Layne Staley (AiC), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Baker Saunders (The Walkabouts), and Barrett Martin and Mark Lanegan (both from Screaming Trees). Those were the only members and they released one album. Over the years, other musicians may sit in on a song during live "reunions" (really a memorial for their passed friends), but the actual band was only Layne, Mike, Baker, Barrett, and Mark.
“I could either drown, or pull off my skin and swim to shore. Now, I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see” This lyric hits me right in the heart every time. RIP Layne, Mark and Baker😔🖤
Y'all conflating Temple of the Dog and Mad Season. Cornell has nothing to do with Mad Season. It was a callab between some Seattle area musicians that were trying to recover from their addictions. The main vocalists were Layne and Mark Lannigan.
This wasn't a side-project it was super group that Mike McCready in the drummer from screaming trees started cuz they met and rehab in Minnesota they started the group and they were trying to figure out who they wanted to get as lead singer they agreed to get Lane as the lead singer to help him stay focused on something else besides his addiction
"Wake Up" as the next? :D Mad Season was a collab born in rehab. edit - or "Above", I get the gist from the album that for a time it was an effort to get straight.
Long gone day is another great Mad Season song. It features vocals by both Layne and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees. But to experience Layne at his most powerful then please check out Alice in Chains “Love, hate, love” live at the Moore
I have played shows High on Heroin and I have played shows Drug Sick. Neither are fun. I have seen other bands do the same thing. Aug 9th will be my 23 year clean. This band was to try and help Layne stay clean. One of the other members was from Pearl Jam and her just got clean. He tried to help Layne. Layne just never wanted help. I understand that so much. Depression is a daily fight. If you have never been REALLY Depressed you are lucky. It will keep you down. I relate to Alice in Chains so much. I have been where Layne is. I just chose to get help. I made the choice. People cant make it for you. Will miss Layne forever.
I couldn't agree more live at the Moore is a timeless classic I love it all but I especially love the stuff with Mark lanegan he never gets the credit he so greatly deserves
@@nickday1627 lifeless dead-ray mind, river of deceit, wake up, I don't know anything, and on and on, and of course, long gone day which I think Lanegan wrote, hey bro, great minds think alike, have a great day bud....
I used to listen to this album almost every night to fall asleep. Which is weird cause one song is actually called "Wake Up", love to see y'all react to it. ☮
I feel like anyone who says this is instantly my people. I used to do the same and still do sometimes. This is the best album ever. At least top ten for me.
This was one of the songs that got me through the bad stuff going on at home when I was in middle and high school. I can still close my eyes and it just feels like floating on a flowing current of wonderful music that keeps you from drowning.
I never struggled with drug addiction but I have struggled with depression most of my life. This song is so beautiful and it always gets me in the feels.
This was during a clean period. The other band members met in rehab and brought Layne in the group hoping being around clean people would help. It helped for a little while but did not last. When I hear Layne sing like this I just wish I could have hugged him to let him know he wasn’t alone. But as someone who knows many addicts I know how they push people away, and they have to save themselves. Very grateful for the music he gave us. Ps Chris Cornell was never part of the band and neither were any member of Guns N Roses.
This album is one of the rare few that you have to listen from start to finish to truly appreciate what it all means. That it’s all an addict’s struggle within the vicious cycle of addiction. The other bands were Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees that lent members to the band
Tears for Fears did “Mad World” was also covered by Gary Jules All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you 'cause I find it hard to take When people run in circles it's a very, very Mad world Mad world Mad world Mad world
Mad Season released only 1 album. Layne was still with AIC. The band struggled because of schedule conflicts & several members' drug addictions. The song you were singing is called Mad World by Tears for Fears, but the best version is sung by Gary Jules.
The entire album is a vibe. You can feel Layne's soul searching. Some other amazing singer/songwriters who have since passed on are Andrew Wood of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, Shawn Smith of Satchel and Brad, and Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon. I highly recommend checking out every single band I just named.
Mad Season only did 1album. It came out before AIC’s last album with Layne. Duff wasn’t a part of this band. Mike McCready (lead guitarist of Pearl Jam) ,drummer of Screaming Trees (Seattle band) ,bass player was a guy Mike met in rehab( he died of an OD), and the lead singer of Screaming Trees sang on some of the songs.
When I heard this song on the radio for the first time, I immediately knew that it was Layne Stanley but that it was obviously not AIC. Hence, I discovered Mad Season, and soon purchased Above. Layne did the album art as well (rest his soul, indeed) which was based on a photo of him and his girlfriend. The song River of Deceit was also inspired the book, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. I happened upon the book a couple years ago and had no idea that was the case, then it clicked. It was a ‘4th wall’ breaking moment for me
Fun fact: this album was basically created in less than a week. Mike came to layne on a weekday and asked if he wanted to be their front man for a show that weekend. They got together the night before to play together for the first time, then played the show the next day. They wrote seperately, came together once to practice, and then went out and played a show. Mad Season is nothing shy of impressive and mystifying.
This is easily one of my all time favorite albums. Every track is really powerful or at least so I thought when I first heard it, and still do. You really can't go wrong with any song off of this album. If anyone wasn't a Layne fan before listening to this album, how could you not be after? Above, Jar of Flies, and Dirt are my favorite albums Layne was involved in. Two of those of course being AIC, but Above def one of my favorite albums I've EVER heard... period.
