"The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. June 12, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2011. "While most Seattle guitarists descended from Black Flag and Sabbath, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready updated the Stones' arena blues for a darker age. Grumbling riffs, frenetic runs and evil-laugh wah-wah created what McCready later cracked was a 'tribute rip-off' to Stevie Ray Vaughan."