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Mike McCready played the national anthem on a battered Stratocaster, then went back out at halftime to stand in with Soundgarden while Taylor Momsen sang Chris Cornell’s parts. Viewers at home saw almost none of the second half of that night.

Their debut was weeks from release when Andrew Wood died at 24. From the grief came Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, and Seattle’s great what-if – the band that ended before it began.

Inside the surreal 90s night when Tom Petty jumped behind a drum kit for Mike McCready and Baker Saunders, and what that tiny Polaroid says about rock history.