lastexit99
2009-10-08 20:50:23 UTC
Pearl Jam’s concert last night at Los Angeles’ Gibson Amphitheatre
became the scene of a brief Temple of the Dog reunion, as Chris
Cornell joined the Backspacer band for a rendition of the 1991 hit
“Hunger Strike,” EW reports. The performance unified all the principal
members of Temple of the Dog — Cornell, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard,
Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and background vocalist Eddie Vedder — for
the first time since 2003, when these superpowers of Seattle grunge
also teamed up in California to perform “Hunger Strike” and “Reach
Down.”
But wait, there’s more: Rolling Stone has learned that the other
members of Soundgarden — guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd
— came to the show with Cornell to check out their drummer Matt
Cameron pounding the skins with his new band. The pow-wow represents
the first time the full band has been seen publicly together in more
than a decade. RS recently spoke with Thayil about the potential of a
Soundgarden reunion and the possibility of fans getting their hands on
scores of unreleased tracks.
Check out photos of more supergroups, from Cream to Them Crooked
Vultures.
Temple of the Dog was a one-off tribute band that formed following the
death of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood. Cornell was roommates
with Wood, while Gossard and Ament were members of Mother Love Bone
before ultimately forming Pearl Jam in the wake of Wood’s death.
Vedder, then just hired to front Pearl Jam, contributed background
vocals and split lead-singing duties on “Hunger Strike” to Temple of
the Dog’s lone album.
If the above performance and the members of Soundgarden in the
audience weren’t grungetastic enough, Pearl Jam had one more Seattle
surprise in store for Los Angeles: Pearl Jam also welcomed out Alice
in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell during “Alive,” with McCready
abandoning his guitar so Cantrell could slay the solo. According to
EW, at the end of the show, everyone involved bowed arm in arm to the
audience.
Why, OH WHY, can't I be...CAN"T I BE at one of these shows?
See what I did there...
anyway...yeah, as cool as this is, It sucks that I never wind up being
in the crowd for one of these shows. The closest I have come, is
being at he Vote fro change show in Toledo, OH. Neil Young was there,
it was cool, but Eddie basically left he stage for the last half hour
of the show and Neil took over, and instead of a cool Pearl Jam/ Neil
Young combo thing, we got a weird thing where Neil played a bunch of
his songs and everyone in the crowd was like...ummm...ok what's going
on? Then they introduced Peter Frampton (I hope that's right) and it
just kind of was "strange" not bad...just "strange".
became the scene of a brief Temple of the Dog reunion, as Chris
Cornell joined the Backspacer band for a rendition of the 1991 hit
“Hunger Strike,” EW reports. The performance unified all the principal
members of Temple of the Dog — Cornell, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard,
Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and background vocalist Eddie Vedder — for
the first time since 2003, when these superpowers of Seattle grunge
also teamed up in California to perform “Hunger Strike” and “Reach
Down.”
But wait, there’s more: Rolling Stone has learned that the other
members of Soundgarden — guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd
— came to the show with Cornell to check out their drummer Matt
Cameron pounding the skins with his new band. The pow-wow represents
the first time the full band has been seen publicly together in more
than a decade. RS recently spoke with Thayil about the potential of a
Soundgarden reunion and the possibility of fans getting their hands on
scores of unreleased tracks.
Check out photos of more supergroups, from Cream to Them Crooked
Vultures.
Temple of the Dog was a one-off tribute band that formed following the
death of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood. Cornell was roommates
with Wood, while Gossard and Ament were members of Mother Love Bone
before ultimately forming Pearl Jam in the wake of Wood’s death.
Vedder, then just hired to front Pearl Jam, contributed background
vocals and split lead-singing duties on “Hunger Strike” to Temple of
the Dog’s lone album.
If the above performance and the members of Soundgarden in the
audience weren’t grungetastic enough, Pearl Jam had one more Seattle
surprise in store for Los Angeles: Pearl Jam also welcomed out Alice
in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell during “Alive,” with McCready
abandoning his guitar so Cantrell could slay the solo. According to
EW, at the end of the show, everyone involved bowed arm in arm to the
audience.
Why, OH WHY, can't I be...CAN"T I BE at one of these shows?
See what I did there...
anyway...yeah, as cool as this is, It sucks that I never wind up being
in the crowd for one of these shows. The closest I have come, is
being at he Vote fro change show in Toledo, OH. Neil Young was there,
it was cool, but Eddie basically left he stage for the last half hour
of the show and Neil took over, and instead of a cool Pearl Jam/ Neil
Young combo thing, we got a weird thing where Neil played a bunch of
his songs and everyone in the crowd was like...ummm...ok what's going
on? Then they introduced Peter Frampton (I hope that's right) and it
just kind of was "strange" not bad...just "strange".