A year later, after the Seattle scene broke nationally, A&M reissued the Temple album, and put out a music video for “Hunger Strike.” Pearl Jam would release their debut in 1991, and by 1992 it became a monster smash.
ONE DOG STORY BANDCAMP SERIES
Soundgarden would release their platinum-selling Badmotorfinger in 1991, the first in a series of hit albums. Everyone involved with Temple of the Dog would become superstars in the next year. “We were guys in bands on the precipice of what could be a very life changing moment,” said Cornell. That date is significant because it also illustrates exactly how no one knew at the time what was to happen commercially with Seattle music in the next year. A&M Records released the album on April 16, 1991. Those shows have become some of the most legendary Seattle concerts of all-time. The Temple line-up performed a couple of times in Seattle, in late 1990 and early 1991. “It could be one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever been on,” Vedder says. Cornell and Vedder’s voice on this particularly mournful lament, made the song infectious. The duet worked musically in a way that no one at the time could have foreseen. “It was the first time I ever heard myself on a real record,” Vedder would later say. “I know Eddie felt a real mentorship and I think that gave him a lot of confidence.”
“He really embraced Eddie,” Cameron noted in the documentary Pearl Jam Twenty. When Cornell thought another song, “Hunger Strike,” needed a duet, Vedder was enlisted, and the result is magic.Ĭornell is often credited for welcoming Vedder with open arms to Seattle. A singer from San Diego named Eddie Vedder, who was vying to lead the Gossard/Ament/McCready project, came into the studio to sing background vocals on three of the Temple songs. Gossard, Ament, and McCready were also simultaneously forming a new band, which more than six months later would be known as Pearl Jam.
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It was the first and maybe only stress free album that we all made.” We weren’t concerned what anyone outside of our group of friends would think of it. It would be, Gossard would later observe, “the easiest and most beautiful record that we’ve ever been involved with.” Cornell added, “Temple was about making an album simply for the joy of doing it. The group would go into London Bridge Studio with no commercial expectations, and in fifteen days they cut ten tracks. Cornell continued on to write several more songs that would round out the material for the rest of the album. That was the way Seattle operated in that day, with creative sparks flying cross-town with little regard to who was committed to what band. Three of those songs in collaboration with Cornell would find their way to the Temple of the Dog album. Mother Love Bone’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament began playing with Mike McCready, who had previously been in a band named Shadow while Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron was brought in to play drums on several demos. My thought was that maybe I could record these songs with the remaining members of Mother Love Bone and that maybe we could release them as a tribute.” “I was compelled to write them and there they were – written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy. “I didn’t have any destination for those songs,” Cornell reflected. Songs including “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Reach Down” were mournful elegies, but like Andy Wood himself they had a fearlessness. What Cornell initially thought might be a tribute song with the surviving Love Bone players blossomed into a larger song cycle. Out of that deep tragedy sprang life, and new musical connections. Soundgarden was on tour when the news broke.
“Chris and Andy had a very deep relationship,” Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron observed. It was, Cornell would say, “the death of the innocence of the scene.” Cornell was devastated.
In March 1990, Wood relapsed and died at 24. Wood had huge talent, but human beings are complicated, and he struggled with cocaine and heroin, sending him to rehab in 1989. Temple of the Dog begins with a cassette containing two songs spawned by the loss of Chris Cornell’s friend and roommate Andrew Wood (singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone). This one, the story of Temple of the Dog, just so happens to be true. There are many stories you might hear about Seattle music.
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