FYI: Live

For now enjoy the video for “The Dolphin’s Cry”.

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FYI: Lollapalooza

Here’s a little preview of what to possibly expect from Radiohead.

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• Bek David Campbell, aka Beck Hansen, was born on July 8 1970 in Los Angeles, CA.
• His father David Campbell, who is a Canadian musician, wrote the string arrangements for Stone Temple Pilots’ Storytellers.
• His mother, Bibbe Hansen, worked with Andy Warhol in Prison, Restaurant, 10 Beautiful Girls and 10 More Beautiful Girls.
• In 1988 Beck recorded his first cassette, Banjo Story.
• In the late 80’s, Beck and future Presidents of the United States of America frontman Chris Ballew, formed a duo that performed on the streets of L.A.
• Beck first signed to the small label Bong Load Custom Records in the early 90’s.
• Beck has eight unreleased albums prior to his first release, they include: We Like Folk…We Cares…Destroy Us (1991), R-Marcel (1992), Are you positive (1992), Beck, Like the Beer (1992), Don’t Get Bent Out of Shape (1992), 1992 Demo, Fresh Meat and Old Slabs (1993) and Golden Leftovers (1993).
• The 1993 single “MTV Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack” is the first official release from Beck.
• Golden Feelings is the first album released by Beck in 1993.
• In 1993 Bong Load Records released a single entitled “Loser”, which created buzz for the unknown artist.
• Beck signed to Geffen Records, even though the label offered him the least amount of money, they gave him the most creative freedom.
• A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight is the last unofficial release in 1994.
• Steropathetic Soulmanure was released on February 22, 1994 through Flipside Records.
• Mellow Gold was Beck’s major label debut, released on March 1, 1994, would reach platinum status
• “Loser” would reach the top spot on the Modern Rock Tracks and #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1994.
• On June 27, 1994 Beck released One Foot in the Grave through K Records, which features Chris Ballew on guitar and bass.
• In 1995 Beck was part of Lollapalooza, alongside Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Moby and more.
• Odelay was released on June 18, 1996 and would go on to win the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album in 1997.
• The first single, “Where It’s At”, premiered during Beck’s performances at Lollapalooza in 1995.
• The video for “Devil’s Haircut” was directed by Mark Romanek, who know, the man behind NIN’s “Closer”, Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” and Audioslave’s “Cochise”.
• Beck’s thrid major label debut, Mutations, was released on November 3, 1998 and was produced by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.
• Beck had intended for Mutations to be released through Bong Load Records, which didn’t make Geffen too happy, so people started taking each other to court.
• The Mutations track “Tropicalia” would appear in the 2004 Ben Stiller/Jennifer Aniston flick Along Came Polly.
• In 1998 Beck teamed up with his grandfather Al Hansen for an art exhibit entitled “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”.
• Midnite Vultures, Beck’s fourth Geffen release, hit shelves on November 23, 1999 and reached gold status.
• The video for the first single, “Sexx Laws”, was directed by Beck and features an appearance by Jack Black.
• The Beck EP was released in 2001 and features B-sides from the Midnite Vultures era.
• Beck appears as himself in the 2001 Futurama episode “Bendin’ in the Wind”.
• Beck contributed a cover of David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs” for the 2001 flick “Moulin Rouge!”.
• Sea Change was released on September 24, 2002 and would peak at #8 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart; it was also Beck’s first album to make it in the Top Ten in the U.S. charts .
• “Lost Cause” has featured on the show Scrubs.
• The Flaming Lips were Beck’s opening and backing band in 2002.
• Beck married Marissa Ribisi, the twin sister of Giovanni Ribisi, in April of 2004.
• Beck contributed the cover “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime” for the 2004 Jim Carey masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
• Guero was released on March 29, 2005 and debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200.
• The first single, “E-Pro”, sample The Beastie Boys tune “So What’cha Want”
• Jack White appears on the track “Go It Alone”.
• The EP Gameboy Variations contains remixes of four Guero songs and was released on February 1, 2005.
• The Jack Black comedy Nacho Libre features six Beck songs: “My Heart Is with the Children”, “There Is No Place for Me in This World”, “Tender Beasts of the Spangled Night”, “10,000 Pesos”, “Holy Man” and “Return of the Luchador”
• Beck appeared at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
• The Information was released on October 3, 2006 and hit the #7 spot on the Billboard 200.
• The first single, “Nausea”, made it’s live debut on May 24, 2006.
• The non-album single “Timebomb” was released on August 21, 2007 through iTunes.
• On May 19, 2008 the track “Chemtrails” debuted on BBC Radio 1 and refers to a conspiracy theory.
• Modern Guilt was released on July 8, 2008 and was produced by Danger Mouse.
• Cat Power appears on the tracks “Orphans” and “Walls”.

