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RIP one of the best rock singers ever.

Wow. That's a real drag.

RIP

Real bummer. Gonna stick on Bubblegum and have s dram

Just made my way through The Winding Sheet, Nearly Lost You and Hanging Tree.

Time for a whisky for the Holy Ghost and then I should be fine.

Loved some of his stuff. Sweet Oblivion was my first taste, I didn't like any of their other albums. Incredibly unique voice. RIP big man.

Got into him first through Queens of the Stone Age - I can remember buying Rated R and it being the first album I discovered on my own, I think I was 12. Into the Fade is the best track on the album and when I saw them live the only downer was that it wasn't Mark Lanegan singing.

I'm really gutted by this one, more than I would have expected. It's one of those moments that underlines the passage of time.

For all I'm sure he wasn't the sort of bloke you'd want to hang around with socially, he was a proper rock star. Just a shame he never got to have that fight with Liam Gallagher.

Fark......

Usual causes?

mat the expat wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:55 pm Fark......

Usual causes?

They've not said but he was nearly dead from Covid last year, in an induced coma and not expected to come out of it. So he can't have been in the finest fettle lately.

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:11 am

mat the expat wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:55 pm Fark......

Usual causes?

They've not said but he was nearly dead from Covid last year, in an induced coma and not expected to come out of it. So he can't have been in the finest fettle lately.

Damn shame

Crash669 wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:38 pm Got into him first through Queens of the Stone Age - I can remember buying Rated R and it being the first album I discovered on my own, I think I was 12. Into the Fade is the best track on the album and when I saw them live the only downer was that it wasn't Mark Lanegan singing.

I'm really gutted by this one, more than I would have expected. It's one of those moments that underlines the passage of time.

For all I'm sure he wasn't the sort of bloke you'd want to hang around with socially, he was a proper rock star. Just a shame he never got to have that fight with Liam Gallagher.

Same here, got into QOTSA in a big way at uni, one of my flatmates had been on an album buying binge and came back with Rated R. I saw them twice in 2001, once supporting AC/DC at MK Bowl and again at Leeds festival. Mark was there with them, he just had that indescribable "rock star" quality

mat the expat wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:34 am

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:11 am

mat the expat wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:55 pm Fark......

Usual causes?

They've not said but he was nearly dead from Covid last year, in an induced coma and not expected to come out of it. So he can't have been in the finest fettle lately.

Damn shame

He was a covid & 5G conspiracy theorist before then. But at least it changed his mind.

Got into Screaming Trees in the early nineties. Saw them open for Alice in Chains in '92 and really became a fan then. His first solo album The Winding Sheet remains one of my favourites, even if it probably wasn't a wise decision to play guitar on that himself (although it did add to the junkie blues vibe of that album).

Loved his work with QotSA, but also with Isobel Campbell and his cameo on last year's Cult of Luna record.

This remains one of my favourite tunes of his - lyrically I feel it boils down to the essence of him as well.

Screaming Trees was my first proper gig as a teenager back in the 90s and I had their Dust album pretty much on constant repeat at that time. It was at the Riverside in Newcastle and Lanegan didn't even finish the set - think he was pretty wasted. Great gig though, much more rock and roll swagger than almost all of the gigs I've seen since.

clydecloggie wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:49 am Got into Screaming Trees in the early nineties. Saw them open for Alice in Chains in '92 and really became a fan then. His first solo album The Winding Sheet remains one of my favourites, even if it probably wasn't a wise decision to play guitar on that himself (although it did add to the junkie blues vibe of that album).

Loved his work with QotSA, but also with Isobel Campbell and his cameo on last year's Cult of Luna record.

This remains one of my favourite tunes of his - lyrically I feel it boils down to the essence of him as well.

Yeah the Isobel Campbell stuff is great, their duet of Flatlands is one of my favourite songs. I've never been able to suss whether he ended with QOTSA and Campbell because they fell out or it just ended.

He never seemed to be able to work with anyone for very long except Greg Dulli, who must be really feeling it. Their work as the Gutter Twins is extremely good. (Although this link is him touring with Twilight Singers, not GT).

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:52 pm
He never seemed to be able to work with anyone for very long except Greg Dulli, who must be really feeling it.

I don't think that his work with Dulli was his longest standing collaboration. He was in the Screaming Trees for 17 years. He did a couple of albums with QOTSA but maintained close friendships and they were always guesting on each others work. Then co-wrote some songs on ...Like Clockwork.

