That 59 les paul on his lap belonged to my father jim armstrong who was the guitarist with them (van morrison).... he toured the states with van. He purchased the guitar in the usa while on tour (1968) they played the whisky a go go for 2 weeks and had the doors as support jammed with captain beefheart, frank zappa etc..... the guitar is soaked in history and used on loads of albums over the years. Any chance of giving it back mike ha ha beautiful guitar. I have fond memories as a child when my dad would open the guutar case and say look at that son its yje holy grail. Id be like yea yea its only a guitar dad.... little did I know

I would describe his playing as ‘underrated’ No one thinks of his name much but he’s a fireball

He's so excited he interrupts himself lol

McCready did some crazy stuff on his strat

Famous people need to be more like this,hes humble and just sincere

I love that he plays both gibsons and fenders. He’s amazing.

Lol at 4:30 "P90 hello?" What an unpretentious down-to-earth guy. I remember seeing him often in Uptown Espresso in South Queen Anne coming for coffee in probably 1994, just shooting the shit with the baristas. Low-key wonderful Seattle.

Mike McCready is one of the few guys who can damage a super old/valuable guitar and make it more valuable

One of the greatest guitar players ever. HIs work on Ten Proved Blues was still alive and always pushing good rock music, something that greatly lacks in Rock Today. Blues was the soul of rock, Mike truly has it. Seeing Him Live is the closest ill have to seeing A stevie/Jimi type of figurehead on the Guitar. His Tones are Unreal, never relies on his effects, just uses them to paint textures. Nothing has it seems just roars Live, Alive, Evenflow, huge classic Rock solos. Keep on Rocking Mike and Pearl Jam! One of the Last real Rock N roll Bands.

Mike McCready is such a great guy! He's been an inspiration for me since the first time I listened to his Alive solo. I was really lucky to be in front of him at the Azkena Rock concert back in 2006. He gave me his pick, which I keep like gold... thanks for your art and the great moments Mike!

Mike thank you... I love PJ and I know you will go down in history as one of the greatest guitarists of this generation!!

Oh man, I saw that '59 Les Paul at Danny's Guitar Shop (located in Everett, WA - now closed) in a glass case in the middle of the show room floor. The price was in just the mid-5 figures back then and it looked beat to hell. But it was the holy grail. Glad to see it being played and not in some collection in a vault.

Your are my idol!! Pearl jam has been my favorite band since I was 16 and I'm 37, your an amazing beautiful guitar player! I paid 250 to see PJ at the borgata in Atlantic City, I was like 15ft,20ft from you!! I'll never forget that night, best night of my life!

This man is one of my go to guitarists when looking for some sort of inspiration. Mike and Stone are a pair of guitarists that we are very fortunate to be able to experience. Rare breed.

What a visionary in the world of guitar players and Rock music. MM plays with so much feeling that you can feel the passion when you listen to him.

The damn flame on the neck of that strat. Phenomenal

a great man with an extraordinary class .... simple human adorable a great guitarist❤️ i love him

top notch guitar player

Mccready was and still is so underrated

yeeaaa! you are my guitarrista faborito🤘🤘gracias por el video nice! guitars😁

desde mexico un abraso mac!!! eres mi ejemplo a seguir..muy buena guitarra!!!

What a perfect collection

Great player, great guitars

Such a cool dude. Love his style!

You're a great guy Mike. Love ya!!!

Nice collection you have..

McCready is one of guitar genius in rock history..

The 59 Les Paul belonged to Jim Armstrong, I know that guitar very very well.. heard him playing it here in Belfast countless times.. like seeing an old buddy.. and yes, it has an amazing sound .. that guitar and big Jim inspired me as a kid to become a lead guitarist.. lovely seeing the guitar I used to gaze at from feet away every Saturday..

" P90 Hello! 😂 ...No wonder guitar player doesn't talk to me..But I'm much more happy about this." Man, this guy so hilarious. McCready is incredible! One of the greatest world class No1 guitarist ever💯🎸🔥✌

"I traded in a few guitars for it and paid some money and I got it for a pretty good price." Lol oh to be in a band that sells millions.

I had a friend who played with a young Stevie Vaughn . Alex played with Stevie in Paul Ray and the Cobras . Got to see Mike at the Gorge . RIP Alex and Stevie

Mike: I don't care if you don't know what a P90 is,you're awesome.

I got to talk shop with him one night before a Rockfords show. Funny, a gear nerd, a good human being.

That 59 tattoo, bro! My man is a really cool fan of this years stuffs✌😊

I absolutely love Mike Insane McCready 🎸 it's ironic that Mike loves SRV went and saw him live and wanted to be like SRV, and for years now theirs huge fans out there going to see him live and want to be like Mike McCready!! That is amazing!! Dreams do come true but with alot of hard work and determination and so much passion like McCready! Pearl Jam is my favorite band on this planet!! I hope I made sense!! 😊💓🤘✌️

Amazing guitars!

Danny! Such a nice guy

only who really knows the importance of the type of wood and construction of an old guitar would know and appreciate its great sound. Theres is a good reason why all this famous guitar players still have them. Even Slash says the guitar he used for sweet child o` mine he don't use it live . He said; all the les pauls I use for live performances are just replicas. Crazy !!

I've strummed that Strat! Indy 2010

McCready is so underrated as a guitarist...

He was in front of me, in 1992, when he pushed his 1959 strato in the cone of a Marshall box @3:20

Sweat from great players definatly adds to the tone!! If mccready says that than now im a true beleiver.

Love that Strat

great shout out to them and van morrison.nice

When Fender took the Strat apart during the process of planning out the replicas they made it was discovered that it's actually a 1960.

his strat is beautiful it reminds mine

Nice gits. Tv yellow LP Jr’s are cool. Those 59s tho. Very nice. I’m not a strat guy but that 59 is super cool.

