Jack Steven Irons was born on July 18,1962 and is an American drummer.
36 Facts About Jack Irons
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Jack Irons is the founding drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and is a former member of Pearl Jam and Eleven.
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Alongside his work with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, Irons has been a member of Eleven, The Wallflowers and Mark Lanegan Band.
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Jack Irons has worked with Joe Strummer and The Latino Rockabilly War, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Spinnerette and The Les Claypool Frog Brigade.
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Jack Irons has released two solo albums, Attention Dimension and No Heads Are Better Than One.
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Jack Irons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012.
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Jack Irons was an opening act in 2017 for the Chili Peppers on The Getaway World Tour.
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Jack Irons grew up using his family's cutlery as drumsticks, playing along to whatever was on the radio.
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Jack Irons talked his parents into buying him a drum set, and took a drum class.
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Jack Irons 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.
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In 1986, after learning that drummer Cliff Martinez had resigned, Jack Irons returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Jack Irons played drums on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first demo tape and their third album, 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan.
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When Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25,1988, Jack Irons again quit the band because he did not want to be part of a group where his friends were dying.
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In 2017, Jack Irons was an opening act for several dates on The Getaway World Tour.
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Midway through the recording of Eleven's third album, Thunk, Jack Irons departed to drum with Pearl Jam, and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden played drums on the album's remaining four tracks.
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Jack Irons returned to the band in 2002 prior to the recording of the band's fifth album, Howling Book.
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Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard invited Jack Irons to join Mookie Blaylock, the band that would become Pearl Jam, in 1990, when the band was first forming and still looking for a singer and a drummer.
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Jack Irons had formed a friendship with Vedder after meeting him through the Southern California music scene and would play basketball with him.
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Jack Irons became the drummer for Pearl Jam in late 1994 following the firing of drummer Dave Abbruzzese.
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Jack Irons's first recording with the band was "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" for Vitalogy.
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Jack Irons was just there to play drums and help out.
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Jack Irons joined the group and played Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the Vitalogy album.
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Jack 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.
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Jack Irons played with Pearl Jam through March 20,1998.
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In 1998, prior to Pearl Jam's US Yield Tour, Jack Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction with touring.
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Jack Irons made that decision more or less by himself.
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Jack Irons can be a really great drummer but he had difficulty on tour putting out the energy for the length of shows they were doing.
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On September 7,2004, Jack Irons released a solo album called Attention Dimension.
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Jack 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.
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Jack Irons appears in Redd Kross' promotional video for the song "Annie's Gone".
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In 2000, Jack Irons played as part of the initial line-up of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.
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Jack Irons is featured on the track "Milky Ave" on the album Ultra Payloaded by Perry Farrell's band Satellite Party.
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Jack 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.
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Jack Irons then went on to record four songs on Josh's follow-up record, I Don't Feel Well released on October 16,2020.
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Jack Irons currently endorses Masters of Maple Drums, Zildjian cymbals, and Pro-Mark drumsticks.
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In September 2015, Zach Jack Irons became lead guitarist for AWOLNATION.