Enjoy the video for “Think I’m In Love”

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• Chris Ballew (vocals, basitar) and Dave Dederer (guitbass) began as a duo under the names The Lo-Fis, The Dynamic Duo and Pure Frosting in 1993.
• Drummer Jason Finn would soon round out the line-up, while he was still in the band Love Battery.
• The complete band performed their first show in December of 1993 at Seattle’s Romper Room.
• The President’s of the United States of America first recording was a 10 song cassette entitled Froggystyle.
• The band signed to Seattle record label PopLlama in 1994 and soon released their self-titled debut album.
• PUSA then signed to Columbia Records, and their debut album was re-released in July of 1995.
• The lyrics to “Lump” came from a strange dream that Chris Ballew had while having an allergic reaction to antibiotics.
• “Weird” Al Yankovic parodied “Lump” with his tune “Gump” on 1996’s Bad Hair Day.
• “Peaches” was written about a crush that Ballew had, since he stood underneath her peach tree and squeezed peaches trying to build up the courage to talk to her.
• “Kitty” originally appeared on Froggystyle, but was entitled “Kitty at My Foot”.
• In the fall of 1995 the band turned down an offer to perform on Saturday Night Live, since the date conflicted with Chris Ballew’s wedding.
• On President’s Day, 1996 PUSA performed at Mount Rushmore.
• II was released on November 5, 1996 and included several re-recorded tracks from Froggystyle.
• II would reach number 31 on the Billboard 200.
• PUSA recorded a version of the theme song to George of the Jungle for the 1997 live action adaptation staring Brendan Fraser.
• In January of 1998 The Presidents of the United States of America broke up, since Chris Ballew wanted to spend more time with his family and other musical ventures.
• Pure Frosting was a compilation album released on March 10, 1998.
• PUSA recorded a cover of the the Buggles classic “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which appeared on the Wedding Singer soundtrack and Pure Frosting.
• The Drew Carey Show used the band’s cover of “Cleveland Rocks” as it’s theme song. The song was originally written and performed by Mott the Hopple frontman Ian Hunter.
• The band wrote the theme song for the made for TV movie My Date with the President’s Daughter in 1998, which stared Will Friedle, who know the big brother from Boy Meets World.
• After PUSA broke up, the band went on to various side projects, including: Ballew releasing albums with The Tycoons and The Giraffes, Dederer working with Duff McKagan in The Gentleman and Loaded and Finn jamming with The Nevada Bachelors, The Fastbacks and his former band Love Battery.
• PUSA worked with Sir Mix-A-Lot in the rock and hip-hop group Subset.
• Columbia released Lump, a greatest hits compilation, on January 1, 2000.
• The band reformed in 2000 to record the single “Jupiter” for MUSICBLITZ Records. The web based label would go on to convince the band to record a new album.
• Freaked Out and Small was released on September 12, 2000. This was the first album where the band used normal guitars and bass guitars.
• The band broke up and once again reformed by 2004.
• Love Everybody was released on August 17, 2004 through the band’s own label, PUSA Inc.
• Guitarist Andrew McKeag has seemingly replaced Dederer.
• On March 11, 2008 These Are The Good Times People was released and was the first PUSA album to feature McKeag.
• The video for the first single, “Mixed Up S.O.B.”, was directed by “Weird” Al Yankovic.
• On June 15, 2008 the band was part of Pet-Aid 2008 in Oregon.

Happy a great Independence Day and enjoy some “Peaches”.

