While working on the Temple of the Dog project, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament recorded a set of instrumental demos in August 1990 (known as the "Gossman Project"). Soundgarden's Matt Cameron contributed drums to ten of the tracks, and Shadow's Chris Friel contributed to two: "Times of Trouble" and "Black". Stone and Jeff shopped the tape around to various connections. This complete tape circulated with the working titles only. The complete track listing is matched up with the finished title listing below. One source they gave the complete tape to was the Wilder Brothers in Los Angeles. Also, they gave part of the recording (known as the "Stone Gossard Demo '91") to former Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Jack Irons. This tape consisted of the following songs: "Alive", "Once", "Footsteps", "Black", and "Alone". Irons gave this tape to his basketball buddy Eddie Vedder in late September. While surfing, Ed came up with the lyrics to the song "Dollar Short", which he later renamed "Alive." He recorded vocals over two more of the songs, "Once" and "Footsteps", packaged them as the "Mamasan" tape, and sent them back up to Seattle. Mike, Stone, and Jeff loved Vedder instantly and enlisted him in the band, Mookie Blaylock (named after a Mookie basketball card in the package). Later, they got Dave Krusen, who drummed on Ten and a few early shows...
The "Gossman Project" tape contains instrumental versions of:
The King [early Even Flow]
Dollar Short [Alive]
Richard's 'E' [Alone]
'E' Ballad [Black]
? (not "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" as per the bootlegs)
Weird 'A' [Animal]
7Up [Pushin' Forward Back]
Doobie 'E' [Breath]
Agytian Crave [Once]
Times of Trouble [Footsteps]
Evil 'E' [Girl]
Folk 'D' [unreleased song]
Dollar Short, Times of Trouble and Agytian Crave will surface.
and i'm NOT talking about the instrumentals or the TOTD version of Times of Trouble.
I'm talking about the ORIGINAL, Mother Love Bone versions in which these songs were named. Andy Wood DID in fact record and write vocals for those 3 songs. They have sadly, never surfaced....yet.
Dollar Short, Times of Trouble and Agytian Crave will surface.
and i'm NOT talking about the instrumentals or the TOTD version of Times of Trouble.
I'm talking about the ORIGINAL, Mother Love Bone versions in which these songs were named. Andy Wood DID in fact record and write vocals for those 3 songs. They have sadly, never surfaced....yet.
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i don't think they will ever surface simply outta respect for andy. i bet there buried somewhere in Jeff's or Stone's house along some other songs we probably won't ever hear.
Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
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the rest of you fail today's PJ test.
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While working on the Temple of the Dog project, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament recorded a set of instrumental demos in August 1990 (known as the "Gossman Project"). Soundgarden's Matt Cameron contributed drums to ten of the tracks, and Shadow's Chris Friel contributed to two: "Times of Trouble" and "Black". Stone and Jeff shopped the tape around to various connections. This complete tape circulated with the working titles only. The complete track listing is matched up with the finished title listing below. One source they gave the complete tape to was the Wilder Brothers in Los Angeles. Also, they gave part of the recording (known as the "Stone Gossard Demo '91") to former Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Jack Irons. This tape consisted of the following songs: "Alive", "Once", "Footsteps", "Black", and "Alone". Irons gave this tape to his basketball buddy Eddie Vedder in late September. While surfing, Ed came up with the lyrics to the song "Dollar Short", which he later renamed "Alive." He recorded vocals over two more of the songs, "Once" and "Footsteps", packaged them as the "Mamasan" tape, and sent them back up to Seattle. Mike, Stone, and Jeff loved Vedder instantly and enlisted him in the band, Mookie Blaylock (named after a Mookie basketball card in the package). Later, they got Dave Krusen, who drummed on Ten and a few early shows...
The "Gossman Project" tape contains instrumental versions of:
The King [early Even Flow]
Dollar Short [Alive]
Richard's 'E' [Alone]
'E' Ballad [Black]
? (not "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" as per the bootlegs)
Weird 'A' [Animal]
7Up [Pushin' Forward Back]
Doobie 'E' [Breath]
Agytian Crave [Once]
Times of Trouble [Footsteps]
Evil 'E' [Girl]
Folk 'D' [unreleased song]
Dollar Short, Times of Trouble and Agytian Crave will surface.
and i'm NOT talking about the instrumentals or the TOTD version of Times of Trouble.
I'm talking about the ORIGINAL, Mother Love Bone versions in which these songs were named. Andy Wood DID in fact record and write vocals for those 3 songs. They have sadly, never surfaced....yet.
i don't think they will ever surface simply outta respect for andy. i bet there buried somewhere in Jeff's or Stone's house along some other songs we probably won't ever hear.
Sammi: Wanna just break up?