Temple Of The Dog

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Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Temple of the Dog enthusiasts Stateside will also be delighted to hear that the band are reuniting for their first-ever tour this November, which will include five gigs in Philadephia, New York, San Fransisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. In September 2016 UMe will also release a special Temple of the Dog 25th anniversary reissue collection of their landmark album, newly mixed by Brendan O'Brien. The release will be available in multiple configurations including this 180g 2LP-set and a four disc Super Deluxe edition featuring two CDs, blu-ray disc and DVD.

Temple of the Dog came together from the ashes of Mother Love Bone following the death from a drug overdose of its frontman Andrew Wood, Cornell's close friend and roommate. Cornell wrote future TOTD songs "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and "Reach Down" to help process his grief, "but the songs didn't have any destination," he says. "I was compelled to write them and there they were – written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy. 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."After 25 years, the Temple doors will open once again this November when the band reunites for its first ever tour to mark the historic anniversary. “We wanted to do the one thing we never got to do… play shows and see what it feels like to be the band that we walked away from 25 years ago,” said Cornell. “This is something no one has ever seen. We wanted to stop and recognize that we did this and pay homage.” Original album only – newly mixed by Brendan O’Brien – expanded to 2 LPs for premium audio fidelity Recorded in just fifteen days in November-December 1990, the eponymous Temple of the Dog album was created as tribute to Andrew Wood, the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone who’d died of a heroin overdose in March of that year. Wood’s bereft friend and former room-mate, Chris Cornell, vocalist with Soundgarden, was inspired to pen the songs Reach Down and Say Hello 2 Heaven and then reached out to Wood’s ex-MLB band-mates, Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass) about working together and releasing the songs. Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron plus lead guitarist Mike McCready joined the fray and a band – Temple of the Dog (named after a line in a Mother Love Bone song, Man of Golden Words – was formed.

If you like Pearl Jam or any of Chris Cornell's projects (Soundgarden, Audioslave, solo work), then this CD is for you. Started as a tribute to singer Andrew Wood after he died of an overdose, Temple of the Dog might be the best work any member of the group has ever produced. Out of that deep tragedy sprang life, and new musical connections. What Cornell initially thought might be a tribute song with the surviving Love Bone players blossomed into a larger song cycle. Songs including “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Reach Down” were mournful elegies, but like Andy Wood himself they had a fearlessness. “I didn’t have any destination for those songs,” Cornell reflected. “I was compelled to write them and there they were – written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy. 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.”

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Special mention goes to Mike McCready, whose solos on Say Hello 2 Heaven, Call Me A Dog, and especially Reach Down (all 4 or 5 minutes worth) rank among his best ever. Matt Cameron also deserves extra points for his funky beats in Your Savior. Temple of the Dog– the Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron (who plays drums with both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam) – has reunited and will tour for the first time ever since forming in 1990. The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Temple of the Dog's first and only album, a self-titled set that was issued by A&M Records in April 1991. "We wanted to do the one thing we never got to do...play shows and see what it feels like to be the band that we walked away from 25 years ago," Cornell says of the 2016 tour. There are many stories you might hear about Seattle music. This one, the story of Temple of the Dog, just so happens to be true. Dieu que suis heureux d'avoir 41 balais et d'avoir eu la chance de vivre cette époque où musique et sincérité ne faisaient qu'un.

The first time I heard Temple Of The Dog on record (having witnessed incendiary live shows long before), I actually wasn't terribly impressed. With each successive listen, tho, it began to grow on me. It's now at the point that it gets four daggers. Next week and several more spins from now, who knows? Mother Love Bone's Gossard and Ament began playing with McCready, and they brought in Soundgarden's Cameron to drum on demos. Because this was a collaboration, and a tribute, there was no commercial expectation for the Temple of the Dog album. It would be, Gossard would later observe, "the easiest and most beautiful record that we've ever been involved with." Adds Cornell: "Temple was about making an album simply for the joy of doing it. We weren't concerned what anyone outside of our group of friends would think of it. It was the first and maybe only stress-free album that we all made." Un superbe album qui démontre l'étendue des influences du Grunge dont le Blues qui ici tient une place dominante dans chacune des compositions du disque.Call Me A Dog and Reach Down from Madseason’s 2015 Benaroya Hall concert (newly edited and never-before-seen)