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[Am] Considered a grunge supergroup, Mad Season would be made up of Alice in Chains frontman Lane Staley,
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, bassist John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett
Martin.
The [E] origins of the supergroup would begin in 1994.
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready had
been [A] struggling with substance abuse and headed to a treatment center in Minnesota where he would
[E] meet bassist John Baker Saunders who was in the treatment center dealing with a heroin addiction.
[D] Following their stint [Gm] in rehab both [A] musicians agreed to start a band to help each other stay
sober.
They would enlist drummer Barrett Martin and all they now needed was a frontman.
Alice
in Chains [E] at the time were on a break following a failed 1994 tour with [A] Metallica that had to be
shelved due to frontman Lane Staley's substance abuse issues.
McCready knowing that Lane was
struggling to stay sober offered the frontman a chance to join the group hoping it would help him
clean up his act.
Staley joined the group and they played some shows and even worked on some
material which would turn into their first and only album Above which came out in March of 1995.
You guys may not know this but Mad Season at one point was considering releasing a second album in
the late 90's but it never came to fruition and that's what we're going to explore in today's
video.
The group Mad Season would get their name from guitarist Mike McCready [G] as he told Yahoo!
The name of Mad Season originated and i won't go too deep into it, but when we were mixing the
Pearl Jam record in Surrey England the people that worked at the studio said oh it must be
the Mad Season [D] because and that's the season when all the hallucinogenic mushrooms come up
over in Surrey England and i thought i'm gonna keep that title for something [A] someday.
Also contributing to the group's album Above was Screaming Trees From and Mark Lanigan
who co-wrote and sang vocals on several tracks.
Mad Season would play a total [E] of six live shows,
but the members had other commitments and would go back to their respective bands by early 1995.
Despite the limited window of promotion for the record Above it was a huge success going
gold thanks to the single River of [A] Deceit which was a top 10 hit on rock radio.
Despite their
other commitments though Columbia Records who Mad Season was signed to wanted a follow-up album with
Barrett Martin telling Louder Sound Columbia wanted us to make another record and we said
yeah let's do it.
Nobody ever quit the band nobody ever called up and said i can't do this.
Mike Baker and i had been working on riffs and chord progressions.
We went into the studio and
[C#m] started recording basic tracks and basically Layne never came back.
Mark Lanigan came down for one
day he sang on a couple of songs from the first [E] album, but he wasn't ready to sing on anything at
that point.
The truth was Layne's health was deteriorating and i think he really [A] wanted to do
it, but he just couldn't.
Originally Mad Season's second album would be called Disinformation,
but the whole project would be scrapped.
McCready and Martin's focus soon changed to starting a new
band called Disinformation with Lanigan fronting the group, but again that went nowhere.
They soon
drifted into other musical projects as they had already rented the studio.
Any hopes for a future
follow-up were shattered when bassist John Baker Saunders died in January of 1999 due to a heroin
overdose.
Martin would recall to Louder Sound hearing the news it was a very big shock to me
because we bought houses that were just a few blocks apart and he would come to my house almost
every morning.
We'd sit and have coffee with my girlfriend and we'd just laugh all the time.
He had
a lot of great stories about playing the blues.
He and i had talked the night before he died about how
we were going to meet and have breakfast at a diner in our neighborhood.
I got a call [E] early the next
morning about how he died from an overdose and i was in complete shock because i had no idea that
was even a possibility because like i said i saw him almost every day.
It was bad.
According to
Mark Yarham's book Everybody Loves Our Town one of Baker's friends would recall the time leading up
to his death remembering how the bassist was stressed financially and banking on a new mad
season album to help him out.
In addition to that he was also in a relationship with a belgian woman
who had [A] gone back home and he was feeling lonely.
Baker would end up relapsing while his dealer was
his house and it was said in the book that his dealer waited too long to call 911.
