Kyle Meredith with... Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2024
- Mike McCready on Pearl Jam, Mad Season, & Trying to Start a Band with Kurt Cobain
With Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter nearly here, we’re pulling a pair of interviews out of the vault from guitarist Mike McCready, one that hasn’t been heard since its initial broadcast on WFPK. First from 2012, McCready talks about his UFO tribute act, Flight To Mars, and what that group, along with Kiss, Van Halen, and Aerosmith, meant to his pre-PJ band Shadow, as well as how the tribute raises awareness for Chron’s Colitis. He also touches on his side project The Rockfords, Pearl Jam’s Monkeywrench Radio period, sharing Matt Cameron with Soundgarden, and working on what would become Lightning Bolt. The biggest news at that time was the announcement that he would be celebrating Mad Season, his one-off band with Alice In Chains’ Layne Staley, with a deluxe edition, proclaiming 13 unreleased cuts they were looking to finish.
Going forward a year, the 2013 interview picks up on exactly that subject of Mad Season, with Mike giving us the story on how they recorded 3 of the 13 songs with Mark Lanegan and another pair with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman. McCready talks about the dark period of recording the record with the best intentions of helping Staley get clean of his addictions, which he would succumb to a few years later in 2002. When it was pointed out that Mike had played with nearly all of the most famous of Seattle singers, including Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell in Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog, we’re then given the story of the brief moment he tried to start a project with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. What could have been.
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Great interview! Been posting PJ vids on my channel the last while.....Seeing them live in Vancouver in 2 weeks!!
Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters did a great podcast interview with Mike in which they showed the audience Mike’s parts, including the solo, to Alive. It was hilarious because Mike had a hard time remembering and explaining how to play his parts, and it seemed Chris could recall and explain better. This is a song that Mike has played at least a thousand times and the interview showed he is an instinctive guitarist who plays more by feel than technical training. His live solos to the same songs change every time and I love that about his style cuz he shreds the solos and you never know what you’re gonna hear. I think Eddie loves them too cuz they give him a chance to catch his breath. 😁
He couldn’t play Stone’s Alive riff right because he plays the accompanying chords over that part. Understandable.
Foo fighters are so boring compared to pearl jam
It gives him a chance for a smoke. 😂
That was Stone's part he couldn't play, which is understandable. Bad look for Chris to not know that Stone plays the into to Alive.
Ya know, it's really lame when you guys come out of the wealth bubble to pretend you give a f*ck about connecting with anyone ONLY when an album comes out. Album is good, way better than expected, but to see Eddie doing cheesy interviews for album 15 after we all wanted that for 25 years, ya know, go jump. I'm spending my money supporting the new generation, y'all lame as metallica now. Don't get in a wreck zipping those Tesla's home from the interview. #ClassWarGenerals #OffWithTheirHeads #FreeMasonEddie33
You ok ?
@chadthomas6756 I don't think he is bro.
Tell your friends so they stop buying tickets to Pearl Jam shows. In fact, tell anyone you can. There's way too many fans out there. We need help thinning the heard.
😂 Wtf is wrong with that guy? 😅