#Mark Pickerel

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[guerrilla-operator]

SCREAMING TREES. OLYMPIA, 5/11/86.

[rainingmusic]

Mark Lanegan - Mockingbirds

[fuckyeahlaylavladi]

#kristnovoselic #bonafideband w #pickerel & the #peyote3 @the.motor.co #wallawalla july 27 - as imagined and realized by the artistic eye of @laylavladi

markpickerel via instagram

[krispyweiss]

Barrett Martin Says Screaming Trees “Almost” Regrouped in 2015

- Drummer to tell story in forthcoming band bio, due Nov. 3

The Screaming Trees “almost” got back together in 2015, Barrett Martin says.

The group’s former drummer will address this revelation and more in “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees.”

Saying the book flows “like a Greek comedy in three acts,” Martin uses 33 “mostly humorous” short stories to chronicle the Trees “and all the insane stuff that happened to us during the 1990s, including our short revival in 2012 with the Last Words album, and our almost-reunion in 2015.

“I wrote the book as a tribute to my bandmates, especially with the passing of Mark Lanegan and Van Conner in the last couple (of) years.”

Out Nov. 3, “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t” is Martin’s fourth book.

“Those who know me also know my sense of humor, so that’s the angle I took on the book,” he said. “Because in order to tell a great story, you have to live it first, which is what the Trees did, to the fullest.”

9/7/23

[greensparty]

Krist Novoselic's new band The Bona Fide Band

Last week saw the live debut of Krist Novoselic's new band The Bona Fide Band in Aberdeen, WA, the birthplace of Krist and Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana.

To back up for a minute, Krist is running for President of his new political party the Cascade Party (another story altogether, but he's trying to get a legit third party going and he's running for president in order to do so...even though he doesn't want to be president). The party needs to get the word out as being a bona fide party, so to do so, he formed a band to play around WA state, The Bona Fide Band featuring Krist on bass and accordion. Also featured in the band is drummer Mark Pickerel (Screaming Trees and some of the recordings he did with Cobain and Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan appeared on Nirvana's With the Lights Out box set), Seattle guitarist Kathy Moore, and vocalists Jillian Raye and Jennifer Johnson (both of whom performed with Krist in Giants In The Trees and the supergroup 3rd Secret).

The Bona Fide Band

At this particular show, they performed mostly Giants In The Trees and 3rd Secret songs, but they also did a covers of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" (which Nirvana covered on MTV Unplugged) and Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz", which Nirvana covered on their debut album Bleach. The song was dedicated to Cobain's sister Kimberly, who was in the audience. I hope the band releases a new track or two on Bandcamp.

The video above is the performance of "Love Buzz" on June 21, 2024 in Aberdeen, WA.

[spilladabalia]

Screaming Trees - Where The Twain Shall Meet

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Screaming Trees - Other Worlds

L’incredibile parabola artistica degli Screaming Trees inizia con l’Ep Other Worlds. La band di Ellensburg, cittadina non molto lontana da Seattle nasce dall’incontro dei fratelli Van e Gary Lee Conner con Mark Lanegan e la loro collaborazione li rende precursori di un suono, gruppo di culto, tutto questo senza che riescano a godere del successo che meriterebbero. Mancano il clamore e i…

[spilladabalia]

Van forever too.

Love this photo. Lanegan forever.

[markscherz]

ayo mr mark sir what kind of dog is this

i found him at my uncle's lakehouse last month he was kinda small and didn't bark but i still think he was really cool

This is a Lithobates species, my guess would be L. palustris, but I am not closely familiar with this genus and don't have enough data to improve my confidence.

[jenfoundabug]

Always love finding the occasional herp, aka honorary bug. This is a pickerel frog (Lithobates palustris), a common sight in wetlands in the Northeastern US. Their vaguely iridescent skin and striking markings are a treat to behold. I came across this one when I was hiking along a creek in Pennsylvania.

[thenativetank]

Rating lures based on the accuracy to the species they protray:

Okay so I've posted a few posts now on some disappointing lures so I wanted to do the cool ones this time. These would be Orangspotted Sunfish which a) are my fave centrarchids, and b) are a cool fish overall. The body coloration reflects non-breeding colors which is certainly less vibrant, but pretty accurate overall. This is a fun guy I'd love to have as a pet. 9/10.

