That’s my age and all the things that happened over all the years still amazes me I too am alive. I grew up with The Doors, Jimi, Skynyrd, Zeppelin and when I got out of the Army in 89 and started hearing the Seattle music it fell right in line with my heart. But now all these years later I love the era I grew up in all the more.
I'm 56, not a rock star,just a regular guy with bad habbits. I am happy i went over 50. I think i have to change my life, not to live 100 years, but to be in peace for what's left
Mark, Layne, Chris, Andy, Scott, Kurt, Mike, and the many others that have passed (which are too many to list).... these guys were like Dark Angels roaming the planet. This time period of music in my life was my Camelot so to speak. As a 56 year old man.... the Seattle Music Scene defined my generation, their music meant the world to so many, including myself. Why? Because we could identify with it. Music isn't all about fun and happiness, clearly there was another side to it with these bands.... and those who could identify with it.. sadness, depression, despair, addiction and dependency. Yet, through it all, these guys supported one anothers careers, encouraged one another, and helped one another. Unfortunately for most, they couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.... yet, unknowingly, through their music and personal struggles, they helped so many others, including myself.... and still do to this day. With each and every one of these artists that have passed over the years, for whatever reasons, I feel as though I have lost a family member or close friend. When the night feels like another sunrise will never come, I ALWAYS have my fallen brothers music to see me through to another sunrise, and because of that, I will FOREVER be grateful. I only wish I could've done the same for so many of them when they were lost in their own minds. I will continue to carry the Seattle Music Scene Torch until my dying days..... and I will let it shine brightly, because it's the very least I can do to pay respects to those who saved my life numerous times. These Dark Angels I refer too...... especially Layne and Chris.... put the good word in for me at the gates, and save me a seat at the big table between the two of you..... YOU ALL ARE GREATLY MISSED BY MANY..... but especially by this 56 year old man.
It's beautiful! Thank You for Your words,I had to cry when read it.Just carrying the Seattle Music Scene Torch with Your existence more long long years!
i was also thinking that it was a good comment and i could identify with it specially when he said that music is not all about fun and happiness since i know what is to use your music to express your deepest inner sadness and many other somber emotions
We were so lucky to experience this period in music first hand. It was great, and as the years go on, it just becomes more and more nostalgic and classic. While driving and listening to some of my favorite songs from this era, I often find myself frustrated and almost angry that so many are gone. I always wonder what Kurt would have went on to do music-wise. Would he have put out more stuff like the Unplugged album? I'm glad we got to experience Mark's contributions to QotSA, one of my favorite "newer" bands.
I heard about his passing while sitting in my car during my lunch break at work. Tears just rolled down my cheeks uncontrollably. I hadn’t cried in more than 15-20 years and quickly realized it was time to get back to work. I looked in my review mirror and said to myself “get it together man,you have to pull yourself together right now” I think about that 5-10 minutes often. I didn’t personally know mark. But I have spent my whole life in western Washington and the screaming trees were a big part of my teenage years. His voice gave comfort to many of us. He will be there when we need him through his music and books. But he well be missed. Damn.
I've been waiting on a documentary on Mark Lanegan for a very long time now. Thanks for doing this! His memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep" is easily one of the best Rock memoirs out there. I highly recommend getting the Audible book version to hear Mark's own voice narrate the book. I've relistened to it over 15 times in it's entirety and I'll relisten to it many more times throughout my life. It's just an incredible book.
U and me both brother I think mark should have got more credit for pushing the movement forward with the other big four my opinion it's the big five Kurt, c Cornell, Layne, Mark, and vedder screaming trees were very important to the scene and will not be forgotten
@@barbaraa.taylor9488 For sure. I'm not big into Pearl Jam and Vedders vocals but I understand their importance for that music scene. I'm not even a big Screaming Trees fan but I love Mark's vocals and his solo work is incredible. It's too bad that Kurt Cobain and Mark couldn't get that "Aborted Blues" (a Ledbelly/Blues cover album) or even anymore original music done together. That would've been pretty special I imagine.
They have an import CD of Kurt and Mark doing the Leadbelly stuff been trying to get it for a long time but it does exist I heard a song or two on my Nirvana box set with the lights out it's awesome brother pick it up peace
Thank you for putting this together. Kinda opened up the wounds from February, but so far it's the best, and only really, long form doc on Lanegan I've ever seen online.
Because it was shit. even shitter then the one up right now. I’m doing a full remake of it starting soon that will be infinitely better then the original
My father named both my sister and I after Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell. I never knew why until a few years ago. I've been hooked ever since. Hearing about his death this year broke me. His life was incredible. Too soon for a man like him. Rest In Peace.
I just finished the audiobook version of his biography "Sing Backwards & Weep", which I highly recommend. He lead the most interesting life & it's REALLY something to hear all of his mind blowing stories told by the man himself in his inimitable, iconic voice...
@@ghostface3655 It was, apparently a lot of his personal issues came from being abused by his mother growing up, decided to come visit her/his family for the holidays for the 1st times in years after a period of commerical success & sobriety, but by the time he got there was in relapse mode flying into Seattle & back every other day to score, the fight happened when his mom called him out on using while driving him to the airport for 1 of those trips... Is the short version
@Bill Epperson OK, thanks so much for the reply. It was interesting to me to hear the dynamic between him and his mom/dad. Thanks so much, preciate ya, sir! 🙏
I spent time with Lanegan on the DUST tour. Salt was the band I was supporting at the time as a stage hand. He was friendly despite his demons. He was & is an angel,
I'm an immense Lanegan fan, have been since I was a teen. The unremitting darkness of his story, and how it colored his music, is part of the allure of it -- but there's something about his voice and his lyrics that were always contemplative, yearning, and assuring. Like a tiny point of light on the black horizon, something to walk toward until you find your way. Losing him this year was extremely rough. I'm taking solace in "Churchbells, Ghosts", "Pill Hill Serenade", and "Sworn and Broken" to get me through some things right now. The world needed Mark. It's a shame that, for so long, he couldn't tell.
i’ve read sing backwards and weep 3 times and it’s one of my favorite books of all time from one of my favorite musicians. so happy to you see you made this. hell yeah.
Same ...62 here and read the book so many times and listen on audible ...I loved him from the trees...and can't explain my deep love for him and his music ..got to see him live once with Duke ...It was my best night ever ...thank you And good night ...The night porter you are missed 🖤💔
@@kristijanslovenec70 How is "Devil in a Coma"? Is it better than "Sing Backwards and Weep"? I assume you've read/listened to it by now? If not get the Audible book version. It's otherworldly.
