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Post by spentbullets on Apr 21, 2018 4:43:48 GMT -5
Da Capo Snares Seattle Band Member Memoir
Mark Lanegan sold his memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, to Ben Schafer at Da Capo Press in a world rights agreement. Lanegan, who was represented by Byrd Leavell at United Talent Agency, is the former lead singer of such bands as Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age; the book chronicles the years he spent in Seattle, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, when he was a member of the Screaming Trees. Lanegan writes about, Da Capo said, his time as “a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict, during the music phenomenon that rocketed out of the Northwest and brought the bands of some of his closest friends to the forefront of popular music worldwide.” The book is set for a spring 2020 release.
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Post by calm ocean on Apr 21, 2018 12:38:52 GMT -5
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Post by mickyjesus on Apr 21, 2018 18:08:45 GMT -5
Yeah cool title can't wait for this!
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Post by SheBangsTheTrums on Apr 21, 2018 19:24:46 GMT -5
Bloody hell long time to wait - must be still writing it?
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Post by Psychotropic Snake on Apr 22, 2018 5:11:47 GMT -5
Whoa, 2020! That's a ways away. Color me interested, though. Seems like Mark is becoming more willing to open up about his private life.
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Post by username2500 on May 7, 2018 18:20:46 GMT -5
ooh, interested to read this... interesting of the limited time frame, focusing on 'the years he spent in Seattle, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s' Why not also the years since? A Volume 2 down the line?...
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Post by ♫ ♪ on May 7, 2018 18:44:00 GMT -5
Because sober stories are less interesting :/
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Post by username2500 on Apr 30, 2019 12:45:46 GMT -5
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Post by calm ocean on May 1, 2019 8:35:32 GMT -5
In case you missed it, "Sing backwards and weep" are also lyrics from the song Fix. It's true. ------------------- The live version of Fix from the album you linked on discogs is amazing. That whole cd is really good, one of the best live releases IMO.
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Post by username2500 on May 1, 2019 8:57:22 GMT -5
In case you missed it, "Sing backwards and weep" are also lyrics from the song Fix. It's true. ------------------- The live version of Fix from the album you linked on discogs is amazing. That whole cd is really good, one of the best live releases IMO. oohh, I did miss that line. I have looked at all the album lyrics at some point but it's been a while. And, looks like it's a bit botched on the website... (we rather than weep) onewhiskey.com/archive/discog/fieldyrics.htmFix Fix It's true Keeps on rainin' baby All crystalline Your word in my head Gonna watch from the balcony Sing backwards and we Fix It's true Keeps on raining baby There's no explainin' baby Gonna drive that terraplane Across the frozen ocean We've always been together and it's good Love will be what's hidden In every single fragment I look and I fly A flower born from you And I am joined with you And adorned with you Fix It's true Gonna keep raining baby Oh yeah yeah yes And it's you that I'm missing Won't come up missing Well I'm torn from you Want to be reborn with you ? Fix It's true Keeps on rainin' baby Keeps on rainin' baby Drive that terraplane Down into the ocean We've always been together And it's good Got no need for shelter Everything's forgotten All is forgiven and understood A flower born from you Reborn in you And adorned baby When I am joined with you Fix It's true Keeps on rainin' baby Keeps on rainin' baby Thanks for that explainin ... baby I'll have to look through my little rectangle cardboards to see if I have this live CD. I have a few and just about never listen to them.... Spring cleaning this weekend, perfect opportunity to have some live Lanegan on in the background
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Post by raeni on May 2, 2019 6:47:23 GMT -5
The lyrics on the website were mainly just what I could hear, unless they say 'official'. At one point Mark wanted to put the real lyrics out there, so he actually sent me some for what at the time were the newest albums. Then he never finished transcribing all the old albums, so those are not the actual lyrics, just what I heard. Now that the book is out, it makes everything easier!
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Post by SheBangsTheTrums on Aug 8, 2019 0:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by SheBangsTheTrums on Aug 8, 2019 0:12:09 GMT -5
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Post by bmf on Aug 8, 2019 1:48:20 GMT -5
Kindle pre-order is up on Amazon too. No physical format just yet, hoping there’s a hardback edition.
Also hope there’s a Mark-read audiobook.
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Post by cameron4321 on Aug 8, 2019 12:06:37 GMT -5
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Post by wheels132 on Aug 9, 2019 7:45:09 GMT -5
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Post by calm ocean on Aug 9, 2019 8:24:18 GMT -5
Hardcover 352 pages. that's a good length. from the description "one of the most romanticized decades in rock history" is it safe to say that this book mostly just covers the nineties, leaving the possibility for further memoirs?