In 1999 during
an [N] interview on rockline the members of alice in chains were interviewed when one caller asked
about the future of mad season and here's frontman lane staley's comment on it.
Hey how's it going?
What's up dude?
Hey i got a question for lane.
Yeah man.
Hey what's going on?
I was wondering um do you
have any more mad seasons in the works and if so are you guys doing any like small club dates or
anything like that across the united states?
No.
No.
Double no.
We're not doing anything more.
Actually the bass player passed on this last year.
Yeah right.
Baker.
Baker yeah.
So nothing in the works for mad season.
[A] Yeah.
Nearly three years later on april 5th 2002
staley would die from a drug overdose and mad season's sole record above would be reissued
as a box set in 2013.
Then in 2015 the surviving members mcCready and martin would team up with the
seattle symphony orchestra as well as chris cornell of soundgarden and guns and roses bassist duff
mckagan at a concert called sonic evolution which saw the musicians perform a number of mad season
songs.
[E] It was the same year that barrett martin would announce on social media that he was working
on [A] new mad season material with mcCready and mckagan.
That project would eventually morph
a band called the levy walkers who would put out a handful of songs in 2016 with killing joke
frontman jazz coleman.
The following year they would release a new track called all things fade
away with aaron jones.
As for the [E] band's legacy mcCready would look [A] back telling louder sound
i'm honored that people now consider the album classic.
At the time i didn't think so but over
time i've seen like mad season tattoos on people and now i can see that it meant a lot to people.
As for their departed bandmates martin would add in a very real way i feel the spirits of
lane and baker i can always feel those guys around they were helping to guide this thing together i
did a lot of meditating and praying about what was the right thing to do because i wanted to be in
memory of them but i also want people to hear a great band and some great new songs i think their
[E] spirits being involved is what got me and mike working on some new [A] stuff.
That concludes today's
video guys thanks for watching if you guys [G#m] have suggestions for stories you'd like to see me cover
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a daily basis to get inspiration for ideas and then i turn them
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, bassist John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett
Martin.
The [E] origins of the supergroup would begin in 1994.
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready had
been [A] struggling with substance abuse and headed to a treatment center in Minnesota where he would
[E] meet bassist John Baker Saunders who was in the treatment center dealing with a heroin addiction.
[D] Following their stint [Gm] in rehab both [A] musicians agreed to start a band to help each other stay
sober.
They would enlist drummer Barrett Martin and all they now needed was a frontman.
Alice
in Chains [E] at the time were on a break following a failed 1994 tour with [A] Metallica that had to be
shelved due to frontman Lane Staley's substance abuse issues.
McCready knowing that Lane was
struggling to stay sober offered the frontman a chance to join the group hoping it would help him
clean up his act.
Staley joined the group and they played some shows and even worked on some
material which would turn into their first and only album Above which came out in March of 1995.
You guys may not know this but Mad Season at one point was considering releasing a second album in
the late 90's but it never came to fruition and that's what we're going to explore in today's
video.
The group Mad Season would get their name from guitarist Mike McCready [G] as he told Yahoo!
The name of Mad Season originated and i won't go too deep into it, but when we were mixing the
Pearl Jam record in Surrey England the people that worked at the studio said oh it must be
the Mad Season [D] because and that's the season when all the hallucinogenic mushrooms come up
over in Surrey England and i thought i'm gonna keep that title for something [A] someday.
Also contributing to the group's album Above was Screaming Trees From and Mark Lanigan
who co-wrote and sang vocals on several tracks.
Mad Season would play a total [E] of six live shows,
but the members had other commitments and would go back to their respective bands by early 1995.
Despite the limited window of promotion for the record Above it was a huge success going
gold thanks to the single River of [A] Deceit which was a top 10 hit on rock radio.
Despite their
other commitments though Columbia Records who Mad Season was signed to wanted a follow-up album with
Barrett Martin telling Louder Sound Columbia wanted us to make another record and we said
yeah let's do it.