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• John Popper (vocals, harmonica) and Brandon Hill (drums) formed a garage band in Princeton, NJ in the mid 80’s called The Establishment, which was later renamed Blues Band.
• By 1987 guitarist Chan Kinchla and bassist Bobby Sheehan joined the band.
• The band adopted the black cat as their mascot while they were jamming in the basement, since a black cat was nearby.
• Blues Traveler took the traveler part of their name from Gozer the Traveler from Ghostbusters.
• After high school the band relocated to New York City, where they began a close relationship with the Spin Doctors, since the Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron was friends with John Popper.
• Blues Traveler became one of famous concert promoter Bill Graham’s acts after his son David found the band.
• The band released their debut self-titled album in 1990 through A&M Records.
• Several songs from Blues Traveler, including “Warmer Days”, features Joan Osbourne on back up vocals.
• Traveler’s and Thieves was released on September 3, 1991.
• The track “Mountain Cry” features Gregg Allman, while “All in the Groove” features Chris Barron.
• The 1992 live EP On Tour Forever is a tribute to Bill Graham, who passed away in 1991. Carlos Santana appears on the live version of “Mountain Cry”.
• David Letterman has stated that Blues Traveler are his favorite band, and they have appeared as musical guests on The Late Show more then any other artist.
• Blues Traveler founded the H.O.R.D.E. Festival in 1992, which was a touring festival that ended in 1998. Some of the bands that joined in the fun throughout the years were: 311, The Allman Brothers Band, Beck, Barnaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, The Black Crowes, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Ben Folds Five, Wilco, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, Primus, Natalie Merchant and more!
• Save His Soul was released in April of 1993 and featured contributions from Paul Shaffer and Warren Haynes.
• Blues Traveler breakthrough album four was released on September 13, 1994.
• “Run-Around” hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also gave the band their first Grammy.
• “Hook” would reach #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Blues Traveler appeared at Woodstock ‘94.
• The track “But Anyway” appears in the 1996 comedy Kingpin.
• Live from the Fall was a live album released on July 2, 1996.
• Straight On till Morning was released on July 1, 1997 and would reach platinum status.
• In 1998 the band planned a concept album entitled The Sun, The Storm and The Traveler, which was based on Aesop’s fable The North Wind and The Sun.
• John Popper had to have and emergency angioplasty in 1999.
• Bassist Bobby Sheehan passed away from an accidental drug overdose in New Orleans on August 20, 1999.
• Tad Kinchla, brother of guitarist Chan, became the band’s new bass player.
• Decisions of the Sky: A Traveler’s Tale of Sun and Storm was a four track free online EP released in the fall of 2000.
• Bridge was released on May 8, 2001, was originally entitled Bridge Out of Brooklyn, which was in in honor of Bobby Sheehan whose nickname was Brooklyn Bobby.
• In 2002 the band released the compilation Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics and the live album What You and I Have Been Through.
• Truth Be Told was released on August 5, 2003 through Sanctuary Records, since the band was let go from A&M after the company was bought out by Universal in the the late 90’s.
• Live on the Rocks is a live album of the band’s July 4, 2003 performance at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. There is also a DVD entitled Thinnest Air.
• ¡Bastardos! was released on September 13, 2005 and was produced by Jay Bennett, who used to be Wilco’s guitarist.
• Blues Traveler contributed their take of “Rag Mama Rag” for the tribute album Endless Highway: The Music of the Band in 2007.
• Cover Yourself, released on October 30, 2007, was a “best of” compilation which reworked some of the band’s most well known tunes as acoustic numbers.
• On the band’s current tour they have been playing a new song entitled “North Hollywood Shoutout.

Check out this live performance of “Run-Around”.

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• The band consisted of: childhood friends from Mississippi Rogers Stevens (guitar) and Brad Smith (bass) , vocalist Richard Shannon Hoon from Indiana, Pennsylvania native Christopher Thorn (guitar) and drummer Glen Graham, who was also from Mississippi.
• The members met in Los Angeles and formed a band.
• Before settling on Blind Melon, the band considered the names Brown Cow, Gristie, Frog, Mud Bird, Naked Pilgrims and Head Train.
• The band gained buzz off of their 4 song demo The Goodfoot Workshop.
• KISS member Gene Simmons expressed interest in managing the band, but the offer was not taken.
• The band signed with Capitol Records, after the label agreed to the band’s specific terms.
• The band recorded the EP Sippin’ Time Sessions, but prevented it’s release in 1991 in order to write more songs and tour.
• During this down time Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to the Guns ‘N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion albums, since he knew Axl from their hometown of Lafayette, Indiana.
• Blind Melon then hit the road for a club tour, they even opened up for Soundgarden for six shows.
• During the tour Hoon made a fork necklace for Chris Cornell while out at a Denny’s after a show; Cornell wore the necklace until Hoon’s passing.
• The band relocated to Durham, North Carolina and tested some new tunes at a local bar called The Brewery.
• In February of 1992, Blind Melon began work on their album at Seattle’s London Bridge Studios.
• During the sessions they joined MTV’s 120 Minutes Tour with Live, PiL and Big Audio Dynamite II.
• The band’s self-titled album was released on September 22, 1992 and would eventually reach #3 on the Billboard 200.
• The first single was “Tones of Home”, which was re-released after the success of “No Rain”.
• “No Rain” reached the top spot of both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks.
• The famous video for “No Rain” featured 10 year Heather DeLoach dressed in a bee suit dancing across town. DeLoach went on to appear at the MTV Movie Awards, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and “Weird Al” Yankovic’s video “Bedrock Anthem”.
• Pearl Jam’ s “Bee Girl” is about DeLoach.
• Blind Melon went on to tour with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Lenny Kravitz.
• Blind Melon was part of Woodstock II on August 13, 1994.
• The band contributed the track “Out on the Tiles” for the 1995 Led Zeppelin tribute album Encomium; later in the year the band opened up for Page and Plant for a few shows.
• The band went to New Orleans from November 0f 1994 to January of 1995 to record a new album with Nirvana producer Andy Wallace.
• The band’s second album, Soup, was released on October 2, 1995.
• The video for the first single “Galaxie” has an appearance by one Timothy Leary.
• The track “2 x 4″ deals with Hoon’s experience at a drug detox facility.
• On October 21, 1995 Shannon Hoon passed away from a heroin overdose in New Orleans.
• In 1996 the band appeared on Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks! with their take of “Three is a Magic Number”.
• On November 12, 1996 the remaining members of the band released Nico, which was named after Hoon’s daughter.
• Nico features alternative versions of the songs “No Rain” and “St. Andrews Hall”, as well as, a cover of “John Sinclair” by John Lennon and “The Pusher” by Steppenwolf.
• Blind Melon officially disbanded on March 4, 1999.
• Capitol Records released the 12 track compilation Classic Masters on January 29, 2002.
• The Best of Blind Melon was released on September 27, 2005.
• On September 15, 2006 the band reunited with new vocalist Travis Warren, formerly of Rain Fur Rent.
• Three new songs, “Make a Difference”, “For My Friends” and “Harmful Belly”, were released on November 9, 2006.
• Blind Melon returned for their first show in 12 years on October 7, 2007 in Providence, Rhode Island.
• On April 22, 2008 the band released their first album with Travis Warren, entitled For My Friends.

Here’s the classic video for “No Rain”.

Here’s one of my favorites “Change”.

