With strutting glam attitude and heavy, sprawling rock riffs, Mother Love Bone
were high energy pioneers of the Seattle sound in the late 1980s, but the
premature death of frontman Andrew Wood meant that they split before
contemporaries like Nirvana and Mudhoney really introduced the grunge scene to
the world.
Wood grew up listening to classic 1970s bands such as King Crimson, Queen and
Kiss, and formed his first band Malfunkshun with his brother Kevin and started
living out his rock and roll fantasies and developing a flamboyant, charismatic
stage persona. Wood's drug probl...