Nobody ever quit the band nobody ever called up and said i can't do this.
Mike Baker and i had been working on riffs and chord progressions.
We went into the studio and
[C#m] started recording basic tracks and basically Layne never came back.
Mark Lanigan came down for one
day he sang on a couple of songs from the first [E] album, but he wasn't ready to sing on anything at
that point.
The truth was Layne's health was deteriorating and i think he really [A] wanted to do
it, but he just couldn't.
Originally Mad Season's second album would be called Disinformation,
but the whole project would be scrapped.
McCready and Martin's focus soon changed to starting a new
band called Disinformation with Lanigan fronting the group, but again that went nowhere.
They soon
drifted into other musical projects as they had already rented the studio.
Any hopes for a future
follow-up were shattered when bassist John Baker Saunders died in January of 1999 due to a heroin
overdose.
Martin would recall to Louder Sound hearing the news it was a very big shock to me
because we bought houses that were just a few blocks apart and he would come to my house almost
every morning.
We'd sit and have coffee with my girlfriend and we'd just laugh all the time.
He had
a lot of great stories about playing the blues.
He and i had talked the night before he died about how
we were going to meet and have breakfast at a diner in our neighborhood.
I got a call [E] early the next
morning about how he died from an overdose and i was in complete shock because i had no idea that
was even a possibility because like i said i saw him almost every day.
It was bad.
According to
Mark Yarham's book Everybody Loves Our Town one of Baker's friends would recall the time leading up
to his death remembering how the bassist was stressed financially and banking on a new mad
season album to help him out.
In addition to that he was also in a relationship with a belgian woman
who had [A] gone back home and he was feeling lonely.
Baker would end up relapsing while his dealer was
his house and it was said in the book that his dealer waited too long to call 911.
In 1999 during
an [N] interview on rockline the members of alice in chains were interviewed when one caller asked
about the future of mad season and here's frontman lane staley's comment on it.
Hey how's it going?
What's up dude?
Hey i got a question for lane.
Yeah man.
Hey what's going on?
I was wondering um do you
have any more mad seasons in the works and if so are you guys doing any like small club dates or
anything like that across the united states?
No.
No.
Double no.
We're not doing anything more.
Actually the bass player passed on this last year.
Yeah right.
Baker.
Baker yeah.
So nothing in the works for mad season.
[A] Yeah.
Nearly three years later on april 5th 2002
staley would die from a drug overdose and mad season's sole record above would be reissued
as a box set in 2013.
Then in 2015 the surviving members mcCready and martin would team up with the
seattle symphony orchestra as well as chris cornell of soundgarden and guns and roses bassist duff
mckagan at a concert called sonic evolution which saw the musicians perform a number of mad season
songs.
[E] It was the same year that barrett martin would announce on social media that he was working
on [A] new mad season material with mcCready and mckagan.
That project would eventually morph
a band called the levy walkers who would put out a handful of songs in 2016 with killing joke
frontman jazz coleman.
The following year they would release a new track called all things fade
away with aaron jones.
As for the [E] band's legacy mcCready would look [A] back telling louder sound
i'm honored that people now consider the album classic.
At the time i didn't think so but over
time i've seen like mad season tattoos on people and now i can see that it meant a lot to people.
As for their departed bandmates martin would add in a very real way i feel the spirits of
lane and baker i can always feel those guys around they were helping to guide this thing together i
did a lot of meditating and praying about what was the right thing to do because i wanted to be in
memory of them but i also want people to hear a great band and some great new songs i think their
[E] spirits being involved is what got me and mike working on some new [A] stuff.
That concludes today's
video guys thanks for watching if you guys [G#m] have suggestions for stories you'd like to see me cover
in the future use the link [A] in the description box below i go through the request [E] form pretty much on
a daily basis to get inspiration for ideas and then i turn them
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[Am] Considered a grunge supergroup, Mad Season would be made up of Alice in Chains frontman Lane Staley,
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, bassist John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett
Martin.
