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Degradation Trip | Jerry Cantrell
You may recall my post a couple weeks back on Mad Season. I found a review suggesting that they sounded exactly as you’d expect knowing that Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) was the singer, and I explicitly stated this was false. That doesn’t mean a side-project can’t sound very similar to its predecessor and still be great. Jerry Cantrell also started a side-project from Alice in Chains… and it’s just as you’d expect.
Above | Mad Season
Despite the over abundance of 90’s grunge bands from Seattle, there are very few I still listen to. Nevertheless, I’m not sure Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, or Alice Chains will ever get too old for me. If you’re well-versed in your grunge, you know where I’m going with this… Mad Season was Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog), John Saunders (The Walkabouts), and Layne Staley (Alice in Chains). Although, I didn’t find Mad Season to be so much grunge as maybe some sort of drug-induced mixture of Alice in Chains and The Doors.
Toadies
It took them seven years to release a studio album following their debut and roughly another seven years for their third. I swore they were finished after their second release, but their first release was so good that their diligence makes me a little hopeful for their third release due next week.
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