Temple of the Dog to reunite and tour for 25th anniversary

The tour – Temple of the Dog’s first – will have five stops in November: Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and, of course, the band members’ home city Seattle. Tickets don’t go on sale until July 29, but the Paramount’s ticket website now lists prices at $94.25 to represent standard admission prices. A portion of the ticket sales will go towards charity, benefiting Chris Cornell’s Foundation and Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation. 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. Those are out Sep.

The band was started by Cornell to honor his friend Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Mother Love Bone, who died of a drug overdose in March 1990. It’s just been announced that Temple of the Dog will reunite to tour for the first time ever. Physical pre-orders are ongoing.

He added, “Temple was about making an album simply for the joy of doing it”. Gossard and Ament were former members of Mother Love Bone, as well. Then, at a Pearl Jam show at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California on October 28, 2003, the band reunited once again, after Cornell joined the band on stage. Gossard, Ament and McCready were also in the process of forming what would become Pearl Jam with Eddie Vedder.

Over the years, they have got together to perform tracks like the iconic “Hunger Strike” on bills that both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were on. “This is something no one has ever seen”, Cornell wrote in a press release, a statement that’s probably true for anybody who wasn’t hanging out in Seattle rock clubs in November or December of 1990. The tour comes during the 25th anniversary of the band’s first and only recorded album.