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MAD SEASON DEBUT LOST SONG ‘LOCOMOTIVE’ WITH MARK LANEGAN

In the midst of the ’90s, the grunge rock supergroup Mad Season emerged, led by Alice in Chains‘ Layne Staley with Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin and the Walkabouts’ John Baker Saunders completing the lineup. The band released one album, ‘Above,’ and were working on a second disc of music that was never finished before both Saunders and Staley passed away. However, just last year McCready and Martin decided to revisit their Mad Season work and see if they could complete what was started.

The pair called in former Screaming Trees frontman and Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan to lend a hand on songs that needed some vocal assistance, and now a deluxe edition reissue of ‘Above,’ complete with the unreleased or recently finished tracks from their second album included, is ready. One of those lost songs that Martin and McCready completed with Lanegan is a track called ‘Locomotive,’ and it’s currently streaming online.

The title is an apt one, as the pacing of the song mirrors the chugging tempo a locomotive train makes as its pulling out of the station. Martin told Rolling Stone, “‘Locomotive’ is a song that best represents the direction Mad Season was going for our second, unfinished album. Mark Lanegan’s lyrics and powerful voice captures that time perfectly.” McCready adds, “He did an amazing job singing over this track from the elusive second Mad Season record that was to be called ‘Disinformation.’ ‘Locomotive’ hits you like one!” Take a listen to ‘Locomotive’ streaming at RollingStone.com here.

The deluxe edition release arrives April 2. Included on the collection is the original ‘Above’ CD, a second disc of the previously unreleased tracks, and a DVD that features the full concert video of the band’s last performance. Fans can also look for a special double-vinyl version to arrive April 20 as part of the Record Store Day festivities.

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So long overdue!

Thank you, kind sir.

phrophus wrote:Thank you, kind sir.

I was hoping they would continue on regardless. They had such a promising debut, that it would be a shame to not follow it up. They can always call Jeff Ament or Fishbone's John Norwood Fisher on bass, but Lanegan can just soldier on with the remaining core of Mad Season.

Lanegan is amazing, but I'm pretty sure that he's a difficult bastard to deal with. I don't know what the hell happened in Seattle around that time, but gatdamn there was a lot of amazing music.

phrophus wrote:Lanegan is amazing, but I'm pretty sure that he's a difficult bastard to deal with. I don't know what the hell happened in Seattle around that time, but gatdamn there was a lot of amazing music.

I believe its called "Heroin."

ovid9 wrote:

phrophus wrote:Lanegan is amazing, but I'm pretty sure that he's a difficult bastard to deal with. I don't know what the hell happened in Seattle around that time, but gatdamn there was a lot of amazing music.

I believe its called "Heroin."

If you're talking about Lanegan, I agree. If you're talking about the Seattle scene back in the day, I disagree. But, you were probably just making jokes anyway, whore.

phrophus wrote:
If you're talking about Lanegan, I agree. If you're talking about the Seattle scene back in the day, I disagree. But, you were probably just making jokes anyway, whore.

I was making a joke, but lots of those Seattle dudes liked their heroin. Cobain, Lanegan, Staley, Mike Starr (technically prescription drugs but heroin played a big part in getting to that point), Andrew Wood. And those are just dudes that died from it that I can think of off the top of my head.

I know the Seattle scene was pretty big, but it seems a lot of prominent dudes battled heroin.

I'm certainly not an expert on the early grunge movement though.

Edit: I'm not a whore, I don't take money!

Chhers for posting this Brolando!!

LOVE me some Mad Season.

Wish I could find a copy of Live At The Moore.

Good tuneage, but sad seeing Layne looking like he did. He looked BAD.

Some GREAT toans . Good stuff

ovid9 wrote:

phrophus wrote:
If you're talking about Lanegan, I agree. If you're talking about the Seattle scene back in the day, I disagree. But, you were probably just making jokes anyway, whore.

I was making a joke, but lots of those Seattle dudes liked their heroin. Cobain, Lanegan, Staley, Mike Starr (technically prescription drugs but heroin played a big part in getting to that point), Andrew Wood. And those are just dudes that died from it that I can think of off the top of my head.

I know the Seattle scene was pretty big, but it seems a lot of prominent dudes battled heroin.

I'm certainly not an expert on the early grunge movement though.

Edit: I'm not a whore, I don't take money!

I ain't saying they didn't like their drugs. You'd have to be an idiot to say that. I'm only saying that there was more to it than that. I think almost all of the dudes in the bigger bands had some types of troubles with drugs at some point. Pearl Jam may have been the least troubled by it (I don't think Stone Gossard or Jeff Ament ever got out there bad....McCready did, IIRC, but he had some medical problems too).

100 watt wrote:Cheers for posting this Brolando!!

LOVE me some Mad Season.

Wish I could find a copy of Live At The Moore.

Good tuneage, but sad seeing Layne looking like he did. He looked BAD.

Some GREAT toans . Good stuff

I'm sure you can find Live At The Moore somewhere on the net! I never get tired watching it!

Seeing Layne with an SG and a Trem-O-Verb combo =

The remaining guys, with a new bassist, can continue Mad Season's legacy with great music if ever.

phrophus wrote:
I ain't saying they didn't like their drugs. You'd have to be an idiot to say that. I'm only saying that there was more to it than that. I think almost all of the dudes in the bigger bands had some types of troubles with drugs at some point. Pearl Jam may have been the least troubled by it (I don't think Stone Gossard or Jeff Ament ever got out there bad....McCready did, IIRC, but he had some medical problems too).

Oh certainly it was more than that. Its sad that Staley and Cobain both seemed to gain so much inspiration from the thing that at the time was destroying them.

(Yeah, I know Cobain died of a shotgun blast to the skull, but he was high on dope too IIRC.)

Now that I've gotten past the same 5 AIC, Nirvana and PJ songs that my local rock station plays, as well as the pseudo-grunge stuff, I can appreciate a lot of it more than I could say 10 years ago. Some killer killer stuff from those Seattle boys. Even bands I don't really care for.

It feels weird saying it because the band only released the one album, but Mad Season has to be one of my favorite bands. Actually listened to Above on my ride in today.

Will definitely be buying the new CD.

Rampage wrote:It feels weird saying it because the band only released the one album, but Mad Season has to be one of my favorite bands. Actually listened to Above on my ride in today.

Will definitely be buying the new CD.

Not weird at all! Even though this was labeled as a supergroup or side project, the material on this album is killer! I think this is my favorite of McCready's playing, as he totally let loose, went on Hendrix-mode and worked around the songs.

I totally forgot that Lanegan and Martin are ex-bandmates. I wondered if that has anything to do with proceeding with MS a while back when there were to release the album that was gonna be titled Disinformation?

OMGOMGOMGOMG