[wardaddy]

My favorite AIC song.....sort of a very dark Roland the Thompson Gunner ...always gave me the view of some grizzled LRRP sort of fellow.:

Artist: Alice In Chains
Album: Dirt (1992)
Song: Rooster

Ain't Found A Way To
Kill Me Yet
Eyes Burn With Stinging
Sweat
Seems Every Path Leads Me To Nowhere
Wife And Kids And Household Pet
Army Green Was No Safe Bet
The Bullets Scream To Me From Somewhere

Here They Come To Snuff The Rooster
Yeah Here Come The Rooster
You Know He Ain't Gonna Die

Walkin' Tall Machine Gun Man
They Spit On Me In My Homeland
Gloria Sent Me Pictures
Of My Boy
Got My Pills 'Gainst
Mosquito Death
My Buddy's Breathin'
His Dyin' Breath
Oh God Please Won't You Help
Me Make It Through

Damn fool was 10 years younger than me...had the world by the tail once.

[WhiteKnuckles]

God, I miss AIC. They were one of my favorites. Nobody comes close nowadays to the music they made.

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Alice In Chains
"No Excuses"
Jar Of Flies

It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience to search
For peace of mind
Layin' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding or
Disguising truths I've sold

Everyday it's something
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses, then I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well
You're drowning in it too

Yeah, it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain, a cold
Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend
And if we change, well I
Love you anyway

[WDG55513]

That was a great song. I'm pretty sure the original "Rooster" was the father of Chains' guitarist Jerry Cantrell.

[bleudevil]

I liked "Rooster" too. Saw them perform it on the 1993 Lollapalooza tour - really rocker. I think that Cantrell wrote it about his dad's experiences in Vietnam.

[xsrdx]

DIRT Bump.

It always seems the best music is created by the least stable. Cobain was a complete basket case, barely able to function as a father and husband, but the dude positively ROCKED.

And now Staley, another apparent "victim" of his own creativity, part of a long history pioneered by Keith Moon and Bon Scott - maybe. Pehaps drugs were not involved? Tough sell.

AIC will certainly remain one of my all time fave bands. RIP.