JEFF:So this is the amazing thing! Everybody in the band has these different ways that they get comfortable coming up with stuff. The way that I prefer to do it and the way [Mike] prefers is different. If we're in [the studio] with him - I think it's the pressure and us just being there - he raises to the level that we all know Mike McCready. It's like being at a live show! And me, I would rather go to my home studio, be by myself and sit in there and noodle for two hours. As opposed to the pressure cooker of it… but Mike is so good at that! Matt Cameron, too; when the pressure’s on and everybody's looking at him, something fucking amazing comes out, you know? MIKE:I think within that pressure, there's a support… Like, these are my guys, you know? This is my… we've been together for 35 years. I fucking love these guys. They're brothers! And music, and all these other things… So, I want to bring it. I want to because it's important to me. The music's important to me. Yeah, I think I thrive in that.
Watch the entire hour-long conversation between Jeff, Mike, and Rick Beato (Here).
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Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
RB: My wife and I, on our honeymoon, came to see you guys playing in Hawaii, opening for U2... Pearl Jam is her favourite band, and I was like: Let's go and see Pearl Jam play in Hawaii... I think it was the last day of your tour, and their tour and it was amazing... 2006... Aloha stadium... JA: We were like two weeks there... We heard that they're ending their tour within like ten days or a week of ours... Let's just fly the whole crew over and be the end of the tour... We can do it with them... It's a good way to end a tour... We should have ended this tour that way... MM: I'd love to end a tour in Hawaii again... We never go to Hawaii anymore... RB: I interviewed Kelly Slater recently... And Kelly was at that show too...
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
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Banter with Beato
MIKE: I think within that pressure, there's a support… Like, these are my guys, you know? This is my… we've been together for 35 years. I fucking love these guys. They're brothers! And music, and all these other things… So, I want to bring it. I want to because it's important to me. The music's important to me. Yeah, I think I thrive in that.
Watch the entire hour-long conversation between Jeff, Mike, and Rick Beato (Here).
JA: We were like two weeks there... We heard that they're ending their tour within like ten days or a week of ours... Let's just fly the whole crew over and be the end of the tour... We can do it with them... It's a good way to end a tour... We should have ended this tour that way...
MM: I'd love to end a tour in Hawaii again... We never go to Hawaii anymore...
RB: I interviewed Kelly Slater recently... And Kelly was at that show too...