Jack Irons
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Oct 28, 2026
ZeusHOST
Yep.
ZeusHOST
So eventually Jack Irons from Red Hot Chili Peppers comes in and replaces Dave.
ZeusHOST
There is still to this Dave.
ZeusHOST
We like to make everything a TARD, but a Dave Abruzzini TARD group in Pearl Jam that people just fucking love this guy.
ZeusHOST
That's true, though.
ZeusHOST
That's true.
Mike HsuGUEST
They sounded different once Jack Irons came out.
Mike HsuGUEST
Because their
Mike ParkHOST
Well, I went to one show.
Mike ParkHOST
I think I've told you I saw the original band with Hell L and Jack Irons.
Mike ParkHOST
Sure.
Mike ParkHOST
So you saw them on
Mike ParkHOST
He was like a little bit chubby, but also ripped at the same time.
Mike ParkHOST
Yeah, I...
Rick JohnsonHOST
Jack Irons in that band is my second favorite drummer.
Rick JohnsonHOST
I like the first and second album drummer better.
Janda LaneHOST
They were looking for a singer, and here's where the legend begins.
Janda LaneHOST
They passed a demo tape to Jack Irons, former drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, hoping he might know someone.
Janda LaneHOST
Jack knew a guy in San Diego who worked a night shift at a gas station and surfed in his spare time.
Janda LaneHOST
That guy was, of course, Eddie Vedder.
James CampionHOST
The three then went to the studio with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and former Shadow drummer Chris Friel to record instrumental demos of five songs, Dollar Short, Agition Crave, Footsteps, Richard's E&E Ballad, that was circulated in the hopes of finding a singer and drummer for the trio.
James CampionHOST
and to her 25-year-old Eddie Vedder, working as a gas station attendant in San Diego, California, who acquired a copy of the demo in September of 1990 that was given to him by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons.
James CampionHOST
Vedder, bumming around San Diego mostly surfing, listened to the demo, was immediately inspired to write lyrics the next day for Dollar Short, Audition Crave, and Footsteps.
James CampionHOST
Dollar Short and Audition Crave were later retitled Alive and Once, respectively.
Tim CatesCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, he died of a drug overdose.
Tim CatesCORRESPONDENT
And Jack Irons left the band as well.
Tim CatesCORRESPONDENT
So the two of them, Flea and Anthony Kiedis, kept the band going.
Tim CatesCORRESPONDENT
Three years later is when they reached the success.
TopherHOST
... too commercial, they dumped him.
TopherHOST
Then they had Jack Irons for four years.
MarkHOST
Oh.
TopherHOST
But he has performance anxiety, and he can't tour, so they had to dump him.
TopherHOST
Yeah.
TopherHOST
So that's why he was never very good in Red Hot Chili Peppers.
TopherHOST
Before Chad Smith, it was Jack Irons.
MarkHOST
Okay.
Javier HerbasHOST
One of the things that I, I thought that it was very interesting is one of my favorite things to do, if I'm allowed to call myself a podcaster [laughs] is when you have this luxury to go back in time and you hear shows from the, from the '90s or 2000s or whatever.
Javier HerbasHOST
And ironically, some of the songs I thought that it was Jack Irons playing, and this is something that I was telling the guys before we started.
Javier HerbasHOST
And then when I noticed the date, I'm like, "Hold on a second.
Javier HerbasHOST
I mean, the, the, th- this is something that is not right." And I, I, I wanted to go back to Patrick's point too, 'cause these guys are so tied up.
Javier HerbasHOST
It feels like a continuity of the right things that they needed at that time, and I'm glad they did.
Javier HerbasHOST
I'm glad they did, because this guy is gonna push them to be better musicians, like for the next 20-plus years.
Randy SobelHOST
I find it kind of interesting that, that you say that, that he wasn't trying to fully expose himself at first and he wasn't, wasn't trying to step on Jack Irons' toes.
Randy SobelHOST
Because when Jack Irons steps into this band, it feels like he nearly erased all of what Dave A. had done in three or four years' time.
Duncan EvansHOST
so this is the clash content this is an album from joe strummer the lead singer and guitarist of the clash from 1989 called earthquake weather his first non-soundtrack solo album released on the 20th of september 1989 this is also um red hot chili peppers content as well because the drummer
Nick CameronHOST
oh jack irons
Duncan EvansHOST
Jack Irons is on half the chance.
Duncan EvansHOST
It was also, I think, in Pearl Jam for a bit.
Duncan EvansHOST
I
Nick CameronHOST
So it's probably safe to say this is more of a super group than just our group.
Duncan EvansHOST
In a way, yeah, yeah.
Duncan EvansHOST
And then Jack Irons, Willie McNeil, he did drums on the other half of the album that Jack Irons didn't play on.
Cameron KunzelmanHOST
go outside that now.
SeanHOST
You don't be, that's Jack irons.
SeanHOST
Jesus
Cameron KunzelmanHOST
Christ.
SeanHOST
Yeah.
SeanHOST
So Jack, Jack irons.
SeanHOST
And I, you know what I said, I said it too.
SeanHOST
Um, uh evil taste maven my wife lisa and she immediately said the name of like the weird chili pepper song about the dolphin and was like that's a good one so like it's a problem in this house apparently but yeah like he was jack irons was the what does he play the drums on so uh he was not that much turns out um it's not a few of them though where is it i was looking at this the other day i was like who is this guy why is he being so competent He had just joined Pearl Jam, I think, because this is, so this came, I think, is this between the second and third Pearl Jam albums, maybe?
Randy SobelHOST
And Lukin, which was known as 100 Pacer at the time, was played nearly every night in 1995.
Randy SobelHOST
So you had already little hints of what the next page was gonna be for this band, even when you're still trying to dissect everything and break everything down from their last record and still, you know, although he's phenomenal, in Jack Irons, you still gotta get used to a new drummer too because there's a little bit of a hangover there.
Javier HerbasHOST
Everything that you said reminds me of a quote that Ed said in, uh, the PJ20 documentary when he gets into the Potato Head Gallery and he smells all the paints and, like, that sense of being creative.
Javier HerbasHOST
I can definitely see his intention behind of not just wasting the effort because, like you were saying, all those years were, like, tour after tour after tour.
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Javier HerbasHOST
Yeah.
Javier HerbasHOST
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm with you on that one.
Javier HerbasHOST
Always Jack Irons is gonna be one of the major highlights because of that insane drum intro that he gets to the song.
Javier HerbasHOST
But yeah, I'm, I'm there with you.
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