The [E] origins of the supergroup would begin in 1994.
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready had
been [A] struggling with substance abuse and headed to a treatment center in Minnesota where he would
[E] meet bassist John Baker Saunders who was in the treatment center dealing with a heroin addiction.
[D] Following their stint [Gm] in rehab both [A] musicians agreed to start a band to help each other stay
sober.
They would enlist drummer Barrett Martin and all they now needed was a frontman.
Alice
in Chains [E] at the time were on a break following a failed 1994 tour with [A] Metallica that had to be
shelved due to frontman Lane Staley's substance abuse issues.
McCready knowing that Lane was
struggling to stay sober offered the frontman a chance to join the group hoping it would help him
clean up his act.
Staley joined the group and they played some shows and even worked on some
material which would turn into their first and only album Above which came out in March of 1995.
You guys may not know this but Mad Season at one point was considering releasing a second album in
the late 90's but it never came to fruition and that's what we're going to explore in today's
video. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The group Mad Season would get their name from guitarist Mike McCready [G] as he told Yahoo!
The name of Mad Season originated and i won't go too deep into it, but when we were mixing the
Pearl Jam record in Surrey England the people that worked at the studio said oh it must be
the Mad Season [D] because and that's the season when all the hallucinogenic mushrooms come up
over in Surrey England and i thought i'm gonna keep that title for something [A] someday.
_ Also contributing to the group's album Above was Screaming Trees From and Mark Lanigan
who co-wrote and sang vocals on several tracks.
Mad Season would play a total [E] of six live shows,
but the members had other commitments and would go back to their respective bands by early 1995. _
Despite the limited window of promotion for the record Above it was a huge success going
gold thanks to the single River of [A] Deceit which was a top 10 hit on rock radio.
Despite their
other commitments though Columbia Records who Mad Season was signed to wanted a follow-up album with
Barrett Martin telling Louder Sound Columbia wanted us to make another record and we said
yeah let's do it.
Nobody ever quit the band nobody ever called up and said i can't do this.
Mike Baker and i had been working on riffs and chord progressions.
We went into the studio and
[C#m] started recording basic tracks and basically Layne never came back.
Mark Lanigan came down for one
day he sang on a couple of songs from the first [E] album, but he wasn't ready to sing on anything at
that point.
The truth was Layne's health was deteriorating and i think he really [A] wanted to do
it, but he just couldn't.
Originally Mad Season's second album would be called Disinformation,
but the whole project would be scrapped.
McCready and Martin's focus soon changed to starting a new
band called Disinformation with Lanigan fronting the group, but again that went nowhere.
They soon
drifted into other musical projects as they had already rented the studio.
Any hopes for a future
follow-up were shattered when bassist John Baker Saunders died in January of 1999 due to a heroin
overdose.
Martin would recall to Louder Sound hearing the news it was a very big shock to me
because we bought houses that were just a few blocks apart and he would come to my house almost
every morning.
We'd sit and have coffee with my girlfriend and we'd just laugh all the time.
He had
a lot of great stories about playing the blues.
He and i had talked the night before he died about how
we were going to meet and have breakfast at a diner in our neighborhood.
I got a call [E] early the next
morning about how he died from an overdose and i was in complete shock because i had no idea that
was even a possibility because like i said i saw him almost every day.
It was bad.
According to
Mark Yarham's book Everybody Loves Our Town one of Baker's friends would recall the time leading up
to his death remembering how the bassist was stressed financially and banking on a new mad
season album to help him out.
In addition to that he was also in a relationship with a belgian woman
who had [A] gone back home and he was feeling lonely.
Baker would end up relapsing while his dealer was
his house and it was said in the book that his dealer waited too long to call 911.
In 1999 during
an [N] interview on rockline the members of alice in chains were interviewed when one caller asked
about the future of mad season and here's frontman lane staley's comment on it.
