Topic Mike McCready

[BEN.HYPE]

Il assure au chant le Mike quand même...

[yoyo]

http://vimeo.com/55253424

[dvi2702]

123GO! throwing down on a Sex Pistols cover at a jam-packed show during the Sundance Film Festival 2013! The band is comprised of Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band), Brett Scallions and Ken Schalk of Fuel and Robbie Gennet (Rudy).

[Denis]

une vidéo de Mike en train d'enregistrer le nouvel album de Pearl Jam!





(nan, c'est pour rire)

[GreenDisease]

[yoyo]

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/2013/03/ne ... oject.html

New Mike McCready Side Project?

Pearl Jam Vancouver, Canada 9-25-11

Mike McCready plays music with Duff McKagan and Barrett Martin so much it's almost not worth reporting, but this week, while speaking to Billboard about Mad Season, Mike mentioned that the three of them have been working on some new music and reworking some old, unused demos from Mad Season's second album. Some are calling it a super group, but a better term might be project, as they're planning on a cast of lead singers, including Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke.

"I have a little record company called Hockeytalkter Records -- it's what my three year old son calls a helicopter. I would like to put some of this stuff out on 45. If that happens, it'll be great."

There's no release date. The band is waiting on the vocalists to finish their work before making any formal announcements. In the meantime, you can check out the upcoming Walking Papers album which will feature two songs written by Mike.

[fredbab]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... -the-works


Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Duff McKagan (ex-GNR), Barrett Martin (ex-Screaming Trees) create unnamed band with cast of singers; McCready hopes to relase on his new label.

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has teamed up with ex-Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, and ex-Screaming Trees drummer (and fellow Mad Season member) Barrett Martin for a brand new side-project that will prospectively feature a cast of singers including Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman, McCready tells Billboard.

"Duff and Barrett and I got together. We wrote some new stuff and we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that [unreleased] second 'Disinformation' record, so we are trying to find something to do with those," McCready says. "We're talking to Jaz from Killing Joke and I've been trying to find some singers to work on some of that stuff."

Mad Season Speaks: McCready & Martin Talk Reissue

The ever busy guitarist, who is prepping the expanded reissue of Mad Season's 1995 album "Above" for April -- which will featured other, newly finished tunes from that era -- and who is also about to head back into the studio to work on Pearl Jam's next album, says he hopes to release songs by the as-yet-untitled group with McKagan and Martin on his own new label, Hockeytalkter Records.

"I have a little record company called Hockeytalkter Records -- it's what my three year old son calls a helicopter. I would like to put some of this stuff out on 45. If that happens, it'll be great."

The new side-project follows McCready's recent involvement in McKagan and Martin's other band, Walking Papers. The Pearl Jam guitarist contributed to a pair of tunes on Walking Papers' self-titled 2012 album.

Pearl Jam Guitarist 'Stoked' For New Album

"A bunch of stuff was happening last year," Barrett Martin says. "Mike and I were putting together this Mad Season collection. Duff and I and Jeff Angell were starting the Walking Papers album which we asked Mike to play on. Then Mike started his own record label… I had a whole bunch of song ideas and Mike had a whole bunch of song ideas and Duff had a whole bunch of song ideas that were not making it into Walking Papers. We decided that we would go into the studio and record them. Right now they're being sent out to different singers. Mike and Duff are overseeing that because they know everybody."

There is no set release date for any of the material, but Martin says it will depend on the as-yet-unrevealed list of singers. "As the different singers finish their songs and turn them in, that will determine when they get put out," he laughs.

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WALKING PAPERS ANNOUNCE 2013 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

Walking Papers have announced the following upcoming European tour dates via their Facebook page:

European Tour Dates:

April 27th – Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013
April 28th – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ The Winston
April 29th – Hamburg, Germany @ Logo
May 1st – Cologne, Germany @ The Underground
May 2nd – Saarbrucken, Germany @ The Garage
May 3rd – Paris, France @ La Fleche d’Or
May 4th – London, England @ The Garage London
June 11th – Dublin, Ireland @ The Pint
June 12th – Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Voodoo
June 13th – Glasgow, Scotland @ Stereo
June 14th – England @ Download Festival (acoustic set)
June 15th – England @ Download Festival (regular set)
June 16th – Tallinn, Estonia @ Rock Summer Festival

[Denis]

attention, Mike ne sera pas de la tournée...

the line up will be myself on drums, Jeff Angell on guitar and vocals, Duff McKagan on bass, and Ben Anderson on keys.

[dranx]

attention, Mike ne sera pas de la tournée...

the line up will be myself on drums, Jeff Angell on guitar and vocals, Duff McKagan on bass, and Ben Anderson on keys.

Yes, je sais Denis, mais comme les premiers posts avaient été fait sur ce topic, je me suis permis de reposter ici..

[Tremoskito]

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/I ... l_Jam.aspx

L'interview en version longue :

In 1994, Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready exited an alcohol rehabilitation center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to successfully kicking his addictions there, McCready also met a kindred spirit in the form of Seattle-area bassist John Baker Saunders and the two bonded over their shared love in music. After they left Minnesota, McCready and Baker got together in Seattle and with Pearl Jam on a temporary hiatus, decided to form a musical side project. To fill out the group they enlisted the help of drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley. Thus Mad Season was born.