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• The band was formed by Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar), Matt Sharp (bass), Patrick Wilson (drums) and Jason Cropper (guitars) in 1992, supposedly on Valentine’s Day.
• After 16 months together Weezer was signed by DGC (Geffen Records).
• The band relocated to New York City to record their debut album at Electric Lady Studios, which was produced by the Cars Ric Ocasek.
• During the recording of the album guitarist Jason Cropper left the band and was replaced by Brian Bell, who was the bassist in Carnival Art.
• Weezer’s self-titled debut, known as the Blue Album, was released on May 10, 1994.
• The Blue Album has since gone platinum three times.
• The debut single from the Blue Album was “Undone – The Sweater Song”, which was covered by The Offspring in 1994 and 1995. Here’s proof.
• The track “Susanne” was the b-side to “Undone – The Sweater Song”, and appeared in Kevin Smith 1995 flick Mallrats.
• The second single was “Buddy Holly”, which was released on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 58th birthday.
• “Say It Ain’t So” was the third single from the Blue Album and was inspired by Rivers belief that his parents split up because his father was an alcoholic.
• In late 1994 Rivers began work on a new album on his 8 track at his home in Connecticut.
• The result was the unreleased and unfinished album Songs from the Black Hole, which was going to be a space themed rock opera.
• In between getting leg surgery and going to Harvard in the summer of 1995, Rivers found time to record some new music for two weeks with Weezer.
• The band recorded more material during Rivers’ winter and spring breaks from school in 1996.
• The result was Weezer’s sophomore album, Pinkerton, released on September 24, 1996.
• Some of the lines from “El Scorcho”, which was the first single from Pinkerton, were taken from parts of an essay written by a classmate of Rivers’ while at Harvard.
• “The Good Life” and “Pink Triangle”, which is about a guy who falls in love with a lesbian, were also released as singles. But, Pinkerton failed to reach the success of the Blue Album.
• The band went on hiatus once they completed touring obligations in the summer of 1997.
• Bassist Matt Sharp left the band on April 8, 1998 to focus on his other band the Rentals and was replaced by Mikey Welsh.
• Weezer reunited in April of 2000 for the Fuji Festival in Japan, which would take place in August; they just couldn’t turn down the large amount of cash offered.
• The band began rehearsing and demoing songs in the spring of 2000, they also played some shows under the name Goat Punishment.
• On June 23, 2000 Weezer joined the Warped Tour for eight shows, but added some more gigs throughout the summer.
• The setlist for the band during the Warped Tour consisted of 14 new songs, known as the Summer Songs of 2000, only three would appear on future albums.
• Weezer hit the studio again with Ric Ocasek in the fall of 2000.
• The band released their third album, which was another self-titled release known as the Green Album, on May 15, 2001.
• “Hash Pipe” was the first single from the Green Album; it was the only song from the Summer Songs of 2000 to make the album.
• The second single was “Island in the Sun”, which had two videos. The first video was the band playing at a Hispanic couple’s wedding and the second video was the band playing around with some animals.
• Mikey Welsh was kicked out the band before the second video for “Island in the Sun” was shot and was replaced by Scott Shriner.
• The third single was “Photograph”, which during live shows, features Rivers on drums and Patrick Wilson on lead vocals.
• The band wanted their fans feedback for their fourth album by releasing downloads of demos off their website, however, only song “Slob” made the cut.
• Maladroit was released on May 14, 2002 and has reached gold status.
• “Dope Nose” was the first single and was another song from the Summer Songs of 2000.
• “Keep Fishin” was the second single. The video features the band with the Muppets, however, director Kevin Smith was originally set to film a different video for the song.
• On March 23, 2004 the band released the DVD Video Capture Device, which contains the band’s music videos and live performances from 1991 to 2002.
• Through December 2003 until the fall of 2004, Weezer worked on a new album with producer Rick Rubin.
• Make Believe was released on May 10, 2005, which was 11 years to the day since the release of the Blue Album.
• “Beverly Hills” was the first single from Make Believe and would become their most commercially successful single.
• “We Are All on Drugs” was the second single. MTV changed the title to “We Are All in Love”, which understandably ticked off fans. Here’s video 1 and video 2.
• “Perfect Situation” was the third single and stayed on top of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks for four weeks.
• The band toured with the Foo Fighters in the fall of 2005 on the so called “Foozer” tour.
• The band’s sixth album, another self-titled known as the Red Album, was released on June 3, 2008 and was produced by Rick Rubin. Originally the album was to be released on June 24.
• The first single “Pork and Beans” is currently on top of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.

Here’s the classic video for “Buddy Holly”.

Here’s Weezer covering “Big Me” during the Foozer tour.

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Now, back in September I did an FYI on Pearl Jam’s frontman. But instead of just reposting it, I’ve decided to clean it up and expand it. So, here’s the brand spanking new FYI on Eddie Vedder.

Here’s a young Eddie with Bad Radio performing “Believe You Me”.

