Jack Irons

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jack Irons
Occupation	Drummer
Date Of Birth	Jul 18, 1962(1962-07-18)
Age	62
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Jack Irons Biography

Jack Irons is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on July 18, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Drummer who helped found the alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and who also worked with Pearl Jam and Eleven.

He collaborated with Colonel Les Claypool‘s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade in 2000.

Irons 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? 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 Shneider. 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.

He used his family’s cutlery as drumsticks growing up, honing his skills as he played along to music on the radio.

Jack Irons Net Worth

Jack Irons is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jack Irons 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He met future bandmates Michael “Flea” Balzary and Hillel Slovak while attending Hollywood’s Bancroft Jr. High School and Anthony Kiedis and Alain Johannes while attending Fairfax High School.

He and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14, 2012.

Jack Steven Irons (born July 18, 1962) 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 three studio albums as Irons joined the band during the Vitalogy recording sessions.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Jack Irons height Not available right now. Jack weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Jack Irons Dating?

According to our records, Jack Irons is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Jack Irons’s is not dating anyone.

Relationships Record : We have no records of past relationships for Jack Irons. You may help us to build the dating records for Jack Irons!

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. With Irons, the band recorded its fourth studio album, No Code, released in 1996, for which Irons also toured. The band subsequently released Yield in

1998. “Do the Evolution” (from Yield) received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. As a member of Pearl Jam, Irons brought a unique drumming style to the band, particularly in the way he played his fills and with his use of a trash can lid as a cymbal. Irons co-wrote the music for the No Code songs “Who You Are”, “In My Tree”, “Red Mosquito”, and “I’m Open”. He also wrote and sang on the Pearl Jam songs “Happy When I’m Crying” (from the 1997 fan club Christmas single), “● ” (from Yield), and “Whale Song” (from the 1999 Music for Our Mother Ocean Vol. 3 compilation). He played with Pearl Jam through March 20, 1998. In 1998, prior to Pearl Jam’s U.S. Yield Tour, Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction with touring. Pearl Jam’s sound engineer Brett Eliason stated, “We went and did Hawaii and Australia with Jack. When we came back, Jack wasn’t in a position to carry on. He made that decision more or less by himself. He can be a really great drummer but he had difficulty on tour putting out the energy for the length of shows they were doing. I don’t know if he thought they’d put things on hold for him.” Vedder said, “I think that him deciding that he wasn’t going to be in the band really hurt.” Coincidentally, Matt Cameron, from Soundgarden, replaced him again as he did four years prior on Eleven’s Thunk.

Facts & Trivia

Jack Ranked on the list of most popular Drummer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jack Irons celebrates birthday on July 18 of every year.

After Irons left Red Hot Chili Peppers, he went to a psychiatric hospital to receive treatment. After a brief stint with Joe Strummer’s backing band the Latino Rockabilly War, Irons teamed up with Johannes and Shneider in 1990 to form Eleven. With Eleven, Irons recorded the albums Awake in a Dream (1991) and Eleven (1993). Midway through the recording of Eleven’s third album, Thunk (1995), Irons departed to drum with Pearl Jam, and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden played drums on the album’s remaining four tracks. Irons returned to the band once again in 2002 prior to the recording of the band’s fifth album, Howling Book (2003). Shneider died on July 2, 2008, following a battle with cancer. Prior to Shneider’s death, the band was working on a sixth album due for release in the fall of 2008.

Why did Jack Irons quit?

Irons played drums on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first demo tape and their third album, 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. When Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, Irons again quit the band because he did not want to be part of a group where his friends were dying.

When was Jack Irons with Pearl Jam?

He joined Pearl Jam as their fourth drummer in 1994 , but left four years later due to stress related to the band’s intense touring schedule.

Why is Josh Klinghoffer playing with Pearl Jam?

He joined the band this year and became their third touring guitarist. Pearl Jam already had two guitarists, so they didn’t really need another one but, the relationship between the band and the guitarist was so good that they wanted him anyway.

What happened to Pearl Jam drummer?

Monday’s concert marked Krusen’s first onstage performance with Pearl Jam since the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. He split from Pearl Jam shortly after the recording of Ten because of alcoholism and personal issues.

What band was Jack Irons in before Pearl Jam?

Music groups