Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Jack Irons (born July 18, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a drumme… Read Full Bio ↴Jack Irons (born July 18, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a drummer who has played for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, What Is This?, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Joe Strummer and Latino Rockabilly War, Pearl Jam, and Eleven.

(1983-1988) Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Jack was a founding member of, and the original drummer for, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California alongside Anthony Kiedis, Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak. He left the Red Hot Chili Peppers for What Is This? before the self-titled album was recorded and then came back later to help write and record the Chili Peppers' third album "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan".

When childhood friend and bandmate, Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, Irons left Red Hot Chili Peppers due to the huge shock Slovak's death had on him. He entered therapy to overcome severe clinical depression the same year.

(1992-1993) Raging Slab

In 1992, Raging Slab (a band notorious for having over 25 different drummers over the course of their 18 year career), complete with Jack Irons on drums, began recording the follow-up to their 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, they complained that they couldn't hear another "Don't Dog Me" (a popular single on their previous album). The reason for this, the band replied, was "because that song is on our last record." RCA Records shelved the record and asked them to "try again," whereupon producer Rick Rubin bought them out of their RCA contract and asked them to make records on his label, Def American. Jack Irons had left the band by the time they recorded "Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert"; the album they made with him, titled "Freeburden," remains unreleased.

(1990;1994-1998) Pearl Jam

Jack Irons was asked to join Mookie Blaylock, the band that would become Pearl Jam in 1990, when they were first forming and still looking for a singer. Although he didn't join the band at that time because he was committed to his own band, Eleven, he did pass on a cassette of their work to a singer named Eddie Vedder, a respected local musician in San Diego at the time, with whom Irons had formed a friendship. Vedder joined the band and they recorded their debut album Ten, and Irons had no more to do with the project for the time being. Irons became the official drummer for the band in late 1994 following the departure of Dave Abbruzzese. He drummed on the Pearl Jam/Neil Young collaboration Mirror Ball (1995) and on the subsequent Pearl Jam records No Code (1996) and Yield (1998). He toured with the band up until his semi-retirement in 1998 prior to the US tour for Yield. He brought a unique drumming style to the band, particularly in the way he played his fills and using a trash can lid as a cymbal. He sang the Pearl Jam song "Whale Song" which was on their collection of B-sides entitled Lost Dogs. He is generally well respected by Pearl Jam fans for his contribution to their music during a difficult transitional period of their career.

Side projects

Aside from popular music, Jack has also worked as a drumming advisor and teacher for numerous US television projects. Jack has recently released his own album called Attention Dimension with Eddie Vedder singing vocals on Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Jack Irons Lyrics


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Scottish McMillan

Folks who don't like this are clearly unable to unhear the Floyd version. I love Pink Floyd with a passion. But this rocks. If we'd never heard the Floyd version, most of us would agree this is amazing. But because a sad number of people can't just LISTEN to something without loading their weapons and aiming FIRST, the trigger too often gets pulled before the song even gets going. Sucks to be them. They miss a lotta good shit.

joheckster

jack is awesome..what rhythm..and add the almighty irreplaceable voice of eddie, and you've got a dream come true. floyd would be proud. :)

yeewhat vancouver

love it!! it's got that Pearl jam touch to it.

pearljm67

thanks for sharing this! sounds great!

wvloet3

this is so great

wvloet3

this is so great

TechRidr

Some are simply born to do what they do. I've known Jack since we were 12. I started drums when he did, but here is the difference between Jack & me. When we were 18, Jack & I, + 2 others Incl. Alain Johannes for those who know, hiked 10 days across the Sierra's mountains. We all had backpacks, food, water, sleeping bag etc., but Jack brought something I didn't. Drum sticks. He'd practice on rocks, dirt, whatever. It was his passion. He's who he is because of talent and passion. I lacked passion

John Robertson

That's a very awesome story! I'm a fan of Jack Irons in Pearl Jam and RHCP. A lot of people scrutinized him for lacking energy. But he gave their music a lot of vibes to it. He could choose to bang all out like Cameron and Abbruzzese did but something they didn't was to bring different vibes to the song which was Jack's all own. I love the way he enhanced their music with his own antics and psychedelic vibes.

10CPhil

Whilst I admit there are certain tracks that I think should remain sacrosanct - I think this is an amazing cover

nal146able

agreed I saw claypool play with Ratdog... they went under the name "rat brigade" and they played "dogs" and "sheep" by floyd. This version of shine on kicks ass. Nice job jack!

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