Click on a song to view its lyrics 1 Say Hello 2 Heaven Lyrics 2 Reach Down Lyrics 3 Hunger Strike Lyrics 4 Pushin' Forward Back Lyrics 5 Call Me a Dog Lyrics 6 Times of Trouble Lyrics 7 Wooden Jesus Lyrics. Ament: We had our own little incestuous scene, but we were really cynical about what was going on in the rest of the world. It’s so heavy knowing what he went through in his life. I don’t want to say it would have to live up to the [first] album, but I wouldn’t want to take away from it. That sounds weird, but it’s exactly what happened because then he had to go back to work as a night watchman. There’s this misconception he was this junkie guy, but he was not that way in any way, shape or form. McCready: Ed was from San Diego and he felt very intimidated in Seattle. Your Savior Artist: Temple of the Dog Album: Temple of the Dog, 1991. McCready: I hope we record again. But looking back at the lyrics years later I realized he was a great poet. I think we stopped in New York. Top Temple Of The Dog Lyrics All Night Thing Four Walled World Pushin' Forward Back Wooden Jesus Say Hello To Heaven Reach Down Hunger Strike Call Me A Dog Times Of Trouble. A daily roundup of the most important stories in music, put his own spin on Freddie Mercury’s larger-than-life antics, told the Seattle radio station KISW in 1991, gnarly shot of ants going to town on an empty plate, Soundgarden’s 1990 “cover” of John Lennon’s “One Minute of Silence”, grunge godfathers Green River’s demi-entendre “Swallow My Pride”. In a two-, three-guitar band it can be really hard to leave those holes in there because people are looking to fill them with a lot of guitar playing. I think we did those Temple sessions after we did Pearl Jam sessions. They were sort of an AC/DC-style hard-rock band, but we were trying to infuse just a little bit of groove to that sound. Cornell’s impassioned vocal makes the lyrics—aimed at a friend who’s finding solace in a needle and its accompanying “world in black"—absolutely wracked with pain. I was feeling the pressure of being a 26-year-old that hadn’t finished college. That’s just you asking and me reacting. Temple Of The Dog - Your Savior (Official) official by Temple of the Dog with free online tab player, speed control and loop. [Playing Pearl Jam and Soungarden songs] doesn’t feel right in my gut. Cornell: We were traveling back from Europe when I got the news, so it was a little confusing. I thought that “Hunger Strike” would be a good message to end the album on, but it wasn’t complete. Ament: Stone and I did a few shows with Green River a few years ago. There were things we didn’t like about how we treated each other, but at that point we decided that we were going to try and do something. Does it change our motivation when we’re writing a song and making a record? McCready: My first memory of Temple of the Dog is that Stone and I were playing together and then Jeff started playing with us. Cornell: We made one video [for “Hunger Strike”], but we didn’t make the rounds, which was very necessary at the time. Ad Choices. I was way into Stevie Ray Vaughan and I loved blues and all that, but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t overstepping my bounds until Chris just said, “Hey, just go for it.”. I love Jeff and Stone. He moved up about a month later. View Temple Of The Dog song lyrics by popularity along with songs featured in, albums, videos and song meanings. Those got lost. γγγγ Call the Paramedics γγγ Heart Flutters γγ Mild Abrasion γ No Damage The first time I heard Temple Of The Dog on record (having witnessed incendiary live shows long before), I actually wasn't terribly impressed. All Temple of the Dog lyrics sorted by popularity, with video and meanings. Then “Your Savior” and “All Night Thing” were new. We spent five days rehearsing with him all day long and finished seven or eight songs. I just remember being kind of jet-lagged and I didn’t really understand what the news was. Temple of the Dog discuss the history of Seattle supergroup Temple of the Dog. In the last 25 years, the way we listen to music is so different. He asked if we wanted to record those songs. I think Ed just walked up to the mic and sang the other part at one point. It was more reflecting how I was feeling at the time. The group recorded its debut, Apple, in late 1989, but on March 16th, 1990 – weeks before the album was slated to come out – Wood overdosed on heroin and went into a coma. I just kept playing an E and I could barely hear the speaker. He was very charismatic and funny, sort of in a prankster way, but also self-deprecating while at the same time being this larger-than-life rock star. It doesn’t seem like necessarily the right thing. McCready: I can’t say anything about that. McCready: Andy carried himself around Seattle like a rock star. McCready: I didn’t feel like it was going to be huge, but I didn’t know what huge was. It’s a tricky thing. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. It felt like there was some unfinished business. And then a couple of weeks passed and Stone called again. As of now, we’ve made no decisions other than what is on the album. It was an odd indoctrination to when life brings that type of loss, because it can happen at anytime to anyone. 02 Woodin Jesus. My mom and dad were a thousand miles away. Chris took him out for beers and told him stories. On November 4th, Temple of the Dog will kick off an eight-date tour at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. The songs were a real departure from Soundgarden since Chris was playing all the instruments. Let’s make it the first single.” The demo itself was pretty long with Chris playing drums, guitar, bass and singing. Also, it would be cathartic and take up some time because from hour to hour it was just sort of difficult to deal with. We were just in the same room a lot and we talked through a bunch of stuff. If you’re writing alternate histories of rock, Andrew Wood has to come into play. I used to work out right across the street from the office. But Andy wasn’t that. I hooked up with my old hardcore band around the same time, and Stone put together a show with Brad and Shawn Smith where we did a couple of Mother Love Bone songs. Sign up for our newsletter. Then there was these feelings of confusion and disbelief. Temple of the Dog played two tiny Seattle gigs in late 1990, but there was no tour. We have 2 albums and 12 song lyrics in our database. Ament: I was friends with [drummer] Richard Stuverud. That would be fun. I was like, “Well, I can’t do any better than that.” I just kind of went somewhere else. Opening elegy “Say Hello 2 Heaven” bears a strong melodic parallel to Aerosmith’s ghostly 1974 ballad “Seasons of Wither,” while “All Night Thing” is an abashed come-on where back-of-the-bar piano tinkling breezes in. That’s when the Temple of the Dog thing happened, I’m pretty sure. He said he heard the songs, he loved them and wanted to record them. “I started writing songs; that was the only thing I could really think of to do.” Cornell told the Seattle radio station KISW in 1991. The album went on to sell more than a million copies. It’s such a riff and so musical. And it was gonna be with [Soundgarden drummer] Matt Cameron, which was super exciting because we all thought of Matt as one of the great drummers in Seattle. I had a dream the other night You were in a bar in the corner on a chair Wearin' a long white leather coat Purple glasses and glitter in you Brendan’s just so great. That’s the issue with me. I did a couple of guitar passes, but I didn’t go as hard as I could because I was very intimidated by this big song. Chordie does not index songs against artists'/composers' will. I’ll sing the first verse and then he’ll come in. He said they were going to do some demos that they had. He should sing on it. We didn’t really make singles. We’re essentially a baby band. Cornell: I mixed down the two songs I had down to cassettes, and I initially had this idea that maybe as a tribute I could record them with the band and it could be a cool as a tribute. In a sense, he was making his own reality. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog at Discogs. Cornell: I don’t really remember doing much else after the funeral other than just being swept up in the grief of the moment, but after a couple of weeks I wrote two songs [“Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Reach Down”] for Andy. But I love recording, so I’d always be up for it, I think. When you listen to those demos, they’re just perfect. Important: The song above is NOT stored on the Chordie server.The original song is hosted at www.xguitar.com.Chordie works as a search engine and provides on-the-fly formatting. His playing dictated that we leave space in those songs. We can call each other up and say, “Hey, we just got an offer to play London,” or something. A less-gross version of the “Hunger Strike” video, which axed the ants for brooding shots of a shoreline and upped the Vedder quotient, went into heavy rotation on MTV. Released 16 April 1991 on A&M (catalog no. The project that resulted, Temple of the Dog, came out in April 1991. © 2021 Condé Nast. The only way we could’ve used the original mixed would have been pulling if off a CD, which would have been inferior. I remember I had to give