Pikes are so rare as lures I wanted to include them. The shape? Chef's kiss. The packaging gives the tail a weird kind of shape but we shouldn't judge one based on the conditions in which they are forced to live. The colors I'm less wild on. The patterning says Northern Pike but the specific colors seem to suggest Redfin Pickerel. Are you a hybrid, little dude? Let's say 7/10.

These fellas are Notropis spp. shiners, likely Rainbow Shiners (N. chrosomus). From the body color to the blue gill plates, these are pretty spot on. Most Rainbows have a dark horizontal stripe along the lateral line where these have pale, but you can find both patterns in this species. 10/10 I love them.

What a pretty guy! Labeled as a Bluegill, this lure is an inch or so long; with that in mind, these are adult colors, not juvenile colors. The white in there is also not accurate. But I like him! He gets an 8/10 from me.

You know, though Yellow Perch lures are a dime a dozen, I think these are pretty close to the mark. The colors (especially the orange) is a little neon-y and the head is an odd white color, but I think they have a nice mix of realistic and eye catching. 7/10

[guerrilla-operator]

SCREAMING TREES

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Happy birthday Mark Lanegan. He would have been 60 today.

Interesting music facts about Lanegan:

Lanegan co-wrote lyrics with Kurt Cobain for ‘‘Something In the Way’’. He was not credited and in his memoir reveals he regretted not taking credit.

Lanegan was so impactful, that his album The Winding Sheet is the album that inspired Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance (and Nirvana covered ‘‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’’ because of Lanegan’s cover). Even, Dave Grohl expressed that it is one of the greatest albums ever. 

Kurt Cobain was a fan of Mark Lanegan. Actually, all of Nirvana. Alongside, Krist Novoselic, and Mark Pickerel both formed The Jury. In August 1989, the band rehearsed at the Seattle practice space Nirvana had rented above the Continental Trailways bus station.

[fuckyeahlaylavladi]

🎫 Tickets: https://novoselicsbonafideband.planningpod.com

#kristnovoselic #bonafideband w #pickerel & the #peyote3 @the.motor.co #wallawalla july 27 - as imagined and realized by the artistic eye of @laylavladi

Mark Pickerel via instagram

[krispyweiss]

Book Review: “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts” - by Barrett Martin

Screaming Trees nearly reunited in 2015 for a string of European and U.S. festival dates that would’ve featured Peter Buck on auxiliary rhythm guitar and represented the band’s largest payday.

But singer Mark Lanegan pulled the plug the day before an announcement was due. And with the subsequent deaths of Lanegan and bassist Van Conner, in 2022 and ’23, respectively, the Trees, who split in 2000, were left as an increasingly rare band that breaks up and stays that way.

This is the biggest revelation in Barrett Martin’s “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts.” That unwieldy title inadvertently encapsulates the main problem with the otherwise-interesting book from the man who replaced Mark Pickerel as drummer for the Trees’ during their final decade.

Namely, Barrett needed a co-writer and/or a strong editor. As published, “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t” is messy and littered with grammatical errors, typos, redundancies and a tendency to be verbose for verbosity’s sake. The comedy/tragedy addendum, meanwhile, is a misnomer, as the book by the multi-instrumentalist who also has played with Skin Yard; co-founded Mad Season and Tuatara; and was a touring member of Buck’s R.E.M., reads like a traditional rock memoir, albeit a poorly written one.

All of this said, Barrett presents 33 enlightening stories about the poorly documented Trees across 204 pages and it’s refreshing to read a rock ‘n’ roll memoir by a musician whose memories are all fond and who has no desire to settle scores in public. That Martin loved his band and respected his bandmates, also including guitarist/composer Gary Lee Conner and latter-day rhythm guitarist Joshua Homme, is obvious.

Martin also reveals that Lanegan recorded two a cappella Blind Willie McTell covers - not named - for a soundtrack, also not named, the drummer-cum-author is producing. A good editor would’ve done something to close the gaping hole in this tantalizing tidbit and ensured readers were not left with terrific content presented poorly.

Grade card: “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts” - by Barrett Martin - C+

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