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John Baker Saunders, Jr. (September 23, 1954 – January 15, 1999) was an American musician, known as a founding member and bassist for the American grunge rock supergroup Mad Season, as well as a member of The Walkabouts.
20 de ene. de 1999 · John Baker Saunders, 44, bassist for the Seattle-based rock band Mad Season, died Friday of a drug overdose, a spokesperson for Curtis Management has confirmed. The...
13 de abr. de 2021 · John Baker Saunders died from a heroin overdose on January 15, 1999, effectively ending any chance of Mad Season continuing. The news of his death hit Barrett Martin hard. “It was a very big shock to me, because we bought houses that were just a few blocks apart, and he would come to my house almost every morning,” he says.
- Ken Mcintyre
Mad Season fue un supergrupo de grunge creado en 1994 en Seattle por Mike McCready, guitarrista de Pearl Jam, Layne Staley, vocalista de Alice In Chains, Barrett Martin, baterista de los Screaming Trees, y John Baker Saunders, bajista de The Walkabouts, editando un solo álbum, titulado Above.
- 1994-1999, 2012
- History
- Musical Style
- Band Members
- Discography
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Career beginnings
During the production of 1994's Vitalogy, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready went into drug and alcohol rehab at the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota, where he met bassist John Baker Saunders. In 1994, when the two returned to Seattle, Washington, they formed a side band with drummer Barrett Martin. McCready played in bands such as Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog, Martin with Skin Yard and the Screaming Trees and Saunders with blues talents such as Little Pat Rushing, Hubert Sumlin, Sammy Fender,...
Above
After gaining more popularity, the band recorded its only album and changed its name to Mad Season, which is an English term for the time of the year when psilocybin mushrooms are in full bloom, and a term which McCready related to "the seasons of drinking and drug abuse." The album, Above, which was recorded in Seattle, Washington at Bad Animals Studio (co-owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart) and co-produced by the band and Pearl Jam sound engineer Brett Eliason, featured ten songs. It al...
Dormancy, Disinformation, and dissolution
The band continued to play shows during the spring of 1995 before going on hiatus so that the members could return to work with their main bands. During this time the band released the Live at the Moore concert film, which was a live performance recorded at Seattle's Moore Theatre on April 29, 1995. Also, during this time the band contributed a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier" to the 1995 John Lennon tribute album, Working Class Hero. In 1996, a live version of "River of De...
McCready described the songs on the band's only album, Above, as "some jazzy stuff, some blues, some arena rock." Before his review was revised, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that the album "sounds like a cross between Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, taking the ponderous seriousness of Alice and PJ's '90s update of winding '70s guitar roc...
Official members
1. Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees) - drums(1994–1999, 2012, 2014–2015) 2. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) - lead guitar(1994–1999, 2012, 2014–2015) 3. John Baker Saunders (later with The Walkabouts) – bass(1994–1999; his death) 4. Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) – vocals, rhythm guitar (1994–1997; died 2002) 5. Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, later with Queens of the Stone Age) – vocals (1997–1999; died 2022)
Additional personnel
1. Skerik – saxophone, percussion(1994–1995) 2. Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) - vocals (2015; died 2017) 3. Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses) – bass (2015) 4. Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam) – drums (2015)
Mad Season discography at DiscogsMad Season at AllMusic- 1994–1996, (1997–1999 as Disinformation, partial Mad Season reunions in 2012, 2014–2015)
A spokesperson for Curtis Management has confirmed the death of Mad Season bassist John Baker Saunders. Few details were available, but it was thought that the musician may have died of a drug...
7 de mar. de 2022 · McCready met bassist John Baker Saunders in rehab and their friendship was the catalyst for the band that would become Mad Season when Staley and Screaming Trees’ drummer Barrett Martin joined. Saunders’ blues schooling from his time in Chicago would flavour Above’s dark mix into a unique proposition.
