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. Cornell recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the reunion and what the future might hold for the band.

"We'd have to feel really great about the songs," Cornell says about the possibility of a second Temple Of The Dog album. "It's a scary thing. I don't want to say they'd have to live up to the first album, but I wouldn't want it to take away from it either. It was the same issue with reforming Soundgarden. I'm super excited about writing new songs as long as we don't detract from what came before, and ultimately we did that. I think the same thing would apply to Temple."

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Reports and fan reactions on social media indicate tickets for the reunion shows were sold out in a matter of seconds after going on sale. As expcted, those tickets have now appeared on reselling sites with prices inflated as much as 50 times higher. Check out a couple reactions below.

 

 

How is it that @templeofthedog tix go on sale at 12p est and @Ticketmaster has them sold out in less than 10 seconds!! Complete b.s.

— Mic (@21mic) 29 July 2016

 

 

Wait for 30 min on Ticketbastard, refresh at 12noon, all tickets gone by 12:00:01. Amazing this still happens in 2016. Temple of the Dog.

— jtdiver (@jtdiver) 29 July 2016

Ticketmaster responded with the following message: "We're sorry. For high demand events tons of people try purchasing from the limited inventory and tickets go quickly."

Temple Of The Dog 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, Soundgarden, and Chris Cornell email lists begins immediately and runs through July 27th. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 12 PM local time on Friday the 29th. $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 #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."

Temple Of The Dog's upcoming tour dates are as follows:

November
4 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater
7 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
11 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Center
14 - Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
20 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater