He credits a friend named Russ Riedner for getting him 'out of my college mode and back into playing guitar'. He cut his hair, enrolled in a local community college, and spent his nights working at a video store. McCready lost interest in playing guitar for some time, stating that he was 'so depressed about life'. In 1988, Shadow returned to Seattle and split up soon afterwards. I guess we lost our focus, got really bummed out and came back to Seattle. Basically, we weren't that good of a band, and we didn't realize it until we got down there. We played to a couple bartenders down there, but even though it was a bad scene, it was a good experience. In 1986, Shadow relocated to Los Angeles and attempted to cut a record deal.

After high school, McCready worked at a pizza restaurant where he befriended musician Pete Droge. Originally a cover band playing during free periods at Roosevelt High School, the band eventually began writing original material and recording demo tapes. In eighth grade, McCready formed his first band, Warrior, whose name soon changed to Shadow. At the age of eleven, McCready purchased his first guitar and began taking lessons. 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. Call 872-8100 or 671-8100 to charge by phone.Mike McCready was born in Pensacola, Florida, but his family moved to Seattle shortly after his birth. Tickets $30, $23.50, $17.50 from the coliseum box office and Ticketmaster locations. Sculley is a frequent contributor to inRoads. So, I wrote those seven tunes and a good portion of the 25 that we picked from, during that summer, definitely I would say that was prolific. 'I wasn't working a day job, which was great so I had lost of time on my hands to write.

'I was basically sitting around waiting for the deal to get completed, for the lawyers to get done negotiating the contracts and that kind of stuff,' Droge said of the period that produced the new songs. Judging from 'Necktie Second,' Droge's creative binge produced both quantity and quality in the material.

Instead, most of the 25 songs that were considered for the record were written during summer 1993. Ironically, for all the pride Droge feels for the demo, only one song from the tape ended up on 'Necktie Second,' and that tune, 'Straylin Street,' was recorded in a significantly different version, he said.

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