Mike McCready
Mike McCready
Michael "Mike" David McCreadyis an American musician who serves as the lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season and The Rockfords...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth5 April 1966
CityPensacola, FL
CountryUnited States of America
At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.
And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.
And we're always excited to expose our music to new people to see if we can have longevity and a long career. It's heading that way." ()
At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them." ()
My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
There are some really cool video pieces out there, though - we have done some videos that I've really liked and we may do them again." ()
There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.
We met with a lot of great labels, including J. We like Clive Davis and his staff a lot. There's a level of respect there that went both ways." ()
We also take time to be away from each other to live our separate lives, which allows us to be excited when we come back together to play music." ()
Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.
But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.