The meaning of Mad Season: River of Deceit as sung by Layne Staley. Start off by saying this is about Layne’s drug habits particularly with Heroin! Think about it: The river(blood flow in your veins) takes down the Deceit (Heroin). If you read the lyrics now with this in mind and counter the fact this eventually led to Layne’s death is poetic. He KNEW he had a problem and was conveying that to the listener. My pain is self chosen. Pull off my skin and swim to shore…Heroin addicts pick at their skin. Shore represents being off the drug…now I can grow a beautiful shell (New Skin) for ALL TO SEE. Listen again with this in mind.
Speaking of current Alice in Chains, some of their new stuff is straight FIRE! "Phantom Limb," "Last of My Kind," "The One You Know," "Black Gives Way to Blue" (feat. Elton John on the piano), "Check My Brain," "Stone," "All Secrets Known," "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," and so many more from their last three albums. And y'all should react to "Seasons" by Chris Cornell. What a song.
Now that you just got introduced to Mad Season I highly recommend Mad Season - Wake Up, Artificial Red, Long Gone Day, I’m Above. Just listen to the whole album.
The band was a side project they decided to do as friends as a way to help each other quit heorin. It had mixed results and about half the band eventually O.D.'d, though some managed to remain clean thanks to this project, like Pearl Jam's Mike McCready. None of Mad Season's members quit their main bands, it was just something they did on the side. GNR's Duff is from Seattle. He wasn't anti-Grunge, he was just going through the worst of his alcoholism when he got into an argument with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic backstage at the 1993 (I think) MTV Video Music Awards becasue Axl himself, being the asshole and diva he's always been, had argued earlier with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love and drunken Duff was being protective of his friend. I actually saw a video a couple of years ago of Duff and Kirst performing together in some political event in Seattle with Duff singing and playing acoustic guitar and Krist playing according and before they start the song Duff jokingly asks Krist what he thinks about going from almost getting into a drunken fistfight at the MTV VMA's to playing together in support of their endorsed candidate 20 years later and they both laugh about it. Novoselic himself was admittedly pretty drunk and you can still find the video of their performance at the VMA's here on RUclips., and see how at the end of the song Dave Grohl starts to say hi to Axl into his mic in a really obnoxious tone of voice and Novoselic himself throws his bass in the air but fails to catch it and nails himself in the head pretty hard and almost knocks himself out, and then Cobain gives him a kick in the butt as he's scrambling to go offstage on his hands and knees because Cobain thought he was goofing around and didn't see when the bass slammed into Novoselic's head. Good times. BTW, during the 2016 Temple of the Dog reunion mini-tour, they did perform this song, sung by Chris Cornell, in memory of Layne Staley, who was another friend they lost to heroin just like MotherLoveBone's Andy Wood. A handful of months later, Chris Cornell himself was gone.
Mad Season was a side project from 1994 and 1995. Layne Staley felt as though he was on a spiritual mission through his music. Not a rock mission, a spiritual mission. Staley also wrote (River of Deceit) the song partially about his drug addiction, which would eventually lead to his death on April 5, 2002. Staley was 34.
I never knew that the super group Temple of the Dog Velvet Revolver Soundgarden Alice in Chains Mad Season did a cover of Mad World by Tears for Fears.
This song has made me cry for years now. It’s very difficult for me to listen to for my own personal reasons, but it’s nice seeing y’all boys finally come around to it. Excellent video. Yo Hollywood, if you love Sade that much y’all gotta hear Deftones cover her song No Ordinary Love. And if y’all ever get back to doing more AIC, please listen to the song Brother.
This is an iceberg You have only scraped Pure super group And you haven't even added in mark land again from the screaming trees This album was the most raw lane had ever been So many deep cuts You all should watch their DVD mad season live at the More They do a killer cover of a John Lennon song don't wanna be a soldier no more
Chris Cornell was in "Temple of the Dog", "I'm going hungry with Eddie vedder. Mad season had a bunch of famous instrumentalists and when Layne Staley passed away, Chris Cornell sang this song in mourning for Layne, as Eddie Vedder sang "Black" as a tribute to Chris Cornell after his passing . So very very sad to lose such talented people. They live on today and are missed every day ❤❤ love u guys SOOOO MUCH!!! Laura from Boston
Chris cornell was not in mad season, neither was duff. Temple of the dog was a mashup of Pearl & soundgarden. Mad season had layne as singer & mark lanegan (screaming trees) However mike mccready from Pearl Jam was also a member.
In every tragedy there is a moment where you get a glimpse of what could have been if the subject were capable of escape. And it's so beautiful and it hurts so much because you already know how the story ends. As someone who only got to learn about Layne's story after he was gone, this song is that moment.
This song is definitely insightful. Another powerful song from this album is called "Wake up", a song about their heroin addictions. Really sad song. Also, the name Mad Season refers to the time of year that psychedelic mushrooms bloom, a slang term if u will. Listening to Layne singing "Wake up young man, its time to wake up", and knowing he eventually loses to the demons, its truly haunting...
This is an amazing video, can you guys PLEASE react to down in a hole, Heaven Beside You, and Brother unplugged live Layne Stanley is an amazing vocalist and Jerry Cantrell is too. Their bond was so strong and them together on stage is magical.