Hey _ how's it going?
_ What's up dude?
Hey i got a question for lane.
Yeah man.
Hey what's going on?
I was wondering um do you
have any more mad seasons in the works and if so are you guys doing any like small club dates or
anything like that across the united states?
No.
No. _ _
_ _ Double no.
We're not doing anything more.
Actually the bass player passed on this last year.
Yeah right.
_ Baker.
Baker yeah.
So nothing in the works for mad season.
[A] Yeah.
_ Nearly three years later on april 5th 2002
staley would die from a drug overdose and mad season's sole record above would be reissued
as a box set in 2013.
Then in 2015 the surviving members mcCready and martin would team up with the
seattle symphony orchestra as well as chris cornell of soundgarden and guns and roses bassist duff
mckagan at a concert called sonic evolution which saw the musicians perform a number of mad season
songs.
[E] It was the same year that barrett martin would announce on social media that he was working
on [A] new mad season material with mcCready and mckagan.
That project would eventually morph
a band called the levy walkers who would put out a handful of songs in 2016 with killing joke
frontman jazz coleman.
The following year they would release a new track called all things fade
away with aaron jones.
As for the [E] band's legacy mcCready would look [A] back telling louder sound
i'm honored that people now consider the album classic.
At the time i didn't think so but over
time i've seen like mad season tattoos on people and now i can see that it meant a lot to people.
As for their departed bandmates martin would add in a very real way i feel the spirits of
lane and baker i can always feel those guys around they were helping to guide this thing together i
did a lot of meditating and praying about what was the right thing to do because i wanted to be in
memory of them but i also want people to hear a great band and some great new songs i think their
[E] spirits being involved is what got me and mike working on some new [A] stuff.
That concludes today's
video guys thanks for watching if you guys [G#m] have suggestions for stories you'd like to see me cover
in the future use the link [A] in the description box below i go through the request [E] form pretty much on
a daily basis to get inspiration for ideas and then i turn them
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, bassist John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett
Martin.
The [E] origins of the supergroup would begin in 1994.
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready had
been [A] struggling with substance abuse and headed to a treatment center in Minnesota where he would
[E] meet bassist John Baker Saunders who was in the treatment center dealing with a heroin addiction.
[D] Following their stint [Gm] in rehab both [A] musicians agreed to start a band to help each other stay
sober.
They would enlist drummer Barrett Martin and all they now needed was a frontman.
Alice
in Chains [E] at the time were on a break following a failed 1994 tour with [A] Metallica that had to be
shelved due to frontman Lane Staley's substance abuse issues.
McCready knowing that Lane was
struggling to stay sober offered the frontman a chance to join the group hoping it would help him
clean up his act.
Staley joined the group and they played some shows and even worked on some
material which would turn into their first and only album Above which came out in March of 1995.
You guys may not know this but Mad Season at one point was considering releasing a second album in
the late 90's but it never came to fruition and that's what we're going to explore in today's
video. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The group Mad Season would get their name from guitarist Mike McCready [G] as he told Yahoo!
The name of Mad Season originated and i won't go too deep into it, but when we were mixing the
Pearl Jam record in Surrey England the people that worked at the studio said oh it must be
the Mad Season [D] because and that's the season when all the hallucinogenic mushrooms come up
over in Surrey England and i thought i'm gonna keep that title for something [A] someday.
_ Also contributing to the group's album Above was Screaming Trees From and Mark Lanigan
who co-wrote and sang vocals on several tracks.
Mad Season would play a total [E] of six live shows,
but the members had other commitments and would go back to their respective bands by early 1995. _
Despite the limited window of promotion for the record Above it was a huge success going
gold thanks to the single River of [A] Deceit which was a top 10 hit on rock radio.
Despite their
other commitments though Columbia Records who Mad Season was signed to wanted a follow-up album with
Barrett Martin telling Louder Sound Columbia wanted us to make another record and we said
yeah let's do it.
