“It was the first real feeling of what it was like to have a hometown-everybody pulling together for some people they really loved,” he told an interviewer in 2001. On the night of Wood’s memorial, something clicked. Then 32 years old, he was already an ex- Rolling Stone features writer and accomplished screenwriter working on a new script for a romantic comedy that used Seattle’s burgeoning rock scene as its backdrop. Crowe had moved to Seattle several years earlier and fell in with the area’s incestuous network of rock bands, labels, college radio stations, and venues. On the night of Wood’s funeral, many of his friends and collaborators gathered at Mother Love Bone manager Kelly Curtis’ house, including director Cameron Crowe and his wife, Heart guitarist and Seattle native Nancy Wilson. Their eponymous album, released in April 1991, sold modestly thanks to Soundgarden’s profile-they were signed to A&M, in rotation on 120 Minutes, and toured with Guns N’ Roses. With guitarist Mike McCready, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron, and recently relocated San Diego native Eddie Vedder, they called themselves Temple of the Dog, after one of Wood’s lyrics. Wood’s roommate Chris Cornell recruited Wood’s erstwhile Mother Love Bone bandmates Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard to record some songs he’d been working on. As often happens in creatively fueled local scenes, community members rallied and turned their grief into art. Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in March of 1990, rending his tight-knit Seattle music community.
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