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Mike McCready is a bad ass mutha fucka

Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
edited May 2008 in The Porch
Mike McCready is far and away the greatest guitar player of his generation. Lets take a quick look at the man who may never get his due as one of the greatest to ever make his guitar talk.


Lets take a look at some Mike photos from through the years.
http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2011.jpg
http://www.pearl-jam.com/pictures/mike/mmbwsplt.jpg
http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2009.jpg
http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_clint/Mike_FTM.jpg
http://www.greenarrowradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/MikeMc.jpg


Yes, I said talk. I say that because to me the great guitar players have always made it seem like there guitars were saying something, not just making noise. Mike's guitar has always done this. Sometimes it's as if it's dueting with Ed. Take a song like Nothing As It Seems. As much as I love Ed's vocals and lyrics, I always want it to get to Mike's guitar. It just puts you in awe. It is chilling and always puts me on the edge of my seat. And live, (whew). One of the main reasons Pearl Jam sounds so incredible live is because of Mike's guitar. It can send a lightning bolt of raw energy right through your entire body and shake your foundation and at the same time send ripples of magic into your heart. Either way you get shivers down your spine. My favorite Mike moment is on Live On Two Legs, his guitar solo at the end of Black. That solo is an assult on your brain. It gets inside you and doesn't ever leave. When Mike goes off on one of those guitar solos, there's no doubt somewhere up in heaven Jimi HendriXXX whips his head around and looks down to see who the hell that is playing those licks.


Now lets have a look at some youtube clips of The Master.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yag0LzltQkw (Yellow Ledbetter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiE_TAJpCd0 (Star Spangled Banner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY-KNvicrE (November Hotel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJEV5747QpA (All Or None)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BlueyXoyg (Nothing As It Seems)


Mike clearly has something special in his soul. His playing is passionate, intement, bizarre and mystical but it's always heartfelt. I could write plenty of spectacular things about the other members aswell, but having both Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready in the same band is like having Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson on the same basketball team. How many titles would they have won? I don't know, but I can tell you this. Pearl Jam has one title, and it's the title of the world's greatest rock band.

Now lets watch and listen to the screams of that 59 strat! (It's worth the download)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlhy60



Mike McCready. A living legend.
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  • andrew the legendandrew the legend Posts: 210
    Hail hail the star of the live shows.
    Always a thrill to see Mikey in person

    great videos
  • I_Got_ShitI_Got_Shit Posts: 325
    Mike rocks, but Stone is irreplaceable.
    *Does not include encore of Garden and Leash.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Mike McCready is far and away the greatest guitar player of his generation. Lets take a quick look at the man who may never get his due as one of the greatest to ever make his guitar talk.


    Lets take a look at some Mike photos from through the years.
    http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2011.jpg
    http://www.pearl-jam.com/pictures/mike/mmbwsplt.jpg
    http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2009.jpg
    http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_clint/Mike_FTM.jpg
    http://www.greenarrowradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/MikeMc.jpg


    Yes, I said talk. I say that because to me the great guitar players have always made it seem like there guitars were saying something, not just making noise. Mike's guitar has always done this. Sometimes it's as if it's dueting with Ed. Take a song like Nothing As It Seems. As much as I love Ed's vocals and lyrics, I always want it to get to Mike's guitar. It just puts you in awe. It is chilling and always puts me on the edge of my seat. And live, (whew). One of the main reasons Pearl Jam sounds so incredible live is because of Mike's guitar. It can send a lightning bolt of raw energy right through your entire body and shake your foundation and at the same time send ripples of magic into your heart. Either way you get shivers down your spine. My favorite Mike moment is on Live On Two Legs, his guitar solo at the end of Black. That solo is an assult on your brain. It gets inside you and doesn't ever leave. When Mike goes off on one of those guitar solos, there's no doubt somewhere up in heaven Jimi Hendricks whips his head around and looks down to see who the hell that is playing those licks.


    Now lets have a look at some youtube clips of The Master.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yag0LzltQkw (Yellow Ledbetter)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiE_TAJpCd0 (Star Spangled Banner)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY-KNvicrE (November Hotel)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJEV5747QpA (All Or None)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BlueyXoyg (Nothing As It Seems)


    Mike clearly has something special in his soul. His playing is passionate, intement, bizarre and mystical but it's always heartfelt. I could write plenty of spectacular things about the other members aswell, but having both Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready in the same band is like having Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson on the same basketball team. How many titles would they have won? I don't know, but I can tell you this. Pearl Jam has one title, and it's the title of the world's greatest rock band.

