Temple of the Dog - 25 Years

[zeb]

It's a novelty at this point.

The album is a novelty?

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Bottom-paged, so re-posting:

A&M "reportedly" plans a deluxe reissue later this year:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/lawsui ... e-reissue/

Yeah, I saw a post from the TOTD facebook page saying the original tapes have just been returned to them (not sure where from). That spells remaster and unreleased material/demos surely. Could be interesting.

[rimb]

Bottom-paged, so re-posting:

A&M "reportedly" plans a deluxe reissue later this year:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/lawsui ... e-reissue/

Yeah, I saw a post from the TOTD facebook page saying the original tapes have just been returned to them (not sure where from). That spells remaster and unreleased material/demos surely. Could be interesting.

[VinylGuy]

Cool, a remaster or remixed album might be nice.

[Fuzzcharger]

Bottom-paged, so re-posting:

A&M "reportedly" plans a deluxe reissue later this year:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/lawsui ... e-reissue/

Yeah, I saw a post from the TOTD facebook page saying the original tapes have just been returned to them (not sure where from). That spells remaster and unreleased material/demos surely. Could be interesting.

Last year, A&M Records sued Rajan Parashar, co-founder of London Bridge Studios, claiming he wouldn't return the master tapes of the self-titled 1991 TEMPLE OF THE DOG album, which SOUNDGARDEN frontman Chris Cornell and drummer Matt Cameron recorded with members of PEARL JAM in 1990. Cornell sided with A&M Records, which said it bought the tapes in 1993, against Rajan Parashar, whose brother Rick produced the disc.

I think this recovery has been in the works since the 20th anniversary.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

That fills in the gaps then, nice work.

I wonder how much this recovery cost?

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[bune]

The former studio owner's attorney insisted the tapes belonged to Rajan, who said he was not a participant in the 1993 deal between his brother and the label. Rick Parashar died in 2014.

Lord knows I'm not a lawyer, but if 'he was not a participant in the 1993 deal between his brother and the label', how the hell does he have any sort of claim to the tapes?

[Mine]

The former studio owner's attorney insisted the tapes belonged to Rajan, who said he was not a participant in the 1993 deal between his brother and the label. Rick Parashar died in 2014.

Lord knows I'm not a lawyer, but if 'he was not a participant in the 1993 deal between his brother and the label', how the hell does he have any sort of claim to the tapes?

By inheritance is my guess.

[bodysnatcher]

Didn't they just reissue this a year or two ago?

[surfndestroy]

Didn't they just reissue this a year or two ago?

There was a vinyl release by Music on Vinyl not that long ago but obviously not from the original masters and without any bonus material. I would most likely buy a deluxe re-issue on vinyl. I'd also go see a reunion show , so what do I know.

[wease]

I will buy it.

[juggernaut]

Whoa, this would be pretty cool. I love this album. I bet they brickwall the shit out of it though.

[Strat]

Is happening

[E.H. Ruddock]

Tour and reissue:

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

[Strat]

Merge me. Sorry

[E.H. Ruddock]

1.04.2016 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater
11.07.2016 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11.11.2016 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Center
11.14.2016 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
11.20.2016 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre

[Norah]

I wonder what Gary thinks about this.

[Strat]

lol

On the DVD
9/11 PJ20 Alpine Valley fan shot and edited videos including:
· 9/3/11: “Say Hello 2 Heaven”
· 9/4/11: “Hunger Strike,” “Call Me A Dog,” “All Night Thing” and “Reach Down”