American - Musician | April 5, 1965 -
After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of that, and so did 'Faithful' - those were on 'Yield,' which came after Mad Season.
Mike McCready
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When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.
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In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep my head on straight and play music. I didn't have the kind of confidence that other guys in the band did.
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Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.
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'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!
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Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.
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When you're really young, dating girls, and trying to explain Kiss, they just look at you like you're kind of crazy. I think they got so big in the Seventies and were such a phenomenon - they did the 'Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park' movie, the solo records - some people only know the merchandising stuff.
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There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.
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Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?
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Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.
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It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.
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Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.
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