...that Mark Sandman "collapsed on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina,Latium, Italy while performing with Morphine. He was soon pronounced dead of a heart attack at the age of 46". It was that very same day that the world of music got poorer. After all these years, the gap remains. But that's what happens with voids of gone presences that are very significant; they just never get...
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that it is Shark week on the discovery channel!! What am I doing sitting in front of a computer when I could be deepening the psychological effects of my most irrational fear...SHARKS.Shark Week Question 1Do you think that the fact that I am moving from land locked Ohio to LA during shark week is a bad omen?Shark Week Question 2DO you believe that this is the 20th year of shark week? Yes, I hav...
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The death of Morphine frontman Mark Sandman was one of the greatest tragedies of '90s alt-rock. In an event that was surely jarring for everyone involved, Sandman suffered a heart attack onstage at an Italian festival in 1999. The singer and bassist died in an ambulance en route to the hospital, prematurely cutting short the career of one of the decade's more inventive bands. Had Sandman lived,...
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I flipped Live Earth back on...but the Police just weren't keeping me entertained. So i am back to deejaying my own private party.Listened to this gorgeous Morphine song today, and it struck me as one of the best saying goodbye songs i had ever heard...considering the sea change my life is about to undertake.A beautiful tune indeed...
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From Wiki: Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1989. The band ceased to be in 1999 after the death of frontman Mark Sandman who died of a heart attack.Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band a very unusual sound. Sandman's distinctive singing was described as...
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i meant to post on and about my father's birthday last May 11th. yuh, i am that busy. he's 87 and has advanced Alzheimer's, and i thought that if he'd not remember me ringing him up from across the miles, then i'll just do it another way and put my greeting out there. cut to twelve days and twelve tunes later.rain on your parade mixLet's Take a Trip Together : Morphine : Cure for PainDiminished...
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Thank you Anna, for reminding us, quite eloquently I might add, that it was nine years ago tonight that Mark Sandman, the gravely voiced front man and lead songwriter for the amazingly influential rock noir band Morphine, collapsed and died on stage in Italy. I listen to these old Morhpine records all the time and I am still mesmerized by the forboding lyrics and the dark jazzy sounds. Thank yo...
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So many times, and I don't know why, I try to find a reason behind certain things that will always lack a logical answer. For the first 15 years of my life I had a best friend. I can't think of a moment in that time where weren't together. We did just about everthing, and some of it was good, but most of it was pretty bad.(no exstortion or death threats just a little mayhem and desruction) It w...
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http://www.rockinboston.com/morphine.htmhttp://www.hi-n-dry.com/mark_sandman/Another band I don't know much about, but I'd like to. I've copied and pasted some info from Daily CD below. I'd like to hear from Morphine fans. December 8, 2006Cure for PainMorphine 1993 "The music of the Boston-based band Morphine was all about the midnight creep, the homicide walk. Lead singer, bassist, and s...
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Morphine was huge in my eyes back in the early 90's. They opened my eyes to the nontraditional "alternative" music scene which ultimately led me down to appreciating bands like firewater, gogol bordello, eels. Notable for using a 2 string bass the sound that mark sandman would get outta that beast would make your spincter quiver. sandman met an early death on my birthday july 3, 1999. i nev...
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Morphine - What a great band. I saw them maybe 3 months before Mark's death. They are amazingly talented. Mark Sandman played two saxes at once! The two surviving members, Dana and...(the other name escapes me) are in a band w/ a female singer, not as good but similar, called Twinemen. They played an instore performance a year and a half ago at the now defuct record store, NYCD in Manhatta...
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i love this band, and i really miss them."We used to meet every Thursday ThursdayThursday in the afternoonFor a couple of beers and a game of poolWe used to go to a motel a motelA motel across the streetAnd the name of the motel was the Wagon WheelOhOne day she said come on come on she saidWhy don't you come back to my houseShe said my husband's out of townYou know he's gone till the end of the...
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No, that's not a bass you hear; that's a heartbeat — a heartbeat of someone not quite like you and I, but similar enough to have a heart that beats and bleeds (and, sadly, leaves). It's a heartbeat buried deep and far away, but still strong enough to vibrate two metal strings and broadcast itself out to you (and make no mistake: there are things standing nearby that you cannot see listening to .
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