The greatest grunge supergroup you've never heard of, finally getting their due.
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, Chris 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."
Sound
Hearing Cornell and Vedder discover their vocal chemistry for the first time.
Production
Raw studio footage from before anyone knew what grunge would become.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Temple of the Dog recorded their entire album in just 15 days for $15,000—Soundgarden's manager bankrolled it thinking it was a Cornell solo project, not knowing half of Pearl Jam would show up.
This is literally the missing link: Ament, Gossard and Cameron from Mother Love Bone + Cornell from Soundgarden + McCready and Vedder from... nowhere yet. Without Wood's death, Pearl Jam doesn't exist.
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