Temple Of The Dog

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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.

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." The 25 th anniversary reissue has been newly mixed in stereo by stalwart Pearl Jam/Soundgarden collaborator Brendan O’Brien and in 5.1 surround sound by Adam Kasper. Both feature on the blu-ray audio which forms part of the Super Deluxe Edition(two CDs, one DVD and one Blu-Ray Audio disc) but you can opt for double-LP, two-CD and single CD editions as well. Original album only – newly mixed by Brendan O’Brien – expanded to 2 LPs for premium audio fidelity 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). Wood had huge talent, but human beings are complicated, and he struggled with cocaine and heroin, sending him to rehab in 1989. In March 1990, Wood relapsed and died at 24. It was, Cornell would say, “the death of the innocence of the scene.” Cornell was devastated. “Chris and Andy had a very deep relationship,” Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron observed. Soundgarden was on tour when the news broke.Music Direct reserves the right to change the terms of this promotion or discontinue this offer at any time. 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. It was the first time I ever heard myself on a real record,” Vedder would later say. The duet worked musically in a way that no one at the time could have foreseen. Cornell and Vedder’s voice on this particularly mournful lament, made the song infectious. It later would become a hit single. “It could be one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever been on,” Vedder says. “Or the most meaningful.”

It is important to remember Temple of the Dog for the mark they left on music history. Rolling Stone said that the album “deserves immortality”. 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.” 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. The bonds that came out of Temple of the Dog have proved enduring. Andy Wood was never a member of Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, but in a way he’s always been part of their histories. 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.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.