Mad Season

A number of side projects filled with associates of renowned Seattle-based rock and roll bands made an appearance through the ’90s. Most didn’t expand past a little cult pursuing comprised generally of supporters of their primary rings (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Seafood, Tuatara, etc.), but there have been several exceptions to guideline, specifically Temple of your dog and Mad Period. The latter clothing included associates of Alice in Stores (vocalist Layne Staley), Pearl Jam (guitarist Mike McCready), as well as the Screaming Trees and shrubs (drummer Barrett Martin), aswell as the just non-Seattle structured musician, bassist John Baker Saunders (who previously used such blues performers as Hubert Sumlin as well as the Lamont Cranston Music group, amongst others). The band’s root base get back to the summertime of 1994, when McCready examined himself right into a Minneapolis, MN, rehab middle to fight a consuming/substance problem. It had been there that McCready fulfilled regional musician Saunders, so when he came back back again to Seattle, known as up Staley, who was simply also at that time attempting to fight problems with chemicals. With Martin rounding out the lineup, an undeniable chemistry between all musicians was uncovered at their initial jam session, leading to items of music that could eventually become completely realized music (“AWAKEN” and “River of Deceit”). Heading with the name from the Gacy Number (which paid homage to both brutal serial killer John Wayne Gacy as well as the corny Television show The Brady Number), the quartet produced its live debut on Weekend, Oct 16, 1994, at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe. Amazingly, the group got few tracks written during the display (Martin later accepted the group really got “just jams and origins of tracks” prepared at that time), however the efficiency convinced the individuals that a following studio recording will be in credit cards. Changing their name to Mad Time of year (an English manifestation for enough time of yr when hallucinogenic “psilocybin” mushrooms are completely bloom), the quartet setup store at Seattle’s Poor Animals recording studio room, co-producing the next classes themselves along with Pearl Jam’s audio engineer, Brett Eliason. Mad Time of year gave enthusiasts a flavor of their upcoming recording by performing a set of tracks on Pearl Jam’s Self-Pollution Radio system on January 8, 1995, prior to the ensuing ten-track recording, Above, was officially released in March. A variety of melancholy ballads and hard rock and roll, the recording (which also presented several vocal efforts from Screaming Trees and shrubs singer Tag Lanegan) became a gold-certified strike, just lacking the U.S. Best 20 while its leadoff one, “River of Deceit,” became a significant rock radio strike. Despite a smattering of helping live schedules and chat of further composing/documenting, Mad Period would ultimately end up being a one-off task. Afterwards in 1995, a live house video of the Seattle functionality Live on the Moore, was released, as was a cover of John Lennon’s “I Don’t Wanna Be considered a Soldier” for the Functioning Course Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon record. Reportedly, music had been penned for another Mad Period album, which eventually proceeded to go unrecorded. Mad Period then supposedly considered changing Staley with Lanegan (and changing their name to Disinformation), but no music were documented — leading to the musicians heading their separate methods for good. Unfortunately, this became the final phrase on Mad Period as both Saunders and Staley would ultimately die from medication overdoses.