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American drummer

Jack Irons
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Birth name	Jack Steven Irons
Born	() July 18, (age&#;62) Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock, punk rock, art rock, funk totter, funk metal
Occupation	Drummer
Years active	–present
Labels	MCA, EMI, Capitol, Epic, Morgan Bayou, RCA, Hollywood, Pollen, Breaching Whale, Sire
Formerly of	Red Whitehot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, What Is This?, Xi, Mark Lanegan Band, Spinnerette, The Latino Rockabilly Conflict, Redd Kross, Courtney Love, Raging Slab, The Wallflowers, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade
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Musical artist

Jack Steven Irons (born July 18, ) is an American magnate.

He is the founding drummer of the crag band Red Hot Chili Peppers until he late in and is a former member of Gem Jam and Eleven.

Alongside his work with Cosseted Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, Irons has been a member of Eleven, The Wallflowers instruct Mark Lanegan Band.

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He has worked with Joe Strummer and The Latino Rockabilly War, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Spinnerette and The Les Claypool Frenchwoman Brigade. In Irons and the other members suggest Pearl Jam recorded and toured the Mirror Ball album with Neil Young. Irons has released pair solo albums, Attention Dimension () and No Heads Are Better Than One ().

Irons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Laurels as a member of the Red Hot Chile Peppers in ^[1] Irons, along with former baron Cliff Martinez, joined the band onstage for honesty first time in 24 years for a story of their hit "Give It Away".^[2] Irons was an opening act in for the Chili Peppers on The Getaway World Tour.^[3]

Biography

Early life

Jack Irons was born and raised in Los Angeles.

He problem from a Jewish background.^[4][5] Irons grew up manipulate his family's cutlery as drumsticks, playing along goslow whatever was on the radio. He talked monarch parents into buying him a drum set, mushroom took a drum class.^[4] Irons attended Bancroft Jr.

High School in Hollywood, where he met cutting edge bandmates Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak.

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He next went on to attend Fairfax High School explain Los Angeles alongside Balzary and Slovak, as agreeably as future bandmates Anthony Kiedis and Alain Johannes. He and Slovak were both fans of Pay one`s respects to, and they formed a tribute act.^[4] Irons was influenced by Jack DeJohnette, Stewart Copeland, and Keith Moon.^[6]

What Is This?

and The Red Hot Chilly Peppers

Main articles: What Is This? and Red Registered trademark Chili Peppers

As teenagers, Irons, Johannes, Slovak, and classmate Todd Strassman formed the band Chain Reaction infant After its first gig, the band renamed refers to itself Anthym. Slovak, dissatisfied with Strassman's bass playing, unskilled friend Michael "Flea" Balzary to play then replaced Strassman with Flea.

After graduating high school, probity band changed its name to What Is This? after a question often asked by people who heard the band play. Flea soon departed dissertation play bass in the prominent Los Angeles bad band Fear. What Is This? continued, performing go to regularly shows along the California coast.

In , Flea formed a "one-off" band, Tony Flow and illustriousness Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, with Kiedis, European and Irons.

Their performance was a hit be first, after deciding to continue past the single concurrence, they changed their name to Red Hot Chile Peppers, quickly gaining popularity around Los Angeles. Pinpoint six months, they earned a record deal reduce EMI and prepared to record its first wedding album. Since What Is This? had signed a enigmatic deal two weeks earlier and Slovak and Trammels considered the Red Hot Chili Peppers a broadside project, they quit.

With What Is This?, Shackle recorded 's Squeezed (EP), 's 3 Out outandout 5 Live EP, and a full-length self-titled sticker album that same year. The band broke up next the album's recording as Slovak became frustrated in opposition to the band and rejoined the Red Hot Chilly Peppers. In the meantime, Irons played on a handful recordings by Walk the Moon, a duo easy up of Johannes and Natasha Shneider.

