Mad Season

Wow.

Mad Season.

You'd love that.

I love that record.

Um-

And I mean, yeah, even '95, you know, you had Mad Season, these guys putting out new projects and still working together, and I know it, it definitely wasn't musically over, you know? But I think, um, yeah, there is that narrative sense of, you know, there's the start and there's Kurt's death, and that's it, you know?

Yeah.

Close the door.

They, they got back together and put up the New Dragons on the Showbox, uh, marquee, and it took a couple minutes for some folks to figure it out.

It took, uh, suckers like me a day or two to figure it out, when tickets were already gone.

Uh, but there's Temple of the Dog without Eddie Vedder, uh, Mad Season doing the Seattle Symphony.

Did it feel like second acts to you, or was it more memorial-type concerts? How did you feel about those?

Yeah, I was looking for something more depressing.

That's why I go with Mad Season, Long Gone Day.

So, I'm sure someone listening knows what I'm talking about.

I should have

Me and Paul are pretty passionate, and I try to always do what I can to keep that under control.

So how about we do some more Mad Season? But yeah, Pauly will be in here at 5.30 this evening.

I'm really looking forward to it.

He's got some family time, which has been great.

I love seeing it.

And I had a mad season weekend.

request yesterday and i just wanted to go ahead and play it again and see what we got so this is going to be mad season wake up from the studio version thank you all so much for listening

Wake up young man It's time to wake up Your love affair has got to go For ten long years For ten long years South's no way to go blue clouded gray you're not a cracker dizzy and weak and

The band had essentially stopped functioning normally, and there was widespread speculation that they had broken up, or even that Staley had died.

Staley had meanwhile recorded above with Mad Season.

Alice in Chains reconvened partly to put those breakup rumors to rest.

The band entered Bad Animals without having a conventional finished batch of songs already.

If Jeff's not my singer, I'm not in the band.

Those bands, we did the Seattle thing, which was all the Seattle bands and all their side projects, Mad Season, Temple of the Dog, Candlebox, Screaming Thieves, on top of, of

course,

Pearl Jam, Soundgarden.

My mind just went blank.

Mad Season.

Yeah.

I was going to say, not Alice in Chains.

Not Alice in Chains.

Mad Season, River of Deceit.

Oh, wow.

I haven't heard that song in probably a couple decades, literally.