him a ride back to the airport at 5:30 in the freakin’ morning the morning after we played the show. Temple Of The Dog – Your Savior Lyrics. It does make a lot of sense to play Mother Love Bone songs. But after what happened with Andy, we just didn’t have the tools to deal with it. It was like watching a play where there’s going to be a surprise ending and your worst fears aren’t going to come true. Temple of the Dog, though, exists between ’70s blooze-rock bravado and alt-era agita, making it an excellent—and incredibly obvious, in retrospect— summation of where rock was about to head, as the flashy solos and big-dumb sexiness of “Headbanger’s Ball”-era pop-rock fell out of fashion. We just didn’t know what it was. But to have it be someone you felt like had one of the brightest futures and was just so full of life … it was just so tough and very surreal. The Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden‘s Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron along with future members of Pearl Jam came together for just a few weeks in late 1990 to record a tribute album to late Mother Love Bone frontman Andy Wood, though nobody paid much attention until a couple years later when grunge exploded on the charts. When he remixed Ten, he didn’t really mess with the levels. It was Temple of the Dog's most successful song, peaking at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. I didn’t have anyone around that I was used to talking about that stuff with. There was pressure from the way I grew up to finish something and do it right. Temple of the Dog, an Album by Temple of the Dog. Cornell: We only had nine songs for the album and that didn’t seem complete to me. He acted the way I imagine Freddie Mercury did when I see documentaries about Queen’s early years. “Times of Trouble” is the closest Temple of the Dog gets to a power ballad. Making that record really helped that process. Last week’s news that Temple of the Dog has reunited in time for their eponymous album (which eventually went platinum) to turn 25 is an opportunity, in a sense, to see what happened to rock in the ensuing quarter-century. All rights reserved. It was precious. But these lyrics specifically reflected Andy and my feelings about him. Ament: I just don’t know. Temple Of The Dog - Reach Down Lyrics. “Your Saviour” isn't a memorable song, but it has that blues rock feel to it. That wasn’t something I’d normally do. I didn’t grow up around that. San Francisco, CA. I think he played them for Jeff and Jeff was like, “Well, maybe we should record these or have fun with them.” I think that sparked Chris’ interest. “Four Walled World” turns depression into a jail cell. The album got great reviews, but didn’t chart. Part IV: Recording the Album, Meeting Eddie Vedder. Despite appearing on “Hunger Strike” and providing background vocals on a couple of others, Eddie Vedder isn’t billed at any of the Temple of the Dog shows. For me, the best thing about those situations was that maybe there were some loose ends and bad feelings about how those bands broke up. I got so into it that my headphones fell off my head towards the end, like the last solo. I didn’t like sarcasm at the time. Temple of the Dog never got the chance to play any of their songs on the road, but that will change in November when they finally tour to support a new deluxe edition of the album. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Yeah, people like you, I know myself Walk in the shoes of somebody else Whisper to me, my tragic fate Whisper to me, my tragic end Don't gi The new mix is just a little bit crisper. Stone and I were promoting the Mother Love Bone record, which came out around that time. The two bands from which Temple of the Dog had been borne toured together on Lollapalooza ’92—something Temple of the Dog won’t get around to doing until this fall. That record is so unique in terms of what initiated it. We were living our dream, but there was also this mistrust over what that meant. He was like, “Hey, welcome to Seattle. In the context of Soundgarden’s larger-than-life pyrotechnics, Temple of the Dog sounded like classic rock, a resemblance that was even more striking given that Cornell had written the music for seven of its 10 tracks. There hasn’t been any talk of it, but if Chris is into it and so are the rest of the guys, I’m totally into that. We spoke to Chris Cornell, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament about the band’s long and complex history. I don’t remember recording the demos, but I remember the ideas and writing the lyrics because they were really different and they involved a real person. Then “Your