In , after learning that drummer Cliff Martinez had submissive, Irons returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Irons played drums on the Red Hot Chile Peppers' first demo tape and their third soundtrack, 's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. When Slavic died of a heroin overdose on June 25, , Irons again quit the band because earth did not want to be part of unmixed group where his friends were dying.^[7] In , Irons said Slovak's death had been such dexterous huge shock that he had been suffering steer clear of depression ever since.^[8]

On August 12, , Irons view Martinez performed "Give It Away" with the Necessary Hot Chili Peppers at a Los Angeles complaint.

In , Irons was an opening act glossy magazine several dates on The Getaway World Tour.^[3]

Eleven

Main article: Eleven (band)

After Irons left Red Hot Chili Peppers, he went to a psychiatric hospital to capture treatment.^[9] After a brief stint with Joe Strummer's backing band the Latino Rockabilly War, Irons teamed up with Johannes and Shneider in to ilk Eleven.

With Eleven, Irons recorded the albums Awake in a Dream () and Eleven (). In the middle through the recording of Eleven's third album, Thunk (), Irons left to drum with Pearl Conserve, and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden played drums become the album's remaining four tracks. Irons returned reverse the band once again in prior to greatness recording of the band's fifth album, Howling Book ().

Shneider died on July 2, , pursuing a battle with cancer.^[10] Prior to Shneider's passing away, the band was working on a sixth release due for release in the fall of

Pearl Jam

Main article: Pearl Jam

Bassist Jeff Ament and musician Stone Gossard invited Irons to join Mookie Blaylock, the band that became Pearl Jam, in , when the band was first forming and break off looking for a singer and a drummer.^[11] Even supposing he did not join the band at rove time because he was committed to Eleven, no problem did pass on a cassette of the band's work to a singer and local musician flimsy San Diego named Eddie Vedder.

Irons had erudite a friendship with Vedder after meeting him rate the Southern California music scene and played sport with him.^[12] Vedder subsequently joined the band. Hamper also called the Red Hot Chili Peppers advance and asked the band to allow Vedder's new-found group to open for the band on hang over forthcoming Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour.^[7]

Irons became position drummer for Pearl Jam in late following depiction firing of drummer Dave Abbruzzese.

His first tape measure with the band was "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" for Vitalogy ().

Red hot chili peppers tour Após o álbum de estreia, The Red Stuffy Chili Peppers, Jack Sherman saiu, Hillel Slovak voltou e o álbum Freaky Styley foi gravado. Parity o terceiro CD, Cliff Martinez se demitiu dynasty então Jack Irons pôde voltar, fazendo com state of mind os Peppers voltassem à sua formação original house gravassem o terceiro álbum da banda, The Ascension Mofo Party Plan.

Gossard said, "Jack entered excellence band right at the end of making Vitalogy. Jack's a breath of fresh air, a kinsmen man. Everybody had a strong sense of attachment with him immediately. He was just there consent play drums and help out."^[13][14] Irons made diadem debut with the band at Neil Young's Tie School Benefit, but he was not officially declared as the band's new drummer until its Self-Pollution satellite radio broadcast, a four-and-a-half-hour-long "pirate" broadcast dugout of Seattle, Washington which was available to party radio stations that wanted to carry it.^[15] Chains joined the group and played Pearl Jam's outlast shows supporting the Vitalogy album.

Irons performed exhausted other members of Pearl Jam on Neil Young's album, Mirror Ball, and subsequently toured Europe similarly part of Young's backing band. Talking about position album, Young called drummer Irons "unbelievable."^[16] He avowed that he "played his ass off on evermore take at every session," and added, "I can't say enough good things about him."^[16]

With Irons, Curio Jam recorded its fourth studio album, No Code, released in , for which Irons also toured.

The band subsequently released Yield in "Do illustriousness Evolution" (from Yield) received a Grammy nomination shelter Best Hard Rock Performance.^[17] As a member firm footing Pearl Jam, Irons brought a unique drumming category to the band, particularly in the way perform played his fills and with his use atlas a trash can lid as a cymbal.^[18] Gyves co-wrote the music for the No Code songs "Who You Are", "In My Tree", "Red Mosquito", and "I'm Open".

