Novemer 29. 1998 Seattle, Washington

Scott Vanderpool: It's KISW and this is Damon's part of the show so Damon you have to talk here.

Damon Stewart: Hi! It's actually Seattle Zone but we're taking up the New Music Hour tonight too. That's why Scott's here.

Scott: That's why I'm here. I'm not here just to be annoying...although I can be.

Damon: You know it's ok as long as I can't see you, Scott.

Scott: Alright, well I'll just hide behind this screen over here.

Damon: Thank you.

Scott: We're honored. We're touched. We're honorably touched.

Damon: We have a guest.

Scott: ...Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready in the house.

Mike McCready: Hello. I'm in the house.

Damon: How are you doing, Haus?

Mike: I'm alright, how are you doing Damon? Scott?

Damon: Very good.

Scott: I'm ducky, thanks for asking.

Mike: Duck!

Damon: I'm surprised he didn't say turkey.

Scott: That would be bad.

Damon: Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone. It's a special edition of Seattle Zone and The New Music Hour tonight. Take a look at Live On Two Legs, a brand new record from Pearl Jam.

Scott: And then we'll just let Mike play disc jockey and play whatever he wants.

Damon: Absolutely, that's the best part.

Scott: Because I personally don't think you get to hear enough of what Mike likes.

Mike: I think I'm going to enforce my strange tastes to everyone for at least two hours, over the next two hours.

Damon: I'm all about that! [claps]

Scott: So what should we start off with? Something off the new live album.

Mike: Sounds good. A little Go maybe?

Damon: Let's go! Pearl Jam, Live On Two Legs. Go!

Scott: It's KISW!

[Pearl Jam - Go] [Bauhaus - Boys]

Scott: It's KISW. It's the New Music Zone or whatever the hell it is.

Mike: Our zone?

Scott: I'm good with that.

Mike: Ok.

Scott: Scott Vanderpool, Damon Stewart and our special guest tonight, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam and more importantly, Shadow. Do we get to play some Shadowtonight?

Mike: We're going to get to hear some Shadow for the first time, from 1982. It might rock ya. It might metal you a little bit.

Scott: Really? Now weren't you playing an Iceman back then?

Mike: I was playing an Ibanez Iceman, which was about the same size as I was back then.

Scott: Really?

Mike: And probably right now too, but I was playing the Iceman and then Danny Newcomb, Chris Friel from Goodness were playing and Rick Friel, who plays in a band called Jody Watts, he was playing bass, and we had this guy Rob, who is now known as Perko, who is the singer...and we wore spandex and rocked.

Scott: You did not!

Mike: We did wear some spandex. [they laugh]

Scott: Wow, spandex in what kind of vein? Was it a Spinal Tap thing?

Mike: Hmmm, looking back at it, it probably is that, but at the time we thought it was what was going on. We'd go shop at Koochie Coo and get all those...

Scott: Right, did you have a mirror in the practice room, did you like...

Mike: No, but I'm sure we were pretty vain though.

Scott: But you had one in your head and you were trying to be who?

Mike: I just got the mirror in my head actually.

Damon: Maybe a little KISS in there?

Mike: Little bit of KISS, we were trying to be KISS and tried to be Hanoi Rocks...and from listening to this the other night, we kind of ended up sounding a little like Iron Maiden?

Scott: Ok now, I'm getting way the hell off track and going into Shadow before we even have Shadow cued up because what we really ought to be talking about is what we just played. That sounded like...not Pearl Jam.

Mike: That was Bauhaus, little song called Boys. Which I just saw them in Seattle and they played so great that I've been somewhat obsessed with it. I'm going too far back into this whole Goth thing, but...

Scott: No, let's go all the way back. You grew up probably listening to KISS and stuff.

Mike: ...listening to KISS.

Scott: So what brought you into Goth?