I think you guys might have been combining Mad Season & Temple of the Dog in your minds. Mad Season was Layne Staley, Mike McCready, and 2 guys from the Screaming Trees. Chris Cornell was never a part of this project. Mark Lanagan did sing for MS for a reunion show once Layne had passed away, but I don't think there were any other members.
Great reaction guys 🤟 i know that one of is last recorded song if not is last was for the movie the Faculty in 1998 with Tom Morello class of 99 another Brick on the wall during that Time is substance abuse was realy bad he kept to himself so no one would see how bad IT was he was Found dead on april 5 2002 he had OD 2 Weeks earlier
Over in the UK during the magic mushroom season people would be so high that people called them ( Mad) that's how they got the name. And Chris Cornell did fill in for Layne Staley after he died!
Mad Season was an Amazing Band formed by musicians struggling with Addiction. Some met in Rehab. The Album dropped in 1995 and I bought it immediately. I too was struggling with addiction and the destruction of my family. My children's father is Native American and he stole them and took them to his Reservation. I never saw my children again until 2018. Nearly 25 years. This album is the Soundtrack for what was going on with me in 1995. I'd sit on the floor, smoking crack and drinking. I'd listen to this over and over. I attempted to kill myself with Alcohol and drugs, Dangerous Criminal behavior and not giving a Frick, until 2000. I was court ordered to treatment, a 90 Day inpatient program and I did outpatient treatment for another 6 months and did Sober living until a Man who I didn't know walked into my room at 5am. I went ballistic and left shortly after. I got involved with NA / AA, found a Sponsor and a great group of Women as my friends and support. I Made it Out Alive. I just celebrated 23 years clean and sober. Now, get this; I am helping to raise my 2 Grandsons. What a Gift that is. I of course reunited with my Children and even moved to where they live to help with the Grandchildren and to be a Family. Little did I know what I was walking into. Both My Children are ADDICTS! Both of them have done awful things to me and I no longer speak to either one. Both of them lost custody of their children so Gramma has stepped in to help raise my 2 Grandsons. My Granddaughter Penelope is now with her Father but moved out of State. I have been with both my Grandsons since they were little little so they wouldn't go to Daycare. It's full circle but, I survived and now I am able to at least be a Gramma. My Motherhood was stolen from me but, not my Grandmother Time. To this Day, this Album holds a very special place in my heart. Sorry for the long post. Listening with you caused all the memories flooding back. What a crazy time.
Loving seeing you guys react to this. Mad Season is the shit, very underrated and under-played. This song is what tied me to them. Shout out Sade! RIP Layne 😔
Oh......and hey guys.....let's not take a year to get through this album. Push for a couple months. You will be glad to experience it now rather than stretch it out.
The song you're thinking of (All around me are familiar faces) is "Mad World" by Tears For Fears. It has been covered quite a bit since the original was released in 1983
Hey Guys, I have some additional information for You. As you must know by now, Chris had nothing to do with Mad Season. He did record a song called Right Turn with Layne. It's on the EP SAP by Alice. The song Artist is listed as............ Alice Mudgarden because Mark Arm from Mudhoney also provided some vocals. I believe Jerry starts the song off. You should give it a Listen. It really is a Great song and is a Supergroup for " Grunge " Singers. When you kept mentioning Supergroup, I thought of this song. I don't consider Mad Season as a Supergroup. Honestly, at that time, only Layne was a Rockstar.
Layne also did vocals for another very short lived super group called Class of ‘99. They covered Another Brick in the Wall for the movie The Faculty. It consisted of Layne, Tom Morello, and a member of Jane’s Addiction and a member of Porno for Pyros.
No Chris Cornell lol or Duff. Duff did play with the reunion with Chris Cornell singing. But they never got together. The bass player died soon after Layne. Layne wrote all the lyrics. Members were from Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Soundgarden was not involved lol
Either is a Mandela effect or de ja vu but the deep impact question was asked before. Can't remember the episode but it was recently. WAIT I KNOW THIS SONG!!! How did I not know it was mad season. When I would hear this on the radio I just thought it was Alice in chains. I'm with you guys on the "substance" I was a huge alcoholic and drug addict. 10 years sober except the lettuce. That's for my early onset Parkinson's. I won't say what all of it was but there are only 3 drugs I never touched. Those 3 had to be manufactured. Probably the greatest feeling is waking up and knowing where you are and what you did the night before. Out of my old "crew" I'm the only one who is still alive, out of prison, rebuilt my relationship with my family. My mother is probably the proudest out of everyone that I became sober and that's why what happening with her right now is hitting me hard. Going to visit her again tonight. Open heart surgery tomorrow morning..... I'm anti religious but if anyone want to do their thing for her I won't object to it. My youngest niece is the only one in my family that knows everything I've done. She opened up to me about doing the lettuce which I knew she would because of high school. She bought some off the streets and it was laced with the fent. She could have died. Now if she gets her own I tell her I have to test it. I can tell right away if she needs to throw it out or she's good. Go ahead and hate on me but I would rather be that uncle instead of being a pallbearer for her. It's fully legal in my state and is everywhere so I knew she would start. I'm debating on getting it for her from a dispensary so I know it's clean and safe. She's going to do it whether I get it for her or not. Can I get some trash talker family input on this? And yes you all are family to this guy.
