[kj] Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses (and KJ???) supergroup in the works

[Alexander Smith]

Weird that Jaz would entertain the notion, although it's probably just  
to keep his name in circulation. I mean, how do you slag off the likes  
of the Cult and the Mission one minute, and then get all chummy with  
Pearl Jam the next?

Alex in NYC


On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:27 PM, bongo wrote:


> i instantly thought... FUCK THAT...

>

> but, who knows, could be worth a listen at least...

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> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been  

> postponed indefinitely..."

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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:16 AM, drunk wish <dwish2000 at hotmail.com>  

> wrote:

> Eh?

>

> http://www.nme.com/news/pearl-jam/68980

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> T.

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> Members of Pearl Jam, Guns N'Roses and Screaming Trees have formed a  

> supergroup.

>

> Pearl Jam's Mike McCready has joined forces with former Guns N'  

> Roses member Duff McKagan - pictured above - and former Screaming  

> Trees drummer Barrett Martin for a brand new, as-yet-unnamed, band.

>

> Speaking to Billboard, guitarist McCready said the band will be  

> fronted by a host of different singers, possibly including Killing  

> Joke's Jaz Coleman.

>

> He said: "Duff and Barrett and I got together. We wrote some new  

> stuff and we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that  

> second 'Disinformation' record, so we are trying to find something  

> to do with those. We're talking to Jaz from Killing Joke and I've  

> been trying to find some singers to work on some of that stuff."

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> Mad Season was the band that McCready and Martin played in with the  

> late Alice In Chains singer, Layne Staley, in the 1990s. The band  

> only released one album, 'Above', which will be re-released next  

> month.

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> The band's second album, 'Disinformation', was never released.

>

> The idea for the new band came together when McCready and Martin  

> were working on the Mad Season re-issue. Martin adds: "I had a whole  

> bunch of song ideas and Mike had a whole bunch of song ideas... We  

> decided that we would go into the studio and record them. Right now  

> they're being sent out to different singers. Mike and Duff are  

> overseeing  that because they know everybody."

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