Pearl Jam's Mike McCready gave rock fans some major news on Friday. He will be teaming up with Guns N' Roses alum Duff McKagan and former Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin for a supergroup of sorts.
"Duff and Barrett and I got together," McCready said in an interview with Billboard. "We wrote some new stuff and we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that [unreleased] second 'Disinformation' record, so we are trying to find something to do with those. We're talking to Jaz [Coleman] from Killing Joke and I've been trying to find some singers to work on some of that stuff."
McCready is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. The band is still going strong, decades after its formation in Seattle in 1990. Last week Pearl Jam's 1991 album, "Ten" reached 10 million in U.S. sales. The band also recently sold out an upcoming show at...
"Duff and Barrett and I got together," McCready said in an interview with Billboard. "We wrote some new stuff and we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that [unreleased] second 'Disinformation' record, so we are trying to find something to do with those. We're talking to Jaz [Coleman] from Killing Joke and I've been trying to find some singers to work on some of that stuff."
McCready is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. The band is still going strong, decades after its formation in Seattle in 1990. Last week Pearl Jam's 1991 album, "Ten" reached 10 million in U.S. sales. The band also recently sold out an upcoming show at...
- 3/2/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready has formed a new group with former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and ex-Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin. The unnamed band is working on a set that will incorporate a revolving number of vocalists, among them Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman. McCready and Martin, who were in the mid-90s’ side-project Mad Season, began writing with McKagan, and “we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that [unreleased] second ‘Disinformation’ record,” McCready tells Billboard. “We’re talking to Jaz...and I’ve been trying to find some singer to work on some of that stuff.” McCready plans to release...
- 3/1/2013
- Hitfix
The ‘90s are back—again. Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin have formed an as-yet-unnamed, sort-of-supergroup sure to mildly thrill thirtysomethings everywhere. According to McCready, the group will feature a number of different singers including, potentially, Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman. Whatever the band ends up recording will come out on McCready’s label, Hockeytalker Records. This isn’t the first time McCready, McKagan, and Martin have worked together, though it’s never been as a trio. Martin and McKagan, are currently involved in a group called Walking Papers ...
- 3/1/2013
- avclub.com
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