Mad season has members of Pearl Jam, Layne of course, Drummer from Screaming Trees., this was a super group. This was Layne when he was fresh outta recovery.
That's his only come out with one album it was called above originally had two called Manson Brady bunch I may not be accurate. But they change the name to mad season because an England when the hallucinogenic mushrooms are in season they call it mad season
They only did just one album. Chris Cornell sang vocals on a tribute Concert years ago. The Original lineup was Layne Staley of AIC Mike McCready of Pearl Jam Bassist John Baker Saunders Barrett Martin on drums from Screaming Trees. as well as Mark Lanegan lead singer of Screaming Trees.
It was a side project of Layne with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and also Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of The Screaming Trees. Duff McKagan was friend with many guys in the grunge community because he's from Seattle. Mad Season made only one album that came out in 1995.
Just for some clarification, Soundgarden, AiC, and Screaming Trees along with Pearl Jam were all friends and used to hang out at Ann Wilson's house after gigs in Seattle. Chris Cornell wasn't in Mad Season, he was in Temple of the Dog with Eddie Vedder. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this was produced before Alice in Chains did their Unplugged concert. This song is kind of about Layne's downward spiral of his addiction. We lost a unique voice when we lost him. River of Deceit is in reference to the Greek River Styx that separates the living from the dead.
Can tell ya what I know about that whole period. Sometime in 1995, Alice In Chains temporarily broke up. This stemmed from when Layne showed up at an AIC practice high. Which angered the band, particularly the drummer, who threw down his sticks and said he never wanted to play with him again. So Alice splintered for the moment. Meanwhile, guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam had met bassist John Baker Saunders in a rehab stint. While in there they decided to work together when they got out. With Layne detached from AIC, they hit him up and began putting together their ‘95 album, the only studio release of theirs. Layne was unfortunately starting to really sink lower into his addiction by that point. He had begun wearing fingerless gloves, not for style but to hide track marks, since his other veins were tapped out. Mad Season (their name taken from a time of year in England when people hunt around a lot for “magic” mushrooms) did play one great live show at The Moore in Seattle. After which, AIC reconciled and recorded their eponymous 1995 album. Sadly, bassist Baker fatally overdosed on heroin in 1999, after his girlfriend flew back to her home country in Europe. And of course Layne did pass away from his addiction in the end, on April 5th, 2002, alone in his home in the U district of Seattle. All in all some truly unfortunate things came to pass, but incredible music got written and recorded, which all of us still have today.
Layne Staley (AiC), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Baker Saunders (The Walkabouts), and Barrett Martin and Mark Lanegan (both from Screaming Trees). Those were the only members and they released one album. Over the years, other musicians may sit in on a song during live "reunions" (really a memorial for their passed friends), but the actual band was only Layne, Mike, Baker, Barrett, and Mark.
1 album plus 2 b-sides not on the album. That's it.
“I could either drown, or pull off my skin and swim to shore. Now, I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see” This lyric hits me right in the heart every time. RIP Layne, Mark and Baker😔🖤
Mark Lanegan was criminally underrated ! And Layne was wonderful obviously ! That was a great era
@@Brando-Lee3725 Mark and Layne had angelic voices. Both gone way too soon.
So beautiful
heavy
Layne's voice was the beautiful darkness.
Nothing like a Layne song .. gives you chills
Y'all conflating Temple of the Dog and Mad Season. Cornell has nothing to do with Mad Season. It was a callab between some Seattle area musicians that were trying to recover from their addictions. The main vocalists were Layne and Mark Lannigan.
Chris Cornell sang on "Long gone day" and he was the singer for MD from 2015 untill 2017.
This wasn't a side-project it was super group that Mike McCready in the drummer from screaming trees started cuz they met and rehab in Minnesota they started the group and they were trying to figure out who they wanted to get as lead singer they agreed to get Lane as the lead singer to help him stay focused on something else besides his addiction
@@KnowIt74 Cornell doesn’t sing on lone gone day. Mark lanegan did
@@KnowIt74 Well done. Do you remember the song Layne and Chris did together? I can't remember the name of the song. You sound like you might know.
@@FLC2593 lol... Yes you are right... I am currently trying to stop smoking cigarettes, so my brain is like scrambled egg.
"Wake Up" as the next? :D Mad Season was a collab born in rehab. edit - or "Above", I get the gist from the album that for a time it was an effort to get straight.
November Hotel is my favorite from the album, not a knock on Lane as that’s an instrumental but it’s a total and immersive vibe
Wake Up is my 2nd fav, with River of Deceit being my #1
Long gone day is another great Mad Season song. It features vocals by both Layne and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees. But to experience Layne at his most powerful then please check out Alice in Chains “Love, hate, love” live at the Moore
Most of mad season is best watching the Live at the Moore concert
I have played shows High on Heroin and I have played shows Drug Sick. Neither are fun. I have seen other bands do the same thing. Aug 9th will be my 23 year clean.
This band was to try and help Layne stay clean. One of the other members was from Pearl Jam and her just got clean. He tried to help Layne. Layne just never wanted help. I understand that so much. Depression is a daily fight. If you have never been REALLY Depressed you are lucky. It will keep you down. I relate to Alice in Chains so much. I have been where Layne is. I just chose to get help. I made the choice. People cant make it for you. Will miss Layne forever.