27:01 truer words have never been spoken. I see myself in that same way. If someone were to ever ask me what happened in my life that made me so sad, I wouldn’t know where to begin RIP MARK LANEGAN
I see a good amount of mark in myself which makes me smile. The fact that he’s okay being alone, a lot of ppl know him but they float in an out, struggles to find the right love, he barely makes his ends meet, and struggles on and off again with his inner demons, yet really just wants to make music. Kinda just went w the flow of life, and that’s pretty cool
Such a magical and tragic era, and scene. All these beautiful and creative artists giving so much. I’m 55 and loved Screaming Trees. I saw them in Deep Elul at Trees ironically. What a talent. RIP Mark.
A brilliant, irreplaceable artist. I discovered Mark's music later on but I'm caught up now. He's replaced all others in terms of whose music I go to most frequently. RIP, my friend.
Same, and now he's such a frequent go to it's absurd 😆, as I've always had a voracious appetite for new, or at least frequently varied, but now hardly go long before there's something with lanegan spinning in my ear
These guys weren’t usually the type to judge others and when one was down and out the other stuck around and tried to help. I know many people who do not have any problems with addiction that won’t lift a finger to help someone, never mind an addict. I am not trying to be negative, but these guys were usually there to try to help each other, until the person they are trying to help doesn’t want it anymore. Sometimes even though you know where you’re headed it is easier to just let go, but yet you fight, and you fight it all alone. The drugs especially iv opioids, bring out the worst sometimes, but even battling those demons, they tried to stick together and help each other in times of need. It is sad to lose such a great era of singers (and band mates). Layne, Mike, Mark, Chris, Kurt, and many more and they were all human beings like all of us, yet we’re so very talented and gifted ones. They say the truly artistic are the most susceptible to destruction. What is really tragic is to finally gain sobriety after so many years of cheating death and have a wife and a home and catch CV19. My heart goes out to Mark’s family and there really isn’t anyone left to lose. Eddie Vedder did his thing, and gives back to humanity which is nice. But the true Grunge era is gone. Tragic, and depressing. Thank you for this great short documentary of his life. The song “Nutshell” at the end, its words, are exactly where most of their lives roamed to. Ironically sad.
Actually marks book sorta describes them as the opposite. He said he was very judge mental and felt like those people at the very bottom of addiction were pathetic. Until he got there
Marks voice is magical and theres nothing like it. his raspy dirty undertone is amazing. Such a fascinating man to listen to. hes been through so much shit. Rest In Power beautiful soul!
These kind of videos hit hard. I was a drug addicted musician. Can’t believe I got to that point. 7 years clean now with a wife and kid and business owner. I’m so grateful
That is a blessing, to have gotten through that time in your life. Thanks for telling and being honest. I have a zillion times more respect for you than I have for the, more than likely worthless negative commenter. If fact, just his half sentence, (it's hard to tell if it's a sentence or not since they don't use any grammar), tells me everything I need to know about his unaccomplished life. These generations, the last 20 years have no clue. If they would have applied themselves and learned guitar, wrote music and sang, maybe the music wouldn't have died out in the last two decades. But you have to have talent and dedication. I respect anyone who plays guitar. My dream is to play, but I haven't dedicated myself. It's not an easy instrument to learn and be good at.
@@justinsixx90hehe 2.5 years off heroin on methadone here after 10 years of addiction with literally zero sober time (besides an occasional day or day and a half when I couldn't get anything or more likely didn't have any money). I would never use but it is hard, as life ain't all rainbow and sunshine just because I don't have to wake up sick everyday and hustle 24/7 just to feel okay. I have a good office sales job, rent a studio apartment of my own, money isn't a problem but... besides 2 people who live far away, and dozens of acquaintances I have no friends as its hard to consider someone a friend if I can't tell them who I really am and my story. One thing I miss is that despite all of us junkies being sleazy POS whilst using, i had people whom I could be honest with, but I cut them all out once I stopped using... As for relationships? Lmao forget about it, it's either someone who is also in recovery (which is basically like begging for a relapse for both parties), or a "normie" but they all run away once I tell them my story. As a 31yo I'm starting to accept the fact I will never start my own family, get married, have children (unless, again, either via one night stand or with another ex user which is again... very dangerous and feels selfish to put a child at risk of either parent relapsing and having to go through that nightmare I did go through as a child). Obviously I'm 100x better off now than I was on heroin but.. After almost 3 years, its tough. Now I know what people said when mentioning how its easy at first but when it hits you that your life ain't gonna be a dream just because y9u stop putting a needle up your vein, and it might be mostly unpleasant and hard just like it is for normal people, then the battle begins...
As somebody who toured and did drugs with my favorite musicians this shit hits me so hard. I used to party with jonny craig when we toured together and I felt like mark must’ve felt. I’m cooking shots for this amazing vocalist whom I admire and I’m the lowest I’ve ever been. I did and sold drugs to people who are mad famous to this day. Drugs have taken so much from me and I’m grateful every day I’m not shooting dope.
Its wild how he was in the middle of all those bands and musicians. I knew him and Kurt were close but not with all the others. His life story is pretty wild.
So grateful to have grown up in the 90s with these bands as my life's soundtrack. Saw Nirvana November @ the Armory 6 months before Kurt passed, STP @ the Mann, but never the Trees or Alice in Chains (my absolute favorite band of all time). RIP - Mark Lanegan 🙏
Wonderful documentary dude, loved the rest too. Proper grunge fan. Always been a massive fan of both Screaming Trees and Alice in Chains. Mad Season was just magical to hear both Layne and Mark duet. I don't think people realise how truly underrated Screaming Trees nor Mark's solo career were. It sadly took Mark's death for people to kind of do a rediscovery if you will. I always felt the last two ST albums were just as good as the best albums of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, AIC and Soundgarden. I particularly enjoyed the last four of their work, unique. It is a shame that Andy, Kurt, Layne, Mike, Scott, Chris and now Mark are no longer with us, they all had this angelic aura about them. May their music live on.
I have listened to the audio version of this at least 2 dozen times. I go to bed at night and listen... Isn't it amazing how he had such an amazing memory? To be a full blown junkie for that many years and that long ago... super impressive. He should have been an author his entire career... what a delightful vocab this man had. I know a lot of intelligent musicians that speak very well, like Chris Robinson.... Mark seems to be the best I have seen. Poor guy needed his mothers love. I could have as well. I like how Bobby Scarfo (post below mine) explains how important the scene was to me... so just read his comment next. Rest in peace... all of you that have left us.
He could have done more if he didn’t sabotage his own career and definitely wasn’t underrated in the 90s, Sweet Oblivion was very successful. He also did most the vocals on the Queens of the Stone Age’s Songs for the Deaf, which is arguably QOTSA’s most successful album! Stop writing that comment, as if you are someone seeing talent that no one else sees! 😂
@@SerenityChaos1975 I mean for being the 6th album they did that only made it to 141 on the billboard because of the single "Nearly Lost You" not many people knew about him until the Mad Season album came out!! I don't think he was underrated because no one knew him to rate him at the time. He, himself will tell you he screwed his career up doing drugs but wouldn't change it for the world because he had the greatest time of his life.
