Editing Jeff Ament (section)

===Temple of the Dog===
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Following Wood's death, Ament and Gossard almost parted company. Ament briefly spent time in the band [[War Babies (band)|War Babies]], but he eventually got back together with Gossard and a childhood friend of Gossard's named [[Mike McCready]]. The trio were attempting to form their own band when they were invited to be part of the [[Temple of the Dog]] project founded by [[Soundgarden]]'s [[Chris Cornell]] as a musical tribute to Andrew Wood. Cornell had been Wood's roommate. Ament described the collaboration as "a really good thing at the time" for him and Gossard that put them into a "band situation where we could play and make music."<ref name="Fivehorizons.com Interview">{{cite web|title=KISW 99.9 FM: Seattle, Radio Interview by Damon Stewart in The New Music Hour with Chris Cornell, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard|author=Nicholls, Justin|publisher=Fivehorizons.com|url=http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/radio041491.shtml|access-date=2007-10-03|date=April 14, 1991}}</ref> The band's lineup was completed by the addition of Soundgarden drummer [[Matt Cameron]].

The band started rehearsing songs that Cornell had written on tour prior to Wood's death, as well as re-working some existing material from demos written by Gossard and Ament.<ref name="Guitar World - Requiem for a Heavyweight">Alden, Grant. "Requiem for a Heavyweight." ''[[Guitar World]]''. July 1997</ref> This project eventually featured vocalist [[Eddie Vedder]], who had arrived in Seattle to audition to be the singer for Ament and Gossard's next band, which later became Pearl Jam. Vedder sang a duet with Cornell on the song "[[Hunger Strike (song)|Hunger Strike]]" and provided background vocals on several other songs. The band decided that it had enough material for an entire album and, in April 1991, ''[[Temple of the Dog (album)|Temple of the Dog]]'' was released through [[A&M Records]].