Pearl Jam 1990-08-??
Stone's House [The Gossman Project], Seattle, WA
Set 1
The King (would become Even Flow)
Dollar Short (would become Alive)
Richard's 'E' (would become Alone)
'E' Ballad (would become Black)
?
Weird 'A' (would become Animal)
7Up (would become Pushin' Forward Back)
Doobie 'E' (would become Breath)
Agytian Crave (would become Once)
Times of Trouble (would become Footsteps) (this song also appears on Temple of the Dog with the same title)
Evil 'E' (would become Girl)
Folk 'D' (never released)
Dollar Short (would become Alive)
Richard's 'E' (would become Alone)
'E' Ballad (would become Black)
?
Weird 'A' (would become Animal)
7Up (would become Pushin' Forward Back)
Doobie 'E' (would become Breath)
Agytian Crave (would become Once)
Times of Trouble (would become Footsteps) (this song also appears on Temple of the Dog with the same title)
Evil 'E' (would become Girl)
Folk 'D' (never released)
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Stone Gossard: guitar
Mike McCready: guitar
Jeff Ament: bass
Matt Cameron: drums
Chris Friel: drums on tracks 4 and 10
This tape is the earliest evidence of Pearl Jam around. Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament recorded a set of instrumental demos during the Temple of the Dog sessions with Matt Cameron in 1990. This tape would eventually find its way to Eddie Vedder via Jack Irons.
Notes on Andy Wood/Temple of the Dog:
[Andy Wood's] death hit the Seattle music scene hard; very hard. Not only for his bandmates, but for his friends, his coworkers, his housemates, one of which was Soundgarden's Chris Cornell. Trying to find an outlet for his enormous grief, Chris penned a few songs in tribute to Andy, which were "Reach Down" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven." He decided to ask Stone and Jeff, Andy's friends and bandmates, if they'd like to record them, for a possible single release. At the time, Soundgarden had yet to become superstars, and Stone and Jeff were just beginning the painful work of putting a new vehicle together, following the untimely demise of Mother Love Bone. Chris recruited his Soundgarden compatriot Matt Cameron, who coincidentally at that time was working with Gossard, Ament and a new co-conspirator, one Mike McCready.
"It was initially my idea because of a couple of songs I recorded," Chris [Cornell] explains, "but the idea was mainly to do a single as opposed to a whole record. And the thing was, the rest of the guys in Temple, they sort of thought, well, maybe we should make it a little bit longer project, like an EP or something. The more we talked about it, the more songs kept flying out, and it ended up being an album. It didn't feel like a morose project. It felt sort of celebratory." - Reflex magazine, 12/91
The sessions grew into the Temple Of The Dog project. Not all of the songs were directly about Andy; however, they didn't fit into the Soundgarden format, and the "Gossman Project," as it was allegedly called, was strictly experimental at that time. Stone, Mike, Jeff and Matt had recorded some demos together, with the two projects occasionally crossing borders, as demonstrated by the shared relationship between Temple Of The Dog's "Times of Trouble" and Pearl Jam's "Footsteps." ("Times of Trouble" ended up on the demo tape that the project was circulating to potential members.) They were still recruiting members, and during the sessions they ended up auditioning a potential frontman: San Diego surfer boy Eddie Vedder, who first arrived in Seattle in the fall of 1990. The Temple Of The Dog album was recorded during the late fall and winter of 1990; Ament, Gossard and McCready would work with Chris at night, then jam with Eddie in the newly-christened Mookie Blaylock in the afternoons.
Mike McCready: guitar
Jeff Ament: bass
Matt Cameron: drums
Chris Friel: drums on tracks 4 and 10
This tape is the earliest evidence of Pearl Jam around. Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament recorded a set of instrumental demos during the Temple of the Dog sessions with Matt Cameron in 1990. This tape would eventually find its way to Eddie Vedder via Jack Irons.
Notes on Andy Wood/Temple of the Dog:
[Andy Wood's] death hit the Seattle music scene hard; very hard. Not only for his bandmates, but for his friends, his coworkers, his housemates, one of which was Soundgarden's Chris Cornell. Trying to find an outlet for his enormous grief, Chris penned a few songs in tribute to Andy, which were "Reach Down" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven." He decided to ask Stone and Jeff, Andy's friends and bandmates, if they'd like to record them, for a possible single release. At the time, Soundgarden had yet to become superstars, and Stone and Jeff were just beginning the painful work of putting a new vehicle together, following the untimely demise of Mother Love Bone. Chris recruited his Soundgarden compatriot Matt Cameron, who coincidentally at that time was working with Gossard, Ament and a new co-conspirator, one Mike McCready.
"It was initially my idea because of a couple of songs I recorded," Chris [Cornell] explains, "but the idea was mainly to do a single as opposed to a whole record. And the thing was, the rest of the guys in Temple, they sort of thought, well, maybe we should make it a little bit longer project, like an EP or something. The more we talked about it, the more songs kept flying out, and it ended up being an album. It didn't feel like a morose project. It felt sort of celebratory." - Reflex magazine, 12/91
The sessions grew into the Temple Of The Dog project. Not all of the songs were directly about Andy; however, they didn't fit into the Soundgarden format, and the "Gossman Project," as it was allegedly called, was strictly experimental at that time. Stone, Mike, Jeff and Matt had recorded some demos together, with the two projects occasionally crossing borders, as demonstrated by the shared relationship between Temple Of The Dog's "Times of Trouble" and Pearl Jam's "Footsteps." ("Times of Trouble" ended up on the demo tape that the project was circulating to potential members.) They were still recruiting members, and during the sessions they ended up auditioning a potential frontman: San Diego surfer boy Eddie Vedder, who first arrived in Seattle in the fall of 1990. The Temple Of The Dog album was recorded during the late fall and winter of 1990; Ament, Gossard and McCready would work with Chris at night, then jam with Eddie in the newly-christened Mookie Blaylock in the afternoons.
Sources
| SHNID | Date | Venue | City | State | Archive Identifier |
|---|
Created At
Thu Mar 02 2006 11:24:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Updated At
Thu Mar 02 2006 11:24:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Users with this performance