Jack Irons

American drummer

Jack Irons

Irons in 1984

Background information
Birth name| Jack Steven Irons
Born|  (1962-07-18) July 18, 1962 (age 62)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres| Alternative rock, punk rock, art rock, funk rock, funk metal
Occupation| Drummer
Years active| 1976–present
Labels| MCA, EMI, Capitol, Epic, Morgan Creek, RCA, Hollywood, Pollen, Breaching Whale, Sire
Formerly of| Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, What Is This?, Eleven, Mark Lanegan Band, Spinnerette, The Latino Rockabilly War, Redd Kross, Courtney Love, Raging Slab, The Wallflowers, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade
Website| jackirons.com

Musical artist

Jack Steven Irons (born July 18, 1962) is an American drummer. He is the founding drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers until he departed in 1988 and is a former member of Pearl Jam and Eleven.

Alongside his work with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, Irons has been a member of Eleven, The Wallflowers and Mark Lanegan Band. He has worked with Joe Strummer and The Latino Rockabilly War, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Spinnerette and The Les Claypool Frog Brigade. In 1995 Irons and the other members of Pearl Jam recorded and toured the Mirror Ball album with Neil Young. Irons has released two solo albums, Attention Dimension (2004) and No Heads Are Better Than One (2010).

Irons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012.[1] Irons, along with former drummer Cliff Martinez, joined the band onstage for the first time in 24 years for a performance of their 1991 hit "Give It Away".[2] Irons was an opening act in 2017 for the Chili Peppers on The Getaway World Tour.[3]

## Biography

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### Early life

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Jack Irons was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is from a Jewish background.[4][5] Irons grew up using his family's cutlery as drumsticks, playing along to whatever was on the radio. He talked his parents into buying him a drum set, and took a drum class.[4] Irons attended Bancroft Jr. High School in Hollywood, where he met future bandmates Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak. He then went on to attend Fairfax High School in Los Angeles alongside Balzary and Slovak, as well as future bandmates Anthony Kiedis and Alain Johannes. He and Slovak were both fans of Kiss, 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 Chili Peppers

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Main articles: What Is This? and Red Hot Chili Peppers

As teenagers, Irons, Johannes, Slovak, and schoolmate Todd Strassman formed the band Chain Reaction in 1976. After its first gig, the band renamed itself Anthym. Slovak, dissatisfied with Strassman's bass playing, taught friend Michael "Flea" Balzary to play then replaced Strassman with Flea. After graduating high school, the band changed its name to What Is This? after a question often asked by people who heard the band play. Flea soon departed to play bass in the prominent Los Angeles punk band Fear. What Is This? continued, performing many shows along the California coast.

In 1983, Flea formed a "one-off" band, Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, with Kiedis, Slovak and Irons. Their performance was a hit and, after deciding to continue past the single concert, they changed their name to Red Hot Chili Peppers, quickly gaining popularity around Los Angeles. After six months, they earned a record deal with EMI and prepared to record its first album. Since What Is This? had signed a record deal two weeks earlier and Slovak and Irons considered the Red Hot Chili Peppers a side project, they quit. With What Is This?, Irons recorded 1984's Squeezed (EP), 1985's 3 Out of 5 Live EP, and a full-length self-titled album that same year. The band broke up following the album's recording as Slovak became frustrated with the band and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the meantime, Irons played on several recordings by Walk the Moon, a duo made up of Johannes and Natasha Shneider. In 1986, after learning that drummer Cliff Martinez had resigned, Irons returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Irons played drums on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first demo tape and their third album, 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. When Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, Irons again quit the band because he did not want to be part of a group where his friends were dying.[7] In 2006, Irons said Slovak's death had been such a huge shock that he had been suffering from depression ever since.[8]

On August 12, 2012, Irons and Martinez performed "Give It Away" with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at a Los Angeles concert. In 2017, Irons was an opening act for several dates on The Getaway World Tour.[3]

### Eleven

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Main article: Eleven (band)

After Irons left Red Hot Chili Peppers, he went to a psychiatric hospital to receive treatment.[9] After a brief stint with Joe Strummer's backing band the Latino Rockabilly War, Irons teamed up with Johannes and Shneider in 1990 to form Eleven. With Eleven, Irons recorded the albums Awake in a Dream (1991) and Eleven (1993). Midway through the recording of Eleven's third album, Thunk (1995), Irons left to drum with Pearl Jam, and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden played drums on the album's remaining four tracks. Irons returned to the band once again in 2002 prior to the recording of the band's fifth album, Howling Book (2003). Shneider died on July 2, 2008, following a battle with cancer.[10] Prior to Shneider's death, the band was working on a sixth album due for release in the fall of 2008.

