Red Mosquito

A COMMENT ON MARK LANEGAN'S MEMOIR FROM GARY LEE CONNER
Mark Lanegan was in the Screaming Trees and it was a combination of us all that made it great. We did not ever get along like friends and sometimes it felt like we were enemies but we did work together. We all had mental and personal problems but somehow we managed to get around them to create a musical legacy that I am very proud of and that still seems to have many fans. Mark took the songs Van and I wrote and helped elevate them lyrically and vocally to a higher level. The sum total of us was a gestalt called Screaming Trees. Since the FaceBook group and page are band sites I will always post stuff about him as well as the other members.
I have only read a few pages of the book ( there is no way I could take more) and while many of the facts may be accurate, it is delivered with a venom that is perplexing. I moved far, far past all my problems and confrontations with Mark many years ago and airing all this now, after half a lifetime, in a very public forum, seems vicious and petty. I had one conversation on the phone in the last 18 years with Mark and in was very cordial. Any history between the two of us ended when the band did, in the year 2000.
I am not one to rest on my laurels and will continue making new music as I have been. However, I still love the of the music that the Screaming Trees made from the beginning to the end of our career. I am also humbled by the amount of support and enthusiasm from fans of the band and my solo music, thanks to you all. I will continue to celebrate our music with you for the rest of my life. ..

theplatypus wrote:He's picking fights with randos on Twitter and coming off uhhhh not great

VinylGuy wrote:Im loving the album. It does sound like old Mark, like a lost album between Bubblegum and Blues Funeral.

Revelator wrote:It takes a little while to digest but there are some gems on the new one. I Wouldn't Want to Say could possibly be his best opening track; it's a monster of a tune and he sounds fantastic. Mark actually sounds great throughout, where I felt he sounded rough on many parts of Somebody's Knocking. He uses his upper register croon quite a bit and it's refreshing to hear him sound so good after so many years. Production value of the new album is also WAY better than his last few. The duet with his wife is great as well.

Those who tire of his repetitive death, graveyard, skeleton, etc lyrics may gloss over this one quickly--it is pretty repetitive in places but I can look past it since it's more a companion piece to the memoir, where death obviously is a recurring theme.

I love love love the opener

Jammer XCI wrote:

This is fucking awesome