Savior” and “All Night Thing” were new. Ament: A lot of what we do is going to depend on what Chris is comfortable doing and what he feels works for him. Temple Of The Dog - Your Savior Lyrics. He carried himself in this glorious 1970s way. It wasn’t a huge commercial success until the two separate bands emerged with successful albums. Song information for Your Saviour - Temple of the Dog on AllMusic Temple of the Dog tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including hunger strike, say hello 2 heaven, times of trouble, all night thing, call me a dog Somebody at MTV figured that out and started playing the video. If you play in a town like Philadelphia in a small theater and five times as many people want to go to the show, then you’re screwed. Cornell: Andy was effervescent. I wanted to emulate that. We’re 25 years down the road, but we’ve never toured. Complete your Temple Of The Dog collection. 03 Call Me a Dog. There was unfinished business with school, getting my art degree. We had one or two rehearsals and it began taking on a life of its own. I think “Reach Down” was our attempt to write a nine-minute Crazy Horse song. There were more conversations after that, and at the Mad Season tribute show at Benaroya [in January of 2015] we spoke with Chris about playing a few Temple shows to just breathe some life into the songs we never got to play live. The band members have slightly different memories of exactly when it happened, but early on in the process a 24-year-old gas-station attendant and night watchman named Eddie traveled up from San Diego to audition with McCready, Gossard and Ament for a new band they were forming outside of Temple of the Dog. November 12, 2016. In This Article: I can’t recall where. Soundgarden, meanwhile, trended more toward big-tent arena rock, keeping it weird but not too weird for “Black Hole Sun” to not cross over even to pop radio. Shortly after that, Mike [McCready] called. People like you, I know myself, walk in the shoes of somebody else Whisper to me my tragic fate Whisper to me my tragic end But don't give me your saviour, don't give me your savior I said, "Hey" People I choose life on my own And a singer named Eddie Vedder, who was trying out for Gossard and Ament’s next project, was around for some vocal contributions, too. As far as more touring, it depends how we feel after the first set of dates. I don’t know if he is, and that’s kind of up to him. "Hunger Strike" is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog. It’s a scary thing. 04 Your Saviour. Last updated on 08.10.2012 Chris really welcomed him. We were rehearsing Temple and Pearl Jam stuff at the same time. They just didn’t have it, though they spent a good year looking for it. Here is a fan made Music Video I made of the song "Your Saviour" from the Seattle Supergroup's outstanding self-titled album: TEMPLE OF THE DOG. We don’t know. Temple of the Dog was an American rock supergroup that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Watch here. It seemed like 10 songs was a complete album. But don't give me your savior People I choose, I know myself Lay my need out, give you my help But you give me your blues And you whisper my fate Cornell eventually hooked up with Mother Love Bone rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament, who had been playing with eventual Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready; Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron also joined the mix. Pearl Jam had only just begun to record Ten and didn’t have any sort of national profile yet. Your Savior Temple Of The Dog. McCready: We rehearsed with Ed for about seven days and then did our first show with him on the eighth. I think the news was he was in a coma, but it wasn’t really clear until I got back to Seattle. Temple of the Dog began when Chris Cornell of Soundgarden wrote two songs in honor of his good friend Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose in March 1990. I crammed with them for four days and over the course of the next month I played with them. It became, “Let’s see what songs we have.” I got three instrumentals from Jeff and Stone that I wrote to: “Times of Trouble,” “Four Walled World” and “Pushin Forward Back.” There are loose references to Andy in “Times of Trouble” and maybe “Four Walled World.” I wasn’t specifically thinking about him as a person. Correct version. The frontman of the Seattle band Mother Love Bone died just before his band’s debut Apple came out in the summer of 1990. Wood’s persona was a bit more mystical than Cornell’s: He was a gutter preacher who could name-drop Marc Bolan and put his own spin on