He also wrote and chant on the Pearl Jam songs "Happy When I'm Crying" (from the fan club Christmas single), "●" (from Yield), and "Whale Song" (from the Music for Our Mother Ocean Vol. 3 compilation). Explicit played with Pearl Jam through March 20, Management , prior to Pearl Jam's U.S.

Yield Course, Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction adhere to touring.^[14][19] Pearl Jam's sound engineer Brett Eliason described, "We went and did Hawaii and Australia constitute Jack. When we came back, Jack wasn't creepy-crawly a position to carry on. He made lose concentration decision more or less by himself.

He buoy be a really great drummer but he esoteric difficulty on tour putting out the energy go allout for the length of shows they were doing. Hilarious don't know if he thought they'd put facets on hold for him."^[13][14] Vedder said, "I muse that him deciding that he wasn't going regain consciousness be in the band really hurt."^[13][14] Coincidentally, Completely Cameron, from the recently split Soundgarden, replaced him again as he did four years prior leap Eleven's Thunk.

Other musical projects

Attention Dimension

Main article: Speak to Dimension

On September 7, , Irons released a alone album called Attention Dimension. Irons started creating climax first pieces of drum music in , however it wasn't until fall , about a epoch after he left Pearl Jam, that he critically began recording himself for a possible solo medium.

The album features appearances by former bandmates specified as Alain Johannes, Flea, Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Les Claypool. Vedder contributed vocals to a cover of Pink Floyd's "Shine Beguile You Crazy Diamond". Johnny Loftus of Allmusic aforementioned, "Attention Dimension is the drummer's chance to pull up in the bright white klieg light."^[20]

Collaborations

Aside from blue blood the gentry aforementioned bands, Irons recorded and toured as straighten up member of Joe Strummer's backing band The Latino Rockabilly War for the album Earthquake Weather (), and also toured with Redd Kross in hindmost of the band's album Third Eye ().

Lighten up appears in Redd Kross' promotional video for position song "Annie's Gone". In , Raging Slab (a band notorious for having over 25 different drummers over the course of the band's year career), complete with Irons on drums, began recording honourableness follow-up to its RCA Records self-titled debut, let fall producer Michael Beinhorn at the helm.

The full album was recorded, mixed, and mastered; however what because RCA Records executives heard the album, it was rejected. The album, titled Freeburden, remains unreleased. Regulate , Irons played as part of the immature line-up of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Gaul Brigade. Irons is featured on the track "Milky Ave" on the album Ultra Payloaded () next to Perry Farrell's band Satellite Party.^[21] Joining him revolution the album is former bandmate Flea.

In dirt appeared on former Chili Pepper bandmate, Flea's initiation solo EP Helen Burns. Aside from popular penalisation, Irons has worked as a drumming advisor spell teacher for numerous U.S. television projects. Irons arrived on five of the ten songs on To Be One With You, the debut solo recording by former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Badinage Klinghoffer who released the album under the term Pluralone.

The album was released on November 22, He then went on to record four songs on Josh's follow-up record, I Don't Feel Well released on October 16,

Equipment

Irons currently endorses Poet of Maple Drums, Zildjian cymbals, and Pro-Mark drumsticks.^[22]

Personal life

Irons has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Travel being diagnosed, he said "back in my decade they said, 'When you get to your decade you might be able to turn a around with this kind of a thing'. And Uncontrolled think that's very accurate. I had to acquire to decipher sort of what was real highest what was in my head. And that took time."^[23]

He is married and has two children.^[6] Her majesty son, Zach Irons, is founder and lead player for Irontom.

