Chris was 26. This song is dedicated to Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone. He and Chris were very close friends. Andy died from a heroin overdose at the age of 24. This touched Chris deeply.

Mother Love Bone had guitarist Stone, bassist Jeff and singer Andy Wood (members pertinent to our story). Their debut major label album was about to be released in March 1990. Andy was either celebrating or medicating his fear and overdosed on heroin. The band obviously imploded; Stone and Jeff weren’t sure if they would even play music anymore. Chris wrote those two songs for Andy and that summer asked Stone and Jeff to record them, hopefully to help them all thru their grief. The demos inspired Stone to write again and to think about a new band. They were looking for a vocalist. A friend (former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons) suggested a singer/surfer guy living in San Diego (from Chicago) named Eddie Vedder. Stone and Jeff sent him the instrumental demos of 3 songs and Eddie listened to them while surfing. He sent back his vocals and a few weeks later he was invited to Seattle to jam. While the new band, Mookie Blaylock, (with old friend Mike McCready) jammed and recorded during the day, Chris invited them to record the project that became Temple of the Dog overnight. (Temple of the dog is a song lyric from the Mother Love Bone song “Man of Golden Words) Mookie Blaylock eventually changed their name to Pearl Jam and released their debut album a year later. Chris and Matt reunited with their Soundgarden bandmates and Badmotorfinger released around the same time.

this man broke so many hearts what a beutiful man in and out RIP ❤ He was 26 you can see edddie in background next to drummer singing back up

I grew up in Tacoma in the 90’s when grunge broke out I was 17 and Seattle was our playground. We could go to Seattle and hit 5 or 6 clubs. The off ramp and the fire house along with The central where I got to Nirvana for the 1st time. My friends brother was the original drummer for green apple quick step so got to hang with a lot of bands. High school class mate is now Mike McCready‘s engineer to this day.

Coincidentally, Matt Cameron would go on to become Pearl Jams drummer in 1998 after Soundgarden broke up. So this entire band is basically PJ

That is Pearl Jam's guitarist and that is Eddie sitting there in the back doing vocals

Call Me A Dog by Temple of the Dog is AMAZING!!!❤❤❤

I really shouldnt try to eat food whilst listening to a song know will make me cry

Rest in peace brother Cornell!

My favorite Mother Love Bone song is "Chloe Dancer(crown of thorns)" 1st heard it off the SINGLES(1992) movie soundtrack, it's a romantic comedy movie set in Seattle 1990's, Lots of great cameos from members of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden & Alice In Chains

Killing it Nikki. "Grunge rock" was basically a name coined by music magazines at the time, either NME or Rolling Stone, to describe this new wave of raw rock to emerge in Seattle. It doesn't mean anything in the end. I mean the first mob of bands to emerge like Nirvana, The Melvins, Soundgarden, Mudhoney -- all sounded pretty different. The one style tying their sound together was metal and punk rock (Nirvana especially were hugely influenced by 70s/80s punk and new wave) Soundgarden always sounded to me like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Kurt Cobain and Krist Noveselic always said they resented the name Grunge, they just thought of themselves as punk. At the other end of Seattle were Stone Temple Pilots who had an almost Country influence. Oh, and the gravely "yowling" vocals was another thing tying them together. This singing trend became so popular by the mid 1990s that labels purposefully nurtured other groups to sing like Kurt and Eddie Vedder... Bush, from the UK, pretty much a Seattle wannabe band, cashed in on the craze, then came...shudder, Nickleback Lol

Another great Andrew Wood tribute song was "Far Behind" by Candlebox--the often forgotten (but excellent) Seattle grunge band.

Temple of the Dog is a album that was dedicated to Andrew Wood.

The song Would by Alice in Chains is reported to have been inspired by Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone. MLB was the beginning of Grung and you should check them out. Basically 80's hair metal one day and MLB killed it day one of the 90's. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana were all part of that wave and put Seattle on the music map once again.

Temple of the Dog was essentially the Pearl Jam band minus Eddie Vedder, with Chris as lead singer. It was a tribute band for Chris' best friend Andrew Wood who died from a heroin overdose. His band was Mother Love Bone which had Steve Gossard and Jeff Ament in it, of Pearl Jam fame. There was no bad blood because Matt Cameron and Chris were already in Soundgarden. Mother Love Bone was a grunge band but Andrew Wood had more of an 80s rock band vocal. Well worth checking out.

Perhaps it's time for Alice in Chains ft Chris Cornell 'Right Turn'

EDDIE VEDDER IS IN THE BACKGROUND SINGING "HEAVEN" RIP CHRIS CORNELL 😇❤️‍🩹🌹 HAVE YOU REACTED TO "HUNGER STRIKE " FROM TEMPLE OF THE DOG? THIS IS PEARL JAM WITH CHRIS AS FRONTMAN. EDDIE IS SINGING BACK UP. AWESOME REACTION NIKKI!! 😊 🩷 🤘 ✌️

Here you go Nikki your not going crazy,lol!! Michael David McCready is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, and The Rockfords.

Probably the most underrated band ever was Mad Season. Mike McCready was the guitarist. Mad Season Live at the Moore 95 is amazing and especially the solo he played on Wake Up. Layne Staley was the vocalist, Mike McCready the guitarist and the most amazing drummer with Barrett Martin, alongside bassist John Baker

I suggest the Chris Cornell cover of nothing compares to you from XM live session. It's amazing...keep up the amazing work and I hope the Kitty 🐈 heals up .

