In July 2015, Martin announced on Facebook that he was recording new Mad Season material with McCready and McKagan. 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…
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Mad Season reunited again for a special concert titled “Sonic Evolution” with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra on January 30, 2015, at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. At this show, Chris Cornell filled in for Staley on vocals, and McKagan filled in for Saunders on bass. Kim Virant of Lazy Susan and…
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Legacy Recordings released an expanded deluxe edition of Above in April 2013. A three-disc boxset comprising two CDs and one DVD , it includes a digitally remastered version of the studio album, the John Lennon cover “I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier”, some unreleased tracks from the band’s unfinished second…
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To honor our departed brothers, Mike [McCready] and I oversaw a Mad Season box set, which comes out March 12th, 2013. 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. The most exciting stuff: three…
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In October 2012, Barrett Martin announced a Mad Season box set:
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 . They were joined by Loaded singer Jeff Rouse and The Rockfords bassist Rick Friel.
In 2012, Martin, McCready and McKagan, along with singer Jeff Angell and keyboardist Benjamin Anderson collaborated on an album called Walking Papers . Spurred by this collaboration, Martin, McCready and McKagan revisited the unreleased Mad Season material. In July 2012, Martin confirmed that Mark Lanegan would be singing several songs…
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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…
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Following Saunders’ death, McCready returned to working and touring with Pearl Jam and also later formed a new side project, The Rockfords . Martin briefly returned to work with Screaming Trees before the band disbanded in 2000. Since then Martin has worked as an occasional touring drummer for R.E.M. and…
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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. Over the course of the year the quartet gradually grew apart, making a Disinformation album all the more unlikely. Another critical blow was…
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