Jack Irons
Jack Steven Irons (born July 18, 1962 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American drummer and founding member of the crossover band Tony Flow & The Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem , from which the Red Hot Chili Peppers emerged.
Life
As a teenager, Irons founded the band What Is This? Together with Hillel Slovak , Alain Johannes and Todd Strassman . . In 1983, he and Slovak teamed up with classmates Flea and Anthony Kiedis and performed as Tony Flow & The Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem , before being renamed Red Hot Chili Peppers a short time later. On the self-titled debut album The Red Hot Chili Peppers he was replaced by Cliff Martinez and Slovak by Jack Sherman , since the two What Is This? initially regarded as their main band. For the album Freaky Styley , released in 1985, Slovak returned to the Peppers, and from 1986 Irons was again part of the band's regular line-up. Together, the band recorded the album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan in 1987 , which was to remain the only studio album in the founding line-up.
After Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988 , Irons, who was close to him, had to receive psychological treatment. Due to a similar lifestyle, especially von Kiedis, he blamed the other band members for Slovak's death and then left the band. With the former Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro , a first successor was quickly found, with whom the collaboration in the band did not work and who therefore quickly left the band to make way for the permanent solution to Chad Smith .
Irons then worked again with Johannes, the two founded the band Eleven . With the group he recorded two albums before he left the band during the recording of the third album in the direction of Pearl Jam and was replaced by Matt Cameron . There Dave Abbruzzese had decided to say goodbye during the recording of the Vitalogy record , Irons took over the drum part for the track Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me . He was then involved in the group's collaboration as a studio band for Neil Young on the Mirror Ball album as well as on the Pearl Jam albums No Code and Yield . After first appearances in Hawaii and New Zealand on the Yield tour, he left the band before the start of the US tour in March 1998 for health reasons, again Cameron was his successor.
Then Irons initially withdrew before releasing his solo album Attention Dimension in 2005 with the support of various guest musicians, including several of his former band colleagues such as Eddie Vedder or Flea . On the other hand, he also supported former colleagues in their projects, for example he supported Johannes as the drummer in his band Spinnerette and in 2012 Flea on his EP Helen Burns . He was also the studio drummer for The Mannequins album Fino + Bleed and the Hole album Nobody's Daughter .
Irons is married and has two children.
Discography
With red hot chili peppers
- The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987)
- The Abbey Road EP (1988)
With Eleven
- Awake in a Dream (1991)
- Eleven (1993)
- Thunk (1995)
With Neil Young
- Mirror Ball (1995)
With Pearl Jam
Jack Irons
- Attention Dimension 2005
Spinnerette
- Spinnerette 2009
Web links
- Jack Irons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Irons, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Irons, Jack Steven (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |