#lanegan

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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.

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Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees Concert at Noorderlicht Tilburg 1993

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if you aren't wearing hoop earrings, are you really grunge?

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Queens of the Stone Age - Song For the Dead (2002)

Mark Lanegan on vocals

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SCREAMING TREES. OLYMPIA, 5/11/86.

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Queens of the Stone Age

Doing things the hard way forever! [insp]

The Vampyre Of Time And Memory [dir. Kii Arens and Jason Trucco]

The Way You Used To Do [dir. Jonas Åkerlund]

No One Knows [dir. Dean Karr and Michel Gondry]

Monsters In The Parasol [dir. Bob Stevens]

Go With The Flow [dir. Shynola]

Burn The Witch [dir. Chapman Baehler]

Sick, Sick, Sick [dir. Brett Simon]

Carnavoyeur [dir. Liam Lynch]

Negative Space [dir. Liam Lynch]

I Appear Missing [anim. Boneface and Liam Brazier]

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Mark Lanegan: Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir (2020)

When Mark Lanegan published his gritty, unsettling, teeth-grinding autobiography, Sing Backwards and Weep, in April of 2020 (on my 50th birthday, no less!), he was amazingly one of the few '90s grunge frontmen still breathing!

So his unsparing account of his years of drug addiction and the music career he somehow managed to pursue in spite of it with the ever-dysfunctional Screaming Trees (while close friends and peers like Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, and others dropped like flies all around him) makes for a gripping read.

Based on Lanegan's candid misadventures, the fact that he ultimately beat the odds to enjoy immense critical acclaim, relatively stable and continued success both as a solo artist and key contributor to Queens of the Stone Age and other projects, plus some manner of personal contentment is nothing short of a miracle.

Indeed, by the time you put it down, this is one of those rock star memoirs that leave you thinking "there's no way this guy should be alive!"

And yet, it still felt like a tale of triumph over adversity with a seemingly open-ended happy ending … until Lanegan sadly passed away two years ago, still far too young at 57.

The only consolation it that he lived to be much older than many of those who knew him well could ever have expected.

R.I.P.

Featured Records:

Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion (1992)

Screaming Trees: Dust (1996)

Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf (2002)

Buy from: Amazon

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‘‘It was impossible for me to accept that someone else could find worth in what I did because I could not. How could Kurt be a fan when I saw in him a talent that was genuinely not of this place and time, like Bob Dylan, John Lennon, David Bowie, or Jimi Hendrix? I simply had the heart of a packhorse.’’- Mark Lanegan

The Winding Sheet (1990) is Mark Lanegan’s first solo album and it’s the most important album in the development of grunge and Seattle rock music. The album is completely different than any musical work from Screaming Trees, the band he fronted from 1985 until 2000. One of the most fascinating things about this album is the fact that he had not picked up an instrument before or contributed musically to any Screaming Trees song beside lyrics. 25 years of age, working in a warehouse, the grunge icon spent his days trying to come up with melodies and lyrics for his first album. He bought a cheap and used acoustic guitar with a Mel Bay chord book and got to work.

"I remember listening to his solo album, The Winding Sheet, over and over again, when I was living in Olympia. It was winter, when the sun wouldn't come up until 8am, and would go down by 2 or 3pm - it was like a rainy Scandinavia, it was fucking depressing. And that album was the perfect soundtrack for that season.''- Dave Grohl

On ‘‘Down In The Dark’’ Lanegan sings : ‘‘I don't have very long, I think my blood might boil, And then my veins might burn, You're gonna make it better for a little while’’. And if you listen carefully, you will hear Kurt Cobain singing on ‘‘Down In The Dark’’. Whilst, Cobain plays guitar and Krist Novoselic plays bass on ‘‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’’.

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We have several maples in the yard but they don't really look super spectacular usually. This one decided to change things up, and I love it.

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Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees flyer 90s Concerts ©️

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Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

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There's a killer at the window Tries to catch you while you rest Diseases suffering in day-glow It wakes a demon in your chest (Heavy, Heavy)

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MARK LANEGAN