“You felt like something was happening and you were actually part of it. That's a pretty cool feeling.” Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell looks back on the dawning of the grunge revolution in Seattle

Jerry Cantrell.

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflects on the development of the early grunge scene in a new interview with YouTube personality Rick Beato, and recalls how numerous Seattle bands paved the way for the breakthrough of Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the early '90s, via “stepping stones” laid down by their own small victories. 

“It was an interesting time,” Cantrell remembers. “There was so much great music. Music was already changing in the late '80s, there was a heavier, more aggressive element to it, not just in our town, but across across the globe.”