### Pearl Jam

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Main article: Pearl Jam

Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard invited Irons to join Mookie Blaylock, the band that became Pearl Jam, in 1990, when the band was first forming and still looking for a singer and a drummer.[11] Although he did not join the band at that time because he was committed to Eleven, he did pass on a cassette of the band's work to a singer and local musician in San Diego named Eddie Vedder. Irons had formed a friendship with Vedder after meeting him through the Southern California music scene and played basketball with him.[12] Vedder subsequently joined the band. Irons also called the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1991 and asked the band to allow Vedder's new group to open for the band on its forthcoming Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour.[7]

Irons became the drummer for Pearl Jam in late 1994 following the firing of drummer Dave Abbruzzese. His first recording with the band was "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" for Vitalogy (1994). Gossard said, "Jack entered the band right at the end of making Vitalogy. Jack's a breath of fresh air, a family man. Everybody had a strong sense of friendship with him immediately. He was just there to play drums and help out."[13][14] Irons made his debut with the band at Neil Young's 1994 Bridge School Benefit, but he was not officially announced as the band's new drummer until its 1995 Self-Pollution satellite radio broadcast, a four-and-a-half-hour-long "pirate" broadcast out of Seattle, Washington which was available to any radio stations that wanted to carry it.[15] Irons joined the group and played Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the Vitalogy album.

Irons performed with other members of Pearl Jam on Neil Young's 1995 album, Mirror Ball, and subsequently toured Europe as part of Young's backing band. Talking about the album, Young called drummer Irons "unbelievable."[16] He stated that he "played his ass off on every take at every session," and added, "I can't say enough good things about him."[16]

With Irons, Pearl Jam recorded its fourth studio album, No Code, released in 1996, for which Irons also toured. The band subsequently released Yield in 1998. "Do the Evolution" (from Yield) received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance.[17] As a member of Pearl Jam, Irons brought a unique drumming style to the band, particularly in the way he played his fills and with his use of a trash can lid as a cymbal.[18] Irons 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 sang on the Pearl Jam songs "Happy When I'm Crying" (from the 1997 fan club Christmas single), "●" (from Yield), and "Whale Song" (from the 1999 Music for Our Mother Ocean Vol. 3 compilation). He played with Pearl Jam through March 20, 1998. In 1998, prior to Pearl Jam's U.S. Yield Tour, Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction with touring.[14][19] Pearl Jam's sound engineer Brett Eliason stated, "We went and did Hawaii and Australia with Jack. When we came back, Jack wasn't in a position to carry on. He made that decision more or less by himself. He can be a really great drummer but he had difficulty on tour putting out the energy for the length of shows they were doing. I don't know if he thought they'd put things on hold for him."[13][14] Vedder said, "I think that him deciding that he wasn't going to be in the band really hurt."[13][14] Coincidentally, Matt Cameron, from the recently split Soundgarden, replaced him again as he did four years prior on Eleven's Thunk.

## Other musical projects

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### Attention Dimension

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Main article: Attention Dimension

On September 7, 2004, Irons released a solo album called Attention Dimension. Irons started creating his first pieces of drum music in 1994, but it wasn't until fall 1999, about a year after he left Pearl Jam, that he seriously began recording himself for a possible solo album. The album features appearances by former bandmates such as Alain Johannes, Flea, Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Les Claypool. Vedder contributed vocals to a cover of Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". Johnny Loftus of Allmusic said, "Attention Dimension is the drummer's chance to be in the bright white klieg light."[20]

