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Jack Irons (born July 18 , 1962 in Los Angeles, California , USA ) is a Drummer who has played for the Red Hot Chili Peppers , Redd Kross , Raging Slab , Pearl Jam and Eleven . 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, and can be heard playing drums on the band's third album "Uplift Mofo Party Plan", as well as on their cover of "Fire" (originally penned by Jimi Hendrix and first released on the Chili Peppers' "Abbey Road EP"). When childhood friend and bandmate, Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25 , 1988 , Irons left Red Hot Chili Peppers. Slovak's death was such a huge shock to Irons that he has been clinically depressed ever since. 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. Jack Irons was asked to join Mookie Blaylock, the band that would become Pearl Jam , when they were first forming and still looking for a singer. Although he didn't join the band at that time, he did pass on a cassette of their work to a singer named Eddie Vedder . Vedder joined the band and they recorded their debut album Ten. Although Irons does not drum on that album he did join the band in late 1994 (after previous drummer Dave Abbruzzese was fired), drumming on the subsequent records No Code and Yield . He brought a unique drumming style to the band, particularly in the way he played his fills. Jack has recently released his own album called "Attention Dimension" with Eddie Vedder singing vocals on Pink Floyd 's "Shine on you Crazy Diamond". EXTERNAL LINKS
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