Mark Lanegan

mickeyrat said:

goldrush said: https://youtu.be/lazQ-OOj7P4

beautiful music.

goldrush said:

Gary Lee Connor has posted his last conversation with Mark:

ML: Hi Lee. I have moved to Europe, The States feels like a dark and dangerous place and I'm not comfortable there any longer. I have done alot of soul searching and self reflection since the book was released and I feel I owe you a deep apology. I do not expect you to forgive me but I want you to know that I strongly regret the way i portrayed you in it, its to my great shame, and you did not deserve it. We were just kids from a rural town and what we accomplished was a veritable miracle given where we were from. Had it not been for you, none of that would have happened,and despite our juvenile jealousies, individual problems, my addictions, and our likely placements on the autism spectrum, we achieved things those who played the Ranch could only have dreamed of. As I cleaned out my house before coming to Ireland, I came across some hardrives with Trees demos and was blown away by some of the tunes. A song called Hearts and Diamonds hit me in an emotiional place and another called Piano Song actually made me cry. I am scheduled to make a record in London in January and I would like to extend my sincere sorrow for causing you, Janet, and all of your loved ones any pain. I'm just going to throw this out there, but if you are willing, I would like to perhaps record the two songs mentioned for inclusion on my next record, and thereby somehow mend what I've done wrong and show the world that you and I had real power and were a talented team despite my obvious problems

GLC: You’re lucky to get out of the US as you say it is very fucked up here. Janet and I are both doing quite well. She is teaching online and we have not left the house because of the Pandemic since March. I’m finishing up a new album to get out in a few weeks. I still love writing and recording songs but just do it for fun and art like in the beginning. I found a small label in Italy that does vinyl for me and what I am doing now is very artistically satisfying for me but with no pressure from anyone but myself. Both those songs are great and it would be cool for you to record them. Forget about the stuff in the book. I never read more than a couple pages and just heard other stuff second hand on Facebook and I don’t pay much attention to it anymore now that it’s out there and people have read it. So go ahead and do the songs, I never got to make it to Ireland but it sound like an interesting place to live. Let me know if you need help figuring out the songs, I don’t think they are too hard. Lee

ML: That makes me very happy, thank you. I would be most happy if you sang the harmony on the piano song with me and played the absolutely bitching guitar outro on it as well. No one can else do it like you Lee and it would show the world that despite my juvenile bullhit, you and I were and are a special partnership. If you have protools at home or logic or reason, you could do it remotely. give it some thought. and thank you for being such a gentleman.

He has also uploaded the 2 songs that Mark was referring to:

https://youtu.be/lazQ-OOj7P4

Loujoe said:

If phentenol was around then a lot more people would have died. Damn. Gives me a clue why he was glued to the mic. Kind of glamorizing junk and drunk. Maybe I have to get furthur on to where things get worse then better. No disrespect to ml. Rip, but wow what a story/life. Tough stuff. He knew it.

JimFletcherPearlJam said:

It's fentanyl (not phentenol). I'll never understand addiction, whether it involves drugs, gambling, or something else. It makes even less sense for wealthy and famous people to suffer from such things. Oh well, may he rest in peace. At least he died in Ireland, which is a substantially better country than the United States if you ask me. 

mfc2006 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

JimFletcherPearlJam said:

It's fentanyl (not phentenol). I'll never understand addiction, whether it involves drugs, gambling, or something else. It makes even less sense for wealthy and famous people to suffer from such things. Oh well, may he rest in peace. At least he died in Ireland, which is a substantially better country than the United States if you ask me. 

There is so much wrong with this post. It starts off bad enough (perhaps a grade five spelling bee champion reliving the glory years) and somehow gets progressively worse. 

I agree. 
Addiction doesn't care how much money you have or how famous you are. What an absolutely absurd statement. Oh well.