@@SerenityChaos1975 Plus his work with Isobel Campbell later in life got the attention of more people then anything else he did. These are just my opinions!
RIP Van Connor... If you aren't familiar with his other band Solomon Grundy, in which he writes, sings lead & plays guitar, I highly recommend you seek out their lone album
Hope you’re doing ok David. I used to have the same problem with pointed instruments. Unfortunately after losing the love of my life and everything and everyone else I loved I changed to chasing the fake dragon. Better luck to you.
Wow!!! I can't help but feel such a deep dark sadness for many of the Grunge greats... it truly goes to show money absolutely does not bring happiness and imo brings a deeper sorrow to them. They hide behind their riches with the same deep depression they started with. Layne's story makes me feel the same. 😪 This was very well written and I truly appreciate you putting it on UA-cam for us! Thank you... RIP Mark, Layne and Kurt ❤️
Yeah when you abuse hard drugs on a daily basis having lots of money is a burden on your life. It does make it more convenient but it also makes it harder to quit.
@@YettiManChannel84 perhaps, but it’s easier to deal with addiction with money than dead broke. having said that, i don’t think lanegan was particularly wealthy - just because a musician is famous, doesn’t mean they’re rich. takes a lot of record sales to recoup major labels’ advances - and responsible financial management, which lanegan certainly lacked when his various habits were raging
That’s cool you included info about Kristen Pfaff. She used to live in my building in Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. She was a very cool girl. Gone far too soon. R.I.P.
I didn't know anything about Mark before watching this incredible video. I really liked it. I just got sober from opioid myself about 6 months ago so listening to this story was really relatable and eye opening. Great stuff, man.
Woah. Not only did I learn of all the connections he had with the bands I love, this ended with a pedal steel player that I thought was just playing some fitting sounds, only to turn into absolute chills for me when Mark started singing. ADDING Layne's tracks...chills even more. That was amazing and thank you.
Had he taken up Kurt’s offer to sing at the unplugged concert and worked with David O’Russell he would be more well known. I knew a bit about his struggles but his memoir was very dark. He didn’t shy away from what he did but I’ve also read what close friends thought of him and they were always in a positive light. Other books about Seattle did include the Screaming Trees and their dynamics were interesting. Lanegan did seem like a bruiser on sight with those massive fists but he was also very introspective and a voracious reader. Somewhat a walking contradiction. In some ways he seemed more like a Lost Generation figure, a literary type who would fight at the drop of a hat like Hemingway or Norman Maclean. He had a hard life but I’m glad he had some peace near the end. His music sure made me happy.
Thank you for that information. I'm always happy to learn new information that I haven't already read or learned from an internet channel/podcast. Maybe if he had sang with Kurt at the unplugged concert, both of their lives may have taken a different direction. It could have been what they both wanted and needed at that time. Kurt wanted to move in a different direction musically, so that could have been that different direction, and it would have been an opportunity that Mark wouldn't wanted to have blown because of addiction. But it is what it is, a very tragic story.
Marks lack of self confidence would have never allowed it, mark was so hard on DIDNT even realize that everyone who was a big name artist loved him and his music and respected him.
I'm just grateful not only for his music but just to say hello to him before a QOTSA show. I was walking down an ally behind The Newport Music Hall in Columbus Ohio in 2002. I look up and sitting on a fire escape was Lanegan. Told him how much I dug his stuff. I didn't want to fan boy out so I left it at that. Glad I did. R.I.P. Brother
My gosh I have never heard of Mark Lonegan nor the band The Screaming Trees. Just listening to his music and his voice on this documentary draws me in and I have such feeling in his words. ❤
Your documentary could be touched up a bit, but it's pretty good, man. Thank you for doing the weeks/months of work it took to make it as good as it is. Most importantly, thanks for sharing Mark Lanegan. I love Mark's music, and I love his story as well. He was a true original from rock's last stand on the world stage. Screaming Trees had quite a bit of "roll" as well, something missing from quite a bit of rock since way back in the day.
Thanks for making this documentary of a legendary performer. An incredible voice and talent. If you haven't heard the albums he did with Isobel Campbell in the 2000's, definitely check them out. They have an incredible intense light/darkness dynamic to their music. Her voice so pure and ethereal and his so gruff and deep, some of his best vocal performances imo. Ballad of the Broken Seas is my favourite album they did. Was lucky enough to see him perform live once, with Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs. RIP Mark. ....and so many others from that scene.
It makes me sick to even look at Courtney, especially after Kurt and Kristen died. Two people very close, or were very close to Courtney, who wanted to get away from her forever! And before they could go, they died. Then Courtney flaunts it in everyone's face. Her life has been mostly miserable anyway, with all of the law suits, the heavy drug addictions for many years, (which is her way of dealing with guilt, if you're too messed up you don't have to think about it), the media tearing her up, and being the most hated woman, I'm safe to say, in the world. And the worst thing is, she keeps doing the same thing over and over, and the results are no different.
Kristen looks terrible in that one picture. That's what some people who are jealous of you do to you. In her case they got her addicted to heroin, having no friends or family in Seattle, they took control off her and her life. And once they have you where they want you, week and dependent, they drag you down more until eventually you get out one way or another.
I forgot about a lot of stuff in Marks book. Why did Eric tell Mark not to deal with Courtney? Because he knew Courtney needed someone to prey on, and control, and when they try to leave her they end up dead. Those messages she obsessively left left were of professional stalker level. When Mark wouldn't pick up, then the threats came in. Then she shows up at his door to basically enter without his permission. Maybe counting on him not being home and stealing something to blackmail him with. That's what she did. The thing about Mark, no matter how heavy his addiction was, no one was going to get the best of him. He was too strong to be manipulated by Courtney, so she eventually gave up. That's some scary stuff. IMO, that says exactly what kind of a person she is and what's she's capable of.
Thanks for investing your time, effort and love in this project Matt. I lived in Wallingford and worked in the U District during the late 80's and early 90's so I saw some of the street level events described in your film, especially the cycle of addiction some of my friends caught up in. I shared a house with a couple touring musicians and worked with folks who struggled with heroin addiction so I feel so fortunate to have escaped without my own personal dark encounter. Watching your film is like looking in a mirror at an alternate life which I avoided only by chance or circumstance. Reflecting on the lives and talent lost to addiction I'm even more convinced that we need universal healthcare so that people suffering from the disease can get the care and treatment they need, hopefully to someday break those chains and live life more fully. You've done some tangible good with this film Matt. Good on you, sir.
