Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 28 - Coatigan - Instrumentals (pg 444)

My final choice is the first single I ever owned (and still have) "Jeepster" by T.Rex, who were also the first band I bought an album by and went to see in concert.

I remember well the day Gloria Jones wrapped her Mini around a tree and killed her passenger Marc Bolan. I went to see Hawkwind at the Palace Theatre and it was all we were talking about waiting outside on the Palace steps before they opened the doors. Obviously Hawkwind dedicated a song to Marc that night.
 
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My final selection is to honour one of the great rock vocalists from the Seattle grunge scene, Layne Staley.

Best known for his leading vocals in Alice in Chains, I have all of their bands' CDs from that era. Some amazing albums sounding nothing like anything I'd heard before, and that's saying something with the other groups in the similar genre coming out of that city during that time. That remains one of the bands I would have liked to see in concert, given his live show performances were known to eclipse what made it to vinyl/disc.

Most probably know songs from that band, so I'm going to venture off the dial slightly and pick a track from the Seattle grunge supergroup Mad Season that he sang in with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees, and bassist John Baker Saunders. The band actually formed with McCready and Saunders meeting in rehab. Staley was added in the hopes of McCready that being around sober musicians would push Staley to get himself sober.

Their 1995 debut album had this hit song that allows Layne's softer side of vocals to shine as he sings about the drugs and addiction that would sadly take his life 7 years later.

"My pain is self-chosen", indeed.

"River of Deceit" - Mad Season
 
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So many possibilities for great music from people that sadly fall into this category. I'm out of picks but on another day might have chosen music featuring any of these: Ronnie Van Zant / Allen Collins / Steve Gaines, Freddie Mercury, Keith Moon, Phil Lynott, Taylor Hawkins, Paul Kossoff, Ronnie Lane, Randy Rhoads, Alex Harvey, Mick Ronson, Steve Clark, Eric Carr, Eddie Cochrane, Elvis, John Lennon (all under 50 bar Plonk who was 51), Razzle and Ian Curtis
 
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