I had 23 years clean and Sober just last month. Congratulations.
Congrats on your 23 years I'm blessed to have just gotten 17, so sad about Layne hes always gonna be one of my favorites, RIP Layne
Amen Bros! Grateful that we are all still here today.
I recommend “Wake Up” by Mad Season next.
Mad Season live at the Moore is epic, it's a must listen, I do just about every day...
I couldn't agree more live at the Moore is a timeless classic I love it all but I especially love the stuff with Mark lanegan he never gets the credit he so greatly deserves
@@nickday1627 lifeless dead-ray mind, river of deceit, wake up, I don't know anything, and on and on, and of course, long gone day which I think Lanegan wrote, hey bro, great minds think alike, have a great day bud....
You too bro
I used to listen to this album almost every night to fall asleep. Which is weird cause one song is actually called "Wake Up", love to see y'all react to it. ☮
P.S Check out the Live at the Moore versions if ya can. 👀
I feel like anyone who says this is instantly my people. I used to do the same and still do sometimes. This is the best album ever. At least top ten for me.
This was one of the songs that got me through the bad stuff going on at home when I was in middle and high school. I can still close my eyes and it just feels like floating on a flowing current of wonderful music that keeps you from drowning.
What a sad a beautiful song! ..."my pain is self chosen"......ufff
I never struggled with drug addiction but I have struggled with depression most of my life. This song is so beautiful and it always gets me in the feels.
This was during a clean period. The other band members met in rehab and brought Layne in the group hoping being around clean people would help. It helped for a little while but did not last.
When I hear Layne sing like this I just wish I could have hugged him to let him know he wasn’t alone. But as someone who knows many addicts I know how they push people away, and they have to save themselves. Very grateful for the music he gave us.
Ps Chris Cornell was never part of the band and neither were any member of Guns N Roses.
Wake Up, River of Deceit, All Alone, November Hotel, I dont know Anything... probably one of my most treasured albums.
This album is one of the rare few that you have to listen from start to finish to truly appreciate what it all means. That it’s all an addict’s struggle within the vicious cycle of addiction. The other bands were Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees that lent members to the band
Tears for Fears did “Mad World” was also covered by Gary Jules
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you 'cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very, very
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Long Gone Day is my favorite song from Mad Season.
Mad Season live at The Moore Theatre in Seattle is such a hot concert 🎉🎉. So worth watching.
Mad season....one of my favourite bands ever...above was a great album...the performances...wicked
Man his voice is unbelievable. He is sorely missed
Mad Season released only 1 album. Layne was still with AIC. The band struggled because of schedule conflicts & several members' drug addictions. The song you were singing is called Mad World by Tears for Fears, but the best version is sung by Gary Jules.
The entire album is a vibe. You can feel Layne's soul searching. Some other amazing singer/songwriters who have since passed on are Andrew Wood of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, Shawn Smith of Satchel and Brad, and Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon. I highly recommend checking out every single band I just named.
Mad Season only did 1album. It came out before AIC’s last album with Layne. Duff wasn’t a part of this band. Mike McCready (lead guitarist of Pearl Jam) ,drummer of Screaming Trees (Seattle band) ,bass player was a guy Mike met in rehab( he died of an OD), and the lead singer of Screaming Trees sang on some of the songs.
Right turn. Layne and Chris together
When I heard this song on the radio for the first time, I immediately knew that it was Layne Stanley but that it was obviously not AIC. Hence, I discovered Mad Season, and soon purchased Above. Layne did the album art as well (rest his soul, indeed) which was based on a photo of him and his girlfriend. The song River of Deceit was also inspired the book, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. I happened upon the book a couple years ago and had no idea that was the case, then it clicked. It was a ‘4th wall’ breaking moment for me
Yall should listen to "Wake Up" another Mad Season song. Very sad considering he is singing to himself
"Mad World" is a song by Tears For Fears that was covered by Gary Jules and that version was pretty popular. That's the song you were singing
Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries has that calming/soothing voice for me that I could go to sleep to every night.
Great choice
Fun fact: this album was basically created in less than a week.
Mike came to layne on a weekday and asked if he wanted to be their front man for a show that weekend. They got together the night before to play together for the first time, then played the show the next day. They wrote seperately, came together once to practice, and then went out and played a show.
Mad Season is nothing shy of impressive and mystifying.
This is easily one of my all time favorite albums. Every track is really powerful or at least so I thought when I first heard it, and still do. You really can't go wrong with any song off of this album. If anyone wasn't a Layne fan before listening to this album, how could you not be after? Above, Jar of Flies, and Dirt are my favorite albums Layne was involved in. Two of those of course being AIC, but Above def one of my favorite albums I've EVER heard... period.
The meaning of Mad Season: River of Deceit as sung by Layne Staley.
Start off by saying this is about Layne’s drug habits particularly with Heroin! Think about it: The river(blood flow in your veins) takes down the Deceit (Heroin). If you read the lyrics now with this in mind and counter the fact this eventually led to Layne’s death is poetic. He KNEW he had a problem and was conveying that to the listener. My pain is self chosen. Pull off my skin and swim to shore…Heroin addicts pick at their skin. Shore represents being off the drug…now I can grow a beautiful shell (New Skin) for ALL TO SEE. Listen again with this in mind.
