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His death is what caused Temple of the Dog to form, which launched Eddie Vetter and Chris Cornell to prominance and spawned Pearl Jam and later Soundgarden. Without these 3 bands, the grunge movement that Nirvana became the standard barer for doesn't materialize, and Metal continues to dominate rock. Nirvana becomes a niche Seattle band with STP.

This timeline is all wrong. Soundgarden started in the mid 80s. Nirvana came before Pearl Jam too. Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell were both well established stars by the time the Temple of the Dog album came out.

If I remeber correctly, the Temple of the Dog album was made before Pearl Jam became huge and if memory serves they were still called the "Mookie Blaylocks" at the time lol.

The record didn't gain much attention till after Pearl Jam and Soundgarden got big. People went back and realized it was a collaboration between the two bands and started picking it up and it got more airplay.

This post was edited on 11/27/16 at 8:41 am

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Posted by kingbob

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Posted on 11/27/16 at 11:17 am to Fleur De Lethal

I could very well be wrong, but I thought that Pearl Jam was formed after Temple of the Dog because basically, Temple of the Dog is Pearl Jam plus Cornell. Those guys were all Cornell's friends at the time, not Vetter's. Vetter was an outsider brought in. After Temple of the Dog did their album, Cornell went back to Soundgarden (which existed but wasn't widely known outside of Seattle) and Vetter took the rest of the band to make Pearl Jam. I could be wrong about it, but that was my understanding, that the other members of Pearl Jam had previously been in Mother Love Bone and Malfunktion with Wood, but once again, I wasn't alive back then, so what do I know.

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