Last night in Los Angeles, Chris Cornell appeared with Pearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, where they all ran through “Hunger Strike” from the Cornell-plus-Pearl Jam-minus-Vedder Andrew Wood tribute project Temple Of The Dog. It sounded pretty decent (especially given that those big notes at the end are hard to sing), and before you go and snipe “man, if only they’d done ‘Reach Down’ ” may I give you some news about who was in the crowd? Here is a hint: They know Chris pretty well!
Via RS:
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.
You guys, what if the Shinedown guy was right? Wow.
26 – Hunger Strike – Pearl Jam & special guest Chris Cornell live at Gibson Amp L.A. 10-06-2009 [YouTube via The Tripwire]
Temple of the Dog Reunite at Pearl Jam’s Los Angeles Concert [RS]
Reach down – Temple of the dog (live 1992) [YouTube]
Related: Here Are Those Videos Of The Tadgarden Show
@Maura: True…Eddie did only sing on the one song – but since they only put out the one album – I would argue that they are not really a group. I always saw it as a bunch of friends just playing around but then because of who they were and where they all were in their careers, it was decided to put the album out for public consumption.
I’m sure everyone knows this already, Temple of the Dog was a one-time tribute group, record, album for Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Mother Love Bone who had OD’d. Eddie and Mike McCready were already part of the PJ plans at the time Cornell approached Stone and Jeff about doing the project, so it just became a whole thing.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/soundgarden_inadvertently_reunites
First thing I thought of.