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Post by qotsalive on Feb 24, 2022 9:40:20 GMT -5
The 'new' 2004 SBD of Mark on Dime is a prime example of a gem that has remained uncirculated until now. It's sad its taken until Mark's death for it to see the light of day but hopefully in time collectors and bootleggers will celebrate Mark's musical brilliance, help keep it alive and release what they have. Who knows what other germs await either official or unofficial. Recently I was listening to my 2004 Lanegan bootlegs (about 27) and from memory on every single bubblegum era show Shelly sung 'strange religion' on her own and we had to wait many, many years to hear mark sing it live. Imagine my surprise (and picture my tea flying across the room) when listening to the 2004 Columbia club show in Berlin Mark started singing Strange religion! Did I forget? Overlook this track? Who knows but it was a magical moment for this bootleg geek. Absolutely agree! Yeah, the Berlin Columbia show is a great one, i also enjoyed it recently. I guess i was a bit too late with starting to collect shows from the great one. 27x 2004 shows is fantastic, i only count 18 ones, wish i could reach more of that golden era and generally from the decades. Started months ago with sorting my archive and need to aquire further shows, especially now  . |
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Post by ken on Feb 24, 2022 11:05:09 GMT -5
So many old virtual friends returning to the board it's so nice to see. I haven't been around as much over the last seven years or so due to family/work issues but I would lurk and check out the board every few weeks or so to check out what was going on and keep myself in touch. When the dust settles we will have to celebrate the incredible body of work this man put out. Hopefully we can get the bootleg section back up to full steam (I used to upload quite a lot) and start sharing everything we have. Agreed - glad that many have returned here to pay respects. |
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Post by reznore on Feb 24, 2022 12:25:08 GMT -5
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Post by domiknock on Feb 24, 2022 12:32:42 GMT -5
when listening to the 2004 Columbia club show in Berlin Mark started singing Strange religion! Did I forget? Overlook this track? Who knows but it was a magical moment for this bootleg geek. Oh wow, I did not even know that show was circulating anywhere! Is it the one from August 22nd? So that would be my first show of Mark with over a dozen to follow. I did not know until now, that it was a special thing to witness Mark co-singing it as I can clearly remember, I mean he sang on Bubblegum, so why not on stage? All I knew is, that the song was not on the setlist for ages. Since it has been my first show of his, it is still the best in my memory, I wonder if that is the case for nearly everyone here, first=best? Hmm, anyhow, I'd be very happy to listen to this evening again, so kingdomsofrain or anyone who has it, if it does not mean any trouble for you to upload that again on a non-dime-site, you would make my day in these hard times for all of us. It still feels completely unreal to me. |
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Post by rhjjustice on Feb 24, 2022 12:38:43 GMT -5
My name is Randall Jamail. I haven't visited for a long long time but each time I have, I have received amazing support from the people here. I only write to say I am deeply saddened and that I have lost my dear friend of 30 years. Anything more would be reductive. Take care all and never stop listening to the person who we gather here for.
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Post by calm ocean on Feb 24, 2022 12:41:53 GMT -5
While reading Devil in a Coma last month, Mark revealed something in his writing that was just completely unexpected to me. He mentioned my Canadian home province by name and that he had ancestors here. I was hoping that this was something he published because he had recently discovered it himself, and that he might plan to visit or play some shows here sometime in the future. I reached out to him on twitter and told him Canada misses him. Alas, a return to Canada was not meant to be.  |
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Post by calm ocean on Feb 24, 2022 12:44:10 GMT -5
My name is Randall Jamail. I haven't visited for a long long time but each time I have, I have received amazing support from the people here. I only write to say I am deeply saddened and that I have lost my dear friend of 30 years. Anything more would be reductive. Take care all and never stop listening to the person who we gather here for. Thank you Randall. As I understand, you were a great friend to Mark and helped him when he needed someone. For that we are forever grateful. Sorry for your loss, and thanks for reaching out. |
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Post by Stephanie on Feb 24, 2022 13:44:30 GMT -5
I was really touched and encouraged by this video podcast by Mishka Shubaly, who shares his journey with Lanegan first as a fan, then as a friend, then as a guide and editor in Mark's book-writing process. Figured others here might enjoy it as well. youtu.be/HbWnT64LD60 |
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Post by Stephanie on Feb 24, 2022 13:45:00 GMT -5
Such a lovely tribute. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this. |
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Post by LostCause on Feb 24, 2022 13:49:19 GMT -5
I just read this and was going to post. I think that it was a very sweet tribute. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2022 13:58:00 GMT -5
That Washington Post piece is awful. No mention of Lanegan getting clean and they also conveniently leave out the part where he admitted he was wrong about COVID. I can't believe people pay to read this garbage. Anyway, that's all I'll say about it because this thread's been full of good vibes (as sad as we obviously all are) and I'd like to do my part to keep that going.
