Mike McCready

To me, Mike McCready is the player who keeps Pearl Jam human. As their founding lead guitarist, he never settles for clean, careerist solos; his playing has a frayed, blues-soaked urgency that sounds like it could fall apart and somehow never does. What I admire most is his restlessness outside the band, whether it's Mad Season, Temple of the Dog, or The Rockfords. That tells me he plays because he genuinely needs to, not because a stadium is waiting. A Pensacola kid who became one of the defining guitar voices of the 1990s, he still feels like a fan with a Stratocaster to me.

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Name (English)

Mike McCready

Name (Japanese)

マイク・マクレディ

Reading

まいく・まくれでぃ

Born

April 5, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Occupation

guitarist / songwriter / lyricist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

High school

Roosevelt High School

• Official sitehttps://pearljam.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20McCready
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381797

Tags

• Florida
• guitarist
• songwriter
• lyricist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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