❤Mark , one of the greatest vocalists ever. A very nostalgic documentary for an amazing yet tragic time in music history. I was and still am, a Grunge kid. RIP Mark and all those incredible talented musicians we have lost X
i am 54yers old from israel mark Lanegan was here five times over the years playing in a rock club under the radar i saw the last three. he made me feel proud every time. proud of the way he got old not stopping making his music not selling not buying i miss him
And there is his work with the Gutter Twins, with Isobel Campbell, Mark Morton, Soulsavers, Twilight Singers and a lot more. In my mind he is on the same shelf with Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits. Cure for soul.
Lanegan was such a hidden treasure, and I think he probably liked it that way. I suspect had he been more famous he would have died much sooner. I was always surprised he wasn't more well known though.
great job w the doc. That was a tear jerker, and very informative. Thanks for posting. Hope to see more of your work. You should have steady work as a documentarian if you don't already
Imbued with and surrounded by so much talent, but also caught in the hurricane of pain, addiction and death. I'm amazed that he survived as long as he did; most of his life sounded like a war. My guess is that years of addiction weakened his system so badly that he may have died from complications brought on by long COVID, but who knows. At least he had a chance to taste sobriety and some stability (and live to document his traumatic past) before he passed on. Terrible loss.
I recieved DEVIL IN A COMA for xmas last year. Read it in one sitting. Pure GOLD! Good man Lanegan was. This was a brilliant piece!!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🍻🍻💚🧡💚🧡💚 Thank you!🤘
Got sing backwards and weep last Christmas and read while at home in a quarantine type situation getting over a bought of covid, when i the found out about devil in a coma, and have been looking forward to, but have had to let some time pass before diving into, to numb me a bit before taking in some of the last of his art
Incredible, Thx bro watched this a few times. Always loved in the fade and anything else I heard with Lanegan. Just didn’t know he was good friends with legendary ppl and beautiful women. Another toothpick. Rip all my heroes are dead..
Thank you brother this is amazing I love that him and layne were always like best friends as sad as it is to see mark gone at least he and layne blessed us all with thee best music music ever made and now they reunite in gods tavern🤘👌🤘long live the 90s and grunge music 🤘💯🤘
Thank you for this. We all know the names associated with Grunge, but I had no idea Mark and the "Trees" were such an intregal part. He deserved more recognition, in life and in death 💜
Love the video, if anyone wants to learn more about Mark Lanegan I would encourage them to listen to his audio book Sing Backwards and Weep. Not only do you get to listen to these amazing stories but they are read by Mark himself. What a great , honest artist he was.
Yo sabía que Mark Wiliams LANEGAN había tenido un pasado del que no quería hablar lo hizo en el libro detalle a detalle...yo seguiré escuchandole y desde mi corazón pero creo le dio tiempo a redimirse y morir en paz ese es mi deseo, por favor que escriban sobre el Lanegan que ya no era quien fue sino quizás el que siempre tenía que haber sido, TU VOZ FOR EVER
First works from Screaming Trees appear so ripe and well direct. Mark himself has always seemed so deep and wise; without any school teaching he wrote great lyrics: what our society makes believe is baseless and a fu**ing junkie can be such an amazing great man..
Mark lanegan may have had an opioid depending, but he was not a junkie. Calling someone a junkie should be like using the N word. People know better than use it around me. Let's say I get triggere. When it comes to drugs why do Americans talk like they don't as nation that consumes 80 percent of all illegal drugs manufactured.
Its a miracle that Lanegan made it to 57, all things considered.
I think he was 54? Still you're absolutely right.
@@breefitzgerald2037 he was 57❤
That’s my age and all the things that happened over all the years still amazes me I too am alive. I grew up with The Doors, Jimi, Skynyrd, Zeppelin and when I got out of the Army in 89 and started hearing the Seattle music it fell right in line with my heart. But now all these years later I love the era I grew up in all the more.
I'm 56, not a rock star,just a regular guy with bad habbits. I am happy i went over 50. I think i have to change my life, not to live 100 years, but to be in peace for what's left
At least he showered.
"Sing Backwards and Weep' by Mark Lanegan is a very easy read. What a ride.
Going to listen to it later today @ work.
rereading it right now.......such a great book
Mark, Layne, Chris, Andy, Scott, Kurt, Mike, and the many others that have passed (which are too many to list).... these guys were like Dark Angels roaming the planet. This time period of music in my life was my Camelot so to speak. As a 56 year old man.... the Seattle Music Scene defined my generation, their music meant the world to so many, including myself. Why? Because we could identify with it. Music isn't all about fun and happiness, clearly there was another side to it with these bands.... and those who could identify with it.. sadness, depression, despair, addiction and dependency. Yet, through it all, these guys supported one anothers careers, encouraged one another, and helped one another. Unfortunately for most, they couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.... yet, unknowingly, through their music and personal struggles, they helped so many others, including myself.... and still do to this day. With each and every one of these artists that have passed over the years, for whatever reasons, I feel as though I have lost a family member or close friend. When the night feels like another sunrise will never come, I ALWAYS have my fallen brothers music to see me through to another sunrise, and because of that, I will FOREVER be grateful. I only wish I could've done the same for so many of them when they were lost in their own minds. I will continue to carry the Seattle Music Scene Torch until my dying days..... and I will let it shine brightly, because it's the very least I can do to pay respects to those who saved my life numerous times. These Dark Angels I refer too...... especially Layne and Chris.... put the good word in for me at the gates, and save me a seat at the big table between the two of you..... YOU ALL ARE GREATLY MISSED BY MANY..... but especially by this 56 year old man.
It's beautiful! Thank You for Your words,I had to cry when read it.Just carrying the Seattle Music Scene Torch with Your existence more long long years!
i was also thinking that it was a good comment and i could identify with it specially when he said that music is not all about fun and happiness
since i know what is to use your music to express your deepest inner sadness and many other somber emotions
Beautifully said
Well done, Captain.
We were so lucky to experience this period in music first hand. It was great, and as the years go on, it just becomes more and more nostalgic and classic. While driving and listening to some of my favorite songs from this era, I often find myself frustrated and almost angry that so many are gone. I always wonder what Kurt would have went on to do music-wise. Would he have put out more stuff like the Unplugged album? I'm glad we got to experience Mark's contributions to QotSA, one of my favorite "newer" bands.
I heard about his passing while sitting in my car during my lunch break at work. Tears just rolled down my cheeks uncontrollably. I hadn’t cried in more than 15-20 years and quickly realized it was time to get back to work. I looked in my review mirror and said to myself “get it together man,you have to pull yourself together right now” I think about that 5-10 minutes often. I didn’t personally know mark. But I have spent my whole life in western Washington and the screaming trees were a big part of my teenage years. His voice gave comfort to many of us. He will be there when we need him through his music and books. But he well be missed. Damn.
Lol
I didn't know him either, saw him play live twice, had the same emotional reaction you did. His music really reaches deep.
Thank you for sharing that
I heard about it about 45 minutes before my lunch. Same. Went to my car. Blasted some mad season and bawled.
