American - Musician | April 5, 1965 -
I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.
Mike McCready
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When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.
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Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.
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I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.
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We have a ridiculous amount of material.
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I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.
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A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.
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We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.
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We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.
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We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.
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We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.
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We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.
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