Jack Irons Biography
Jack Irons ( born Jack Steven Irons ) is an American drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the founding drummer of the American rock band
Red Hot Chili Peppers and as a former member of Pearl Jam, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Alongside his work with Red Hot Chili Pepper 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. In 2004, Irons released his first solo album, Attention Dimension, and released his second, No Heads Are Better Than One, in 2010.
Jack Irons Age
Jack Steven Irons an American drummer and multi-instrumentalist was born on July 18, 1962.
Jack Irons Height
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Jack Irons Family
He was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is from a Jewish background. 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. He and Slovak were both fans of Kiss, and they formed a tribute act. Irons was influenced by Jack DeJohnette, Stewart Copeland, and Keith Moon.
Jack Irons Education
Talking about his education, he 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. Irons played drums in the school band and orchestra.
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Jack Irons Career
He was a founding member of, and the original drummer for, The 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 was soon renamed to Anthym. Slovak became dissatisfied with Strassman’s bass playing and eventually taught Michael Balzary (Flea) to play bass. Flea quickly surpassed Strassman in bass skills and took over bass duties in Anthym. After graduating from high school, the band changed its name to What Is This? (which was a question often asked by people who heard the band play). Flea left the band around this time because he was offered a job playing bass in the prominent Los Angeles punk band Fear. What Is This? continued on and performed many shows along the California coast.
Soon thereafter, Flea formed a “one-off” band with Kiedis, Slovak, and Irons in 1983. The band, which was dubbed “Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem” for its first gig, was a hit with the club audience. The band’s name changed to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the band quickly gained popularity around Los Angeles. Over the course of the next six months, the Red Hot Chili Peppers played many shows in Los Angeles clubs and became something of an underground hit. The band scored a record deal with EMI after just that short period of time and was set to record its first album. Unfortunately, What Is This? had also signed a record deal two weeks earlier.
Since Slovak and Irons considered the Red Hot Chili Peppers to merely be a side project and not a serious commitment, they left the band to concentrate on What Is This?. With What Is This?, Irons recorded two EPs (Squeezed (1984), 3 Out of 5 Live (1985)) and one full-length album (What Is This? (1985)). The band broke up following the recording of the self-titled What Is This? the album as Slovak became frustrated with the band and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the meantime, Irons played on several tracks on an album by the duo Walk the Moon, made up of Johannes and Natasha Schneider. After hearing that drummer Cliff Martinez had resigned, Irons, who was out of work and finally separated from other commitments, returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1986.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Jack Irons beats it out of Malibu with a home sale
Drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the alt-rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers, has sold his home in Malibu for $1.625 million. Sitting on five acres with ocean and mountain views, the property centers on a country farmhouse with a wrap-around porch. Features of the more than 3,000-square-foot house include an office/art studio and a master suite with a clawfoot tub and an ocean-view deck. A bohemian-inspired sound/recording studio decorated with colorful draperies resides on the second floor. Other living areas include a living room with a fireplace, a crisp white kitchen, three bedrooms, and three bathrooms.
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jack Irons reunite on stage
Jack Irons is a drummer with quite a C.V. Pearl Jam fans know only too well that he was invited by bassist Jeffa Amenta and guitarist Stone Gossard to join the band already when it was being formed in 1990. At the time, he declined, recommending a friend by the name of Eddie Vedder for the singer’s position. In 1994, after Dave Abbruzzese left, Irons didn’t say no for the second time, and recorded two albums with those grunge legends: “No Code” and “Yield“. Red Hot Chili Peppers fans know Jack as the group’s founding member and original drummer, who left due to a nervous breakdown resulting from guitarist and founding member Hillel Slovak’s death (the heroin overdose induced tragedy took place on June 25, 1988). Irons has also collaborated with such acts as Neil Young, Les Claypool, Joe Strummer, The Wallflowers or Mark Lanegan Band.
This year, Jack Irons is part of the current Red Hot Chili Peppers US tour as the band’s one-man-drumming-show support act. On the day of the 29th anniversary of Hillel Slovak’s passing, during an RHCP live gig in Grand Rapids, MI, Irons joined his former bandmates on stage. Together with Chad Smith (using two drum kits), they performed a Jimmy Hendrix cover titled “Fire“, which is featured on the “Mother’s Milk” album (1989).