### Collaborations

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Aside from the aforementioned bands, Irons recorded and toured as a member of Joe Strummer's backing band The Latino Rockabilly War for the album Earthquake Weather (1989), and also toured with Redd Kross in support of the band's album Third Eye (1990). He appears in Redd Kross' promotional video for the song "Annie's Gone". In 1992, Raging Slab (a band notorious for having over 25 different drummers over the course of the band's 18-year career), complete with Irons on drums, began recording the follow-up to its 1989 RCA Records self-titled debut, with producer Michael Beinhorn at the helm. The entire album was recorded, mixed, and mastered; however when RCA Records executives heard the album, it was rejected. The album, titled Freeburden, remains unreleased. In 2000, Irons played as part of the initial line-up of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Irons is featured on the track "Milky Ave" on the album Ultra Payloaded (2007) by Perry Farrell's band Satellite Party.[21] Joining him on the album is former bandmate Flea. In 2012 he appeared on former Chili Pepper bandmate, Flea's debut solo EP Helen Burns. Aside from popular music, Irons has worked as a drumming advisor and teacher for numerous U.S. television projects. Irons appeared on five of the ten songs on To Be One With You, the debut solo album by former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer who released the album under the name Pluralone. The album was released on November 22, 2019. He then went on to record four songs on Josh's follow-up record, I Don't Feel Well released on October 16, 2020.

## Equipment

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

## Personal life

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Irons has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. About being diagnosed, he said "back in my twenties they said, 'When you get to your forties you might be able to turn a corner with this kind of a thing'. And I think that's very accurate. I had to learn to decipher sort of what was real and what was in my head. And that took time."[23]

He is married and has two children.[6] His son, Zach Irons, is founder and lead guitarist for Irontom. In September 2015, Zach Irons became lead guitarist for AWOLNATION.[24]

## Discography

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### What Is This? discography

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Year | Title | Label

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1984  | Squeezed | MCA
1985  | What Is This? | MCA
3 Out of 5 Live | MCA

### Red Hot Chili Peppers discography

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Year | Title | Label | Track(s)

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1984  | The Red Hot Chili Peppers | EMI/Capitol | Does not perform on album however co-wrote "Baby Appeal", "Get Up and Jump", "Green Heaven", "Out in L.A., and "Police Helicopter"
1985  | Freaky Styley | EMI/Capitol Records  | Does not perform on album however co-wrote "Nevermind" and "Sex Rap"
1987  | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | EMI/Capitol Records  | All
1988  | The Abbey Road E.P. | EMI/Capitol  | "Fire" and "Backwoods"
1989  | Mother's Milk | EMI/Capitol  | "Fire"
1992  | What Hits!? | EMI  | "Fight Like a Brave", "Behind the Sun", "Me and My Friends", "Backwoods", and "Fire"
1994  | 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 the Same", "Stranded", "Flea Fly", and "Deck The Halls"
1997  | The Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers | EMI/Capitol  | "Behind the Sun", "Me and My Friends", "Fire", and "Fight Like a Brave"
1998  | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers | EMI/Capitol  | "Fire" and "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

### Eleven discography

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Year | Title | Label | Track(s)

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1991  | Awake in a Dream | Morgan Creek | All
1993  | Eleven | Hollywood/Third Rail  | All
1995  | Thunk | Hollywood  | All except "Why", "Seasick of You", "Big Sleep", and "No Ground"
2003  | Howling Book | Pollen  | All
2005  | Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Hollywood  | "Stone Cold Crazy" (with Josh Homme)

### Pearl Jam discography

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Year | Title | Label | Track(s)

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1994  | Vitalogy | Epic | "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me"
1995  | Merkin Ball | Epic  | All
1996  | Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense | Epic  | "Leaving Here"
M.O.M., Vol. 1: Music for Our 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)
1997  | The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. 1 | Reprise | "Nothingman" (live)
1998  | Yield | Epic  | All
Chicago Cab: Soundtrack | Loosegroove | "Who You Are"
1999  | M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean | Hollywood  | "Whale Song"
2003  | Lost Dogs | Epic  | "All Night", "Don't Gimme No Lip", "Black, Red, Yellow", "Leaving Here", "Gremmie Out of Control", "Whale Song", and "Dead Man"
2004  | Rearviewmirror | Epic  | "I Got Id", "Hail, Hail", "Do the Evolution", "Who You Are", "Off He Goes", "Given to Fly", and "Wishlist"
2007  | Arctic Tale: Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture | BulletProof  | "Whale Song"

