Mark Lanegan On Being a Homeless Drug Dealer | His Life After Screaming Trees 

He was such a real dude. Loved his voice and his attitude. In his book he was so brutallly honest and he accepted responsibility all over the place . I didn’t know him but I miss him . Feels weird .

"Sing Backwards And Weep" is the very best document about grunge, Seattle and the nineties. RIP Lanegan 🍻🍻

Amazing memoir… love Mark Lanegan… brutally honest… I love that he narrated it himself as well

I was there. Crossing paths with so many of the same characters living a parallel life. Layne included. Getting kick packs from a Dr. on Broadway, getting clean at Kings County detox multiple times just so I could lower my habit... Burning my connect who I ran for, a killer named spanky forcing me to escape to LA… I bought a 1972 Yamaha acoustic guitar from Capital Pawn that played like nothing before or since and then lost it to a pawn shop in dtla. That one still hurts….So grateful to have made it though 🙏🏽

The eerie low music in the background and pics of Mark really add a cool layer to the already great storytelling. This is by far my favorite memoir. I've listened to it in it's entirety over 15 times and still really enjoy it. Thanks for uploading this.

I remember seeing Mark most mornings as I drove through first hill on my way to work, only a few years sober myself.

The only decent account of the reality of drug addiction. Brilliant book.

the dogs jaw clicking like a dry firing pistol inches from my jaw. So good. This audiobook still haunts me - in a good way. Miss you mark

A great singer, great phrasing. I had no idea he had lived like this.

Moral of the story: all those Seattle rock dudes living the heroin lifestyle in the early 90s... many if not most of them lived a horrible life that didn't end well.

His biography is the best I have ever read or listened to from a professional musician. Sing Backwards and Weep is a masterpiece. He held nothing back.

He was just a real guy who lived through all the heartbreak of loosing all his friends and living thru his own nightmare and misery, grief, and hating himself it's sad but he made it by the grace of God only to die recently but of natural causes it's a miracle but lanegan beat himself up the rest of his life survivers grief he was a talented man who held no punches Mark lanegan, Andrew wood, Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, Baker, and more of the movement u are all missed and loved forever rest easy brothers u will never be replaced ❤😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Best voice of that era. The trees are so underrated.

Lanegan is right up there with William S. Burroughs when it comes to junky stories

sucks he's gone too. he really lived through the heyday and im so greatful he was able to tell his story through his audiobook.

This brought back a lot of memories. I've been away from that life for 20 some years. Still have some PTSD when I think of certain events, etc. I'm so grateful to not be 'out there' anymore especially these days with Fent and Tranq. I'm glad he was able to get some clean years in there before the covids got him.

Being poor after being a celerity is the realest shit you can do.

For anyone who has a Seattle public library card, you can check out Mark Lanegan's audio book for free at the Seattle public library.

That was a DAMN good cop. He legitimately offered to let Lanegan off of the hook if he went to rehab.

Brutal honesty. RIP, brother. I know too many guys that have perished from letting drugs take over their lives. Intelligent, good hearted guys. Sad.

I saw Mark at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on the Scraps at Midnight tour. It was one of the most intense live performances I’ve ever seen. This dude was the real deal.

Rest In Peace Mister Mark Lanegan. I'll never be over his death. Love and miss you Dark Mark. Thanks for everything

That's crazy. Screaming trees are on my constant playlist. This is sad,had no idea the struggle.

Mark used to tell me stories about Kurt in 1998 at a rehab.

Great video.. thank you for sharing some great history of music. Mark Lanegan is one of the best musicians ever and he's definitely missed. Thank you again for posting this great video.

Another true 90s hero of mine RIP Mr. lanegan❤

I spent a bit of time with Lanegan around 1996-1997 and it was bizarre. He would get balck out drunk every night.

One of the best books I’ve ever read.

He was a really lovely guy - I was so upset when he died - he’d just finished doing an album with my friend Joe cardamone.

Saw him play live in 91 and their song was all over MTV and the radio for several years. Mark is a true legend.

I remember Screaming Trees back in the early 90's while tuned to Vancouver's short lived Coast 1040 alt rock station with their hit song "I nearly Lost You". I was shocked and saddened at some of these old 80's and 90's bands I remembered and what became of some of the members who fell off the rails into heroin hell. a few of my friends from the 90's fell into that dreadful scene too. It really soured my enthusiasm for the whole Seattle alt-rock, grunge scene.

i would really love to listen to his other book. His first one was utterly mind boggling and I don't imagine the second topping it but still, that first book left me wanting more.

An era that has faded. The story of rock gods on the edge of glory.

Sing Backwards and Weep is my favorite book, its amazing on every level

Mark was such a great writer. The best with Word's. R.I.P Mark u will definitely never be forgotten. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲🙏

Man, this is gritty, and depressing as hell.....

Long Gone Day-Mad Season

I’m going trough a benzo detox. It’s 2:42am, listening to this is helping me.

The Winding Sheet is one of my favorite albums, he wasnt even a trained singer and turned out to be a musical genius. I love his early voice on the first couple trees albums too even though I know he hates them lol rest easy friend, you can jam with kurt and layne forever now.

Tour(work), tour(work), tour(work) - get home: no money. Great system!

MARK !!!! YOU will never be forgotten !!

