My pain, is self-chosen At least, so the prophet says I could either burn, or cut off my pride and buy some time A head full of lies is the All Alone: 2. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States. There were a tight handful of Mad Season shows, such as those at Seattle's Moore Theatre and that city's famed (and now-defunct) RKCNDY nightclub, but most notably, there was the band's sole full-length disc, 1995's Above, an engrossing collection of moody, blues-and-jam-oriented songs that yielded the radio hit River Of Deceit. All Alone (live at the Moore) 3. Listen to Above (Deluxe Edition) by Mad Season on Apple Music. Also, during this time the band contributed a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier" to the 1995 John Lennon tribute album, Working Class Hero. [31] The fruits of the collaboration resulted in a project called The Levee Walkers, which released the songs "Freedom Song" and "Tears for the West" in 2016 with singer Jaz Coleman and the song "All Things Fade Away" in 2017 with singer Ayron Jones. Martin and McCready have since made two short partial reunions, one in 2012 and one from 2014 to 2015. Personnel Mad Season Black Book of Fear: 10. Artificial Red (live) 9. Well I don't wanna be a soldier mama I don't wanna die Well I don't wanna be a sailor mama I … My pain, is self-chosen At least, so the prophet says I could either burn, or cut off my pride and buy some time A head full of lies is the Mad Season – Live at RKCNDY, Seattle, WA 12/31/94 [Full Concert] by admin. [22], In 2012 Barrett Martin, Mike McCready and Duff McKagan, along with singer Jeff Angell and keyboardist Benjamin Anderson collaborated on an album called Walking Papers. Also featured is a full concert of Mad Season's performance from New Years Eve 1994 at RKCNDY in Seattle (which was shot by the band's crew for an up close and intimate look at the band), both performances from Pearl Jam's pirate radio special, "Self-Pollution Radio," and the music video for the hit single "River of Deceit". MAD SEASON - Layne Staley Guitar Pick - Alice In Chains - RKCNDY 1995 It was a gift from a friend that attended the RKCNDY show in 1995 during his "I Don't Know Anything" performance. Most failed to expand past a small cult following comprised mainly of fans of their main bands (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Fish, Tuatara, etc. In October 2012, Barrett Martin announced a Mad Season box set, which will be released on March 12, 2013. Mad Season, Seattle’s version of a rock supergroup, formed in 1994, was comprised from members of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, The Screaming Trees and The Walkabouts. Layne Staley created the artwork on the album cover. Artifical Red: 5. Most failed to expand past a small cult following comprised mainly of fans of their main bands (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Fish, Tuatara, etc. All Alone: 2. During the production of 1994's Vitalogy, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready went into drug and alcohol rehab at the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota, where he met bassist John Baker Saunders. Artificial Red (live at RKCNDY) 7. Mad Season "Live At The Moore" features members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees. All Alone: 2. The band went on a semi-permanent hiatus in 1996 due to the band members' conflicting schedules and Staley's problems with substance abuse. EULA. Black Book of Fear: 10. Mad Season features the legendary Layne Staley of Alice in Chains on vocals, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam on lead guitar, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and bassist John Baker Saunders of the Lamont Cranston Band. [28] The concert was recorded for the live album Mad Season & The Seattle Symphony - Sonic Evolution / January 30, 2015 / Benaroya Hall and was released August 28, 2015. [11], In 1997, attempts were made by McCready, Saunders and Martin to revive Mad Season,[12] although by this point Staley's health had worsened due to severe drug addiction; he would never perform again after a July 1996 Alice in Chains show. Mad Season - River of Deceit (live at RKCNDY) Lyrics. Mad Season was an American rock supergroup formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. 