### Solo discography

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Year | Title | Label

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2004  | Attention Dimension | Breaching Whale
2010  | No Heads Are Better Than One | The Orchard / Ten Club
2011  | Blue Manatee | Kalaidoscope Groove-BMI
2022  | Koi Fish in Space | Org Music

### Spinnerette discography

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Year | Title | Label

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2008  | Ghetto Love EP  | Anthem
2009  | Spinnerette | Anthem

### Contributions and collaborations

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Year | Group | Title | Label | Track(s)

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1988  | 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"
1989  | 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"
1990  | The Buck Pets | Mercurotones | Island | All
1991  | Michelle Shocked | Arkansas Traveler | Mercury | Some
1993  | Sun-60 | Only | Epic  | "Mary X-Mess" and "Tell Me Like You Know"
The Buck Pets | To the Quick | Restless | Rocket to You (from demo sessions)
1994  | Ethan Hawke | Reality Bites: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | RCA | "I'm Nuthin'"
1995  | Carole Pope | Radiate | Joan Tone Music | "Kiss the Ground'"
1995  | Neil Young | Mirror Ball | Reprise  | All
2007  | Satellite Party | Ultra Payloaded | Columbia  | "Milky Ave"
2010  | Hole | Nobody's Daughter | Mercury  | Some
2012  | Mark Lanegan | Blues Funeral | 4AD  | All
2012  | Flea | Helen Burns | Warner Bros  | "333" and "Lovelovelove"
2019  | 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"
2020  | 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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24. ^ "Rig Rundown: AWOLNATION's Zach Irons". December 23, 2015.

## External links

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* Researching the Blues
* Beyond the Door

EPs|

* Red Cross
* Teen Babes from Monsanto

Related|

* Black Flag
* Melvins
* Off!

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Die Mannequin

*   * Care Failure
* Kevvy Mental
* Keith Heppler
* J.C. Sandoval

* Anthony Useless
* Dazzer Scott
* Stacy Stray
* Ethan Deth
* Pat Ghostwolf

Session musicians
Jesse F. Keeler
Jack Irons

Studio albums|

* FINO + BLEED

EPs|

* How To Kill
* Slaughter Daughter

Compilation albums|

* Unicorn Steak

Record labels|

* Cordless Recordings

Related articles|

* Hard Core Logo 2

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Class of 2012

Performers|

* Beastie Boys
* Ad-Rock, Mike D, Adam Yauch
* The Blue Caps
* Tommy Facenda, Cliff Gallup, Dickie Harrell, Bobby Jones, Johnny Meeks, Jack Neal, Paul Peek, Willie Williams
* The Comets
* Joey Ambrose, Franny Beecher, Danny Cedrone, Johnny Grande, Ralph Jones, Marshall Lytle, Rudy Pompilli, Al Rex, Dick Richards, Billy Williamson
* The Crickets
* Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis, Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan
* Donovan
* The Famous Flames
* Bobby Bennett, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth, Johnny Terry
* Guns N' Roses
* Steven Adler, Duff McKagan, Dizzy Reed, Axl Rose, Slash, Matt Sorum, Izzy Stradlin
* The Midnighters
* Henry Booth, Billy Davis, Cal Green, Arthur Porter, Lawson Smith, Charles Sutton, Norman Thrasher, Sonny Woods
* The Miracles
* Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Claudette Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Ronnie White
* Laura Nyro
* Red Hot Chili Peppers
* Flea, John Frusciante, Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis, Josh Klinghoffer, Cliff Martinez, Hillel Slovak, Chad Smith
* Small Faces/Faces
* Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Steve Marriott, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood

Early influences|

* Freddie King

Non-performers
(Ahmet Ertegun Award)|

* Don Kirshner

Award for Musical Excellence|

* Tom Dowd
* Glyn Johns
* Cosimo Matassa

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States

Artists|

* MusicBrainz

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