Temple Of The Dog Tour and Re-issue Pre-Sale

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edited October 2016 in The Porch
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Temple Of The Dog Tour and Re-issue Pre-Sale
July 20 2016



TEMPLE OF THE DOG — FEATURING CHRIS CORNELL, STONE GOSSARD, JEFF AMENT, MIKE MCCREADY, AND MATT CAMERON — REUNITE TO TOUR FOR FIRST-TIME EVER

SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE COLLECTION TO BE RELEASED BY UMe ON SEPTEMBER 30TH

Temple of the Dog — the Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron (who plays drums with both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam) — has reunited and will tour for the first time ever since forming in 1990. The band will play five cities, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, in November.

A special ticket pre-sale for fans signed up to the Ten Club (must be a member as of July 19th to be eligible for the Ten Club pre-sale), Soundgarden, and Chris Cornell email lists begins immediately and runs through July 27th. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 29th, at 10:00 AM PST. $1.50 from each ticket sold will benefit the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation and an additional $1.50 will benefit Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation.

The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Temple of the Dog’s first and only album, a self-titled set that was released by A&M Records on April 16th, 1991. “We wanted to do the one thing we never got to do … play shows and see what it feels like to be the band that we walked away from 25 years ago,” Cornell says of the 2016 tour.

On September 30th UMe will release a special Temple of the Dog 25th anniversary reissue collection of their landmark album, newly mixed by Brendan O’Brien. The collection will be available in four configurations, including a four disc Super Deluxe, a double LP, a two CD Deluxe, and a single CD. Physical pre-orders are available today along with a detailed list of the contents of each configuration here.

Temple of the Dog came together from the ashes of Mother Love Bone following the death from a drug overdose of its frontman Andrew Wood, Cornell’s close friend and roommate. Cornell wrote future TOTD songs “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Reach Down” to help process his grief, “but the songs didn’t have any destination,” he says. “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.”

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.”

Gossard, Ament, and McCready were also simultaneously forming a new band, which more than six months later would be known as Pearl Jam. A singer from San Diego named Eddie Vedder, who was vying to lead the project, came into the studio to sing background vocals on three of the Temple songs. When Cornell thought another song, “Hunger Strike,” needed a duet, Vedder was enlisted. “Hunger Strike” became a hit single, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Temple of the Dog performed live only a handful of times, most notably in Seattle, in November and December of 1990. Those shows have become some of the most legendary Seattle concerts of all-time. Their 2016 shows mark the first time the band has ever toured. (Cornell joined Pearl Jam in 2014 at the Bridge School show and for two nights at PJ20 in Alpine Valley, WI, and the Temple line-up played “Reach Down” and “Call Me a Dog” at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall in January 2015.)

“This is something no one has ever seen,” Cornell says of the official reunion. “We wanted to stop and recognize that we did this and pay homage.”

For more information on the Temple of the Dog tour and how to get tickets, go here.

Update October 4 2016:
Temple of the Dog announced today Fantastic Negrito will open on their November tour. See FULL TOUR DATES.

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  • whoyouare72
    whoyouare72 Chicago IL Posts: 2,179
    edited July 2016
    sweet!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,280
    Whooo whoooo!!! :)
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    edited July 2016
    Wow. I might have to take a trip for this. (edit: whoops. Maybe not. $215 USD for a pair? Seems a bit excessive)
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • RobbyD462
    RobbyD462 Victoria BC Posts: 4,812
    edited July 2016
    Pass on the reissue but the Seattle show is most likely on the menu!
    Post edited by RobbyD462 on
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  • nuzzer1
    nuzzer1 New Jersey Posts: 1,437
    Wow! Thank you!
  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    edited July 2016
    ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!

    that time of year im hitting up the West Coast
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  • chitty
    chitty Posts: 610
    Says can buy immediately and gives link but that only takes us to the tour page with no further link.
    So where do us ten club members buy?
  • mjb
    mjb Posts: 1,315
    Does that mean no Ed on tour? A lot of people associate TOTD with Hunger Strike... interesting
  • NWOntario
    NWOntario Toronto Posts: 831
    What?????
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  • Jimminez
    Jimminez Posts: 217
    chitty said:

    Says can buy immediately and gives link but that only takes us to the tour page with no further link.
    So where do us ten club members buy?

    You will get an email from 10C, but go to the top of the page and My Account, My Tickets. Draw to get early ticket purchase.
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  • Falling Down
    Falling Down Posts: 845
    Count me in! I can trade verses with Chris on Hunger Strike if Ed can't make it.

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  • chitty said:

    Says can buy immediately and gives link but that only takes us to the tour page with no further link.
    So where do us ten club members buy?

    Yeah, I'm on the Soundgarden email list and did not get one...
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  • Alpine Bound
    Alpine Bound Posts: 1,809
    Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    mjb said:

    Does that mean no Ed on tour? A lot of people associate TOTD with Hunger Strike... interesting

    He'll probably at least swing by in Seattle. I would be shocked if he didn't. And I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up for at least one or two of the others.
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  • mwplum
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    Dream...come....true!
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  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    PJ_Soul said:

    Wow. I might have to take a trip for this. (edit: whoops. Maybe not. $215 USD for a pair? Seems a bit excessive)

    It's a fair price I'd say.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    edited July 2016
    chitty said:

    Says can buy immediately and gives link but that only takes us to the tour page with no further link.
    So where do us ten club members buy?

    Go to your account from the PJ homepage, then tenclub tickets, then click on the black banner that says Temple of the Dog. :)
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    great news.,,have fun the ones u going!
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  • mwelchons
    mwelchons Posts: 108
    Dumb question probably, but no vedder?
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    mwelchons said:

    Dumb question probably, but no vedder?

    I'm sure he'll at least show up in Seattle. But he just does one song, so probably wouldn't join them for the whole tour. But you never know. Either way, he's not an actual member of the band, so even if he shows up for each show to do Hunger Strike, there's no reason for him to be listed as a band member.
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