2020 Vevo LLC, All Rights Reserved Vevo LLC, All Rights Reserved Artificial Red (live) 9. Listen to Above (Deluxe Edition) by Mad Season on Apple Music. Featuring Live at RKCNDY. Quite a few side projects containing members of renowned Seattle-based rock bands appeared through the '90s. "[5] The album was released on March 14, 1995 through Columbia Records to critical and commercial success. Mad Season - Above Album Lyrics; 1. Most failed to expand past a small cult following comprised mainly of fans of their main bands (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Fish, Tuatara, etc. Featuring Live at RKCNDY. Artifical Red: 5. [5] In 1994, when the two returned to Seattle, Washington, they formed a side band with drummer Barrett Martin. It contains the re-mastered Above album, the Moore concert on DVD with surround sound, and a bunch of live recordings that we never released. [12], Work reportedly began in 1998 on what would have been Disinformation's debut album, although between everyone's busy schedules, it became difficult to meet in the studio together. Mad Season - Above Album Lyrics; 1. tash TheGrunger Oicanseeu Marieow gnaztee EddieFan acmoises all_night_thing ScottyR boolin35 Dball MajorBob Lego29a UncleFreddy cpwick1967 evilsugar25 Currysmegs Last updated: 19 Jan 2021, 08:29 Etc/UTC Interview Alice In Chains – Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney about Layne Staley. [13] As a result, Mad Season was without a singer. ~ Greg Prato [21], On May 23, 2012, the surviving members of Mad Season (Mike McCready and Barrett Martin) reunited at the Showbox Theatre in Seattle for Mike's annual benefit concert for Crohn's disease. Mad Season released only one album, Above, in March 1995. The most exciting stuff: three songs that Mark Lanegan wrote lyrics and sang on, songs that we started to record for the second album but never finished because of Baker's and Layne's deaths. [25], Legacy Recordings released an expanded deluxe edition of Above in April 2013. Mad Season – Live at RKCNDY, Seattle, WA 12/31/94 [Full Concert] by admin. Mad Season. Attempts were made in the late 1990s to revive the group without Staley, and material for a follow-up release to Above had been worked on; however, the band dissolved following the death of bassist John Baker Saunders in 1999 from a drug overdose. They do a pretty cool look back on his career. McCready said, "We did all the Mad Season music in about seven days. [5] The song "Artificial Red", which was also to appear on the album, actually came together during the show itself. The show has been remixed, remastered for 5.1 sound & newly edited by director Duncan Sharp. 24 and spawning two singles: "River of Deceit" (#2 Mainstream Rock Tracks, No. "[5] The album, Above, which was recorded in Seattle, Washington at Bad Animals Studio (co-owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart) and co-produced by the band and Pearl Jam sound engineer Brett Eliason, featured ten songs. In July 2012, Barrett Martin confirmed that Mark Lanegan would be singing several songs on a new Mad Season release.[23][24]. guitarist Peter Buck is credited for co-writing the music to "Black Book of Fear" along with McCready, Martin, Saunders, and Lanegan. All Alone (live at the Moore) 3. In 1996, a live version of "River of Deceit" surfaced on the Bite Back: Live at Crocodile Cafe compilation album, although by this time Mad Season had long been dormant from live work as McCready and Martin went back to work with their respective bands and Saunders joined The Walkabouts. Its first single, "River of Deceit", was a radio success, and Above was certified a gold record by the RIAA in June. Artificial Red: 6. On February 28, 2010, McCready performed at the Hootenanny For Haiti at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle along with the likes of Velvet Revolver, Loaded and former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Fastbacks bassist Kim Warnick, and former Alien Crime Syndicate, Sirens Sister and Vendetta Red bassist Jeff Rouse as well as Truly and former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel among others. Listen to Above (Deluxe Edition) by Mad Season on Apple Music. Another critical blow was dealt to the project in January 1999 with the death of bassist John Baker Saunders from an overdose of heroin. Above was certified gold on June 14, 1995. McCready then brought in friend and Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley to round out the line-up. Mad Season features the legendary Layne Staley of Alice in Chains on vocals, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam on lead guitar, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and bassist John Baker Saunders of the Lamont Cranston Band. by admin. 