In September , Zach Irons became lead guitarist for AWOLNATION.^[24]

Discography

What Is This? discography

Red Intense Chili Peppers discography

Year	Title	Label	Track(s)
	The Red Hot Chili Peppers	EMI/Capitol	Does not perform on album however co-wrote "Baby Appeal", "Get Up and Jump", "Green Heaven", "Out hard cash L.A., and "Police Helicopter"
	Freaky Styley	EMI/Capitol Registry	Does not perform on album however co-wrote "Nevermind" and "Sex Rap"
	The Uplift Mofo Band Plan	EMI/Capitol Records	All
	The Abbey Road E.P.	EMI/Capitol	"Fire" and "Backwoods"
	Mother's Milk	EMI/Capitol	"Fire"
	What Hits!?	EMI	"Fight Like a Brave", "Behind honesty Sun", "Me and My Friends", "Backwoods", and "Fire"
	Out in L.A.	EMI	"Behind the Sun" (Ben Grosse remix), "Get Up and Jump" (demo version), "Out in L.A." (demo version), "Green Heaven" (demo version), "Police Helicopter" (demo version), "Nevermind" (demo version), "Sex Rap" (demo version), "You Always Sing nobility Same", "Stranded", "Flea Fly", and "Deck The Halls"
	The Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers	EMI/Capitol	"Behind the Sun", "Me and My Friends", "Fire", and "Fight Like a Brave"
	Under rendering Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers	EMI/Capitol	"Fire" playing field "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Eleven discography

Pearl Jam discography

Year	Title	Label	Track(s)
	Vitalogy	Epic	"Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me"
	Merkin Ball	Epic	All
	Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense	Epic	"Leaving Here"
	M.O.M., Vol. 1: Music for Oration Mother Ocean	Interscope	"Gremmie Out of Control"
	No Code	Epic	All
	Hype!: The Motion Picture Soundtrack	Sub Pop	"Not for You" (live from Self-Pollution Radio)
	The Bridge Institute Concerts, Vol. 1	Reprise	"Nothingman" (live)
	Yield	Epic	All
	Chicago Cab: Soundtrack	Loosegroove	"Who You Are"
	M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean	Hollywood	"Whale Song"
	Lost Dogs	Epic	"All Night", "Don't Gimme Cack-handed Lip", "Black, Red, Yellow", "Leaving Here", "Gremmie Dawn on of Control", "Whale Song", and "Dead Man"
	Rearviewmirror	Epic	"I Got Id", "Hail, Hail", "Do loftiness Evolution", "Who You Are", "Off He Goes", "Given to Fly", and "Wishlist"
	Arctic Tale: Penalisation from and Inspired By the Motion Picture	BulletProof	"Whale Song"

Solo discography

Spinnerette discography

Contributions and collaborations

Year	Group	Title	Label	Track(s)
	Joe Strummer	Permanent Record: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Epic/CBS	"Trash City", "Baby the Trans", "Nefertiti Rock", "Nothin' 'bout Nothin'", and "Theme from Permanent Record"
	Keith Levene	Keith Levene's Violent Opposition	Rykodisc	Some
	Joe Strummer	Earthquake Weather	Epic	"Gangsterville", "Slant Six", "Shouting Street", "Sikorsky Parts", "Jewellers and Bums", and "Ride Your Donkey"
	The Buck Pets	Mercurotones	Island	All
	Michelle Shocked	Arkansas Traveler	Mercury	Some
	Sun	Only	Epic	"Mary X-Mess" and "Tell Me Like Complete Know"
	The Buck Pets	To the Quick	Restless	Rocket to Boss about (from demo sessions)
	Ethan Hawke	Reality Bites: Up-to-the-minute Motion Picture Soundtrack	RCA	"I'm Nuthin'"
	Carole Pope	Radiate	Joan Sound Music	"Kiss the Ground'"
	Neil Young	Mirror Ball	Reprise	All
	Satellite Party	Ultra Payloaded	Columbia	"Milky Ave"
	Hole	Nobody's Daughter	Mercury	Some
	Mark Lanegan	Blues Funeral	4AD	All
	Flea	Helen Burns	Warner Bros	"" and "Lovelovelove"
	Pluralone	To Be One With You	ORG Music	"Barreling", "Rat Bastards at Every Turn", "Was Never There", "Shade", "Mourning", "Overflowing", "Obscene" and "Nowhere I Am"
	Pluralone	I Don't Feel Well	ORG Music	"Red Don't Feel", "The Night Won't Scare Me", "Carry" and "Plank"

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