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Post by kingdomsofrain on Feb 24, 2022 14:24:35 GMT -5
when listening to the 2004 Columbia club show in Berlin Mark started singing Strange religion! Did I forget? Overlook this track? Who knows but it was a magical moment for this bootleg geek. Oh wow, I did not even know that show was circulating anywhere! Is it the one from August 22nd? So that would be my first show of Mark with over a dozen to follow. I did not know until now, that it was a special thing to witness Mark co-singing it as I can clearly remember, I mean he sang on Bubblegum, so why not on stage? All I knew is, that the song was not on the setlist for ages. Since it has been my first show of his, it is still the best in my memory, I wonder if that is the case for nearly everyone here, first=best? Hmm, anyhow, I'd be very happy to listen to this evening again, so kingdomsofrain or anyone who has it, if it does not mean any trouble for you to upload that again on a non-dime-site, you would make my day in these hard times for all of us. It still feels completely unreal to me. I’m gonna try and upload a lot over the next year but i need to switch off at the moment. I will upload this show for you though. What are the best free sites to upload to these days?? |
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Post by Fields at Midnight on Feb 24, 2022 14:41:24 GMT -5
Been away from this board for quite a few years, but through its ups and downs I have met, and stayed in contact with, some amazing people. All brought together by Mark. Been listening to him nonstop since i heard the news. I still can't begin to wrap my head around it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2022 15:27:49 GMT -5
I know Lanegan had his issues with Spotify and other streaming platforms (for good reasons), but I noticed his listeners count on Spotify has jumped up to over 545,000 people. More people discovering what a special songwriter he is.
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Post by qotsalive on Feb 24, 2022 16:07:19 GMT -5
Oh wow, I did not even know that show was circulating anywhere! Is it the one from August 22nd? So that would be my first show of Mark with over a dozen to follow. I did not know until now, that it was a special thing to witness Mark co-singing it as I can clearly remember, I mean he sang on Bubblegum, so why not on stage? All I knew is, that the song was not on the setlist for ages. Since it has been my first show of his, it is still the best in my memory, I wonder if that is the case for nearly everyone here, first=best? Hmm, anyhow, I'd be very happy to listen to this evening again, so kingdomsofrain or anyone who has it, if it does not mean any trouble for you to upload that again on a non-dime-site, you would make my day in these hard times for all of us. It still feels completely unreal to me. I’m gonna try and upload a lot over the next year but i need to switch off at the moment. I will upload this show for you though. What are the best free sites to upload to these days?? I guess WeTransfer is very useful for audio shows. For large video files also, but you need to split them. But I am sure there will also come some other recommendations. |
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Post by spirou13 on Feb 24, 2022 16:10:49 GMT -5
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Post by glt on Feb 24, 2022 16:42:12 GMT -5
Haven't read the Washington Post one yet, but thought Isobel's piece was really nicely done. |
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Post by demetrij on Feb 24, 2022 18:04:07 GMT -5
This was a pretty good article from The Atlantic
The Unforgettable Mark Lanegan
2022-02-23 23:37:14.130 GMT
(The Atlantic)
Of the great male voices to come out of the grunge era—Kurt Cobain’s, Layne
Staley’s, Chris Cornell’s—the greatest was Mark Lanegan’s. It was
simultaneously the fullest and the most evacuated by sorrow, the warmest and
the closest to the grave, the strongest and the most self-immolating, the
purest and the most polluted, the largest-hearted and the loneliest. It had
abjection in it, but also grandeur and glamour, and the kind of timbre that
could lead an orchestra. It sounded like he had two sets of lungs and he’d
almost worn both of them out. Lanegan, who was born in Ellensburg, Washington,
and died yesterday at his home in Killarney in the southwest of Ireland, at
the age of 57, was a giant of song: once heard, never forgotten.
Somewhat miscast in his first role, fronting the ’60s-flavored hard-rock
bluster of Screaming Trees, slogging around the world on bills with the likes
of Pearl Jam or Mudhoney or L7 or the Melvins, Lanegan would come into his own
as a restless and relentless solo artist, a lone-wolf dandy with a hunger for
collaboration. (He worked with Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, Duke
Garwood, PJ Harvey—the list goes on.) The Winding Sheet, his 1990 debut,
recorded while Screaming Trees was still active, announced the arrival of a
major songwriter and a major mood shift, or mood deepening, away from the
quiet-to-loud tantrums of grunge and into a more aged American undertow.
Cobain guested on a version of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?,” the
traditional ballad of romantic doom performed most famously (until Nirvana did
it) by Lead Belly. Lanegan’s own songs on the record were beautiful,
shattering. “Wild Flowers,” “Museum”: spare, deeply private, transparently
simple voice-and-guitar arrangements that float like classics, songs you know
immediately will be with you for the rest of your life.