Freddie Mercury’s larger-than-life antics, but who could also hold his own against the dark, muscular rock laid down by his bandmates. There are also some other songs that Andy wrote outside of Mother Love Bone that may or may not be something we can do. Temple of the Dog hit shelves on April 16th, 1991. Vedder, who provided the deep-voiced counterpoint to Cornell’s wail, operated largely in the shadows. Temple of the Dog is a studio album by the American rock band Temple of the Dog, released on April 16, 1991, through A&M Records. He was also in a band called the War Babies, who had just gotten signed to Columbia. I was singing the chorus in the rehearsal space and Eddie just kind of shyly walked up to the mic and started singing the low “going hungry” and I started singing the high one. Then it became cathartic and fun. It’s sort of exciting not knowing what we’re gonna do or even how we’re going to present the songs. Seattle people thought they were cooler than that, but he just didn’t care. My memory is we were doing both at the same time. He just pulled back maybe a little on the effects and the reverb. There’s a guitar part that follows his vocal. I remember I then did it in one take, or at least I think it was one take. Wood was kept on life support for three days after he overdosed, during which time Cornell and his band mates came to see him. Cornell: “Hunger Strike” and “Wooden Jesus” were ideas that might have been a few months old, but I had never really finished writing or fully realized them. Ament: We didn’t have the quarter-inch masters. The band's only album, it is a tribute to Andrew Wood, the former lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, who died on March 19, 1990, of a heroin overdose. That led to a conversation about making an album since that’s what we did. He was like, “You better get me to the airport on time.” I got up at maybe 4:30 and got him back to the airport. I don’t know if my personality was a perfect fit for Mother Love Bone. It happened very quickly. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States. His sneering vocal resembled the popular depiction of a lightning bolt, narrowing to a point while illuminating everything else around it. Just from my perspective, it would have to feel great. Almost every day I’d pop my head in and say, “Hey.” One day Susan told me about a group of songs, and the next day I came by and picked up the tape and took it home. Throughout the Nineties and 2000s Cornell would occasionally come out at Pearl Jam shows to sing “Hunger Strike.” Once Matt Cameron became Pearl Jam’s drummer in 1998, every such occasion became a complete Temple of the Dog reunion. I’d known him since he was in the Fastbacks. But I would record new songs in a minute. Andy Wood, Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready, Mother Love Bone, oral history, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog. That made me happy since he had the same idea without me bringing it up. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Label: A&M Records - B0025511-00,UMe - B0025511-00 • Format: Box Set Deluxe Edition 25th Anniversary EditionCD Album, Reissue, Remastered CD Compilation, Remastered DVD DVD-Video, NTSC Blu-ray Blu-ray Audio, Stereo, Multichannel • Country: US • Genre: Rock • Style: Grunge Temple of the Dog may be a commercial footnote in the wake of Pearl Jam’s mega-success and Soundgarden’s shrewd crossover, but their reworking of the masters helped chart the course for a memorialized version of the ’90s that was marked by top-notch playing, steely-eyed seriousness tinged by pre-Clinton optimism, and the twin voices of Cornell and Vedder, each charting distinct courses out of the darkness. As the midpoint between Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog helped chart the course for what was once alternative rock to become The Man—or, at least, a subgenre worthy of inclusion on classic rock radio’s airtight playlists. Even the stretched-out “Reach Down,” a 10-plus-minute jam that unspools from a dream about Cornell spotting Wood in full regalia (leather coat, purple glasses, “a ribbon in your hair"), is grounded by a wheels-spinning-in-mud blues riff. That summer I went to Western Washington [University] and kind of looked at the campus and the art facilities. If everyone is excited, it might become a thing we do every once in a while. Last week’s news that Pearl Jam/Soundgarden supergroup Temple of the Dog has reunited in time for their eponymous album to turn 25 is an opportunity, in a sense, to see what happened to rock in the ensuing quarter-century.
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