I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create. Jack Irons Read Quote
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last. Jack Irons Read Quote
I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil’s. Jack Irons Read Quote
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. Jack Irons Read Quote
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. Jack Irons Read Quote
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times. Jack Irons Read Quote
It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. Jack Irons Read Quote
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn’t go to. Jack Irons Read Quote
We completed and released ‘No Code’ in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release. Jack Irons Read Quote
Yield’ was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. Jack Irons Read Quote