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Mike McCready was born in Pensacola, Florida, but his family moved to Seattle shortly after his birth. [2] When he was a child, his parents played Jimi Hendrix and Santana; while his friends listened to Kiss and Aerosmith, McCready would frequently play bongo drums. [3]
Mad Season was an American rock supergroup [3] formed in 1994 as a side project of members of other bands in the Seattle grunge scene. [4] The band's principal members included guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, lead singer Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees, and bassist John Baker Saunders.
Michael Robinson McGrady (October 4, 1933 – May 13, 2012) was an American journalist and author. He is perhaps best known for orchestrating the 1969 literary hoax Naked Came the Stranger, a novel he wrote with a group of fellow Newsday journalists as an attempt to parody the bestsellers of the era, with the book becoming a hit in its own right.
The band members would go back to their regular work for some time after playing at least five shows together in the Seattle area in 2000. In 2003, the band got together again, playing several more shows around Seattle and writing several new songs. A live album, Live Seattle, WA 12/13/03, was released in 2003 through Kufala Recordings.
In 1980, Boreman published her harrowing memoir, Ordeal (written with Mike McGrady), in which she detailed the horrific abuse she experienced behind the scenes of the film at the hands of her ex ...
Mike McCready (born December 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur in the music industry, CEO of Music Xray, a blogger on Huffington Post [2] and musician. Career
First edition (publ. Lyle Stewart) Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to "Penelope Ashe", it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.
The three members also recorded and toured extensively outside the confines of the original trio: In 1968, even before the release of The Scaffold's own debut album, McGough and McGear recorded an album without Gorman (the prosaically-titled McGough and McGear) that featured rock-driven musical backing from Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell among ...