I’m currently reading the memoir of Mark Lanegan who for those who don’t know was the singer of the band the Screaming Trees in the late mid 80s to mid 90s…(its called Sing Backwards and Weep)…he has had a more successful solo career though as a solo artist and collaborator though…what a page turner, man…this is a pretty god damn honest book about a guy who lived an incredibly debaucherous life style…some of it is rather bleak but enormously entertaining…
Anyway,there is a chapter that involves Al in it when Ministry and The Trees were on a festival bill together…it had me laughing my balls off…I don’t want to give it away in case anyone ends up reading it but it involves Al trying to use an old school telephone as a weapon and then having Lanegan wrap the cord of the phone around his neck and choking him…it was some depraved junkie shit that got them in this situation…it was funny as fuck and just thought I would mention it…the chapter in the book is called Miss Australia 1971 and its called that for a funny reason involving Al…
I’m a big Lanegan fan. Never was into Screaming Trees much, but his solo stuff and various collaborations are so amazing.
Anyway, the big surprise for me in this book were all the fights the dude got into. Every 2 paragraphs he’s threatening to throw some poor sap through the wall. Half the time he does. That’s what really had me laughing and cheering him on.
Yeah I’m a big fan of Lanegan solo and I love the stuff he has done with Greg Dulli…I do like the last 2 Trees records…those seem to be the only ones Lanegan himself likes haha( Sweet Oblivion less so than Dust)…but yeah he was a fighting machine…a complete degenerate in many ways hahaha…the book is a wonderful mixture of total bleakness and total hilarity…I didn’t want it to end…
Mark Lanegan is GOD!!!
Dont be a cunt and upload pictures of pages.
Buy the book. Dude could use the money.
Its not like hes make money like Al.
Saw Mark with Queens of the Stone Age. The Icarus Line and Dillinger Escape Plan opened. Caught him again during the filming for the Bourdain show.
He also put Liam Gallagher in his place when the book came out.
As he also had a run in with him.
Theres a picutre thats been around for ages now, of Mark, Al and Cou…
It’s like 3 pages, Bro. And for a guy like me who knew nothing about Mark Lanegan, but who enjoys reading about the decrepit and debaucherous lives of rockstars and junkies those three pages actually made me WANT to buy the book.
Gunnar you would love this fucking book,man…I’m a long time fan but I feel like even if I wasn’t I would still have been completely absorbed by the thing…its a page turner for sure…it’s an incredibly honest account of a life lived on the wrong side of the tracks…
Thanks, Brother! I’ll look for it. I really like rock autobiographies . . . even when I don’t particularly care about/for the artist. Hell, I even read and loved the books by the guys in KoRn, for crying out loud, and I don’t (and never will) own a single album.
