Artist: Mad Season
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Above
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Quite a few side projects containing members of far-famed Seattle-based sway bands appeared through the '90s. Most failed to extend past a small cult following comprised mainly of fans of their master bands (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Fish, Tuatara, etc.), only there were a few exceptions to rule, especially Temple of the Dog and Mad Season. The latter outfit included members of Alice in Chains (vocalizer Layne Staley), Pearl Jam (guitarist Mike McCready), and the Screaming Trees (drummer Barrett Martin), as well as the only non-Seattle based musician, bassist John Baker Saunders (world Health Organization antecedently played with such vapors artists as Hubert Sumlin and the Lamont Cranston Band, among others). The band's roots go stake to the summer of 1994, when McCready chequered himself into a Minneapolis, MN, rehab center to conflict a drinking/substance problem. It was there that McCready met local musician Saunders, and when he returned indorse to Seattle, called up Staley, world Health Organization was also at the time attempting to conflict problems with substances. With Martin rounding out the lineup, an undeniable alchemy 'tween all four-spot musicians was ascertained at their selfsame first mob session, resulting in bits of music that would eventually go in full completed songs ("Wake Up" and "River of Deceit"). Going by the make of the Gacy Bunch (which paying homage to both cruel nonparallel killer John Wayne Gacy and the platitudinal TV evidence The Brady Bunch), the iV made its live debut on Sunday, October 16, 1994, at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. Amazingly, the group had few songs written at the clip of the show (Mary Martin later admitted that the group really had "merely jams and beginnings of songs" prepared at the time), just the performance convinced the participants that a subsequent studio recording would be in card game.Ever-changing their diagnose to Mad Season (an English verbalism for the time of year when hallucinogenic "psilocin" mushrooms ar in full bloom), the quadruple lay out up patronize at Seattle's Bad Animals recording studio, co-producing the subsequent roger Sessions themselves along with Pearl Jam's sound technologist, Brett Eliason. Mad Season gave fans a tasting of their upcoming album by playacting a couple of songs on Pearl Jam's Self-Pollution Radio programme on January 8, 1995, ahead the resulting ten-track record album, Above, was officially issued in March. A mix in of melancholy ballads and difficult sway, the album (which too featured a few vocal contributions from Screaming Trees vocaliser Mark Lanegan) proven to be a gold-certified hit, just missing the U.S. Top 20 patch its leadoff single, "River of Deceit," became a major stone wireless run into. Despite a smattering of supporting live dates and speak of farther writing/recording, Mad Season would in the end essay to be a one-off visualise. Later in 1995, a unrecorded home video of a Seattle carrying into action Live at the Moore, was issued, as was a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier" for the Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon album. Reportedly, songs were penned for some other Mad Season album, which ultimately went live. Mad Season and then supposedly idea virtually replacing Staley with Lanegan (and ever-changing their name to Disinformation), just no songs were recorded -- resulting in the musicians going away their dissever slipway for dear. Sadly, this proven to be the net word on Mad Season as both Saunders and Staley would eventually die out from drug overdoses.
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