![]() It got to "Hunger Strike" - I was sitting in the corner, putting duct tape on a little African drum.Ībout two-thirds of the way through, he was having to cut off the one line, and start the other. I got to watch these songs, and watch how Chris was working, and watch Matt play drums. Day four maybe, or day five, they did a Temple rehearsal after our afternoon rehearsal. It was during that same week that I was up there. This is one of many amazing songs written by Chris. Then I kicked it to the front pickup for the heavier part of the song. I had a '62 reissue Strat and I wanted to use the fourth-position tone setting-between the bridge and middle pickups-for the beginning of the song because I like that softer sound. Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) showed me the riff. I remember thinking that this was a really beautiful song when I heard it. ![]() History wrote itself after that, that became the single. We got through a couple choruses of him doing that and suddenly the light bulb came on in my head, this guy's voice is amazing for these low parts. Eddie was sitting there kind of waiting for a ( Mookie Blaylock) rehearsal and I was singing parts, and he kind of humbly-but with some balls-walked up to the mic and started singing the low parts for me because he saw it was kind of hard. When we started rehearsing the songs, I had pulled out "Hunger Strike" and I had this feeling it was just kind of gonna be filler, it didn't feel like a real song. Cornell was having trouble with the vocals at practice, when Vedder stepped in.Ĭornell later said "he sang half of that song not even knowing that I'd wanted the part to be there and he sang it exactly the way I was thinking about doing it, just instinctively." "Hunger Strike" became Temple of the Dog's breakout single it was also Vedder's first featured vocal on a record. It features a duet between Cornell and vocalist Eddie Vedder. ![]() "Hunger Strike" was written by vocalist Chris Cornell. The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was Temple of the Dog's most popular song. Written by vocalist Chris Cornell, "Hunger Strike" was released in 1991 as the first single from the band's sole studio album, Temple of the Dog (1991). " Hunger Strike" is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog. ![]()
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