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Article: PEARL JAM'S MIKE MCCREADY GATHERS HIS FRIENDS TOGETHER TO FIGHT A GOOD FIGHT.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 2, 2008
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Byline: GENE STOUTP-I pop music critic
In 1986, guitarist Mike McCready had just moved to Los Angeles with brothers Rick and Chris Friel, his bandmates in rock band Shadow, when Crohn's disease changed the course of his life and career.
With dreams of finding success in L.A. in the days before grunge turned Seattle into a mecca for rock musicians, the future guitarist for Pearl Jam was chilling over lunch at a Johnny Rockets in the Melrose district when something akin to Montezuma's revenge caused him to bolt from the table and storm the men's room.
"I thought, 'What the hell? Did I eat something bad?'" McCready recalled this week in a phone ...