Other Days And Different Planets Feathered Fish Too Far Away Wish Bringer Transfiguration Barriers Flower Web Love or Confusion Cold Rain End Of The Universe Ivy Smokerings Clairvoyance
Agree. Met him so feel lucky. Also so him play with mad season . They also played two shows at this little bar in Seattle called the Showbox and I bought two tickets for both nights that’s how much I like the screaming trees and I wish I could go back to those days best band ever
At the height of their style back when I was in college.. Recently I bought a shirt from a cool guy in Killarney , Ireland. He was a regular & was left alone & respected. Someone mentioned he was sick off COVID.. If you see one his last shows with Josh Homme, the drugs & alcohol took a hold of him. The best from the Seattle Scene in the 90's..
0:10 Other days and different planets 3:04 Feathered Fish (Arthur Lee cover) 5:40 Too far away 9:00 Wish bringer 11:40 Transfiguration 15:00 Barriers 20:16 Flower Web 23:49 Love or confusion (Hendrix Cover) 27:10 Cold Rain 30:17 End Of The Universe 35:20 Ivy 39:27 Smokerings 42:40 CLAIRVOYANCE
HUGE FAN OF MARK'S DRUMMING. ESPECIALLY BEING A BASS PLAYER...I PREFER HIM TO BARRETT BUT THEY''RE ALMOST LIKE TWO DIFFERENT BANDS WITH EACH DRUMMER PICKEREL IS VERY UNDERRATED IMHO
Someone pointed out how this guy started out as a really f-ing good rock and roll singer and became a truly great vocalist. Got to agree. Big time solo Mark fan but I do love the screaming trees particularly the nuggetsy/ stoogey stuff like this. What a monster-great band. Rest in power, Mark. Thank you for posting!
In 1989 they were on the same label as Husker Du, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr. , Subhumans, Descendents, Minutemen, Meat Puppets etc. I love that Sonic Youth (also a label mate at the time) comes on after the show ends.
They would've in this moment, seemed like a welcome addition to the "college rock" of that era....alongside Run Westy Run, Replacements, Antietam, Meat Puppets, Das Damen, The Fluid...Etc. satisfying those of us with a 60s garage rock post-punk taste. Now Mark is the rust n' honey whiskey tears poet laureate singer of Belgium. Good for him.
Thank you for mentioning Antietam. I thought I was the only one who saw parallels between them and the Trees despite them being regionally removed by a lot from them scene-wise.
I mean they were in Seattle by this time and Mark Lanegan was already friends with Kurt and Dylan Carlson and probably they were pretty well known there once they started living there and guys were palling around with the guys on the scene hitting up bars and partying and doing drugs and drinking.
Its funny watching this now after reading Lanegans book. What he said is true....everything before sweet oblivion was in a higher range than Mark's comfortable range. It makes sense watching this. He still sounds awesome.
in my opinion its mainly the Refrain Parts that are higher.... for me the difference that is even more striking is that the old songs were 3times faster than the Songs on the Epic Records albums
Gary Lee also says most of that early material was written by him being influenced from Nuggets-era psych, garage rock and that type of 60s genre, even though that wasn’t necessarily everyone else in the band’s preference. I’m sure that’s why that eventually changed and slowed down, especially when Mark found his own extremely particular way to contribute vocally. It always bums me out that Mark never has much of anything good to say about the early Trees stuff, I tend to adore it, but he was a dude who didn’t hold back so I can’t say it’s surprising. They were so great, just like this footage reminds us.
@@buddhull the high range, but i think also the loud volume that was needed to sing these songs i guess was pretty strainful on long-term. Plus i think it was also an Ego thing that Mark didnt like to always sing the songs that Gary wrote
Reading this book now. Never really got into the Screaming Trees but always admired his voice. The books is turning out to be one of the best Rock auto bio's I've read. So raw, it's crazy how open he is
Was at this show with my girlfriend at the time....we had a mutual friend who worked at Metro. Little did I realize that Lanegan would go on to become one of my favorite artists ever. I remember picking up The Winding Sheet (and moreso Whiskey for the Holy Ghost) and being blown away that the sublime music in those albums was from the same guy in the Trees. This is a cool time capsule for sure.