Now, nearly 20 years later, McCready and Martin are reissuing Mad Season’s one and only album, Above. The album, currently available for pre-order, releases on April 2 and comes in a deluxe two-CD/one-DVD set. In addition to the original material, extras include previously unreleased tracks from the band's unfinished sophomore album with new lyrics and vocals by Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan. Also included is Mad Season’s first official DVD release of the group’s last show ever performed, Live At The Moore, and an unreleased full concert video of the band's New Year's Eve performance at now-defunct Seattle club RKCNDY.

We catch up with McCready to get the scoop on the Mad Season reissue as well as the gear he’s been favoring lately and what to expect from Pearl Jam in 2013.

How did the Mad Season project first come together?
When we got together in 1994 the initial idea of it from my point of view…I was in rehab for booze and I met this guy Baker [John Baker Saunders] in there who played bass and I liked a lot. He was just this funny, crusty old blues player who had some pretty cool stories and was cranking Bob Dylan in his room; I just immediately liked him. So I said, ‘Do you wanna play some blues sometime or come back to Seattle and jam?’ My thought process back then was to help people who were suffering from addictions or alcohol to maybe do a project. That was where my heart was at the time, however naïve it was. That’s kind of where the initial idea for Mad Season came from.

How did Layne Staley get involved?
I knew Layne was kind of on that journey so I called him and said, ‘Hey dude, you wanna come make a record?’ and he was into it. I told him that I wanted to play with Barrett Martin because I loved the Screaming Trees and he was a fantastic drummer and I had this guy Baker that he would probably like and then we all got together.

What was Layne’s contribution to Above?
I talked to Layne about it and said, ‘Hey man, you bring in whatever you want. You sing, you write the lyrics; you’re the man. If you have any song ideas bring them in.’ It was a free form thing that we all kind of did and it was an expressive thing out of that initial inclination to get us all kind of clean and sober. It didn’t end up working, but you have to live and learn. You have to do those things.

What was Layne’s state of mind like during this time?
His state of mind, from what I recall, was very receptive to doing these songs. I felt like he was singing honestly from his heart about his struggle and I felt that he was really into it. He would show up for everything we did and made decisions and had artwork. He was there 100 percent in my mind. He may have been struggling at that time with things, but my recollection was that he was there. If you listen to the lyrics I think that can kind of tell you where his mind was at that time.

Was it difficult to get so many guys from other bands all together at one time?
We were all luckily not doing anything at that time. Pearl Jam wasn’t in the studio, Alice in Chains wasn’t out on the road and the Screaming Trees were back so we had a little time. It ended up being like a window of six to eight months where we ended up playing six shows, filmed them, and did the record. We did a lot in a small period of time.

What were the sessions themselves like?
They were fun and kind of quick and easy. They sounded really raw to me. We had Brett Eliason, who was doing our Pearl Jam sound at the time, and I wanted him to do the record because I liked how he got sounds and we communicated in the same way. So we rehearsed a bit at a studio in West Seattle and just came up with rough ideas. They were all kind of songs that happened because of the four guys that were in the band. I guess that’s what happens in all situations, but they were songs that were different than what I would have brought to Pearl Jam at that time.

I’ve read that you used a Gibson EDS 1275 double-neck guitar on Above.
Yeah, the double-neck, yes I did. My kind of influence and brain at that time was way into Jimmy Page. I still have it and I think I used it on “Lifeless Dead” and a couple others. The one that sticks out the most and still kind of does in a haunting sort of way is the last song, “All Alone.” If you can hear that, you know what it is. I was playing the 6-string neck with the pickups off so you’re getting the relative harmonics off that with what is happening on the 12-string neck up top with the pickups on. That actually happened out of an accident, I was just messing around trying to get the 6-string neck to work but I didn’t have my switches on in the right order but I heard this chiming kind of thing coming out of the guitar. I was like ‘We gotta do something with this, let’s just jam on it.’

Read more: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/I ... z2MqroGO78

[XWayne]

attention, Mike ne sera pas de la tournée...

the line up will be myself on drums, Jeff Angell on guitar and vocals, Duff McKagan on bass, and Ben Anderson on keys.

Yes, je sais Denis, mais comme les premiers posts avaient été fait sur ce topic, je me suis permis de reposter ici..

Mais le groupe mérite le déplacement juste pour Barrett Martin, très impressionant au Nouveau Casino de Paris l'an dernier.

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http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/I ... spx?Page=3

"I got to see Matt Cameron play with Soundgarden and he is a monster with them. He plays differently then he does with us so it was cool to see him from another point of view and kind of go, ‘Oh my God! Jesus Christ that is some of the best drumming I’ve seen in my life."

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[XWayne]

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2013/Mar/Interview_Mike_McCready_on_Mad_Season_Reissue_and_New_Pearl_Jam.aspx?Page=3

"I got to see Matt Cameron play with Soundgarden and he is a monster with them. He plays differently then he does with us so it was cool to see him from another point of view and kind of go, ‘Oh my God! Jesus Christ that is some of the best drumming I’ve seen in my life."

Et je ne veux aucun commentaires

[Hub.]

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http://www.1077theend.com/Duff-McKagan- ... pid=305899

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... h400wH4fA#!

[Denis]

Au rock and roll hall of fame, hier.

[Mookie Blaylock]

Ils étaient là pour Heart ?

[Denis]

Ils étaient là pour Heart ?

ouaip, c'est Cornell qui a fait le speech.