Mother Love Bone were a hard rock proto-grunge band fronted by Andrew Wood. Wood died of a heroin overdose before MLB released the début album in 1990, 21 years ago. MLB had the chance to be big, very big. They could have been Seattle's biggest stars, pre-grunge. It wasnt to be, with Woods death on March 19th 1990 signalling the end of their career.
Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Mother Love Bone, along with Wood's friend and roommate, Chris Cornell (of Soundgarden fame) recorded the album "Temple Of The Dog" as a tribute to Wood. Also on the Temple album was Eddie Vedder, who subsequently teamed up with again Gossard and Ament to form Pearl Jam.
Yesterday finally saw the release on DVD of "Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story", 5 years after it had its premiers on the independent film circuit (Sundance, Toronto etc). See the website for information on the DVD release http://www.malfunkshun.com/. Malfunkshun was the band that Wood fronted prior to MLB.
Play the song, check out the film. Buy the "Mother Love Bone" compilation album (it contains the "Apple" début album plus their EPs).
