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Barrett Martin, Screaming Trees drummer, Mike McCready, Pearl Jam guitar, John Baker Saunders, bassist in Walkabouts, and Layne Staley, unforgettable voice of Alice In Chains: The Mad Season, probably one of the most famous supergroups of the past two decades . One disc in the bag for them, "Above", released on 14 March 1995. The story is this: during the troubled production of "Vitalogy" Pearl Jam's Mike McCready ends up in rehab in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to detox from alcohol dependence. There she meets John Baker Saunders in 1994 and, once returned to his native Seattle, they set up with the Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, the most classic side band. The trio began to try, but needs a voice: McCready to bring then in the studio Staley. Layne, unfortunately, already marked by the heroine, is called by friends united by newfound sobriety (with the hope / aim to be helpful), to give its contribution to the nascent disc. Work given birth within ten days, but will remain indelible in the following years as a real milestone for the period. Paradoxically, with a different approach from that of the classic Seattle sound, different from grunge in the strict sense: "Above" is an album of Seventies rock blues hypnotic, melancholic and alienating, played by people who had Led Zeppelin well in the head.
After eighteen years of age, this masterpiece returns in deluxe extended edition consists of a three-disc boxset: two CDs and a DVD. On the disks you can find the original album remastered and enriched with five bonus tracks taken directly from the recording session of the band's second album - four originals plus a cover of "I do not wanna be a soldier" by John Lennon, a disk double never completed that saw Mark Lanegan alternating item with Staley - plus a live dated April 29, 1995 containing the latest performance of Mad Season at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. The DVD contains the videos of this concert, an exhibition held at the historic New Year's Eve always RKCNDY of '95 and two other radio performances badged Self-Pollution Radio, a popular program that saw the leader of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, lead in the unusual role of DJ.
TRACKLIST:
CD 1
"Wake up"
"X-Ray Mind"
"River of deceit"
"I'm above"
"Artificial red"
"Lifeless Dead"
"I do not know anything"
"Long Gone Day"
"November Hotel"
"All alone"
"Interlude"
"Locomotive"
"Black book of fear"
"Slip away"
"I do not want to be a soldier"
CD 2
"Wake up"
"Lifeless Dead"
"Artificial red"
"River of deceit"
"I do not want to be a soldier"
"Long Gone Day"
"I'm above"
"I do not know anything"
"X-Ray Mind"
"All alone"
"November Hotel"