Sounds a lot like Jim Morrison. Robbie Krieger also had a black in the vid "Touch Me", which I think was probably inflicted by Morrison. 8:55.
Layne and marks voices together make me cry. So much emotion.
They are my favorite vocalist. It makes me so happy knowing that I'm not the only one that find their music therapeutic and appreciated. 🤘✌️
Above is my favorite album of all time.
Sounds a lot like Jim Morrison. Robbie Krieger also had a black in the vid "Touch Me", which I think was probably inflicted by Morrison. 8:55.
You actually cry tears? Lol
I've been waiting on a documentary on Mark Lanegan for a very long time now. Thanks for doing this! His memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep" is easily one of the best Rock memoirs out there. I highly recommend getting the Audible book version to hear Mark's own voice narrate the book. I've relistened to it over 15 times in it's entirety and I'll relisten to it many more times throughout my life. It's just an incredible book.
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1st audiobook I ever listened to. Got it saved & have listened to it 3 times now as a good reality check for gratitude.
U and me both brother I think mark should have got more credit for pushing the movement forward with the other big four my opinion it's the big five Kurt, c Cornell, Layne, Mark, and vedder screaming trees were very important to the scene and will not be forgotten
@@barbaraa.taylor9488 For sure. I'm not big into Pearl Jam and Vedders vocals but I understand their importance for that music scene. I'm not even a big Screaming Trees fan but I love Mark's vocals and his solo work is incredible. It's too bad that Kurt Cobain and Mark couldn't get that "Aborted Blues" (a Ledbelly/Blues cover album) or even anymore original music done together. That would've been pretty special I imagine.
They have an import CD of Kurt and Mark doing the Leadbelly stuff been trying to get it for a long time but it does exist I heard a song or two on my Nirvana box set with the lights out it's awesome brother pick it up peace
Thank you all for watching live with me. hope you enjoyed
Thank you for putting this together. Kinda opened up the wounds from February, but so far it's the best, and only really, long form doc on Lanegan I've ever seen online.
Why did u take the remasted doc bout layne down
Because it was shit. even shitter then the one up right now. I’m doing a full remake of it starting soon that will be infinitely better then the original
I like the og
@@TheBaybgirl12725 I like the music, the story etc. but the editing and the way I did it was just awful
My father named both my sister and I after Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell. I never knew why until a few years ago. I've been hooked ever since. Hearing about his death this year broke me. His life was incredible. Too soon for a man like him. Rest In Peace.
Liam getting a bass to the dome is the highlight of this story.
I just finished the audiobook version of his biography "Sing Backwards & Weep", which I highly recommend. He lead the most interesting life & it's REALLY something to hear all of his mind blowing stories told by the man himself in his inimitable, iconic voice...
It’s an awesome book. After listening too it, I went out and bought the book.
Was the argument with his mom in the book? Just intrigued by why it was such a bad argument.
@@ghostface3655 It was, apparently a lot of his personal issues came from being abused by his mother growing up, decided to come visit her/his family for the holidays for the 1st times in years after a period of commerical success & sobriety, but by the time he got there was in relapse mode flying into Seattle & back every other day to score, the fight happened when his mom called him out on using while driving him to the airport for 1 of those trips... Is the short version
@Bill Epperson OK, thanks so much for the reply. It was interesting to me to hear the dynamic between him and his mom/dad. Thanks so much, preciate ya, sir! 🙏
@@ghostface3655 NP, appreciate the interest, am happy to answer any other questions you might have...
You did him justice with this one.
I spent time with Lanegan on the DUST tour. Salt was the band I was supporting at the time as a stage hand. He was friendly despite his demons. He was & is an angel,
Proper respect to Courteney Love, despite many of the bad things she's done and said, for trying to help Mark avoid Kurt's fate.
You mean being murdered?
I'm an immense Lanegan fan, have been since I was a teen. The unremitting darkness of his story, and how it colored his music, is part of the allure of it -- but there's something about his voice and his lyrics that were always contemplative, yearning, and assuring. Like a tiny point of light on the black horizon, something to walk toward until you find your way. Losing him this year was extremely rough. I'm taking solace in "Churchbells, Ghosts", "Pill Hill Serenade", and "Sworn and Broken" to get me through some things right now. The world needed Mark. It's a shame that, for so long, he couldn't tell.
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i’ve read sing backwards and weep 3 times and it’s one of my favorite books of all time from one of my favorite musicians. so happy to you see you made this. hell yeah.
Same! Definitely blows Dave Grohl's book out of the water.
Same ...62 here and read the book so many times and listen on audible ...I loved him from the trees...and can't explain my deep love for him and his music ..got to see him live once with Duke ...It was my best night ever ...thank you And good night ...The night porter you are missed 🖤💔
Mark was a good dude I spoke to him before he passed so sorry and unexpected what a loss.
that’s cool man.
I was damn sad when Mark died...I keep my signed copy of Devil in a coma on a very special place...close to my heart...
@@kristijanslovenec70 How is "Devil in a Coma"? Is it better than "Sing Backwards and Weep"? I assume you've read/listened to it by now? If not get the Audible book version. It's otherworldly.
@@YettiManChannel84 It's really great,but completely different than Sing backwords and weep...it's written in vignettes of prose and poetry
Yeah sure we all did, you should have came to the picnic we had 😂
27:01 truer words have never been spoken. I see myself in that same way.
If someone were to ever ask me what happened in my life that made me so sad, I wouldn’t know where to begin
RIP MARK LANEGAN
I see a good amount of mark in myself which makes me smile. The fact that he’s okay being alone, a lot of ppl know him but they float in an out, struggles to find the right love, he barely makes his ends meet, and struggles on and off again with his inner demons, yet really just wants to make music. Kinda just went w the flow of life, and that’s pretty cool
Such a magical and tragic era, and scene. All these beautiful and creative artists giving so much. I’m 55 and loved Screaming Trees. I saw them in Deep Elul at Trees ironically. What a talent. RIP Mark.
A brilliant, irreplaceable artist. I discovered Mark's music later on but I'm caught up now. He's replaced all others in terms of whose music I go to most frequently. RIP, my friend.
Same, and now he's such a frequent go to it's absurd 😆, as I've always had a voracious appetite for new, or at least frequently varied, but now hardly go long before there's something with lanegan spinning in my ear
These guys weren’t usually the type to judge others and when one was down and out the other stuck around and tried to help. I know many people who do not have any problems with addiction that won’t lift a finger to help someone, never mind an addict. I am not trying to be negative, but these guys were usually there to try to help each other, until the person they are trying to help doesn’t want it anymore. Sometimes even though you know where you’re headed it is easier to just let go, but yet you fight, and you fight it all alone.
The drugs especially iv opioids, bring out the worst sometimes, but even battling those demons, they tried to stick together and help each other in times of need.