Nobody ever quit the band nobody ever called up and said i can't do this.
Mike Baker and i had been working on riffs and chord progressions.
We went into the studio and
[C#m] started recording basic tracks and basically Layne never came back.
Mark Lanigan came down for one
day he sang on a couple of songs from the first [E] album, but he wasn't ready to sing on anything at
that point.
The truth was Layne's health was deteriorating and i think he really [A] wanted to do
it, but he just couldn't.
Originally Mad Season's second album would be called Disinformation,
but the whole project would be scrapped.
McCready and Martin's focus soon changed to starting a new
band called Disinformation with Lanigan fronting the group, but again that went nowhere.
They soon
drifted into other musical projects as they had already rented the studio.
Any hopes for a future
follow-up were shattered when bassist John Baker Saunders died in January of 1999 due to a heroin
overdose.
Martin would recall to Louder Sound hearing the news it was a very big shock to me
because we bought houses that were just a few blocks apart and he would come to my house almost
every morning.
We'd sit and have coffee with my girlfriend and we'd just laugh all the time.
He had
a lot of great stories about playing the blues.
He and i had talked the night before he died about how
we were going to meet and have breakfast at a diner in our neighborhood.
I got a call [E] early the next
morning about how he died from an overdose and i was in complete shock because i had no idea that
was even a possibility because like i said i saw him almost every day.
It was bad.
According to
Mark Yarham's book Everybody Loves Our Town one of Baker's friends would recall the time leading up
to his death remembering how the bassist was stressed financially and banking on a new mad
season album to help him out.
In addition to that he was also in a relationship with a belgian woman
who had [A] gone back home and he was feeling lonely.
Baker would end up relapsing while his dealer was
his house and it was said in the book that his dealer waited too long to call 911.
In 1999 during
an [N] interview on rockline the members of alice in chains were interviewed when one caller asked
about the future of mad season and here's frontman lane staley's comment on it.
Hey _ how's it going?
_ What's up dude?
Hey i got a question for lane.
Yeah man.
Hey what's going on?
I was wondering um do you
have any more mad seasons in the works and if so are you guys doing any like small club dates or
anything like that across the united states?
No.
No. _ _
_ _ Double no.
We're not doing anything more.
Actually the bass player passed on this last year.
Yeah right.
_ Baker.
Baker yeah.
So nothing in the works for mad season.
[A] Yeah.
_ Nearly three years later on april 5th 2002
staley would die from a drug overdose and mad season's sole record above would be reissued
as a box set in 2013.
Then in 2015 the surviving members mcCready and martin would team up with the
seattle symphony orchestra as well as chris cornell of soundgarden and guns and roses bassist duff
mckagan at a concert called sonic evolution which saw the musicians perform a number of mad season
songs.
[E] It was the same year that barrett martin would announce on social media that he was working
on [A] new mad season material with mcCready and mckagan.
That project would eventually morph
a band called the levy walkers who would put out a handful of songs in 2016 with killing joke
frontman jazz coleman.
The following year they would release a new track called all things fade
away with aaron jones.
As for the [E] band's legacy mcCready would look [A] back telling louder sound
i'm honored that people now consider the album classic.
At the time i didn't think so but over
time i've seen like mad season tattoos on people and now i can see that it meant a lot to people.
As for their departed bandmates martin would add in a very real way i feel the spirits of
lane and baker i can always feel those guys around they were helping to guide this thing together i
did a lot of meditating and praying about what was the right thing to do because i wanted to be in
memory of them but i also want people to hear a great band and some great new songs i think their
[E] spirits being involved is what got me and mike working on some new [A] stuff.
That concludes today's
video guys thanks for watching if you guys [G#m] have suggestions for stories you'd like to see me cover
in the future use the link [A] in the description box below i go through the request [E] form pretty much on
a daily basis to get inspiration for ideas and then i turn them