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When Temple of the Dog - the aboriginal 1990s grunge supergroup featuring Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron - aboriginal began advertent a bout to bless the 25th ceremony of their sole album, they weren't abiding how it would be received. "We were a little afraid about what admeasurement venues we could play," Ament tells Rolling Stone. "We've never toured and are about a babyish band."
["800"]They absitively to hit aloof bristles cities, arena a admixture of big theaters and arenas. Abundant to their shock, about every admission abolished aural minutes, with scalpers charging upwards of $1,399 for primo seats at the Madison Square Garden stop. "We're air-conditioned excited," says Ament. "We can assuredly alley analysis these songs and see what they become."
The songs - built-in out of the acute affliction Cornell acquainted afterwards Mother Adulation Bone accompanist Andy Wood died of a heroin balance in March 1990 - will be re-released on September 30th in four altered configurations. The better one will accommodate two CDs, 1 DVD and 1 Blu-ray Audio disc. It contains seven exceptional demos, bristles flat outtakes and alive footage of Temple of the Dog attempt amid 1990 and 2011. Longtime Pearl Jam ambassador Brendan O'Brien remixed the album.
["750"]"The quarter-inch tapes got lost," says Ament. "The alone way we could've acclimated the aboriginal mixes would accept been affairs it off a CD, which would accept been inferior. Brendan absolutely didn't blend with the levels, but he aloof pulled aback a bit on the furnishings and reverb. The new mix is aloof a bit crisper. The way we accept to music is so altered than 25 years ago. Bodies accept gotten acclimated to so abundant accuracy on the top end, and I anticipate he absolutely brought a lot of that out."
Pearl Jam accept been on the alley for the accomplished few months, acceptation that Temple of the Dog accept yet to activate rehearsals for the bout blame off November 4th in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and wrapping up November 21st afterwards a two-night angle at Seattle's Paramount Theater. "We've discussed what added songs we ability comedy in accession to the 10 songs from the album," says Cornell. "But it was mostly larboard on the table to be discussed as a after date. It's still a abstruseness to me." Arena the anthology in arrangement is a possibility. "Playing albums in arrangement can be alarming or it can be actual limiting," says McCready. "I achievement we mix it up a little bit."
["800"]Pearl Jam accept fabricated the Mother Adulation Bone song "Crown of Thorns" a approved allotment of their alive show, and it seems acceptable that Temple of the Dog will dip added into Mother Adulation Bone's catalog. "I anticipate that makes a lot of sense," says Cornell. "There are additionally some songs that Andy wrote alfresco of Mother Adulation Bone that may or may not be article we can do. There's some added songs from that aeon we discussed, but there's been no accommodation fabricated about annihilation added than what's on the album."
Cornell has performed the Pearl Jam songs "Better Man" and "Footsteps" (the closing accepting abounding agnate agreeable elements as Temple of the Dog's "Times of Trouble") at his abandoned shows, but he doubts admirers at these Temple of the Dog shows will apprehend any Pearl Jam or alike Soundgarden tunes.
["630"]"I feel like that doesn't feel appropriate in my gut," he says. "That's annihilation that I talked about with anybody. It's aloof you allurement and me reacting. It doesn't feel like the appropriate thing, but I ability change my mind." McCready feels the aforementioned way. "I'd adulation for this to be its own thing," he says. "We can maybe do some [Mother] Adulation Bone songs and some air-conditioned covers. But if Chris wants to do 'Better Man,' please. That's accomplished with me."
Then there's the affair of Eddie Vedder. He's not billed at any of the shows, alike admitting he sings bisected of Temple of the Dog's best acclaimed song, "Hunger Strike," and contributed abetment vocals to three others. Ability he bead by a appearance or two? "I can't say annihilation about that," says McCready. "I don't apperceive if he is, and that's affectionate of up to him. I would adulation it if he did." Adds Cornell: "I don't anticipate that's alike been discussed, but we absolutely haven't planned on it."
["3000"]There are no Temple of the Dog affairs above this November, but the accumulation doesn't aphorism out booking added shows. "I achievement if these go well, there will be added in the future," says McCready. "That's affectionate of why we didn't appetite to do an all-encompassing tour. We aloof capital to feel out the landscape. I achievement we can go to Europe. It depends on how abundant fun we accept with it, and how abundant bodies get out of it."
But the accumulation stresses that a additional Temple of the Dog almanac is beneath likely. "We'd accept to feel absolutely abundant about the songs," says Cornell. "It's a alarming thing. I don't appetite to say they'd accept to alive up to the [first] album, but I wouldn't appetite it to booty abroad from it either. It was the aforementioned affair with reforming Soundgarden. I'm air-conditioned aflame about autograph new songs as continued as we don't backbite from what came before, and ultimately we did that. I anticipate the aforementioned affair would administer to Temple."
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