29 years ago today, Mad Season’s album, Above, was released on March 14, 1995.
"We did all the Mad Season music in about seven days. It took Layne just a few more days to finish his vocals, which was intense since we only rehearsed twice and did four shows.
So this has been the most spontaneous thing I've ever been involved in. This was done even quicker than Temple of the Dog, which took about four weeks.
With Mad Season we just went in and started jamming on tunes and everybody had ideas and it just happened with three or four days.
I told [Layne] 'You do what you want, you write all the songs and lyrics. You're the singer.' He'd come in, and he'd do these beautiful songs."
Mike McCready