    Now lets watch and listen to the screams of that 59 strat! (It's worth the download)
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlhy60



    Mike McCready. A living legend.
    :eek: Mike? Is that you? :eek:

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  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    I_Got_Shit wrote:
    Mike rocks, but Stone is irreplaceable.
    Not sure about that one; I think they are both irreplaceable.
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I_Got_Shit wrote:
    Mike rocks, but Stone is irreplaceable.


    but mike is?!?!?!?!
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  • PJ-SinPJ-Sin Posts: 348
    He is THE reason I started playing guitar.
    http://www.byproductmusic.com
    http://www.myspace.com/byproduct
  • Gremmie95Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    PJ-Sin wrote:
    He is THE reason I started playing guitar.

    ditto.....along with Kirk Hammet and Slash.
  • LizardkingLizardking Posts: 936
    Mike is a better Human that guitar player!!!! He is a great guy!!




    put since we are showing pics, here is a few of my good one's of the man!!

    http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f331/Lizardkings1/FTM%202008/FTM2008375.jpg

    http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f331/Lizardkings1/FTM%202008/FTM2008131.jpg

    http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f331/Lizardkings1/FTM%202008/FTM2008336.jpg

    http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f331/Lizardkings1/CCFA/CCFA48.jpg

    http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f331/Lizardkings1/CCFA%202007/FTM2007138.jpg
    Lizardking

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  • zootownzootown Posts: 666
    I think you lose just a bit of credibility for not even knowing how to spell this name correctly.......c'mon. McCready can play there is little doubt, but as a guitar player, I have more respect for Stone.
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  • Evo2010Evo2010 Posts: 90
    Ive been playing guitar for ten years. I originaly picked it up the acoustic and moved on to the electric. There are a ton of guitar players i appreciate and emulate but nobody has showed me what it is like to play with your soul like Mike. As a style he can go anywhere. I tottaly understand what it feels like to look up at the sky with your eyes closed and feel the music flow through you. I think a great recent example of his incredible playing would be his solo on come back. Especialy on the immagine in cornice dvd. Its just f-ing beautiful.
  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
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  • Evolution6579Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    Why is Mike replaceable but not Stone? Why would anybody in Pearl Jam be considered replaceable?
    Chicago 8-23-09

  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    so freaking excited i get to see him play soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    :) great thread :)
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    I support this thread and the likes.
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  • LizardkingLizardking Posts: 936
    Evolution6579 wrote:
    Why is Mike replaceable but not Stone? Why would anybody in Pearl Jam be considered replaceable?


    Even Boom? As for the other 5, I guess hard to say Matt isn't but I don't see him going anywhere,I just say him because he is a replacement himself. the 4 main have to always be in it, or it's not Pearl Jam.
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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Mike McCready is far and away the greatest guitar player of his generation.

    I stopped reading right there, Ok I love McCready as much as the next guy but I can name 10 guitar players off the top of my head right now who are better then Mike and are more deserving of the title of best guitar player of this generation.
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  • LimeDiseaseLimeDisease Posts: 89
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    I stopped reading right there, Ok I love McCready as much as the next guy but I can name 10 guitar players off the top of my head right now who are better then Mike and are more deserving of the title of best guitar player of this generation.

    then do it
  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    LimeDisease wrote:
    then do it

    Joe Satriani
    Steve Vai
    Yngwie Malmsteen
    Jack White
    John Frusciante
    Adam Jones
    Kerry King
    Kirk Hammet
    Stone Gossard
    Jeff Hanneman
    Tom Morrello
    James Hetfield
    DIMEBAG DARRELL

    Thats not even getting into guys you wouldnt have even heard of.

    Thats this generation alone..... McCready is great, he shreds, hes fast, hes fun on stage but hes not even in a class with any of those guys, hell he doesnt even carry his own band, like a ton of those guys (Frusciante,White,Morello,Jones) do

    Also what generation are we speaking of?? The 90s/00's??

    cuz if we go back the list also includes Clapton, Hendrix, Stevie Ray etc.
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  • LizardkingLizardking Posts: 936
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    I stopped reading right there, Ok I love McCready as much as the next guy but I can name 10 guitar players off the top of my head right now who are better then Mike and are more deserving of the title of best guitar player of this generation.


    Ed Van Halen? Steve Vai? Joe Satriani? I Love Mike the Best, but can't say he is best of his era?
    Lizardking

    http://www.myspace.com/lizardkings1

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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Lizardking wrote:
    Ed Van Halen? Steve Vai? Joe Satriani? I Love Mike the Best, but can't say he is best of his era?


    Yeah i forgot about eddie van halen, same here i love Mike hes so entertaining but best of his era ?? Not a chance
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Mike McCready is far and away the greatest guitar player of his generation. Lets take a quick look at the man who may never get his due as one of the greatest to ever make his guitar talk.


    Lets take a look at some Mike photos from through the years.
    http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2011.jpg
    http://www.pearl-jam.com/pictures/mike/mmbwsplt.jpg
    http://pjgtf.w.interia.pl/stronapj/mike%2009.jpg
    http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_clint/Mike_FTM.jpg
    http://www.greenarrowradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/MikeMc.jpg


    Yes, I said talk. I say that because to me the great guitar players have always made it seem like there guitars were saying something, not just making noise. Mike's guitar has always done this. Sometimes it's as if it's dueting with Ed. Take a song like Nothing As It Seems. As much as I love Ed's vocals and lyrics, I always want it to get to Mike's guitar. It just puts you in awe. It is chilling and always puts me on the edge of my seat. And live, (whew). One of the main reasons Pearl Jam sounds so incredible live is because of Mike's guitar. It can send a lightning bolt of raw energy right through your entire body and shake your foundation and at the same time send ripples of magic into your heart. Either way you get shivers down your spine. My favorite Mike moment is on Live On Two Legs, his guitar solo at the end of Black. That solo is an assult on your brain. It gets inside you and doesn't ever leave. When Mike goes off on one of those guitar solos, there's no doubt somewhere up in heaven Jimi HendriXXX whips his head around and looks down to see who the hell that is playing those licks.


