Biography
M.A.C.C. is the name of a Seattle grunge 'super group' (of sorts) that recorded one track in 1993: 'Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)', a Jimi Hendrix cover.
The band name M.A.C.C. stands for McCready, Ament, Cornell and Cameron, the family names of the four band members: Mike McCready and Jeff Ament (of Pearl Jam), Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron (of Soundgarden at the time; Cameron is now in Pearl Jam, Cornell sadly passed away in 2017).
Their recording of Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) is a one-off, live in-studio cut recorded for the 1993 Jimi Hendrix tribute album, 'Stone Free', that also featured songs from Eric Clapton, Spin Doctors, Living Colour and others. Hendrix wrote the song late in his career in 1970. A live studio take was included on his 'Rainbow Bridge' album that was eventually released posthumously.
M.A.C.C. used this as their blueprint, but McCready and Ament also were known to jam on the tune at Pearl Jam soundchecks. The M.A.C.C. version of the song is sometimes credited to Temple of the Dog, which is incorrect. Pearl Jam guitarist, Stone Gossard, was also in Temple of the Dog — a one-album project that preceded this song by three years — but does not appear on this 1993 recording.
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