Temple of the Dog came together from the ashes of Mother Love Bone following the death from a drug overdose of its frontman Andrew Wood Chris Cornells close friend and roommate Cornell wrote future TOTD songs Say Hello 2 Heaven and Reach Down to help process his grief but the songs didnt have any destination he says I was compelled to write them and there they were written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy My thought was that maybe I could record these songs with the remaining members of Mother Love Bone and that maybe we could release them as a tribute