Gutter Twins was what, seven years?

Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:21 pm

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:52 pm
He never seemed to be able to work with anyone for very long except Greg Dulli, who must be really feeling it.

I don't think that his work with Dulli was his longest standing collaboration. He was in the Screaming Trees for 17 years. He did a couple of albums with QOTSA but maintained close friendships and they were always guesting on each others work. Then co-wrote some songs on ...Like Clockwork.

Gutter Twins was what, seven years?

I know the ST's was much longer but reading Sing Backwards and Weep that wasn't out of choice, it was the only way to get money for his smack habit. Lanegan seemed to hate all of it for most of the time he was in the band.

I thought with QOTSA there was a bit of a split after Lullabies and then a reconciliation after Homme's near death experience? Happy to be wrong on that one.

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:53 pm

Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:21 pm

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:52 pm
He never seemed to be able to work with anyone for very long except Greg Dulli, who must be really feeling it.

I don't think that his work with Dulli was his longest standing collaboration. He was in the Screaming Trees for 17 years. He did a couple of albums with QOTSA but maintained close friendships and they were always guesting on each others work. Then co-wrote some songs on ...Like Clockwork.

Gutter Twins was what, seven years?

I know the ST's was much longer but reading Sing Backwards and Weep that wasn't out of choice, it was the only way to get money for his smack habit. Lanegan seemed to hate all of it for most of the time he was in the band.

I thought with QOTSA there was a bit of a split after Lullabies and then a reconciliation after Homme's near death experience? Happy to be wrong on that one.

If you've read the book you're well ahead of me. Must get a copy. Actually, I think there's an audiobook version read by the man himself. Hearing that voice might be quite cathartic. Not that I'm in pieces that he's gone. The world lost an interesting bloke, though.

Mr Bungle wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:16 am . Hearing that voice might be quite cathartic. Not that I'm in pieces that he's gone. The world lost an interesting bloke, though.

I was listening to him on a podcast the other day - can't for the life of me remember what it was about.

Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:21 pm

Crash669 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:52 pm
He never seemed to be able to work with anyone for very long except Greg Dulli, who must be really feeling it.

I don't think that his work with Dulli was his longest standing collaboration. He was in the Screaming Trees for 17 years. He did a couple of albums with QOTSA but maintained close friendships and they were always guesting on each others work. Then co-wrote some songs on ...Like Clockwork.

Gutter Twins was what, seven years?

Listening to Saturnalia as we speak. Great record.

Mr Bungle wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:16 am [
If you've read the book you're well ahead of me. Must get a copy. Actually, I think there's an audiobook version read by the man himself. Hearing that voice might be quite cathartic. Not that I'm in pieces that he's gone. The world lost an interesting bloke, though.

Well worth reading but it's not a happy book. While his admiration for some musicians run through it, it's really about a very unhappy life and what a multi decade heroin habit feels like.

Has some funny stories about wanting to beat up Liam Gallagher though, so there's something for everyone.

Don't think he ever really fell out with Dulli or Homme, they're both thanked in Sing Backwards and Weep, and him and Dulli were always very close, vene helping one another get clean. It's interesting that Dulli doesn't feature in the memoir at all, despite being thanked in the acknowledgements, though I think the relationship came into it's own around Powder Burns when GD had a (surprise!) colossal cocaine problem. I think the number of collaborations is just down to him liking working with different people, it defined his solo career from the start. Don't know what his relationship with the Connor borthers, particularly Van, was like later on.

Well apart from the falling out him and Homme had after nearly having a knife fight with a heroin dealer. But who hasn't had those arguments?

Crash669 wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:46 pm Well apart from the falling out him and Homme had after nearly having a knife fight with a heroin dealer. But who hasn't had those arguments?

Mate, we don't all live in leith.

Doh! Wrong thread.

Embarrassed to say I was not aware of Mark's work until I saw his death announced via twitter by some musicians I do follow.

Needless to day, a quick listen on the way to work has me hooked.

RIP.

Insane_Homer wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:22 pm

Not sure what this has to do with Mark Lanegan?

Nice piece by Isobel Campbell in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/ ... rk-lanegan

Happily I think I was wrong and Lanegan didn't fall out with most of his collaborators, I was just reading too much into the gruff way he talked about it all.

apologies for keep bumping the thread, but I don't care