Jack Irons Appreciation Thread

hedonist

Go Beavers said:

Jack's my favorite. He seems to have more subtlety rather than bashing and crashing. The tones tend to have a roundness to them and there's a looseness that comes through. Perfect for No Code.

Exactly! What you call roundness and looseness, I call fluidity. There's this beautiful liquid feel to his playing (part of why I fell in love with In My Tree and Given to Fly), and after watching him soak his arms in Single Video Theory, I got why he had to let it go. Loss for us, but good for him.

Side story...my sister went to school with Jack. Late 70s in my KISS-loving days - I admit it, what's to say - many a time we'd watch him and his bandmates practice (with Hillel in the pre-RHCP days - was friends with his younger brother Jamie). My best friend's older brother played bass with them too - had a huge crush on him.

Good memories...good music...good times

JonnyPistachio

hedonist said:

Go Beavers said:

Jack's my favorite. He seems to have more subtlety rather than bashing and crashing. The tones tend to have a roundness to them and there's a looseness that comes through. Perfect for No Code.

Exactly! What you call roundness and looseness, I call fluidity. There's this beautiful liquid feel to his playing (part of why I fell in love with In My Tree and Given to Fly), and after watching him soak his arms in Single Video Theory, I got why he had to let it go. Loss for us, but good for him.

Side story...my sister went to school with Jack. Late 70s in my KISS-loving days - I admit it, what's to say - many a time we'd watch him and his bandmates practice (with Hillel in the pre-RHCP days - was friends with his younger brother Jamie). My best friend's older brother played bass with them too - had a huge crush on him.

Good memories...good music...good times

Cool story Hedo! Thanks for sharing that.
And I agree with the feel -- fluidity -- of Jack on songs like In My Tree and several others. Thoose scenes with him in SVT are great. Seeing him roll smoothly around those toms on Given to Fly in SVT made me realize that he was a true original and they'd likely never have a guy like him again.

jp307677

Totally agree. Jack Irons brought so much to the band. No Code and Yield are my favorite records and Jack was such a huge part of those.

jp307677

No disrespect to Matt Cameron.

thefin190

No Code would have not been the same without Jack Irons's influence. He's incredible in In My Tree/Who You Are

jp307677

Jack's drumming is superb on Yield too! Brain of J, Faithfull, No Way, Given to Fly...oh yeah, on every track.

YieldInHiding

This thread has the official ****YFC STAMP OF APPROVAL****

Pap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeREcCTnXzk

demetrios

https://instagram.com/p/CWFNZTlPfRh/embed/

BC62528

With no disrespect to the other drummers, Jack is my favorite - No code is a masterpiece, with Yield being a close 2nd.  At times during the current live shows, certain songs seem rushed - I felt during Jack's time, he allowed the songs to breathe a bit when playing them live.  Just my two cents.

Pap

demetrios said:

https://instagram.com/p/CWFNZTlPfRh/embed/

Nice groove!

Pap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyu46lOjjA

demetrios

https://twitter.com/jackironsmusic/status/1473059764716277763

hrd2imgn

Jack Irons....Jack Irons....Jack Irons theme song.   Da da da da. JACK irons .....Jack Irons....

Non related  video related to thread

https://youtu.be/saBuUCblEtU

Ledbetterman10

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

I was just listening to the '95 Washington boot today. After Jack was thanked by Gloria Steinem some people in the audience reacted by booing. Later Ed says, "You miss Dave and I think that is really nice. But you should all thank Jack Irons because this band wouldn’t be together today if it wasn’t for him. He saved the life of this band, so thank him." Then they dedicate the next song "Go" to Dave - which I think is kind of an odd song to dedicate to Dave. Anyway I didn't realize Jack was booed, not cool.

I think I read somewhere a long time ago that Dave wrote the riff to go. Maybe that explains the dedication.

Or maybe it was because they had recently told Dave to "Go." 

Though you're right, the Go riff is Dave's. 

demetrios

hrd2imgn said:

Jack Irons....Jack Irons....Jack Irons theme song.   Da da da da. JACK irons .....Jack Irons....

Non related  video related to thread

https://youtu.be/saBuUCblEtU

Love this! Was hoping Jack came up during PJ's set in Ohana and they belt out this tribute. 

OceansJenny

demetrios said:

https://twitter.com/jackironsmusic/status/1473059764716277763

Ok this is cool! Thanks for sharing

OceansJenny

BC62528 said:

With no disrespect to the other drummers, Jack is my favorite - No code is a masterpiece, with Yield being a close 2nd.  At times during the current live shows, certain songs seem rushed - I felt during Jack's time, he allowed the songs to breathe a bit when playing them live.  Just my two cents.

Honestly each drummer played their respective songs the best (with the exception of Dave A also sounding great on Dave C’s songs). I’m sure Dave or Jack playing Matt’s songs wouldn’t sound great either. Matt has the disadvantage of coming last and having to reinterpret 2-3 other drummer’s drum parts on songs.

David.Narwhal

Love Jack Irons. It's been great to follow him on Instagram and see/hear these gems.

demetrios

OceansJenny said:

demetrios said:

https://twitter.com/jackironsmusic/status/1473059764716277763

Ok this is cool! Thanks for sharing

No problemo!