JOE ABRAMS - Friend

"Andy was always performing, in his communication and the way he would talk with people."

 

JEFF AMENT - Friend & bassist with Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog & Pearl Jam

"Everyone is turning around, so we turn around and look and Andy is strutting across the bar with his wireless bass. Nobody had a wireless bass or guitar at that point."

 

KATE CARLISLE - Rehabilitation Therapist

"I did feel like his dreams were coming true and yet, there is a tremendous issue of low self-esteem that often comes into play even though everything was going so great."

 

CHRIS CORNELL - Friend, roommate & singer with Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog & Audioslave

"Meeting him was kind of startling. He was kind of effeminate, really, with the whole make-up thing going on. You're meeting this person you really admire, and they're dressed in some weird psycho T-Rex - Kiss costume."

 

KELLY CURTIS - Manager for Mother Love Bone & Pearl Jam

"It's a theory for sure, but I think that he wat it (stardom) so bad; yet it was probably scary to come to terms with."

 

JACK ENDINO - Recording engineer & guitarist with Skinyard

"He came out on stage with a bowl of cereal and a spoon and said, 'Ok, time to eat cereal now'."

 

BRUCE FAIRWEATHER- Friend & guitarist in Green River & Mother Love Bone

"We were young and the prospects of supporting ourselves on music was pretty exciting."

 

GREG GILMORE - Friend & drummer with Ten Minute Warning & Mother Love Bone

"The guy was great to play with. The band could play anything and he'd be on it with ideas that worked immediately."

 

MICHAEL GOLDSTONE - A&R for Polygram, Sony, Dreamworks & Sire Records

"I felt like I saw a rock show, in the greatest sense of that definition. There was nothing small about what that band (Mother Love Bone) ever did."

 

STONE GOSSARD - Friend & guitarist with Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Brad & Pearl Jam

"I'd do anything I could to play music with him. He understood so much about creativity and he understood so much about humor and music and all these kind of things that I was just really intrigues by him."

 

REGAN HAGAR - Friend & drummer with Malfunkshun, Satchel & Brad

"It was probably 1980 or '81 and 666 was really big, so 333 was the opposite. It was good - the power of good - and so that was what Malfunkshun was all about."

 

XANA LaFUENTE - Fiancée

"He wrote more (music) than anyone I have ever met. He was writing constantly everyday. Everyday."

 

MARCUS MEANEY - Friend

"He would do wild and crazy things that no one else could really get away with. He would wear his Mom's panties, but he would fucking tell you about that! And it was a shield that made him strong."

 

KIM THAYIL - Friend & guitarist with Soundgarden

"Eventually he adopted the notion of LoveRock. And Malfunkshun was LoveRock. He was Landrew the Lovechild or Landrew the Lovemaster of ceremonies. All of Malfunkshun were from Olympus, not Olympia - which is the capitol of Washington - but Olympus."

 

BRIAN WOOD - Brother

"He was the most focused and driven of probably almost anyone in town. I think generated the whole major label interest in Seattle. He sort of dreamed it all up."

 

DAVID WOOD - Father

"I was Andy's biggest fan not because he was going to be a rock star. I was Andy's biggest fan because Andy was who he was. If you met Andy, you loved him like I loved him."

 

KEVIN WOOD - Brother & guitarist with Malfunkshun, Devilhead & All Hail The Crown

"He was three years old and we were making a tape for my Father who was in Vietnam, And he started singing this song: 'Baby I love you so much', singing in the weeds and that was the first song he ever made up."

 

TONI WOOD - Mother

"As I saw him walking away with that outlandish outfit on, I remember thinking, 'Who is he? Who is that creature? How did I get so lucky?'."