The video for “Guaranteed”

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Although, my boy Eric wrote a post about them when I was in Italy back in March, so check that out, Attention all Seattle Grunge & Alt. Rock Fans: Mother Love Bone.

• In 1987, Green River members Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass) begin jamming with Malfunkshun members Andrew Wood (vocals) and Regan Hagar (drums).
• The group was a cover band known as Lords of the Wasteland.
• In 1988 the band added another Green River member, Bruce Fairweather, and replaced Hagar with Greg Gilmore, who was in Matt Cameron’s old band Skin Yard and 10 Minute Warning with some dude named Duff McKagan .
• The band changes their name to Mother Love Bone.
• By early 1989 Mother Love Bone signs a contract with PolyGram.
• March, 1989 the band releases the 6 track EP Shine.
• Shine is the first major album release from the new round of Seattle bands.
• “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns” makes it’s first appearance on Shine.
• From September to November of 1989 the band records their first full length album.
• On March 19, 1990 frontman Andrew Wood dies from an heroin overdose at the age of 24; this was just days before the projected release of Mother Love Bone’s first full length album Apple.
• Apple is released in July of 1990.
• Ament and Gossard are approached by Wood’s former roommate Chris Cornell about recording a couple of songs in Wood’s honor.
• Ament, Gossard and Cornell team up with Matt Cameron and some unknown guitarist Mike McCready to form Temple of the Dog, who record a full album dedicated to Wood; another guy named Eddie Vedder participates as well.
• September 22, 1992 PolyGram releases Stardog Champion, also known as a self-titled release, which contains tracks from Shine and Apple.
• In 1993 a home video entitled The Love Bone Earth Affair is released, which contains concert footage, interviews with Ament, Gossard, Wood and the videos for “Stardog Champion” and “Holly Roller”.
• “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns” can also be found on the 1992 Singles soundtrack, the 2001 Alternative Compilations and the 2007 Road Mix: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Vol. 3.
• Pearl Jam sometimes covers “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns” in concert.

“Stardog Champion”

“Holly Roller”

Pearl Jam doing “Crown of Thorns”

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• Mike McCready went into rehab during the production of Vitalogy, where he ran into The Walkabouts bassist John Baker Saunders.
• The duo returned to Seattle from Minneapolis in 1994 and teamed up with Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin.
• The trio wrote two songs together before they had a vocalist, “River of Deceit” and “Wake Up”.
• McCready invited his friend Layne Staley to join and the band became complete.
• The band’s first gigs were at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe in October of 1994, even though they didn’t have one song completed or a band name.
• Their first band name was the Gacy Bunch, named after John Wayne Gacy and The Brady Bunch.
• The band appeared on Pearl Jam’s Self-Pollution Radio on January 8, 1995 and performed “I Don’t Know Anything” and “Lifeless Dead”.
• The band finally settled on the name Mad Season, which is an English term for the time of year when ’shrooms’ are in bloom.
• Mad Season’s only album Above was released on April 15, 1995 through Columbia Records.
• The album was recorded at Bad Animals Studio, which is co- owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.
• Above would eventually hit the #24 position of the Billboard 2oo and go on to Gold status.
• “River of Deceit” reached #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #9 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
• The lyrics to “River of Deceit” were influenced by Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, which consists of 26 poetic essays that discuss life and the human condition.
• The tracks “Long Day Gone” and “I’m Above” feature vocals from Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan.
• Mad Season contributed their version of “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier” on the 1995 John Lennon tribute compilation Working Class Hero.
• On April 29, 1995 the band performed at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, which was recorded.
• The Live at the Moore video was released on August 29, 1995 and not only contains the April performance, but also the “River of Deceit” music video and the band’s Self-Pollution performance.
• In 1997 Layne was in no shape to do much, despite the rest of the band wanting to continue on with Mad Season.
• Mark Lanegan replaced Layne and the band changed it’s name to Disinformation in 1997.
• Disinformation began work on their debut album in 1998, but were unable to record it due to the member’s schedules.
• On January 15, 1999 bassist John Baker Saunders passed away from a heroin overdose.
• On April 20, 2002 Layne Staley’s body was found.

“Lifeless Dead”

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