It is sad to lose such a great era of singers (and band mates). Layne, Mike, Mark, Chris, Kurt, and many more and they were all human beings like all of us, yet we’re so very talented and gifted ones. They say the truly artistic are the most susceptible to destruction. What is really tragic is to finally gain sobriety after so many years of cheating death and have a wife and a home and catch CV19. My heart goes out to Mark’s family and there really isn’t anyone left to lose. Eddie Vedder did his thing, and gives back to humanity which is nice. But the true Grunge era is gone. Tragic, and depressing.
Thank you for this great short documentary of his life.
The song “Nutshell” at the end, its words, are exactly where most of their lives roamed to.
Ironically sad.
Actually marks book sorta describes them as the opposite. He said he was very judge mental and felt like those people at the very bottom of addiction were pathetic. Until he got there
Marks voice is magical and theres nothing like it. his raspy dirty undertone is amazing. Such a fascinating man to listen to. hes been through so much shit. Rest In Power beautiful soul!
These kind of videos hit hard. I was a drug addicted musician. Can’t believe I got to that point. 7 years clean now with a wife and kid and business owner. I’m so grateful
That is a blessing, to have gotten through that time in your life. Thanks for telling and being honest. I have a zillion times more respect for you than I have for the, more than likely worthless negative commenter. If fact, just his half sentence, (it's hard to tell if it's a sentence or not since they don't use any grammar), tells me everything I need to know about his unaccomplished life. These generations, the last 20 years have no clue. If they would have applied themselves and learned guitar, wrote music and sang, maybe the music wouldn't have died out in the last two decades. But you have to have talent and dedication. I respect anyone who plays guitar. My dream is to play, but I haven't dedicated myself. It's not an easy instrument to learn and be good at.
Same man minus the wife kids and business just coming on a year clean. After bout 10 years shooting junk. Congrats for your achievements!
@@justinsixx90Please keep going brother. I know this is a month on, but I hope it finds you free of chemicals.
Congrats my man! Unless you've been there you'll never know. Here's lookin at you billdisharmony
@@justinsixx90hehe 2.5 years off heroin on methadone here after 10 years of addiction with literally zero sober time (besides an occasional day or day and a half when I couldn't get anything or more likely didn't have any money). I would never use but it is hard, as life ain't all rainbow and sunshine just because I don't have to wake up sick everyday and hustle 24/7 just to feel okay. I have a good office sales job, rent a studio apartment of my own, money isn't a problem but... besides 2 people who live far away, and dozens of acquaintances I have no friends as its hard to consider someone a friend if I can't tell them who I really am and my story. One thing I miss is that despite all of us junkies being sleazy POS whilst using, i had people whom I could be honest with, but I cut them all out once I stopped using...
As for relationships? Lmao forget about it, it's either someone who is also in recovery (which is basically like begging for a relapse for both parties), or a "normie" but they all run away once I tell them my story. As a 31yo I'm starting to accept the fact I will never start my own family, get married, have children (unless, again, either via one night stand or with another ex user which is again... very dangerous and feels selfish to put a child at risk of either parent relapsing and having to go through that nightmare I did go through as a child).
Obviously I'm 100x better off now than I was on heroin but.. After almost 3 years, its tough. Now I know what people said when mentioning how its easy at first but when it hits you that your life ain't gonna be a dream just because y9u stop putting a needle up your vein, and it might be mostly unpleasant and hard just like it is for normal people, then the battle begins...
As somebody who toured and did drugs with my favorite musicians this shit hits me so hard. I used to party with jonny craig when we toured together and I felt like mark must’ve felt. I’m cooking shots for this amazing vocalist whom I admire and I’m the lowest I’ve ever been. I did and sold drugs to people who are mad famous to this day. Drugs have taken so much from me and I’m grateful every day I’m not shooting dope.
RIP Mark! What’s weird is that all of them were unique in their own style. Layne, Mark, Kurt, Chris etc..
Long Gone Day might be the best song on that album filled with awesome songs
Its wild how he was in the middle of all those bands and musicians. I knew him and Kurt were close but not with all the others. His life story is pretty wild.
So grateful to have grown up in the 90s with these bands as my life's soundtrack. Saw Nirvana November @ the Armory 6 months before Kurt passed, STP @ the Mann, but never the Trees or Alice in Chains (my absolute favorite band of all time). RIP - Mark Lanegan 🙏
Grateful too! It was like the doors were blown open and all this great music spilled out for a minute b4 being slammed shut again.
His book, Sing Backwards and Weep, is a harrowing, brilliant piece of writing.
Wonderful documentary dude, loved the rest too. Proper grunge fan. Always been a massive fan of both Screaming Trees and Alice in Chains. Mad Season was just magical to hear both Layne and Mark duet.
I don't think people realise how truly underrated Screaming Trees nor Mark's solo career were. It sadly took Mark's death for people to kind of do a rediscovery if you will. I always felt the last two ST albums were just as good as the best albums of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, AIC and Soundgarden. I particularly enjoyed the last four of their work, unique.
It is a shame that Andy, Kurt, Layne, Mike, Scott, Chris and now Mark are no longer with us, they all had this angelic aura about them. May their music live on.
It’s so sad that he had gone through all that but survived, only to still die fairly young, even if he was a lot older than Kurt or Layne were.
Lot older? Mark was born Nov 1964 and Kurt 20 Feb1967, Layne 22 Aug 1967
Man how ironic to see Layne singing I nearly lost you while Mark was in the hospital.
Holy shit. 😮
I have listened to the audio version of this at least 2 dozen times. I go to bed at night and listen... Isn't it amazing how he had such an amazing memory? To be a full blown junkie for that many years and that long ago... super impressive. He should have been an author his entire career... what a delightful vocab this man had. I know a lot of intelligent musicians that speak very well, like Chris Robinson.... Mark seems to be the best I have seen. Poor guy needed his mothers love. I could have as well. I like how Bobby Scarfo (post below mine) explains how important the scene was to me... so just read his comment next. Rest in peace... all of you that have left us.
You did an excellent job with this sir. I never knew his whole story and this was fascinating. Thank you for being respectful about it.
Mark Lanegan is one that is so underrated. RIP Mark.,Layne, Scott, Kurt, Andy, Chris, Chester, Shannon, and now Lee. And lets not forget Mike Starr.
He could have done more if he didn’t sabotage his own career and definitely wasn’t underrated in the 90s, Sweet Oblivion was very successful. He also did most the vocals on the Queens of the Stone Age’s Songs for the Deaf, which is arguably QOTSA’s most successful album! Stop writing that comment, as if you are someone seeing talent that no one else sees! 😂
@@SerenityChaos1975 I mean for being the 6th album they did that only made it to 141 on the billboard because of the single "Nearly Lost You" not many people knew about him until the Mad Season album came out!! I don't think he was underrated because no one knew him to rate him at the time. He, himself will tell you he screwed his career up doing drugs but wouldn't change it for the world because he had the greatest time of his life.