Last week, he used the strat guitar. I knew there was something old about it because it made a lot of electric noise, like old guitars do.

I had a double cut away with double p90s... I was originally gonna buy an SG but the sound was far better than any other guitar I played...that was under 1000 bucks

wow danny's music so cool

Mike mccready my hero my idol

1959 is my fav for Strats and 1960 for Lesters, unique crossover years

Love Pearl Jam, I have probably all of their albums. Just a great band, love their music.

HE BLOWS MY MIND!!!!!

Lotta wraps around the pegs on the strat!

Ídolo 🙌🏻

SRV and Robert Cray #realmusicians. Mike has good taste.

And true to SRV’s Number 1, Mike’s Strat now also turns out not to be a ‘59 either, believe Fender is now saying it’s a 1960. Either way it has serious mojo and sounds great in his hands which is all that matters.

I think it's the old growth wood they used back then. I've played a few Strats/les Pauls made around that time period. Every one had a resonance that's hard to describe. You feel it more than a modern solid body x10. They vibrate as much or more than any acoustic guitar.

I bought the 2019 Epiphone Les Paul standard with the 1959 Epiphone Gibson Kalamazoo headstock and neck size/shape slim C shape early 1960-1959. For my son.

That strat looked like that at Pinkpop '92.

so cool he mentions JT when he brings out the special

Pearl Jam will go down as the greatest American Rock Band mark my words. McCready is such a tasteful player.

Is this the Les Paul on Present Tense ? Love that sound.

1959? That's a lot of guitars! Who needs that many? :P

Toca muito!!!

the year my mother was born. must have been a nice year

I want some information about his main strat he played in 92' the yellow ish one.. that's my favorite guitar ever

Is that a mint pickguard on the Strat?????? And by the way, wich pickups does he use??? I LOVE his sound!

I met him back in 1990, after a PJ gig in a bar just before "Jeremy" broke. Great guy.

I love how everyone with a 59 les paul always says, "I got a good price on it"....lol

I was also one of those guys who watched Jim Armstrong play that 59 Les Paul in the Pound Belfast in 1978-79. Like some of the other guys posting comments here Jim was an inspiration to make me want to play the guitar. In the 80s Jim switched from the Les Paul to playing a Tokai Start. About 1987/88 I saw Jim's 59 Les Paul and his Marshall stack for sale in Baird's music shop, Belfast. The price I think was something like £2,000-£3,000 for both, this seemed like a lot of money at the time. I should have slapped a deposit down there and then. The guitar was casually hanging on the stack (just like Jim used to hang it before a show), both guitar and amp looked really beaten up and tatty. The guitar looks much better in this clip above. Now where did I leave the keys to my time machine? You can hear Jim playing that Les Paul with Light 1978 here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ad-ndr2g0amdnGg.html

I have never seen something about his white strat, he use it in a lot of '92 stuff i think? that's a really cool guitar

ahh, guitar porn....I love it!

But the Strat that "Started it all", turns out to be a 1960, not a 59.

GOD!!

rad

The 'strat into speaker' incident is well documented, check out Mad Season gig at the moore 1995, last part of 'November hotel'... He did a lot more to the poor strat than he says :P But what a great show that is :o some of the best guitar work ever !

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I like my old workhorse cheapies.

You can hear Stevie’s influence on Mike in Yellow Ledbetter .

the stratus caster im gettin in either a cherry red or sunburst

Only things of 1959 in SRV's Strat was the pickups and volume & tone pots installed in a '63 body w/a '62 neck.

Cool

It's funny how people refer to SRV'S strat as a '59. It did have '59 pickups and that's why SRV called it his '59, "Sometimes also referred to as the “First Wife," Stevie acquired the guitar at Ray Hennig’s Heart of Texas Music in Austin. He allegedly traded a '63 Strat for it. “Number One” consists of a 1963 body fitted with pickups taken from a ’59, and a 1962 neck, which has an unusually thick D profile that clearly suited SRV’s unique approach". source:www.guitarworld.com/gear-gear-news-electrics/forgotten-guitar-close-look-stevie-ray-vaughans-number-one-strat/28827

...turns out that infamous strat is a '60! 🤣

at 2:56 when he plays that quick chord right there it sounds like Tones of Home by Blind Melon lol

2:09 What’s crazy is there’s thousands of people who now say the exact same thing about being in the front row of his concert.

I didn't know Kevin McCarthy played guitar. He's looking younger too.😊

the the 59 strat, belonged to Dawayne Bailey, when he was playing for Bob Seger, Bob didnt like the sound of the strats and called a guy down from a guitar shop in St. Louis to show Dawayne some Gibsons to pick out, he didnt have the money to outright buy it, so he traded the 59 strat for it, however he removed the tone knob before giving it up and he made a necklace from it that he wore the rest of his time with Seger as protest in his own way. It wasnt until he saw a pic of it upclose noticed the tone knob and noticed the scratches and what not on it that he knew that was his guitar. Last I heard from him he was trying to find a way to reach out to Mike to give him the original tone knob back as he still has it.

It´s a 1960 Strat as we (and he) recently learned through Fender Custom Shop. Anyway!

Stevie Ray Vaughan played Bumbershoot in ‘85 also, and the ‘59 Strat turned out to be a’60. ;^).

Is this Strat the one he puts through the Marshall cab during the Mad season live at the Moore gig in 95? Anyone know?

kinda wish he plugged them in ...

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I'm all SOUND cloud stream forevermore.

His 59 lester has the coolest finish

Smash it!

- I just love that year. I dońt know what it is. - Just your imagination