Talent and Dope go together like peas and carrots....so few are creative and miss understood and there is always pressure.... people expect things from creative people... demanding even...R.I.P.... 1 of the greats💯

I am glad that Mark kept going after some of the other grungers passed on. I was surprised he did but time gets the best of us after a while. Glad to have a record like this of what transpired all those years ago.

I'm from NYC originally,been working at Harborview Medical for almost a year.It's pretty grimey out here.

I was a junkie, yet somehow this grosses me out. This guy's bottom was looooooooow. Really good writing and reading too.

There is a song called Harbourview Hospital

Great band, sad to see what goes on behind it all. Poor dude.

Courtney Love coming in clutch with the rehab! You never hear about how much she's done for other musicians like that.

Funny thing? I know all the spots he is talking about & was just in E-burg picking up a vintage ('80's) Benton County Sheriff's car. I'll be back in September to get it shipped over to my new home state of NC. I'm from Seattle, but this era is gone and, between the expense and the drug/homeless/crime, it's not livable anymore.

This dude and his story will live forever, and hopefully help a few who listen.

The best lineup of QOTSA was when Mark fronted them. I'm glad he found his way out after clearly bouncing off rock bottom.

wow... this is really good..!!! very raw...real ....and interesting... for sure..!!!

I still love Nearly Lost You, what a voice, such a cool song from my misspent youth. I, too, plunged to the depths of addiction. I, too, made it out and am living a good life again. But Mark's tales are all too familiar to me. The life of an addict is barely a life at all.

This could be a great movie!

He died in Kerry, Ireland of all fuckn places . R.i.p u legend.

Saw them in Mass with Cop Shoot Cop Great show

as a grunge kid through and through then later homless junkie ,this resonates...

Like these stories of complete misery and despair, keep em' coming

DUDE IS LUCKY THAT ROT WAS CHAINED UP😂

Great book. Wayne Kramers memoir is as good .

those days, as dirty and tough as they were, there was still some kind of beautiful magic in the air. Mark was one of a kind and one of us..

Amazing writer. This is riveting (and horrifying).

Herion is a cruel mistress. Believe me I know and very glad to make it off Gilligan's Island.

Try the album “ Dust “from screaming trees from 1996 if u haven’t already . Neglected gem.

Ah this is perfect

♥️♥️♥️ Mark Lanegan

Real shit.

Ive been there, yet somehow avoid needles, i duno what it is about IV / IM but watched it destroy friends. Addiction is relative but man so lucky i got out

I know Marks suffering I had a really bad year 1998 started in 1995 had to do my time in 2003, but my addiction heroin and Coke never got that bad. For the most part I had a car half the time a place of my own mostly. The worst part that makes me have terrible using dreams I want to go back but I don't. Layne Staley and Mark keep me clean!

Man, you can depend on a Coleman. Great product placement.

Their record label gave their biggest hit to the singles soundtrack for free. Cost the band a shit ton of money of sales from sweet oblivion.

Five minutes in I'd swear it was an hour.

i feel like the only person who could relate to mark is shane macgowan.

Where can I find the full audiobook?

Welcome to seattle. Its a trap. Its a curse. Dont move here.

Its sad Mark made it past addiction then died of covid

Intense.

I was a big fan of sweet oblivion. Didn’t know much else of the screaming trees stuff. Had no idea Lannegan was such an addict. What strikes me with all of these excerpts from his book is how many chances he kept getting, and ignoring, and the fact that he was actually a pretty selfish arsehole. Yet people still kept doing him favours and helping him.

Does anyone know where this is from? Is it an audiobook exceprt?

I never.succumbed to full blown addiction but being homeless n alone after moving to portland i became curious of what the Fuss was about w meth. Id usually never pay.n this became a problem of minimizing the later fact that id been going on 3 day.binges and that 2 yrs had dematerialized from my life since i first told myself" ill just bail on the dope after i get my rocksoff in the city blah" I remember a native streetkid id met when.i.first arrived selling me my first 20 sac He said :" dude you seem like an interesting person but i Every time i reached a point.of realizing i was minimizing my dopw use id always look at it like this: Rolling cigarette butts off the ground is when you kno Portland or Seattle has you in its Grip Much love to.those struggling out here you can discover a better way of life if you want to ❤

R.I.P.

U could listen to his book over and over so much color in his speeking u could even crash to this book lol

I don’t even know who he is, but that was a great story and narration!

Mark "Bukowski" Lanegan

Heavy stuff and sounds like a vibe straight from late 40s film noir flicks. The cop did him a huge solid BTW. He was in Horrendous shape and the Grim Reaper was shadowing him.

Which chapter is this from in Sing Backwards And Weep?

That thumbnail is clearly Bruce McCullough in his KITH role of Bobby.

I totally thought that thumbnail was Mark Wahlberg in that movie Rockstar lol

That cop gave Lanegan the best offer a junkie ever got.

Anyone know where the rehab center in California was?

party on wayne!

After the visit from the cop, things went downhill quickly. Shit, as if life wasn't a heaping pile of shit already

Only ed vender billy corgan left. Weillands gone. Can’t believe cornell went out the way he did !!!!

We are soul brothers...

Soooo sad. so hard to listen to.

That looks like Theo Von in the thumbnail

How strange that this cop tried to be the father he really needed. Perhaps a fan?

Pretty cool thing for Courtney Love to do.

There is no apostrophe in Screaming Trees.

Glad im done with drugs.