Temple of the Dog – Temple Of The Dog
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1990 album Temple Of The Dog.
Music from Temple Of The Dog
Artists on Temple Of The Dog
Gear Used On Temple Of The Dog
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Temple of the Dog – Temple Of The Dog (1990). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Mike McCready
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Guitars used by Mike McCready on Temple Of The Dog
Fender Custom Shop Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster
Avg price: $26,500.00
Mike McCready discusses his collaboration with Fender Custom Shop, who remade his 1960 Stratocaster:
Two huge pivotal moments in my life were associated with Fender Stratocaster. And the cool thing about the Stratocaster is like I knew I could really rip on it. I knew it because it was such a good guitar. My first recordings with the Stratocaster were the Ten record and Temple of the Dog. I'm Mike McCready and I play in a band called Pearl Jam and this is my 1960 Fender Stratocaster that I bought many many years ago around 1992 and I've had it ever since. It's probably is my first favorite guitar. I was really interested when Fender offered to recreate this Stratocaster because it was a huge honor. ... Is this the custom shop one I have in my hand? Again, I literally just forgot that this is not the real one. So yes, this is my, the Mike McCready, 1960 Fender custom shop Stratocaster that I thought was the real thing. That's a good sign, right there. Vincent Van Trigt, who was the master builder did a fantastic job. It plays identical to how my original 1960 plays. All of this scratching and all this stuff, this was years of me strumming like that on the regular one and ripping the finish off by playing live. He did a great job of making it look exactly like my real one. Now these aren't original, even on my own but these look like the ones that aren't original on my own. Even this false serial number that someone else put on the guitar, which is under the real serial number, it's on this one too. He did that much of a thorough job, even down to the this how the chip came out, which I'll never forget. ... And Josefina Campos who wound the pickups to the specific quality of my original 1960. She did a fantastic job. She got the warmth of the pickups. She got the same sound of the out of phase, the same sound as the treble pickup. I don't know how she did it. There's an art to that that I don't understand but she did a phenomenal job and I can tell by hearing it. I know I haven't figured out everything that I can do with this guitar and I never will but I'd like to be able to expand what I've done over the last thousand shows, whatever, you know?
