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Andrew Wood (January 8, 1966
– March 19, 1990) was the lead singer of the
band Mother Love Bone and earlier of Malfunkshun. He died of a heroin overdose
coupled with a cerebral hemorrhage just before the release of Mother Love Bone's
debut album Apple. He lived on Bainbridge Island in Washington State for the
majority of his youth, forming Malfunkshun as a teenager. The only released
material during Malfunkshun's existence was on the compilation, Deep Six (C/Z
Records).
As a musician, his trademarks were his exuberant on-stage personality, glittery, outlandish clothes and whimsical, unabashedly dreamy lyrics which he sang in a tenor heavily reminiscent of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. In the 1996 movie Hype!, Seattle engineer Jack Endino called Wood "the only stand-up comedian frontman in Seattle", a reference to Wood's playful style of interacting with Mother Love Bone fans.
Fellow band members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Mother Love Bone went on to form Pearl Jam, and Malfunkshun drummer Regan Hagar later appeared in Satchel and Brad with Shawn Smith. Stone Gossard is also a concurrent member of Brad. Shawn Smith has a guest appearance on the album "Your Ice Cream's Dirty" by Devilhead, featuring Wood's brothers Brian and Kevin Wood.
In the year following Andrew Wood's death his former companions Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, together with Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden formed the tribute-band Temple of the Dog. The name was taken from one of Wood's lyrics and the songs bore the street-rock flavor of Mother Love Bone's music. Ament and Gossard also included the other two members from their newly born band, Mookie Blaylock (to be Pearl Jam). These members were Mike McCready, who played solo guitar for Temple of the Dog, and Eddie Vedder who sang in the song "Hunger Strike" together with Cornell.
Several years after Wood's death, Gossard released Return to Olympus, a compilation of demos recorded by Wood and Malfunkshun.
The Alice in Chains album Facelift and song Would? are dedicated to Andrew Wood. The Candlebox song "Far Behind" written by Kevin Martin is about Andrew Wood.
In 2005, Director Scot Barbour completed production on the documentary, MALFUNKSHUN - The Andrew Wood Story (Sony), premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival, winning BEST DOCUMENTARY at the FAIF Film Festival in Hollywood, CA.
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