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

[powens]

Barret Martin is a phenomenal drummer. Just amazing.


On 5 March 2013 13:57, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:


>

> 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

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>

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

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> 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..."

>

>

> 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

>>

>> T.

>>

>>

>>

>> Members of Pearl Jam <http://www.nme.com/artists/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<http://www.nme.com/artists/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<http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1550437/new-pearl-jam-gnr-screaming-trees-supergroup-in-the-works>,

>> 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."

>>

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

>> late Alice In Chains <http://www.nme.com/artists/alice-in-chains>singer, Layne Staley, in the 1990s. The band only released one album,

>> 'Above', which will be re-released next month.

>>

>> 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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