Fantastic! Loved this era of the band. Saw them and interviewed Mark around this time in SoCal, shortly after The Winding Sheet was released. Rest In Peace, Mark. One of the greatest vocalists of this generation. Thanks for posting this.
it made me laugh during Ivy that lee's mic kept getting messed around. The guy left it way too high so when he tried to adjust while playing it fell off. When it finally gets sorted it's too late so he just grabs in and pulls it over haha
I once loaned Mark Lanegan some laundry soap in a laundromat at the north end of University Way. He said it was nice not to wash his clothes in a bathtub cuz it was hard to rinse the soap out. Asked were I was from, and then said the Metro was his favorite venue
The problem with this band was apparently they didn’t get along with Mark. So a band that doesn’t like it’s lead singer is in trouble. They were in constant conflict. Too bad because they really sounded good here. They did nothing without him. RIP
I think this is around the time they were thinking of breaking up. Mark had his solo album. Van Conner had Solomon Grundy. Then the majors came calling.
Great post always good to see the trees in that time The one thing always struck me about this time in the band's history is that I always thought that the guitarist thought it was all about him lol He must have got an awful shock when he realized people where more interested in Mark lanagen
Well, given that virtually all the songs were written by Gary Lee Conner up until 1992 or so, I can see how he woulda thought that. I think Lee Conner really wanted to be the frontman of the Trees more than anything. And Lee's a great player and a great writer (definitely more so than Lanegan gave him credit for), but he's still a different caliber altogether from Lanegan. Lanegan is like...up there with Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Andy Williams, and Johnny Cash. I feel like Lee Conner is up there in terms of songwriting with like...Ray Davies, or Rod Argent, or dare I say John Kay.
Though it's also owed to the fact that Lee and Lanegan were two very different people to their cores. Lee was a mama's boy in his mid-20s who still lived at his parents' house along with his little brother and who had support from his family to independently make music and was given a space to rehearse and practice in. Lanegan was a hardcore street kid with an axe to grind who just wanted the hell out of his shit home in his shit town and I feel like his hunger for a refuge from that life made him more ambitious than Lee.
According to Mark's memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep" I think this was during his sober period. I think not long after this he started drinking and drugging again. Though I think he may have just smoked weed at this point?
@@joshuayettou3552 He didn't even smoke weed. He said he started drinking again when Dan Peters was filling in on drums, which would have been the Uncle Anesthesia tour a couple years after this.
@@zippymufo9765He definitely smoked weed Lmfao. He says he quit for 5 years. And started back while recording Whiskey For The Holy Ghost and it made him more creative but then turned on him like all drugs do. What I never got was if that’s the case then why not just stick with weed and acid that’s better than being a drunk or a junkie.
God I see what he means in his book about the absolutely piercing, head splitting shrill ass tone of Gary Lee's guitar playing. He's an amazing songwriter in his own right and an excellent player, but it sounds like he's playing out of tune a lot of the time and the treble is just too much on this recording. I had to turn it down several times until it was just barely above silent. God that would drive me insane. Turn the treble way the fuck down and add a little bass to that shit man for fucks sake.
My book “Sing Backwards and Weep” arrived and I’m not very far into it. Mostly Mark talks about how he can’t stand Lee Connor, the lead guitarist and song writer. I’ve watched a couple of videos and the music isn’t bad. I wonder why they never hit it big? I’m thinking because the music producers didn’t think the two Connor brothers/guitarist weren’t very attractive but Lanegan was stuck because he needed Lee to write the music. Or was it because Lanegan got heavy into drugs?
The "lose one of the fat guys" supposedly was an earnest comment by some record company big wig, and I do feel like the lack of mainstream sex appeal is part of why they didn't hit it very big, but I feel like it was mostly owed to Lanegan's drug abuse and therefore his impacted work ethic. I think if Lanegan had shelved Whiskey for the Holy Ghost and recorded another Trees album in the immediate aftermath of Sweet Oblivion then the Trees may very well have become a household name. But then, perhaps we wouldn't have Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, which, in my opinion, blows every Trees album out of the water lmao
@@jetcheneau5811It’s definitely because of Mark. He blew their shot right up his arm. Also the record label forcing them to be a support act when they could fill theatres themselves was fucked up. Especially in Europe. They had like 7 albums and were indie darlings playing support for AIC and then later in the states for Spin Doctors??? Lmfao.