Mike: Well, I was listening to...a little bit later on, it was KISS and metal and stuff like that and the Stones and then I got into a little bit of Love and Rockets later and that, and then this Bauhaus thing specifically, since I just saw them. My girlfriend and I just saw them in LA then I saw them up here three times. They were so good that I can't stop listening to them.

Scott: Peter Murphy's actually singing with them and stuff? Mike Yeah, singing fantastic too.

Scott: He went on to a little bit of a solo career at one point.

Mike: ...did a little solo thing.

Damon: Reasonable success.

Mike: Which I've been listening to over and over again. Bauhaus and Lynyrd Skynyrd. There's the nex of what's been going through...

Scott: Wow. I'm good with that.

Damon: You know, I'm so good with that, that what Mike's got for us to play next is even another extreme.

Scott: Ok, which one are we in Damon?

Damon: We're in one over there, Scott.

Scott: Ok, you just want to fire into it then?

Damon: We should maybe...what do you got here, Mike? Where does this CD come from?

Mike: Was this little Jerry Garcia's Finger?

Damon: Jerry Garcia's Finger from Soundgarden.

Mike: I think I got this at Tower a while ago, and I just have never heard this record. I bought it and I was just going through my CD's last night and I saw a title, Jerry Garcia's Finger and I was like, "I got to hear what that thing sounds like. Hey, maybe try putting it in your car, Mike. No, bring it down to the radio station."

Damon: Perfect.

Scott: Ok.

Mike: Alright.

Damon: It's KISW.

[Soundgarden - Jerry Garcia's Finger] [Goodness - Walk Away] [Pearl Jam - MFC]

Scott: 99.9 FM KISW Seattle's best rock. It's our little thing...well, it's a mess is what it is. I'll just get right down to it. Seattle Zone and The New Music Hour all kind of rolled up into one big can of whoop ass. Scott, Damon and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam.

Damon: Mike McCready.

Scott: Your mic's not on. Speaking of Mike's.

Damon: Turn my mic on.

Mike: Where's Mike? Which mic? Oh Jesus.

Scott: No, you're on.

Mike: I'm on?

Scott: You're on. Damon's not.

Mike: And I just said Jesus.

Scott: You can say Jesus.

Mike: Ok. Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!

Scott: You can say God.

Mike: [softly] God.

Scott: You can't say... [laughter]

Scott: Why isn't your mic working, Damon? Why don't you plug yourself into four and see what happens there. So what did we just listen to?

Mike: I think we listened to MFC and then prior to that it was Jerry Garcia's Finger. MFC is off our new record.

Scott: Live On Two Legs.

Mike: Live On Two Legs.

Scott: Brand new live Pearl Jam record. Now these were kind of recorded all over the place but they...

Mike: Pretty much all over the place.

Scott: But you kind of blended it all together so it sounds like one big show.

Mike: That's kind of what happened. I think we just gave the secret away. But no, Damon...Hello! Brett Eliason our soundman put the record together. He listened to hours and hours and hours of us playing and then picked out the best songs that he thought...

Scott: Are you with us now Damon?

Damon: I think I'm not. [in the background]

Scott: I think you're not too. Let's go back to three.

Mike: Do you want to come over here?

Scott: Here, you guys talk, I'll fix.

Damon: Ok, so you basically just gave the secret away. It's like kind of a compilation ofsorts.

Mike: Right.

Scott: Was I not supposed to say that? [in the background]

Mike: Oh no. I think we were, I think it doesn't matter.

Damon: Yeah.

Scott: Well, I read it some where. [in the background]

Mike: Well, there you go. Then it doesn't matter.

Damon: Are we ok now?

Scott: I don't know. Try it.

Damon: I'm not ok.

Scott: Nothing works in this building.

Damon: Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Scott: Let's just share, Damon.

Damon: [Whispering] Ok Scott.

Mike: So it is a compilation of many, many shows... [they start laughing]

Damon: I think we're going to have to compile this one. Parts of the tour, I mean there were a lot of different things going on out there. There were events at the shows, there were shows for events. There were...well, all the shows were events. What were some of your highlights maybe? Was it any of the benefit shows?

