The hard songs are for when the sun is gone and the cuts without percussion are for the day after the primal beating." I always thought the record functioned on a day to night level. "There’s a lot of material that is nostalgic ambient. Only half the record lives in that territory though," explains Cardamone. "I do think the death disco label we've been given could apply to portions of the material. "The material we wanted to do together seemed to take well to the idea that our personas here are as if we’re now outcasts to our own creative selves. "The project is called Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe because we both have assumed these alter egos over the years,” says Cardamone about the origins of the project. These were in my pocket but there is no reason to hold on to them and I hope you'll find them enjoyable.Įxtra thanks to Dylan Carlson, Warren Ellis, Peter Hook, Jack Bates and Calvin Johnson for their time." Thanks to Amy Lee for putting this together and also thank you to Wyatt Oberholzer in Philly who worked on the recordings to make them audible for you. I listened to the first episode last night and felt that I still had my friend next to me. Mark, I want to thank you for the laughs and inspiration and friendship. When he came out, he still wanted to pursue it and hoped we would in time, but we never got there. The podcast was being pitched to places at the same time he landed in a coma, and that was that. when Mark moved to Ireland we had plans to continue and were reaching out to friends we planned to have on. We recorded a few episodes for fun and were just getting started, and that is what you will hear here, presented unedited and in crude glory. the type of delirious and open talks that arrive on an all night drive. After we made Plague Poems, Mark wanted to do a podcast together with the idea that the listener would be a voyeur to the candid conversations we were having. Wesley Eisold: "2020 - I'm going to Mark's often during the pandemic lockdown. His COVID experience was covered in another memoir, Devil in a Coma, released last year.The AFTER DARK WITH WES AND MARK podcast is available to stream now via Anchor, Spotify, Apple and Google. That motivated him to go from believing in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and being vaccine-hesitant to saying in an interview with Consequencelast December that he would get boosted. In 2021 he was hospitalized with severe COVID-19 and almost died. In 2020 Lanegan and his wife Shelley Brien moved from Los Angeles to Killarney, Ireland. Lanegan had a long history of substance abuse issues, but was 10 years sober as of 2020. In 2020 Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, was published. Skeleton Joe, a collaboration with former The Icarus Line member Joe Cardamone. The album featured various special guests, including Dulli, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Warren Ellis, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Portishead’s Adrian Utley, and Ed Harcourt. Langegan’s last solo album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, was released in 2020 via Heavenly. The Gutter Twins was a collaboration with The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli that led to one album, 2008’s Saturnalia. He was an official member of Queens of the Stone Age for 14 years. He released three albums with former Belle and Sebastian vocalist Isobel Campbell. Over the years Lanegan has also collaborated with a number of notable musicians and had various other bands and side-projects. The Screaming Trees broke up in 2000, but Lanegan has continued to release solo albums over the last few decades. Lanegan’s debut solo album, The Winding Sheet, was released in 1990 via Sub Pop. Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell had produced the band’s fourth album, Uncle Anesthesia, and Lanegan also worked with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic on a project. The band’s debut album, Clairvoyance, was released in 1986, although it was 1992’s Sweet Oblivion, the band’s sixth album, that proved to be the band’s commercial breakthrough, featuring the singles “Nearly Lost You,” “Dollar Bill,” “Shadow of the Season,” and “Butterfly.” The band was associated with the Pacific Northwest grunge movement of the early ’90s, as well as alternative rock. Lanegan was born in 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington, and Screaming Trees were formed in 1984 by Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. The family asks everyone to respect their privacy at this time.” No other information is available at this time. A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. The statement reads: “Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. A statement has been issued to the press via email and also posted on Lanegan’s official Twitter page. The singer/songwriter and former Screaming Trees frontman was only 57.
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