box set collection, Jerry Cantrell said of the song: The band toured in support of the album for two years before releasing the acoustic EP Sap in early 1992. He was back there with his big gray Stetson and his cowboy boots - he’s a total Oklahoma man - and at the end, he took his hat off and just held it in the air. And I remember when we played it he was back by the soundboard and I could see him. Of course, I was never in Vietnam and he won’t talk about it, but when I wrote this it felt right…like these were things he might have felt or thought. He was standing in the back and he heard all the words and stuff. He’s only seen us play once, and I played this song for him when we were in this club opening for Iggy Pop. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell. For the horse youve grown much fonder, than for me, that I dont ponder As the heir of one who bit you. Alice in Chains: Dirt Pitchfork - Eric Harvey 4h A few weeks after the notorious 1985 Parents Music Resource Center hearings, where the so-called porn rock lyrics of musicians like W.A.S.P. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley 's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Care not for the men who wonder, straw that broke your back, youre under Cast all them aside who care, empty eyes and dead end stare 2. During a 1992 interview with Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine, in response to the question “Do you feel you communicated with (your father) with this song?”, Cantrell responded: Dirt is Alice in Chains ' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece.
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