American - Musician | April 5, 1965 -
I really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn, so hey - I tried to look like him.
Mike McCready
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Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.
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I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.
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Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite.
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I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.
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I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.
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I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.
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A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.
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I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.
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When we're not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that's when I'll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring - hopefully more opportunities will come - or doing a solo thing.
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'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.
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Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.
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