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Post by ♫ ♪ on Aug 9, 2019 8:53:49 GMT -5
Hardcover 352 pages. that's a good length. from the description "one of the most romanticized decades in rock history" is it safe to say that this book mostly just covers the nineties, leaving the possibility for further memoirs? From what I understand it mostly covers the screaming trees years. He’s already said on Twitter this is the one and only book he’ll ever write about himself and there won’t be other ones since he hated the process of writing it.
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Post by username2500 on Aug 13, 2019 20:29:09 GMT -5
noticed that "a memoir" on the book cover is written backwards, a la "sing backwards" (and weep) nice touch
I've always thought, in listening to the albums (so "always" insofar as I've listened to his music = circa 2005), he'd make a good writer. 'one and only', that's what he says now.... The first one is always the best, most special one. books and albums. In part, perhaps, because the welling is released.
Portrait of An Artist Murphy Dry (then Rid of Me) The Winding Sheet night train is groovy, orange jubilee (i've never heard that one sung live)
In part, perhaps, because the welling is released. But must continue on from there to expand upon the craft, the oeuvre.... Imagine Lanegan just stopped at The Winding Sheet? No Scraps at Midnight. No Bubblegum. No Weird Chill. No Houston. No Blues Funeral...
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Post by SheBangsTheTrums on Aug 17, 2019 8:20:17 GMT -5
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Post by spentbullets on Sept 28, 2019 21:37:55 GMT -5
What can you tell me about Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards And Weep? LB: Continuing the theme of magical thinking, I had wanted Lanegan to write a memoir for about ten years so I could publish it. Two days before I started the new imprint, his manuscript arrived, and I acquired it a few days later. It is a monumental book. I can’t compare it to any other memoir that has emerged from the music world. It’s a story of trauma, suffering, dysfunction, survival – and making great art out of all of that. It is staggeringly brave, honest and terrifying. I’ve no doubt it will become the classic account of the Seattle scene and its aftershocks into the 90s. It’s an heroic act to have committed these stories to the page and it shows Lanegan’s great courage and integrity that he has gone back and revisited these experiences. It’s a book full of horror and degradation, the pain of addiction and the depravity it encourages. I think it will be a helpful book for many people because it shows an artist laid bare, all the vulnerabilities and failings. It makes 90% of other music memoirs look like fakes and I learned from publishing Viv Albertine, that readers respond to the bare truth more than anything else. Not that I wasn't already looking forward to this, sounds fucking amazing!! www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thequietus.com/articles/27155-white-rabbit-orion-lee-brackstone&ved=0ahUKEwjv8NiA__TkAhWqHTQIHecXDD0QxfQBCDMwBA&usg=AOvVaw2GNlZ1Ub86nyisN7if-W2R
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Post by dresi on Oct 5, 2019 7:58:55 GMT -5
So I just read an interview with a Czech magazine and there was one intresting information which I did not know.
"I'm preparing my memoir, I'm writing about my childhood and life in Seattle. Right now I'm in the middle of writing songs which should accompany the book. It will be a sad and dark record because the book is the same. My life definitely wasn't full of joy"
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Post by iakob on Oct 14, 2019 15:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 16:28:39 GMT -5
So I just read an interview with a Czech magazine and there was one intresting information which I did not know. "I'm preparing my memoir, I'm writing about my childhood and life in Seattle. Right now I'm in the middle of writing songs which should accompany the book. It will be a sad and dark record because the book is the same. My life definitely wasn't full of joy" northerntransmissions.com/mark-lanegan-is-not-taking-the-easy-ride/This is going to please some people.
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Post by spentbullets on Nov 25, 2019 5:42:07 GMT -5
Tho I plan on buying this as well, I placed a hold on the e book at my library. Here is the description on their site:
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers), chronicling his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90's.
"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" -Nick Cave, author of The Sick Bag Song and The Death of Bunny Munro
When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just "an arrogant, self-loathing redneck waster seeking transformation through rock 'n' roll." Little did he know that within less than a decade, he would rise to fame as the front man of the Screaming Trees, then fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict, all the while watching some of his closest friends rocket to the forefront of popular music. In Sing Backwards and Weep, Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and dripping with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favorites that scored a hit #5 single on Billboard's Alternative charts and landed a notorious performance on David Letterman, where Lanegan appeared sporting a fresh black eye from a brawl the night before. This book also dives into Lanegan's personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest friends. From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, onstage, backstage, and everywhere in between, Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive underlining beneath one of the most romanticized decades in rock history-from a survivor who lived to tell the tale. Gritty, gripping, and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is a book about more than just an extraordinary singer who watched his dreams catch fire and incinerate the ground beneath his feet. Instead, it's about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating
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