Speaking of current Alice in Chains, some of their new stuff is straight FIRE! "Phantom Limb," "Last of My Kind," "The One You Know," "Black Gives Way to Blue" (feat. Elton John on the piano), "Check My Brain," "Stone," "All Secrets Known," "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," and so many more from their last three albums.
And y'all should react to "Seasons" by Chris Cornell. What a song.
Layne singing Black Gives Way to Blue would've been amazing. We get a taste of that with some of these AI Layne vids but the tech isn't there yet
@@atacama677 I don't think he ever would have had the chance since the song was written about him. It's Jerry's promise to keep his memory alive.
Now that you just got introduced to Mad Season I highly recommend Mad Season - Wake Up, Artificial Red, Long Gone Day, I’m Above. Just listen to the whole album.
The band was a side project they decided to do as friends as a way to help each other quit heorin. It had mixed results and about half the band eventually O.D.'d, though some managed to remain clean thanks to this project, like Pearl Jam's Mike McCready. None of Mad Season's members quit their main bands, it was just something they did on the side.
GNR's Duff is from Seattle. He wasn't anti-Grunge, he was just going through the worst of his alcoholism when he got into an argument with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic backstage at the 1993 (I think) MTV Video Music Awards becasue Axl himself, being the asshole and diva he's always been, had argued earlier with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love and drunken Duff was being protective of his friend. I actually saw a video a couple of years ago of Duff and Kirst performing together in some political event in Seattle with Duff singing and playing acoustic guitar and Krist playing according and before they start the song Duff jokingly asks Krist what he thinks about going from almost getting into a drunken fistfight at the MTV VMA's to playing together in support of their endorsed candidate 20 years later and they both laugh about it. Novoselic himself was admittedly pretty drunk and you can still find the video of their performance at the VMA's here on RUclips., and see how at the end of the song Dave Grohl starts to say hi to Axl into his mic in a really obnoxious tone of voice and Novoselic himself throws his bass in the air but fails to catch it and nails himself in the head pretty hard and almost knocks himself out, and then Cobain gives him a kick in the butt as he's scrambling to go offstage on his hands and knees because Cobain thought he was goofing around and didn't see when the bass slammed into Novoselic's head. Good times.
BTW, during the 2016 Temple of the Dog reunion mini-tour, they did perform this song, sung by Chris Cornell, in memory of Layne Staley, who was another friend they lost to heroin just like MotherLoveBone's Andy Wood. A handful of months later, Chris Cornell himself was gone.
Damn that's just... So damn sad.
Mad Season was a side project from 1994 and 1995. Layne Staley felt as though he was on a spiritual mission through his music. Not a rock mission, a spiritual mission. Staley also wrote (River of Deceit) the song partially about his drug addiction, which would eventually lead to his death on April 5, 2002. Staley was 34.
I never knew that the super group Temple of the Dog Velvet Revolver Soundgarden Alice in Chains Mad Season did a cover of Mad World by Tears for Fears.
these dudes are so fucking chill! easily my favorite reaction video on youtube. yall always cracking me up
This is Layne at his best. Shows his vocal range and the lyrics are mesmerizing.
There's a hidden AIC track that only exists on a live recording. Queen of the Rodeo, check it out.
It was in the Music Bank Best Of box set as well.
Layneis a prophet. He paid for his short hellish time on this earth to help generations to come.
This song has made me cry for years now. It’s very difficult for me to listen to for my own personal reasons, but it’s nice seeing y’all boys finally come around to it. Excellent video.
Yo Hollywood, if you love Sade that much y’all gotta hear Deftones cover her song No Ordinary Love.
And if y’all ever get back to doing more AIC, please listen to the song Brother.
A Mark Lanegan song you could check out is “One Hundred Days”. It is so beautiful. I think Hollywood would love it.
This is an iceberg You have only scraped
Pure super group
And you haven't even added in mark land again from the screaming trees
This album was the most raw lane had ever been
So many deep cuts
You all should watch their DVD mad season live at the More
They do a killer cover of a John Lennon song don't wanna be a soldier no more
Layne and Chris have a song called “right turn” but Chris isn’t in this song.
Mad world was covered by tears for fears. Original was Gary Joule? Somebody will correct my spelling I'm sure
One album. Greatness. Thanks for this reaction!!!
Chris Cornell was in "Temple of the Dog", "I'm going hungry with Eddie vedder. Mad season had a bunch of famous instrumentalists and when Layne Staley passed away, Chris Cornell sang this song in mourning for Layne, as Eddie Vedder sang "Black" as a tribute to Chris Cornell after his passing . So very very sad to lose such talented people. They live on today and are missed every day ❤❤ love u guys SOOOO MUCH!!! Laura from Boston
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Y’all gotta do ‘Wake Up’ next, from Mad Season, some of Layne’s best writing
Layne and Chris did record a song together called Right Turn, was just a single
Chris filled in for Layne after his death.
Chris cornell was not in mad season, neither was duff. Temple of the dog was a mashup of Pearl & soundgarden. Mad season had layne as singer & mark lanegan (screaming trees) However mike mccready from Pearl Jam was also a member.
