SOUNDGARDEN QUIETLY REUNITE AT PEARL JAM SHOW

By the end of Pearl Jam’s concert last night in Los Angeles, what had started out as a standard show for the band turned into a full-on grunge-era reunion show. To begin with, former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell joined Pearl Jam—whose current drummer, Matt Cameron, played in Soundgarden—on stage to perform “Hunger Strike,” a song by supergroup Temple of the Dog. That band was a tribute to former Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990, and featured all of the musicians who performed together last night.

Were that not reunion enough, Cornell and Cameron’s fellow Soundgarden bandmates, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd, showed up to watch, making this the first time in 13 years that all four members have appeared together publically. The news is sure to spark rumors of a reunion, since Cornell has been solo again since Audioslave’s split. This was not the end of the grunge-era festivities, though, as fellow Seattleite and Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell joined Pearl Jam (sans Cornell at this point) for a rendition their hit “Alive.”

Watch fan-shot YouTube footage of “Hunger Strike” below.