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
I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.
I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.
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 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.
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.