Joe Bonamassa Official - "Hummingbird" - Live At The Greek Theatre! My God, blues rock at it's "F9#9ijfo24ing" best!!!!!!!
There was a Mad Season concert in 2015 with an orchestra. Chris sang Laynes parts and Duff played bass.
In every tragedy there is a moment where you get a glimpse of what could have been if the subject were capable of escape. And it's so beautiful and it hurts so much because you already know how the story ends.
As someone who only got to learn about Layne's story after he was gone, this song is that moment.
This song is definitely insightful. Another powerful song from this album is called "Wake up", a song about their heroin addictions. Really sad song. Also, the name Mad Season refers to the time of year that psychedelic mushrooms bloom, a slang term if u will. Listening to Layne singing "Wake up young man, its time to wake up", and knowing he eventually loses to the demons, its truly haunting...
This is an amazing video, can you guys PLEASE react to down in a hole, Heaven Beside You, and Brother unplugged live Layne Stanley is an amazing vocalist and Jerry Cantrell is too. Their bond was so strong and them together on stage is magical.
Amazing album. I still have it and it's one of my favorites.
The Live version of Long Gone Day feat Mark Lanegan are so good
I think you guys might have been combining Mad Season & Temple of the Dog in your minds. Mad Season was Layne Staley, Mike McCready, and 2 guys from the Screaming Trees. Chris Cornell was never a part of this project. Mark Lanagan did sing for MS for a reunion show once Layne had passed away, but I don't think there were any other members.
Great reaction guys 🤟 i know that one of is last recorded song if not is last was for the movie the Faculty in 1998 with Tom Morello class of 99 another Brick on the wall during that Time is substance abuse was realy bad he kept to himself so no one would see how bad IT was he was Found dead on april 5 2002 he had OD 2 Weeks earlier
Over in the UK during the magic mushroom season people would be so high that people called them ( Mad) that's how they got the name.
And Chris Cornell did fill in for Layne Staley after he died!
this song is a treasure i'm glad you found it
Mad Season was an Amazing Band formed by musicians struggling with Addiction. Some met in Rehab. The Album dropped in 1995 and I bought it immediately. I too was struggling with addiction and the destruction of my family. My children's father is Native American and he stole them and took them to his Reservation. I never saw my children again until 2018. Nearly 25 years. This album is the Soundtrack for what was going on with me in 1995. I'd sit on the floor, smoking crack and drinking. I'd listen to this over and over. I attempted to kill myself with Alcohol and drugs, Dangerous Criminal behavior and not giving a Frick, until 2000. I was court ordered to treatment, a 90 Day inpatient program and I did outpatient treatment for another 6 months and did Sober living until a Man who I didn't know walked into my room at 5am. I went ballistic and left shortly after. I got involved with NA / AA, found a Sponsor and a great group of Women as my friends and support. I Made it Out Alive. I just celebrated 23 years clean and sober. Now, get this; I am helping to raise my 2 Grandsons. What a Gift that is. I of course reunited with my Children and even moved to where they live to help with the Grandchildren and to be a Family. Little did I know what I was walking into. Both My Children are ADDICTS!
Both of them have done awful things to me and I no longer speak to either one. Both of them lost custody of their children so Gramma has stepped in to help raise my 2 Grandsons. My Granddaughter Penelope is now with her Father but moved out of State. I have been with both my Grandsons since they were little little so they wouldn't go to Daycare. It's full circle but, I survived and now I am able to at least be a Gramma. My Motherhood was stolen from me but, not my Grandmother Time.
To this Day, this Album holds a very special place in my heart.
Sorry for the long post.
Listening with you caused all the memories flooding back. What a crazy time.
I think river of deceit is the slowest song from Mad Season. Next do long gone Day. Live at the Moore..
You have to go through a lot of pain in life to truly get this song.
Omg yes, finally we're at mad season. "Wake up" is the real tear jerker on this record. Hope you guys eventually check it out
Loving seeing you guys react to this. Mad Season is the shit, very underrated and under-played. This song is what tied me to them.
Shout out Sade!
RIP Layne 😔
Check out the videos where they take the music out and you just hear the vocal track
You guys need to do Wake Up by Mad Season.
Deeeeeeep track.
Cornell and Staleys' song together is called Right Turn. ruclips.net/video/aESvWB-kMas/видео.html
Oh......and hey guys.....let's not take a year to get through this album. Push for a couple months. You will be glad to experience it now rather than stretch it out.
The song you're thinking of (All around me are familiar faces) is "Mad World" by Tears For Fears. It has been covered quite a bit since the original was released in 1983
Hey Guys, I have some additional information for You. As you must know by now, Chris had nothing to do with Mad Season. He did record a song called Right Turn with Layne. It's on the EP SAP by Alice. The song Artist is listed as............ Alice Mudgarden because Mark Arm from Mudhoney also provided some vocals. I believe Jerry starts the song off. You should give it a Listen. It really is a Great song and is a Supergroup for " Grunge " Singers.
When you kept mentioning Supergroup, I thought of this song. I don't consider Mad Season as a Supergroup. Honestly, at that time, only Layne was a Rockstar.
My favorite singer from the Grunge Seattle sound.
Layne also did vocals for another very short lived super group called Class of ‘99. They covered Another Brick in the Wall for the movie The Faculty.
