Temple of the Dog Play First-Ever Concert in Philadelphia – Setlist, Videos
It took 25 years, but Temple of the Dog finally played a full-length headlining concert. The Soundgarden-Pearl Jam supergroup began their first-ever tour with a 23-song set at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pa., last night (Nov. 4). You can see the setlist and video below, with "Hunger Strike" embedded above.
This past summer, they members of the band admitted that they hadn't decided what they would play outside of the 10 tunes on their only album. While that might have suggested that they would play Temple of the Dog in sequence, according to Setlist.fm, outside of opening with "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and having "All Night Thing" as the final encore, they re-ordered the record in a way that probably flowed better in a live setting. For example, "Reach Down," the 11-minute track that is the second song on the CD, was used to close out the main set.
They filled out the rest of the set with covers. Fittingly, as a group that was created to honor Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood, they played five of their tracks by Jeff Ament's and Stone Gossard's former band, and Chris Cornell sang "Seasons," his acoustic track from the Singles soundtrack. Temple of the Dog also paid tribute to their roots with covers of Led Zeppelin ("Achilles Last Stand"), Black Sabbath ("War Pigs"), David Bowie ("Quicksand"), the Cure ("Fascination Street"), Syd Barrett ("Baby Lemonade"), Harry Nilsson ("Jump Into the Fire") and Free ("I'm a Mover").
Temple of the Dog will play the Tower Theatre again tonight, with shows in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle coming over the course of the next three weeks. However, all shows are sold out.
Temple of the Dog, Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pa., Nov. 4, 2016 Setlist
1. "Say Hello 2 Heaven"
2. "Wooden Jesus"
3. "Call Me a Dog"
4. "Your Saviour"
5. "Stardog Champion"
6. "Stargazer"
7. "Seasons"
8. "Jump Into the Fire"
9. "Four Walled World"
10. "I’m a Mover"
11. "Pushin Forward Back"
12. "Hunger Strike"
13. "Quicksand"
14. "Heartshine"
15. "Holy Roller"
16. "Reach Down"
Encore 1
17. "Man of Golden Words"
18. "Times of Trouble"
19. "Achilles Last Stand"
20. "Baby Lemonade"
21. "Fascination Street"
22. "War Pigs"
Encore 2
23. "All Night Thing"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and "Wooden Jesus"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play "Your Saviour"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play "All Night Thing"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play David Bowie's "Quicksand"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play the Cure's "Fascination Street"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play "Times of Trouble"
Watch Temple of the Dog Play Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into the Fire"
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