Mike McCready Names His Top Five Career-Defining Tracks
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From Temple of the Dog to Pearl Jam, these are the cuts the guitarist singles out from his long, successful run.
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He goes to hell, of course. We're going to heaven."
“So I don’t expect there to be anywhere near as long an interval before the next record comes out.”
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Reflecting his love of Stevie Ray Vaughan, McCready bought what he thought was a 1959 Fender Strat in 1991.
“It was the first expensive guitar that I ever owned,” he explains. “It was kind of beat-up around the sides, but it’s gotten a lot worse since I bought it; I do love electric guitars that look beat up. I put a five-way switch in because it had the original three-way and I use all the switch positions on the Strat, so I really get the full mileage out of the sonic options.
“Fender wanted to make a custom model, replicating every detail on the guitar, so they took it away for a couple of days to measure and photograph everything. When they brought it back to me, they told me that it’s actually a ’60 Strat.
Notwithstanding the unexpected news regarding the guitar’s vintage, McCready was blown away by what the Custom Shop came up with.
“They did such a great job that I’ve actually confused the new model with the original at times,” he admits.
“I did wonder for a moment if my original might feel a little different once they’d taken it apart and reassembled it, but it was in the hands of master builders, so the mojo was still there when I got it back.
“I guess I’ve done maybe a thousand shows with it, so it’s a part of me. We’re working on a more affordable signature model now, because obviously this limited-run Custom Shop model is a relatively expensive guitar.”