24 on the Billboard 200 chart. 24 on the Billboard 200 chart. Also featured is a full concert of Mad Season's performance from New Years Eve 1994 at RKCNDY in Seattle (which was shot by the band's crew for an up close and intimate look at the band), both performances from Pearl Jam's pirate radio special, "Self-Pollution Radio," and the music video for the hit single "River of Deceit". Artist information Type: Group Founded: 1994 Founded in: Seattle, Washington, United States Dissolved: 1999 (5 years) Area: United States ISNI code: 0000 0001 0660 4874 Rating. 5,038 talking about this. [30], In July 2015, Barrett Martin announced on Facebook that he was recording new Mad Season material with Mike McCready and Duff McKagan. [15] Martin briefly returned to work with Screaming Trees before the band disbanded in 2000. In 1994, when the two returned to Seattle, Washington, they formed a side band with drummer Barrett Martin. [1], Staley is credited for writing all the lyrics on the original release within the liner notes of the 2013 deluxe issue. [7], Despite not having a single song completely prepared (only beginnings of songs, according to Martin) and not even having a name for the band, McCready scheduled an unannounced show at the Crocodile Cafe on October 12, 1994, which turned out to be a big success. Personnel Mad Season Get the Mad Season Setlist of the concert at RKCNDY, Seattle, WA, USA on December 31, 1994 and other Mad Season Setlists for free on setlist.fm! All Alone (live) 4. Artificial Red (live at RKCNDY) 7. All Alone (live) 4. [url=https://www.setlist.fm/edit?setlist=7bd7b2e4&step=song]Edit this setlist[/url] | [url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/mad-season-5bd68b9c.html]More Mad Season setlists[/url]. Mad Season released only one album, Above, and is best known for the single "River of Deceit". 20:13 . Mad Season - Black Book of Fear Lyrics. Mad Season was an American rock supergroup[3] formed in 1994 as a side project of members of other bands in the Seattle grunge scene. Stream songs including "Wake Up", "X-Ray Mind" and more. [8] During this time the band released the Live at the Moore concert film, which was a live performance recorded at Seattle's Moore Theatre on April 29, 1995. At this show, Chris Cornell filled in for Staley on vocals, and Duff McKagan filled in for Saunders on bass. On Much Music announcement of Layne Staley's death. Mad Season. Mad Season, Seattle’s version of a rock supergroup, formed in 1994, was comprised from members of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, The Screaming Trees and The Walkabouts. I Don't Know Anything: 11. [36] "I Don't Know Anything" is a heavier, blues-influenced track,[2] while "Long Gone Day" takes considerable jazz influence, combining the use of samba-style bass, xylophone, and saxophone. 17 people have seen Mad Season live. Over the course of the year the quartet gradually grew apart, making a Disinformation album all the more unlikely. American rock supergroup formed in Seattle, Washington by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice … Artificial Red: 6. [10], The band continued to play shows during the spring of 1995 before going on hiatus so that the members could return to work with their main bands. Above is the only studio album by the American rock band Mad Season, released on March 14, 1995, through Columbia Records. Mad Season then supposedly thought about replacing Staley with Lanegan (and changing their name to Disinformation), but no songs were recorded -- resulting in the musicians going their separate ways for good. Quite a few side projects containing members of renowned Seattle-based rock bands appeared through the '90s. Please visit my store from time to time as I will be listing many rare promo items and grunge memorabilia from the same era. With the switch in frontmen the group also switched names adopting the Disinformation moniker in late 1997. As was the case with much of his work with Alice in Chains, Staley's lyrics dealt with his struggle against addiction as well as other personal troubles. Artificial Red: 6. Mad Season - Above Album Lyrics; 1. Since then Martin has worked as an occasional touring drummer for R.E.M. 20:13 . There were a tight handful of Mad Season shows, such as those at Seattle's Moore Theatre and that city's famed (and now-defunct) RKCNDY nightclub, but most notably, there was the band's sole full-length disc, 1995's Above, an engrossing collection of moody, blues-and-jam-oriented songs that yielded the radio hit River Of Deceit.