@@SerenityChaos1975 Plus his work with Isobel Campbell later in life got the attention of more people then anything else he did. These are just my opinions!
RIP Van Connor... If you aren't familiar with his other band Solomon Grundy, in which he writes, sings lead & plays guitar, I highly recommend you seek out their lone album
Enjoyed this. Having had my own struggle with pointed instruments and the side effects of it all. Long live us all.
Hope you’re doing ok David. I used to have the same problem with pointed instruments. Unfortunately after losing the love of my life and everything and everyone else I loved I changed to chasing the fake dragon. Better luck to you.
As a die hard grunge fan. I can say, well done. This pulled on my heart strings man. Thanks for this.
Wow!!! I can't help but feel such a deep dark sadness for many of the Grunge greats... it truly goes to show money absolutely does not bring happiness and imo brings a deeper sorrow to them. They hide behind their riches with the same deep depression they started with. Layne's story makes me feel the same. 😪 This was very well written and I truly appreciate you putting it on UA-cam for us! Thank you... RIP Mark, Layne and Kurt ❤️
Yeah when you abuse hard drugs on a daily basis having lots of money is a burden on your life. It does make it more convenient but it also makes it harder to quit.
@@YettiManChannel84 perhaps, but it’s easier to deal with addiction with money than dead broke.
having said that, i don’t think lanegan was particularly wealthy - just because a musician is famous, doesn’t mean they’re rich. takes a lot of record sales to recoup major labels’ advances - and responsible financial management, which lanegan certainly lacked when his various habits were raging
That’s cool you included info about Kristen Pfaff. She used to live in my building in Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. She was a very cool girl. Gone far too soon. R.I.P.
that’s really cool
I didn't know anything about Mark before watching this incredible video. I really liked it. I just got sober from opioid myself about 6 months ago so listening to this story was really relatable and eye opening. Great stuff, man.
Woah. Not only did I learn of all the connections he had with the bands I love, this ended with a pedal steel player that I thought was just playing some fitting sounds, only to turn into absolute chills for me when Mark started singing. ADDING Layne's tracks...chills even more.
That was amazing and thank you.
Had he taken up Kurt’s offer to sing at the unplugged concert and worked with David O’Russell he would be more well known. I knew a bit about his struggles but his memoir was very dark. He didn’t shy away from what he did but I’ve also read what close friends thought of him and they were always in a positive light. Other books about Seattle did include the Screaming Trees and their dynamics were interesting. Lanegan did seem like a bruiser on sight with those massive fists but he was also very introspective and a voracious reader. Somewhat a walking contradiction. In some ways he seemed more like a Lost Generation figure, a literary type who would fight at the drop of a hat like Hemingway or Norman Maclean.
He had a hard life but I’m glad he had some peace near the end. His music sure made me happy.
What’s some of your favorite books about Seattles music era?
Thank you for that information. I'm always happy to learn new information that I haven't already read or learned from an internet channel/podcast. Maybe if he had sang with Kurt at the unplugged concert, both of their lives may have taken a different direction. It could have been what they both wanted and needed at that time. Kurt wanted to move in a different direction musically, so that could have been that different direction, and it would have been an opportunity that Mark wouldn't wanted to have blown because of addiction. But it is what it is, a very tragic story.
Marks lack of self confidence would have never allowed it, mark was so hard on DIDNT even realize that everyone who was a big name artist loved him and his music and respected him.
He made some of my favorite music by anyone. Each record is so strong. Prolific. RiP Mark
I'm just grateful not only for his music but just to say hello to him before a QOTSA show. I was walking down an ally behind The Newport Music Hall in Columbus Ohio in 2002. I look up and sitting on a fire escape was Lanegan. Told him how much I dug his stuff. I didn't want to fan boy out so I left it at that. Glad I did. R.I.P. Brother
My gosh I have never heard of Mark Lonegan nor the band The Screaming Trees. Just listening to his music and his voice on this documentary draws me in and I have such feeling in his words. ❤
just got his audiobook biography for my birthday in January. And I was still pondering it fresh when he passed away. He definitely will be missed.
Your documentary could be touched up a bit, but it's pretty good, man. Thank you for doing the weeks/months of work it took to make it as good as it is.
Most importantly, thanks for sharing Mark Lanegan. I love Mark's music, and I love his story as well. He was a true original from rock's last stand on the world stage. Screaming Trees had quite a bit of "roll" as well, something missing from quite a bit of rock since way back in the day.
Brought to tears with Mark singing Nutshell. Awesome Documentary!
Thanks for making this documentary of a legendary performer. An incredible voice and talent. If you haven't heard the albums he did with Isobel Campbell in the 2000's, definitely check them out. They have an incredible intense light/darkness dynamic to their music. Her voice so pure and ethereal and his so gruff and deep, some of his best vocal performances imo. Ballad of the Broken Seas is my favourite album they did.
Was lucky enough to see him perform live once, with Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs.
RIP Mark. ....and so many others from that scene.
It makes me sick to even look at Courtney, especially after Kurt and Kristen died. Two people very close, or were very close to Courtney, who wanted to get away from her forever! And before they could go, they died. Then Courtney flaunts it in everyone's face. Her life has been mostly miserable anyway, with all of the law suits, the heavy drug addictions for many years, (which is her way of dealing with guilt, if you're too messed up you don't have to think about it), the media tearing her up, and being the most hated woman, I'm safe to say, in the world. And the worst thing is, she keeps doing the same thing over and over, and the results are no different.
Kristen looks terrible in that one picture. That's what some people who are jealous of you do to you. In her case they got her addicted to heroin, having no friends or family in Seattle, they took control off her and her life. And once they have you where they want you, week and dependent, they drag you down more until eventually you get out one way or another.
I forgot about a lot of stuff in Marks book. Why did Eric tell Mark not to deal with Courtney? Because he knew Courtney needed someone to prey on, and control, and when they try to leave her they end up dead. Those messages she obsessively left left were of professional stalker level. When Mark wouldn't pick up, then the threats came in. Then she shows up at his door to basically enter without his permission. Maybe counting on him not being home and stealing something to blackmail him with. That's what she did. The thing about Mark, no matter how heavy his addiction was, no one was going to get the best of him. He was too strong to be manipulated by Courtney, so she eventually gave up. That's some scary stuff. IMO, that says exactly what kind of a person she is and what's she's capable of.
Thanks for investing your time, effort and love in this project Matt. I lived in Wallingford and worked in the U District during the late 80's and early 90's so I saw some of the street level events described in your film, especially the cycle of addiction some of my friends caught up in. I shared a house with a couple touring musicians and worked with folks who struggled with heroin addiction so I feel so fortunate to have escaped without my own personal dark encounter.