Mike: The benefit shows were fun. I think just playing... Madison Square Garden was pretty great.

Damon: That was a highlight?

Mike: Pretty much of a highlight. We played two nights, the first night we really sucked. So that was interesting. It was like, "yes! we're playing Madison Square Garden and I'm completely out of..."

Damon: Now, when you say your show sucked, there's 20,000 fans out there who probably go home thinking otherwise.

Mike: Or 19,050 or something. [laughs]

Damon: By your standards what sucked?

Mike: I just...we didn't play that great and we were hacking a bunch and I think... It's probably just inner band standards or something.

Damon: A lot of distractions maybe?

Mike: Technical malfunctions and things and us trying to cover up for it, but it certainly wasn't as bad as when Dennis Rodman joined us on stage.

Damon: [laughs] Tell us something about that. I think everybody heard a little bit that maybe he over extended his welcome.

Mike: Hmmmm, let's just say he was in blackout mode and he wouldn't leave the stage and we played for...I mean we played the whole set and he was up there for about 13 songs, I'd say. And completely kind of blacked out, screaming into mics and stuff so we were all a little bit frightened and somewhat annoyed.

Damon: Obviously that didn't make it to the record then.

Mike: [laughs] That show did not make the record. That could be our next live record coming out, straight to the bottom of the charts.

Scott: Ok, what do you want to play next? I'll get that going.

Damon: Yea, what do you want to hear next?

Mike: A little Mudhoney?

Scott: I love this.

Mike: This record is so good!

Damon: Mudhoney toured with you guys.

Mike: Yes.

Damon: They did some dates on the Yield tour.

Mike: Yeah, they had cool shirts that had MU, kind of like a Devo thing, MU they'd spell out Mudhoney. Of course, I can't spell Mudhoney right now. M-U-D

Damon: M-U-D

Mike: ...D-H-O-N-E-Y. But they...kind of a Devo thing and they'd...[Damon claps] Thank you! Public education right there.

Scott: I'm good with that. Ok now...

Mike: And I probably spelled it wrong too.

Scott: I'm having to backtrack here. We did not, we did not mention the Goodness song that we played.

Mike: Oh yes, Walk Away.

Scott: Goodness played some shows with you guys on the tour?

Mike: They opened the first two shows, and that was really fun. I was a little scared to see what the crowd would think, but the crowd really dug 'em in Montana and Utah.

Scott: Just to make this even more disjointed and incoherent, you used to play with a couple members of that band.

Mike: Yes.

Scott: We were talking about that earlier.

Mike: With Danny Newcomb, the guitar player, and Chris Friel the drummer and Rick who actually helps them out. That's Rick Friel, he played bass in Shadow back in those days...

Scott: Good.

Mike: ...the early 80's, '82 and '81, '83.

Scott: Ok, and then, to start out that little set of music that was probably a half hour ago, we played Soundgarden doing Jerry Garcia, Pull My Finger.

Mike: Something like that...something was pulled while we were in here...and I'm not sure...

Scott: Ok, and we just wanted to see what that sounded like and it was kind of...

Mike: ...more atmospheric, I think, than an actual song.

Scott: ...probably not going to be on the hit parade anytime soon but cool anyway.

Mike: Definitely cool. It sounded backwards to me, I don't know.

Scott: Well maybe it could be the equipment in this building too because we never know what the hell's going on here.

Mike: [laughs] It might be that.

Scott: But, anyways let's move along and play some more tunes. This is Mudhoney off of the new one Tomorrow Hit Today.

Mike: You call it.

Scott: We should be playing this in heavy rotation.

Mike: It's such a great record.

Scott: And this is a song, I just love this song it's called Oblivion.

Mike: Yes!

Scott: It's Mudhoney, it's KISW and hopefully this equipment works.

[Mudhoney - Oblivion] [Cheap Trick - Downed]

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