    Now lets have a look at some youtube clips of The Master.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yag0LzltQkw (Yellow Ledbetter)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiE_TAJpCd0 (Star Spangled Banner)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY-KNvicrE (November Hotel)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJEV5747QpA (All Or None)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BlueyXoyg (Nothing As It Seems)


    Mike clearly has something special in his soul. His playing is passionate, intement, bizarre and mystical but it's always heartfelt. I could write plenty of spectacular things about the other members aswell, but having both Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready in the same band is like having Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson on the same basketball team. How many titles would they have won? I don't know, but I can tell you this. Pearl Jam has one title, and it's the title of the world's greatest rock band.

    Now lets watch and listen to the screams of that 59 strat! (It's worth the download)
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlhy60



    Mike McCready. A living legend.
    you just said everything i feel about The Master Sir McCready!!! :eek: i dont even know how to respond to you! :eek: WOW.
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  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    I can name 10 guitar players off the top of my head right now who are better then Mike and are more deserving of the title of best guitar player of this generation.


    I just went back and rechecked.



    Ya, I was right. Mike's the greatest of his generation.
  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    Joe Satriani
    Steve Vai
    Yngwie Malmsteen
    Jack White
    John Frusciante
    Adam Jones
    Kerry King
    Kirk Hammet
    Stone Gossard
    Jeff Hanneman
    Tom Morrello
    James Hetfield
    DIMEBAG DARRELL


    I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard. Stop, Stop, I can't breathe.

    NOTE - I AM NOT LAUGHING AT STONE ON THAT LIST, BUT ALL THE OTHERS, YES YES YES.

    I'll give Stone the title of greatest . *MUSIC* . songwriter of his generation.
  • NeverbeenLedbetterNeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    I think Mike is great and certainly on an individual level some of the guitarists on EquallyWorthless list are comparable if not better in peoples opinion and some are laughable IMO. However I always think of PJ entirely as the sum of it's parts (Ed, Mike, Stone, & Jeff, I really like Matt but the other 4 have been there the whole time) and Mike just really fits into what PJ does as a band which is what makes him great.
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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard. Stop, Stop, I can't breathe.

    I'll give Stone the title of greatest . *MUSIC* . songwriter of his generation.


    Nah i juts threw stone in there for the hell of it.
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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard. Stop, Stop, I can't breathe.

    I'll give Stone the title of greatest . *MUSIC* . songwriter of his generation.


    Its funny that you think Mike is better then stone though, you laugh at Stone being on that list after calling mike the greatest guitar player of his era.
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  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    Its funny that you think Mike is better then stone though, you laugh at Stone being on that list after calling mike the greatest guitar player of his era.


    I wasn't laughing at Stone on that list. You can try and put words in my mouth but I don't play them games.

    I was laughing at your list PERIOD. I don't laugh when anyone puts PJ's members on a greatest list. The dudes on your list are a fuckin joke bud. Except for Stoney.

    But you are just looking for a fight, because you quickly just took Stone off your own list when I said he was a great songwriter. Your a joke Bud.
  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
    I was just thinking. Even after I call Stone the greatest guitar playing songwriter of his generation, you try and say I was laughing at him. Chill man. Your just wrong thats all.
  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    I wasn't laughing at Stone on that list. You can try and put words in my mouth but I don't play them games.

    I was laughing at your list PERIOD. I don't laugh when anyone puts PJ's members on a greatest list. The dudes on your list are a fuckin joke bud. Except for Stoney.

    But you are just looking for a fight, because you quickly just took Stone off your own list when I said he was a great songwriter. Your a joke Bud.


    Uh no i dint he is still on there....

    and ok man, i wasnt looking for a fight but whatver you say ! a guy who called McCready the greatest guitar player of his generation ios calling me a joke ? Thats rich.

    The guys on my list for the most part are all better in their own right than McCready, those guys actually for the most part carry their own bands, Jack White ? have you heard the sounds he gets out his guitar ?? he makes it sound like he has 2 guitar players and a bass player in his band all by himself

    Too bad youre too much of a blatant pearl jam homer to even engage in a quality discussion about this generations greatest guitar players without resorting to name calling.

    Mike is agreat guitar player but he doesnt carry pearl jam hes like one cog of a larger mechanism that without the other 4 pieces wouldnt fit together.
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  • Surf RiderSurf Rider Posts: 813
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    Uh no i dint he is still on there....


    Now he's back on your list. Wow, your weird.

    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    Mike is agreat guitar player but he doesnt carry pearl jam

    If the guys on your list was in a band with Edward Vedder, believe me they would not be carrying the band. Like I said in my 1st post, Ed's like Michael Jordan. You don't carry Michael Jordan and you don't carry Eddie Vedder. Your point has been debunked.
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