Watching your film is like looking in a mirror at an alternate life which I avoided only by chance or circumstance. Reflecting on the lives and talent lost to addiction I'm even more convinced that we need universal healthcare so that people suffering from the disease can get the care and treatment they need, hopefully to someday break those chains and live life more fully.
You've done some tangible good with this film Matt. Good on you, sir.
Thank you. This was accurately and tastefully done. I was a heroin addict in Seattle in the Early 90s and that is just the way it went down!
The part where Layne was on the floor watching spiders crawling out of her arm is by far the craziest story ever.
If you want to read about crazy, read Slash's and Nikki Sixx's autobiographies.
I wosh they could make a movie about Mark,Kurt,Layne,&Chris..and how thier lives entertwined over the years.. .would be amazing👍🧡
Excellent video, my man - I greatly enjoyed. Thank you for the work you put into it.
Much appreciated!
thank you very much! some things we did not know.
You are welcome!
❤Mark , one of the greatest vocalists ever. A very nostalgic documentary for an amazing yet tragic time in music history. I was and still am, a Grunge kid. RIP Mark and all those incredible talented musicians we have lost X
i am 54yers old from israel mark Lanegan was here five times over the years playing in a rock club under the radar i saw the last three. he made me feel proud every time. proud of the way he got old not stopping making his music not selling not buying i miss him
Very well done sir! Mark was a part of my 20s. Sweet oblivion and Dust are two tremendous albums
That dude was so real. Thanks for this.
His music told his story, that is why its so pure and so great.
RIP Mark, you are missed.
The only positive I can find about his story is that him, Kurt, and Layne are all together again. What a sad ending for such a brilliant talent.
And there is his work with the Gutter Twins, with Isobel Campbell, Mark Morton, Soulsavers, Twilight Singers and a lot more. In my mind he is on the same shelf with Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits. Cure for soul.
His story is truly tragic. Thank you for doing something to bring recognition to this amazing artist.
Another amazing documentary. Mark Lanegan will forever remain the greatest musician from the Seattle scene of the 90s
This was so informative and put together so well! I was impatiently waiting for the premiere!
thank you very much
What an awesome amazing era truly appreciate my youth 🇨🇦🇭🇷
I never knew who that was singing with Layne on "Long gone day. Thanks.
This is great. Awesome job. RIP Mark. I read his autobiography. Very good. I respect the way you kept that out. The Airport ride.
I'd never heard Mark cover Nutshell before. Beautiful.
So cool to get to see all these different pics of Mark
I'm really excited for this one! Hard to believe it's almost been a year since he passed away. RIP Dark Mark ♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️🖤
such an unexpected passing
Marks book is awesome ..Listen or read it it's on the tube now hear it while ya can..Best documentary book I have read.
Lanegan was such a hidden treasure, and I think he probably liked it that way. I suspect had he been more famous he would have died much sooner. I was always surprised he wasn't more well known though.
Great video. Ive read sing backwards and weep 3 times in the past 6 months. T.y.
great job w the doc. That was a tear jerker, and very informative. Thanks for posting. Hope to see more of your work. You should have steady work as a documentarian if you don't already
Great outline of his book! It’s cool that you are getting his story out further.
Cool video..
For anyone interested, all these stories plus some can be found in Mark's book..
Sing Backwards and Weep...
It's all taken from that one source. At least the first half I listened to.
Imbued with and surrounded by so much talent, but also caught in the hurricane of pain, addiction and death. I'm amazed that he survived as long as he did; most of his life sounded like a war. My guess is that years of addiction weakened his system so badly that he may have died from complications brought on by long COVID, but who knows. At least he had a chance to taste sobriety and some stability (and live to document his traumatic past) before he passed on. Terrible loss.
Great video man. Now I gotta listen to him read the book. His voice was so amazing. He will be missed.
It’s touching how close and supportive they were of each other, to bad drugs played the major part
Layne performing for screaming trees was on my bday
I recieved DEVIL IN A COMA for xmas last year. Read it in one sitting.
Pure GOLD! Good man Lanegan was.
This was a brilliant piece!!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🍻🍻💚🧡💚🧡💚
Thank you!🤘
Got sing backwards and weep last Christmas and read while at home in a quarantine type situation getting over a bought of covid, when i the found out about devil in a coma, and have been looking forward to, but have had to let some time pass before diving into, to numb me a bit before taking in some of the last of his art
Yea I want that one BAD!!! especially while I can find a hardcover version of it!!
Such a tragic group of musicians:Kurt, Layne and Mark. You did a great job here. Keep up the good work.
You put out some really good documentaries brother got mad love for you.
Just stumbled upon this. Wow. Really enjoyed it. ❤
Incredible, Thx bro watched this a few times. Always loved in the fade and anything else I heard with Lanegan. Just didn’t know he was good friends with legendary ppl and beautiful women. Another toothpick. Rip all my heroes are dead..
Thank you for creating this. I just found it. Mark is...thank you for making this and posting it. You did a wonderful job.
Thank you brother this is amazing I love that him and layne were always like best friends as sad as it is to see mark gone at least he and layne blessed us all with thee best music music ever made and now they reunite in gods tavern🤘👌🤘long live the 90s and grunge music 🤘💯🤘
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The winding sheet is a ripper record - I can see how it really influenced both aic and nirvanas acoustic stuff
This was a great tribute to Mark. Thank you.
Their Uncle Anesthesia album is, in my opinion a highly underrated masterpiece..
Thank you for this. We all know the names associated with Grunge, but I had no idea Mark and the "Trees" were such an intregal part. He deserved more recognition, in life and in death 💜
Excellent work, my friend. He was my favourite artist. Seen him play live over 20 years. A true legend.
Love the video, if anyone wants to learn more about Mark Lanegan I would encourage them to listen to his audio book Sing Backwards and Weep. Not only do you get to listen to these amazing stories but they are read by Mark himself. What a great , honest artist he was.
Yo sabía que Mark Wiliams LANEGAN había tenido un pasado del que no quería hablar lo hizo en el libro detalle a detalle...yo seguiré escuchandole y desde mi corazón pero creo le dio tiempo a redimirse y morir en paz ese es mi deseo, por favor que escriban sobre el Lanegan que ya no era quien fue sino quizás el que siempre tenía que haber sido, TU VOZ FOR EVER
Dude. You nailed this. Thank you!
This was excellent, thank you for doing this.
Mad season is a great band too
damn rights it is
First works from Screaming Trees appear so ripe and well direct.
Mark himself has always seemed so deep and wise; without any school teaching he wrote great lyrics: what our society makes believe is baseless and a fu**ing junkie can be such an amazing great man..
Mark lanegan may have had an opioid depending, but he was not a junkie. Calling someone a junkie should be like using the N word. People know better than use it around me. Let's say I get triggere. When it comes to drugs why do Americans talk like they don't as nation that consumes 80 percent of all illegal drugs manufactured.