Over the next 30 years he would build an eclectic and thick-spined catalog
with remarkably few misfires. Folk, gospel, country, Scott Walker–esque epic,
splashings of electronica in his late period … Like Nick Drake, he was a
bluesman of his own neurochemistry; like Johnny Cash, he was a rumbling
psalmist; and though addiction and depression were his territory, he was
fundamentally a torch singer for resurrection. The survivor finds himself back
in the same spot, back on the spiral, but just slightly higher than last time:
It’s a tiny ascension, a matter of degrees, and it makes all the difference.
“Old Swan,” from 2017’s Gargoyle, is nothing more or less than a
surging-and-soaring U2-level hymn to the Virgin Mary: “And though my soul is
not worth saving / My mistress and my queen / Your spirit is larger than my
sin …” Also: You should hear him do “Mack the Knife.”
There’s a Lanegan mood, a Lanegan state, and when you’re in it only he will
do. His doldrums will embrace and and absorb your own; his voice will bring
you succor from below. Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, Field Songs, Imitations …
Don’t go too long without these. His gifts as a lyricist, I believe, are yet
to be fully recognized: “Now that the engine driver / Has grown to be a
deep-sea diver / And the street has got no end / Better keep your heart
strong, little friend …” (“Resurrection Song”). That’s growing up he’s singing
about there, baptism in the depths of experience, the initiatory transition
from brave little stoker, rushing along, to heavy-treading undersea astronaut.
(And then, with the grace of God, you rise up …) Mark Lanegan was a sure and
generous guide to these depths. So now that he’s made it through the final
transition, let’s give him all we can in the way of honor and thanks.
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Post by raeni on Feb 24, 2022 22:13:57 GMT -5
Hi everyone, so good to see old friends and new here. Love to you all in this painful time. I'm not really able to gather my thoughts yet, but it's been nice reading all of yours. He touched so many lives, not in a 'sing along' way, but in the way that makes so many of us say "he helped me through hard times" or "he saved my life". Sometimes it would annoy me that he refused to say what his songs were about in interviews; he usually answered that question by saying that was someone else's job to figure out. But I see now, because when he sang his songs he had such an uncanny way of making it feel as though it was all directly related to your own life. We all felt the emotions, probably for thousands of different reasons, but we still knew the feelings. I can't even say all the ways my life has been changed due to loving him and his music for all these years, but one of the best ways it affected me is in all the people I have met, some of whom have become lifelong friends.
I only hope that the 'Devil in a Coma', 'Dark Mark', the man who called himself Old Scratch - is not too disappointed to discover he could never be destined for hell. He was too loved, too kind, and did too much good for too many people to ever go that way.
Everyone says that over time, this will get easier. Even though we'll never forget him, we'll go on, we'll enjoy the music of the many amazing artists he turned us on to, and new ones to come, and listen to his records, and feel a fond glow when we think of him. I get that, I guess, but right now I can't imagine what will fill the giant, gaping hole where his presence in my life was. I felt lucky if I got to see him once a year, on stage, while I stood at his feet. But he always felt closer than that, like I said, too many ways his presence in the world has filled and changed my life.
My condolences to his family, friends, and friends that became family. And to all of us fans, too. Everyone take care of yourselves and each other.
And Mark, thank you, so much, for everything. I love you, I miss you already. A long long time ago you thanked me for "keeping the faith". I will keep trying, always. You are "a solitary star, shining precious light, light on me."
Love,
Debbi, aka Raeni
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Post by dcdog on Feb 25, 2022 0:43:43 GMT -5
Raeni Mark was not a devil
in a coma, he was a troubled,complex person who gave us his
gift that I will cherish for the rest of my days. I want to thank you for many years of connecting me
With peeps like us , I would give you the biggest hug. Guess this is best i can do.
Take care, your efforts were felt across the universe.
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Post by somecallmejim on Feb 25, 2022 3:23:01 GMT -5
Hey. Hope you're all holding up okay. I used to come by here way back and this was the first place I came when I read the news on Tuesday (I couldn't recover my account (Jim Dead) and had to re-register!). I'm finding it hard to process... still hasn't really sunk in properly, but as always, I've found the comfort in his music. It's a sore one.
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Post by ♫ ♪ on Feb 25, 2022 9:58:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2022 10:11:55 GMT -5
Nick has one of the all time great quotes about Mark. "Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" |
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Post by LostCause on Feb 25, 2022 11:38:19 GMT -5
It is so strange. These songs are like part of me, but his death gives them a totally new depth. Maybe I was just looking at the surface before. Maybe it was there the whole time. I get a lump in my throat ever time a new song starts. I was listening to Broken and it has a profound effect on me. I find myself wanting to play and sing. What a blessing.
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Post by tripledistilled on Feb 25, 2022 12:14:13 GMT -5
It is so strange. These songs are like part of me, but his death gives them a totally new depth. Maybe I was just looking at the surface before. Maybe it was there the whole time. I get a lump in my throat ever time a new song starts. I was listening to Broken and it has a profound effect on me. I find myself wanting to play and sing. What a blessing. If Mark's passing inspires you to sing and play (and maybe even write) then I say go for it. Play. Sing. Best tribute you can do. |
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