man i relate to you guys soo much..
everything you've said about 1994 and those bands and cd's..
from 1987 through around 1995 I played bass and sang in a band (stayed with the same drummer the whole time)...and that music defined the era...we wrote, did a few covers of these bands, but the influences of these bands we're all over our stuff....
some covers i remember from those years, off hand, were:
"had a dad"
"mtn. song"
"Sympathy for the devil" (JA style)
"pigs in zen"
"trip away"
"Rusty Cage"
"Hands All Over"
"Loud Love"
"hunger strike" (temple of the dog)
"chole dancer/crown of thorns" (ahhhh mother love bone!!)
"Stargazer"
"Man in the box"
"higher ground"
"them bones"
"got me wrong"
"we die young"
"..can't remember the title...but the lyric ("i want to party on your p#$ssy baby"..) lol
there were more and we spread them out in our shows..picked maybe 3-4 each show...we had other covers but those we're the shit imho...brought down the house with a lot of them...
I felt, at the time even up to '96 or so.., a strange connection in what AIC, soundgarden, Temple of the dog, Pearl Jam, nirvana, Jane's Addiction (been into them since 89) and the red hot's we're doing musically...for me it was a magical time and I still wear those groups out..not so much STP, but I do like them...I think their writing is soo strong and un-flashy...
im 33 BTW...
peace.
CDT