Moore Theatre is an 1,800-seat performing arts venue in Seattle, Washington, United States

We spend a lot of time recommending more Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but has anyone recommended any Mother Love Bone? "This Is Shangri La" is a must for the origin story to the spinoffs.

The lineup on this stage you just watched is todays PJ lineup with Chris instead of Ed. That’s stone on guitar opposite Mike, Jeff on bass and Matt Cameron on drums

Great album, a bridge from the birth of grunge to its takeover of the industry in the early 90’s.

Ooh a live version! I’ve never heard this! This was good! The studio version is legendary, but this was pretty darn good.

Chris was 26 and yes this is band is a tribute band for Andy Wood… Mother Love Bone was definitely gonna take off before the 90s and the other Seattle bands hit… I thought they were gonna be better than Guns N Roses or the Seattle version

Andrew Wood ❤

Stardog Champion is my favorite Mother Love Bone song. I hope you react to it. There's a documentary about Andrew Wood called Malfunkshun if you ever feel like watching it.

Mike McCready ended up in Pearl Jam with Stone and Jeff who had been in Mother Love Bone with singer Andrew Wood. Chris had written some songs that sounded different from Soundgarden, including some about Andy after he died and Mother Love Bone broke up. He asked Jeff and Stone if they wanted to record this music as a tribute to Andy and they brought in Mike on lead guitar and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden to play drums. Jeff and Stone had just gotten Eddie Vedder to join in to start a new band with them and he happened to be in the studio with them when they were trying to record Hunger Strike and it wasn’t going well. Eddie jumped in and it turned into a duet. He only sang on 1 song. The rest of the guys were Temple of The Dog who only put out the one tribute album to Andrew Wood. The other guys then became Pearl Jam. Man that was wordy.

I was drunk in Vegas the night Chris died. Got Say hello to heaven tatted on my arm. Woke up broke. Went back to Seattle and I wasn’t regretful

And yes I am a big TWA and TW fan I started following your reactions from seeing you were going through QOTMS LP, but have enjoyed your reactions to other groups too.

Chloe dancer would be a good start for mother lovebone

Do the album

Found this interesting Cornell wrote "Say Hello 2 Heaven" as a tribute to his roommate, Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood, who at the time had recently died of a heroin overdose. "Say Hello 2 Heaven" was also their only song deemed lyrically inappropriate following the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Hope everything stays good with your cat.I could tell not even 2 mins into the reaction you were relaxing,at least a little,magic of music.Yes I appreciate the grunge "era"more now,that happens. Chirs was 26 here.

You gotta listen to right turn by Alice In Chains featuring Chris Cornell! Also slaves and bulldozers, sound garden/ live show me how to live by audioslave. That’s just scratching the surface!!

You looked a bit confused. Temple of the Dog was retroactively Pearl Jam + Chris Cornell, all members except Chris formed Pearl Jam a couple of years later.

Were you even born yet? The 90s were the last decade of big big bands being able to be themselves without the corporate mandate. The male vocalist talent was insane.

This The Warning fan loves grunge. TW did a live cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit when they were younger but the sound on the clip isn't very good. Plush, another great young band who toured with The Warning last year and AIC in 2022, does an awesome cover of Down in a Hole!🤘

Yup tribute super group. All these guys plus Andrew Wood and Alice In Chains were the real pioneers of grunge. Sadly the would will always think of Nirvana first though. Nothing against Nirvana they are not at the top of my list for greatest grunge band. My 3rd favorite Temple song is probably 4 walled world. And yes definitely a The Warning fan here. I was going to ask about the last QOTMS song but you explained about the cat emergency at the beginning. Hope he/she is doing better. Take your time TWA will come whenever you post.

I really missed you on Monday. I know your out of the queen but, I'm Warming (no asking) you to help with the withdrawals.

Reconnecting with his Mother Love Bone? ;) lol sorry, I kind of chuckled at that. I hope you'll get to check out other bands of the era, like: L7, Candlebox, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and Bush. L7 "Pretend We're Dead" Candlebox "Far Behind" Smashing Pumpkins "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" Sonic Youth "Bull In The Heather" Bush "Come Down" or "Machinehead"

This is not meant to be critical but the album version is better than this live version. You might want to give the album version a listen. 🙂 Chris was around 26-27 in this video. Temple of the Dog was comprised of members of future Pearl Jam (McCready, Ament, Gossard) and already existing Soundgarden (Cornell and Cameron). Former Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron is now Pearl Jam’s drummer since 1998 starting with them on the tour for the Yield album.

It's not hard to understand, friends get together to make album for dead friend, then Pearl jam happens. That's it

Not a great version of the song, studio was way better, but still, it's one of the greatest songs ever. My two favorite Mother Love Bone songs are Chloe Dancer and Stardog Champion. Andy Wood was quite a fascinating guy, and spawned a hundred tribute songs, not just from Temple Of The Dog.

This one is my favorite version. It's from 2011 ... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbihjKp20tixnWQ.html

this band was made up of members from pearl jam and Soundgarden.

Grunge is not really a genre. It’s more like heavy bluesy rock. Some songs have funk and jazz and other genres mixed in.