It consisted of Layne, Tom Morello, and a member of Jane’s Addiction and a member of Porno for Pyros.
Mad Season only put out one studio album "Above", released on March 14, 1995.
AIC, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees and Walkabouts members. Just a side project.
Finally 🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭 this was their only album.
No Chris Cornell lol or Duff. Duff did play with the reunion with Chris Cornell singing. But they never got together. The bass player died soon after Layne. Layne wrote all the lyrics. Members were from Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Soundgarden was not involved lol
That's Mad World by Gary Jules, not Mad Season
Stick with the band and do WAKE UP next. You will absolutely feel the song.
Ohh, R.I.P. Layne. Love mad season. Back to different times man.
Oh by the way shout out to yall from BAMA.... keep grinding my guys.
Either is a Mandela effect or de ja vu but the deep impact question was asked before. Can't remember the episode but it was recently. WAIT I KNOW THIS SONG!!! How did I not know it was mad season. When I would hear this on the radio I just thought it was Alice in chains. I'm with you guys on the "substance" I was a huge alcoholic and drug addict. 10 years sober except the lettuce. That's for my early onset Parkinson's. I won't say what all of it was but there are only 3 drugs I never touched. Those 3 had to be manufactured. Probably the greatest feeling is waking up and knowing where you are and what you did the night before. Out of my old "crew" I'm the only one who is still alive, out of prison, rebuilt my relationship with my family. My mother is probably the proudest out of everyone that I became sober and that's why what happening with her right now is hitting me hard. Going to visit her again tonight. Open heart surgery tomorrow morning..... I'm anti religious but if anyone want to do their thing for her I won't object to it. My youngest niece is the only one in my family that knows everything I've done. She opened up to me about doing the lettuce which I knew she would because of high school. She bought some off the streets and it was laced with the fent. She could have died. Now if she gets her own I tell her I have to test it. I can tell right away if she needs to throw it out or she's good. Go ahead and hate on me but I would rather be that uncle instead of being a pallbearer for her. It's fully legal in my state and is everywhere so I knew she would start. I'm debating on getting it for her from a dispensary so I know it's clean and safe. She's going to do it whether I get it for her or not. Can I get some trash talker family input on this? And yes you all are family to this guy.
Mad season has members of Pearl Jam, Layne of course, Drummer from Screaming Trees., this was a super group. This was Layne when he was fresh outta recovery.
Every song on this album- Above - is 🔥🙌
That's his only come out with one album it was called above originally had two called Manson Brady bunch I may not be accurate. But they change the name to mad season because an England when the hallucinogenic mushrooms are in season they call it mad season
Chris Cornell (RIP) was not a part of Mad Season, he did do a song with Layne, called Right Turn. It is excellent!
There's a live video of this song to, pretty awesome
Not sure if you've done already but the new Falling in Reverse is out Watch the World Burn
They only did just one album.
Chris Cornell sang vocals on a tribute Concert years ago.
The Original lineup was
Layne Staley of AIC
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam
Bassist John Baker Saunders
Barrett Martin on drums from Screaming Trees. as well as Mark Lanegan lead singer of Screaming Trees.
It was a side project of Layne with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and also Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of The Screaming Trees. Duff McKagan was friend with many guys in the grunge community because he's from Seattle. Mad Season made only one album that came out in 1995.
Just for some clarification, Soundgarden, AiC, and Screaming Trees along with Pearl Jam were all friends and used to hang out at Ann Wilson's house after gigs in Seattle. Chris Cornell wasn't in Mad Season, he was in Temple of the Dog with Eddie Vedder. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this was produced before Alice in Chains did their Unplugged concert. This song is kind of about Layne's downward spiral of his addiction. We lost a unique voice when we lost him. River of Deceit is in reference to the Greek River Styx that separates the living from the dead.
Mad World is the name of the song you're thinking of by Gary Jules.
Definitely miss his voice 😢
Layne's and Mark's both
Can tell ya what I know about that whole period. Sometime in 1995, Alice In Chains temporarily broke up. This stemmed from when Layne showed up at an AIC practice high. Which angered the band, particularly the drummer, who threw down his sticks and said he never wanted to play with him again. So Alice splintered for the moment. Meanwhile, guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam had met bassist John Baker Saunders in a rehab stint. While in there they decided to work together when they got out. With Layne detached from AIC, they hit him up and began putting together their ‘95 album, the only studio release of theirs. Layne was unfortunately starting to really sink lower into his addiction by that point. He had begun wearing fingerless gloves, not for style but to hide track marks, since his other veins were tapped out. Mad Season (their name taken from a time of year in England when people hunt around a lot for “magic” mushrooms) did play one great live show at The Moore in Seattle. After which, AIC reconciled and recorded their eponymous 1995 album. Sadly, bassist Baker fatally overdosed on heroin in 1999, after his girlfriend flew back to her home country in Europe. And of course Layne did pass away from his addiction in the end, on April 5th, 2002, alone in his home in the U district of Seattle. All in all some truly unfortunate things came to pass, but incredible music got written and recorded, which all of us still have today.
David Gilmour. I’ve always said I want David Gilmour to sing me to sleep every night
Mad Season was Layne Staley of AIC, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, and Mark Lanagan/Barrett Martin of Screaming trees
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