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Fender Mike McCready Stratocaster
“I’m honored to deliver a more approachable guitar to the next generation of players”: Fender makes Mike McCready’s iconic 1960 Stratocaster accessible to the masses with new signature model

By Matt Owen Published

The Pearl Jam legend’s second signature Strat is vastly more affordable than its $15,000 Custom Shop sibling, but still carries all the hallmarks of McCready’s fabled 1960 workhorse

Guitars
Mike McCready and Jeff Ament of Temple Of The Dog perform at The Forum on November 14, 2016 in Inglewood, California.
“So that harmonic, I'm kind of ripping The Firm's Radioactive”: How Jeff Ament discovered a slide harmonic on Pearl Jam’s Even Flow

By Nick Wells Published

“I remember accidentally hitting harmonics and sliding on it, so I just started experimenting”

Bassists
Stone Gossard performs live with Painted Shield, playing a Fender Custom Shop Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster
Stone Gossard spotted playing Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready’s signature Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster onstage

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The $15,000 guitar appeared to be one of the Seattle rhythm king’s main squeezes at side-project Painted Shield’s debut shows

Electric Guitars
Mike McCready
Learn the rhythm and soloing styles of Pearl Jam's Mike McCready

By Martin Cooper Published

A fusion of classic rock with elements of funk, Pearl Jam's sound is unique and slippery, and this lesson in McCready's style offers a stern test of your rhythm and pentatonic phrasing

Lessons
Multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer of Pluralone performs live on stage at Viejas Arena at San Diego State University on May 03, 2022 in San Diego, California.
Josh Klinghoffer: “I’ve never lost this sense that I’m a beginner, and I think that gives me a more primal approach to the guitar”

By Joe Bosso Published

Josh Klinghoffer was a Red Hot Chili Pepper – and now he records with Eddie Vedder and performs with Pearl Jam. What is it about him that all these (hugely successful) acts want?

Guitars
WEMBLEY ARENA Photo of Mike McCREADY and PEARL JAM, Mike McCready performing live onstage
Mike McCready breaks down the gear and inspiration behind 15 landmark Pearl Jam tracks

By Jeff Gilbert Published

In this classic 1995 interview, the Seattle great details how the tricks he “stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young and Keith Richards” wound up on choice Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog cuts

Artists
Nancy Wilson and Mike McCready
Watch Nancy Wilson and Mike McCready tear it up in raucous live cover of Led Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll

By Matt Parker Published

The Pearl Jam man dropped in as a guest at the Heart legend’s recent Seattle show – and even borrowed her iconic Fender Telecaster

Music Releases
James Hetfield, Kurt Cobain and Dimebag Darrell
The greatest guitar albums of the '90s

By Jenna Scaramanga Published

From Pearl Jam to Pantera, Metallica to Morello

Music Releases
Jeff Ament
Jeff Ament: “Stone was always writing from a Zeppelin angle, so seeing if fretless bass could work in that realm was exciting“

By Joe Daly last updated

The Pearl Jam bassist looks back at the making of Ten, and details his new solo project, American Death Squad

Bassists
Warren DeMartini of Ratt in 1984 and Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard in 1992
Stone Gossard says grunge didn’t kill ‘80s hard rock bands – but “yes, some did die”

By Matt Parker last updated

The Pearl Jam guitarist argues it was the natural “life cycle” of pop culture, not grunge, that caused the mass extinction event

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