10 years ago today ... Mark Sandman

jimed14

Man, has it really been 10 years?

July 3, 1999 ... Mark Sandman, front man of the band Morphine passed away on stage in Italy.

I was a huge fan of Morphine who I saw several times in Boston ... and Mark's previous band Treat Her Right.

Some vids ...

Cure for Pain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985JGeGq_tc

Buena - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEYKrFJgRo

Two songs here: All Wrong, and at the 3:50 mark, Whisper, probably my favorite Morphine song and one of the sexiest songs you'll EVER hear ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iTZItB ... re=related

Radar ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6naQ195 ... re=related


Here's a Treat Her Right song .... I Think She Likes Me ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qykm-xDxbD8

FinsburyParkCarrots

Sad business. I was a bit of a fan of Morphine, back in the day.

jimed14

listened to a lot of Morphine this weekend ... so damn good

dcfaithful

Just discovered this band today. Such great shit. I'm falling in love with this band!

Stephen Flow

Morphine was a great band, real shame... I'll spin one of their albums before I go to sleep tonight for sure.

dcfaithful

Stephen Flow wrote:

Morphine was a great band, real shame... I'll spin one of their albums before I go to sleep tonight for sure.

I'd love to have some of their stuff on vinyl

jimed14

Out on October 6th ... previews up at amazon ...




Product Description

Singer Mark Sandman coined the phrase “low rock” to describe the sonorous, languid groove he created with the acclaimed Boston band Morphine. Sadly, the band’s time together was cut short in 1999 when Sandman suffered a heart attack in Italy while onstage with Morphine and died on the way to the hospital. A decade later, Rhino pays tribute to Sandman’s ferocious creativity and Morphine’s instantly recognizable sound with a two-disc collection of unreleased studio tracks, alternate takes, and live performances. AT YOUR SERVICE will be available October 6 from Rhino/Ryko at all retail outlets, including rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $24.98 (CD) and $16.99 (digital).

The 35-song compilation takes its name from the line Sandman used to kick off most shows, “We are Morphine at your service.” The music spans the group’s entire career and features founding member Dana Colley (saxophone), original drummer Jerome Deupree and his successor, Billy Conway. To commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Sandman’s passing, the surviving members will play a memorial concert in Pacific Park in Cambridge on September 27.

AT YOUR SERVICE is the result of the group’s habit of recording everything. In fact, Conway estimates there are at least 60 unreleased Morphine songs, including those featured in this set. The first disc (subtitled “Shadows”) contains unreleased diamonds such as “It’s Not Like That Anymore,” “Women R Dogs,” “Bye Bye Johnny,” and “Come Along,” which mixes hard-swinging jazz with a New Orleans second-line beat. Both discs include parts four and five of “I Know You,” a song that began on the group’s 1992 debut, Good, and continued on 1997’s Like Swimming.

The final disc (subtitled “Shade”) opens with a performance recorded during the tour for Good at WMBR-FM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the band performed five songs, including “Claire,” “Shoot ‘Em Down,” and “Saddest Song.” Morphine returned to the radio station a year later during their tour for the album Yes, performing five more songs, including “Super Sex” and “Radar.” Among the alternate versions of album tracks on the second disc are such standouts as “Buena,” “Empty Box,” and “The Night,” the title track from their final studio album.




http://www.amazon.com/At-Your-Service-M ... 749&sr=8-1

Digital Twilight

Think i may have to check these out. Sounds good.

TravisTheSky

I LOVE their song 'Thursday.' Is that the correct title?
Sometimes I stop on the band's MySpace page for half an hour and listen to several songs.

Beautiful.

Digital Twilight

Digital Twilight wrote:

Think i may have to check these out. Sounds good.

Well I finally got roung to buying 'Cure for Pain' and it's awesome. Check these out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M34iZH4-qkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USb5PPvIm9M

jimed14

NPR did a small piece on Morphine and Jeff Buckley ... a few live tunes to hear from each ... so beautiful.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... c=fb&cc=fp

January 6, 2010 - Mountain Stage continues its tribute to the memory of some of its favorite artists with archival performances from Morphine and Jeff Buckley.

The Boston-area rock band Morphine gained instant recognition for its unusual sound, in which it blended drums and saxophone with the two-string bass and deep vocals of bandleader Mark Sandman. The band scored widespread MTV airplay and massive success in Belgium, France and Australia, and visited Mountain Stage in September 1993. In July 1999, Sandman died of a heart attack on stage in Italy.

Jeff Buckley's definitive statement, the 1995 album Grace, highlighted his vast vocal range and remarkable skill as both a songwriter and an interpreter of others' songs. In his only appearance on Mountain Stage in February 1994, Buckley used a Nina Simone song ("That's All I Ask") to transition into his own composition, "Grace." Buckley drowned in May 1997, near Memphis.