![]() ![]() After a video for "Hunger Strike" was released, and some Temple of the Dog performances, the book was closed with both bands stating that the album served its purpose. Coincidently, both "Badmotorfinger" and Pearl Jam's debut "Ten" dominated the Billboard charts making audiences around the world hungry for whatever else these two bands have been up to. Since the album was only meant to pay homage to their fallen friend, Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron returned to Soundgarden to record "Badmotorfinger" where the rest of the band recruited Dave Krusen on drums to form what would later be called Pearl Jam. The sales of the Temple of the Dog project, the name of which was taken from the Mother Love Bone track titled "Man Of Golden Words", did not initially sell much outside of Washington considering the members weren’t yet household names. With Matt Cameron, drummer of Soundgarden, Eddie Vedder was pulled in to accompany Chris on vocals. To pay tribute to his longtime friend, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and later of Audioslave brought together Stone and Jeff with a talented guitarist named Mike McCready to form Temple of the Dog. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were in Green River before working with ex-Malfunkshun member Andrew Wood on Mother Love Bone, which released one major album due to Andrew's untimely passing as the result of a heroin overdose. Emerging from the Seattle grunge base, Pearl Jam formed amongst tragedy. ![]()
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