"It was exciting to hear Mike say that a Pearl Jam EP might hit the marketplace in 6 months time or so to showcase some of the other songs not on the album, and that Mike himself is working on songs right now for his own upcoming solo release on the horizon!"
holy crap. mc cready solo stuff, eh? i like the sound of that. also, an ep in just a few months, too. w/o a label, i was wondering when they'd start doing this kinda stuff.
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Really, this deserves it's own thread.
The EP thing too, but I gotta get in a car and go home.
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in terms of solo work that the band has done, Mike McCready has outdone EVERYONE with Mad Season. No-one elses work even comes close IMO, Eddie included. Sure Layne helped this, but it doesn't matter, Mike got it together Mike started it Mike wrote alot of music, All Layne did was rock up with a bunch of poems and make stuff up on the spot and sing
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pappas99 wrote:
in terms of solo work that the band has done, Mike McCready has outdone EVERYONE with Mad Season. No-one elses work even comes close IMO, Eddie included. Sure Layne helped this, but it doesn't matter, Mike got it together Mike started it Mike wrote alot of music, All Layne did was rock up with a bunch of poems and make stuff up on the spot and sing
If Pearl Jam is more than Eddie, Mad Season is more than Mike.
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pappas99 wrote:
in terms of solo work that the band has done, Mike McCready has outdone EVERYONE with Mad Season. No-one elses work even comes close IMO, Eddie included. Sure Layne helped this, but it doesn't matter, Mike got it together Mike started it Mike wrote alot of music, All Layne did was rock up with a bunch of poems and make stuff up on the spot and sing
i'd put Above ahead of pretty much everything the band has done as an album (although the band has a few individual songs I'd probably put ahead of anything from Above).
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Mad Season was outstanding, and I think Stone's Brad was as well (which I even prefer). However, I never got into Mike's The Rockfords. Hopefully a solo album would include lots of guitars, and really rock.
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but would it be instrumental and if not who would sing ..'cos it sure as hell can't be Mike!
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will something beautiful like the guitar in River of Deciet be on here? If so, i'm on board......but if Mike can still write something that good where has it been on the last 10 years of studio work?
Will be interesting to see if this is something that is approached with seriousness or a "here's me fucking around, it'll be fun to hear once" kind of thing...
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verb_to_trust wrote:
will something beautiful like the guitar in River of Deciet be on here? If so, i'm on board......but if Mike can still write something that good where has it been on the last 10 years of studio work?
Will be interesting to see if this is something that is approached with seriousness or a "here's me fucking around, it'll be fun to hear once" kind of thing...
The article says this about it: Songs Mike played were “Gut Feeling” - Devo, “The Passenger” - Iggy Pop, “California Uber Alles” - Dead Kennedys, “Redemption Song” - Bob Marley, “Kids” - MGMT, “The Ocean” - Led Zeppelin, “Fake Plastic Trees” - Radiohead and “Reach For The Skies” - Social Distortion.
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holy crap. mc cready solo stuff, eh? i like the sound of that. also, an ep in just a few months, too. w/o a label, i was wondering when they'd start doing this kinda stuff.
