Mad Season was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Mad Season only released one album, Above, and is best known for the single “River of Deceit”.
The band went on a semi-permanent hiatus in 1996 due to the band members’ conflicting schedules and vocalist Layne Staley’s problems with substance abuse. Attempts were made in the late 1990s to revive the group without Staley, however the band dissolved following the death of bassist John Baker Saunders in 1999. During the production of Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy, guitarist Mike McCready went into rehab in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he met bassist John Baker Saunders. In 1994, when the two returned to Seattle, Washington, they formed a side band with drummer Barrett Martin. McCready had played in such bands as Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog, Martin with Skin Yard and the Screaming Trees and Saunders with blues talents such as Little Pat Rushing, Hubert Sumlin, Sammy Fender, and The Lamont Cranston Band. Immediately the trio set up rehearsal time together and wrote the music for two songs that would later become Mad Season’s “Wake Up” and “River of Deceit” (RiverofDeceit.OGG sample, both of which would later appear on the band’s album Above. McCready then brought in friend and Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley to round out the line-up.
Band members
* Barrett Martin – drums
* Mike McCready – guitar
* John Baker Saunders – bass
* Layne Staley – vocals, guitar (1994–1997)
Additional personnel
* Mark Lanegan – vocals
* Skerik – saxophone, percussion (1994–1995)
Random Posts
 |
or |
 |
