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Mad Season's failed second album, their follow up to 1995's Above. SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vVPAEF Check out our Top 25 Favourite Albums Here https://rockandrolltruestories.com/ Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! https://bit.ly/3stnXlN ----CONNECT ON SOCIAL---- Instagram:   / rocknrolltruestories   Facebook:   / rnrtruestories   Twitter:   / rocktruestories   Blog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com #madseason #laynestaley #pearljam I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. Considered a grunge supergroup, Mad Season would be made up of Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, bassist John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin. The origins of Mad Season began in 1994. Pearl Jam guitarist Mike Mcready had been struggling with substance abuse and headed to a treatment center in Minnesota where he met bassist John Baker Saunders who was dealing with a heroin addiction. Following their stint at rehab, both musicians agreed to start a band to help each other stay sober. They would enlist drummer Barrett Martin and all they needed now was a frontman. Alice in Chains at the time were on a break following a failed 1994 tour with Metallica that had to be shelved due to frontman Layne Staley’s substance abuse issues. McCready knowing that Layne was struggling staying sober, offered the singer a chance to join the group hoping it would help him stay clean. Staley joined the group and they played some shows and worked on their first and only album Above, which came out in March of 1995. The group’s name meanwhile would be thought of by Mcready who told Yahoo. Also contributing to the group’s album Above was Screaming Trees frontman mark lanegan who co-wrote and sang vocals on several tracks. Mad Season would play a total of 6 shows, but the members had other commitments and went back to their respective bands by early 1995. Despite the limited window of promotion for the record, Above was a success going gold thanks to thesingle River of Deceit which was a top 10 hit on rock radio. Despite their other commitments, Columbia records who Mad season was signed to, wanted a follow up album with Martin telling Loudersound “Columbia wanted us to make another record, and we said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it,’” Nobody ever quit the band, nobody ever called up and said: ‘I can’t do this.’ “Mike, Baker and I had been working on riffs and chord progressions. We went into the studio and started recording basic tracks and, basically, Layne never came back. Mark Lanegan came down for one day. He sang on a couple of songs from the first album, but he wasn’t ready to sing on anything at that point. The truth was, Layne’s health was deteriorating and I think he really wanted to do it but he just couldn’t.” Originally called Disinformation, the second Mad Season album would eventually be scrapped. McReady and Martin’s focus soon changed to starting a new band called disinformation with Lanegan fronting the group, but again it went no where. Any hopes for a future follow up were shattered when John Baker Saunders died in January of 1999 due to a heroin overdose. Martin would recall to Loudersound “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,”. “We’d sit and have coffee with my girlfriend, and we’d just laugh all the time. He had a lot of great stories about playing the blues. He and I had talked the night before he died about how we were going to meet and have breakfast at a diner in our neighbourhood. He died that night. I got a call early the next morning about how he had died from an overdose and I was in complete shock, because I had no idea that that was even a possibility, because, like I said, I saw him almost every day. It was bad.” According to the Mark Yarm book Everybody Loves Our Town, one of Baker’s friends would recall the time leading up to his death remembering how the bassist was stressed financially and banking on a new mad season album. In addition to that, Saunders was in a relationship with a belgian woman who had gone back home and he was feeling lonely. Baker would end up relapsing while his dealer was at his house and it was said in the book that his dealer waited too long to call 911. In 1999 during an interview on Rockline the members of Alice in Chains were interviewed when one caller asked about Mad Season’s future. Here’s what Layne had to say. Nearly three years later on April 5, 2002 Staley would die from a drug overdose. Mad Season’s sole record Above would be r