Throughout a brand new interview with the Damaged File Podcast, Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell admitted that he couldn’t get into considered one of Weapons N’ Roses’ albums till he received excessive.
Cantrell made the admission whereas discussing his friendship with Duff McKagan and what he “requested him about Weapons N’ Roses” after they first began hanging out.
“Boy, I feel I in all probability informed him like… Once I lastly related with this band, I imply, I used to be conscious of the band and quite a lot of my favourite bands I don’t like immediately,” the guitarist mentioned.
“So, as a result of they had been so large and blowing up, I imply I like rock and roll they usually have roots of all of the stuff. I like Aerosmith, good funky, R&B, f*cking nasty rock and roll. So, overtly I preferred it and it was blowing up however I didn’t join with the document. I feel I listened to it for a few week and I don’t know, I feel I informed him a narrative.”
“I used to be dwelling in an residence downtown behind Seattle Middle and I nonetheless hadn’t related to the document. So I made a decision to drop ac*d and hearken to the entire thing another time. I made a decision on that journey and I listened to the document. If I nonetheless didn’t prefer it I used to be going to throw it out the window,” Cantrell revealed.
He continued: “And by the point ‘Rocket Queen’ got here on, that bass, the drums within the bass received me. That’s when all of it got here into focus and I used to be simply approaching to an acid journey and I feel I informed him that story. It was an excellent one and I received it. The doorways of notion had been open and I related.”
