Mark Lanegan Narrates: Reaction To Layne Staley’s Death, Getting Sober
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Mark Lanegan on finally getting sober, his battle with drugs, and hearing about Layne Staley’s death years later.
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It’s crazy how if mark didn’t do his autobiography just how many awesome stories would have died with him, that whole book is amazing especially finding out who mark was friends with I could listen to it on repeat…
I love his voice in a way he tells the story you know exactly what he's saying he's a great storyteller
Sing backwards and weep is a masterpiece of literature I say I miss Mark lanegan and all our fallen brothers of the 90s movement ❤👊🤘🤟🤘🤟😎
For sure. I hope Jerry doesn't go down without a book. I'd like to hear his view and experiences, too.
@@ParticularlyGrunge very much true brother man 👊🤟🤟😎 bet he got a lot to tell if he does
I went last year to Hollywood forever cemetery walking around an came across mark’s headstone an I wept
I have been a voracious reader since childhood. I have devoured hundreds, if not thousands of books during my Life. Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep is certainly one of the best books I have ever read. His distinctive, deep voice made the audiobook otherworldly. Mark Died only nine days after my beloved Mother. His book was a trememdous comfort and distraction to me in my grief. 🥀
It is indeed a most excellent book.
I’m so very sorry for your loss. Absolutely couldn’t agree more with you about this book.
@@GcssdvnkloiutescYou must be so wise, please tell us if your blessed life! I gotta know.
@@Gcssdvnkloiutesc
We're not talking about comic books and Chick tracts.
@@Gcssdvnkloiutesc
🙄 How to say you're intellectually insecure without saying you're intellectually insecure
I never get tired of listening to Mark's voice. Thank You.
Marks sobriety is a miracle. I’m glad he’s lived a full life.
Agreed. I'm glad he spent most of the last years of his life in sobriety. He was given a chance to turn it all around, tell his story, and mend some fences.
@@jamesdjl4359for sure, after the decades of what was most likely absolute hell more often than not, he was blessed with a clarity, and à life given back to him..
I'm 51, last it seems I was mid 30's or just 40 but with 2 beautiful children now that ALL I can try, hope and pray fis that I can be healthy enough to be there for them as long as possible, they are now 8yrs old and my surprise baby just turned 2yrs old a couple months ago.
They both love to sing and play guitar with Daddy, and being from a very musically talented family that was a huge wish for me for them to love...🙏❤️🙏❤️🎸
I honestly think what Mark is explaining towards the end of this clip is what is referred to as "being born again". Having that supernatural like "my life flashed before my eyes" intense and even psychedelic epiphany seems to me a moment in time where God Himself more than ever uses His overwhelming power to give a long time suffering soul some true peace of mind, even if just for a short while.
I really enjoyed the soft keyboard music playing in the background, it was quite fitting. Thank you for sharing this with your fan base and whomever else may come across this. I'm typing this while being in an in patient rehab center fighting for my life. It's ironic because you are supposed to surrender to addiction but it at the same time feels like a never ending battle with the devil himself. Listening to Marks 2020 memoir ("Sing Backwards and Weep" that you can get on Audible) while in here has helped me immensely. It's such an inspiring memoir that helps keep me focused on staying sober, as hard as that can be at times.
If anyone listening to this sample of Marks audiobook and reading this comment is currently trying to get or stay clean needs some help with achieving that, I highly recommend getting this book. It's not only very entertaining and intense but can also help you along this journey as it has for me and what I can only assume others. I wish you the best of luck and if any of you would like to chat with me, please feel free to leave a reply to my comment and I promise I will reply as soon as I can. Much love to all of you and RIP Mark William Lanegan ❤️❤️❤️
Hope you're ok. I wish you the best. Hang in there buddy, you're not alone💖💖💖💖💖
Hey , i'm from germany, but it doesn't matter because addiction around the world always follow the principles. I'm addicted too, heroin, cocaine, ketamine , tranquilizers , alcohol and methadone. I wish you the best from the other side of the world! You can make it! I wish you the best even when i don't know you! Go on, you can make it !
I have been there about 14 months ago I got sober... and when it happened I broke down hard. I thought I was having a stroke or a heart attack it hit me so hard. I was free from a 22 year heroin addiction, and it was glorious... I know exactly he's talking about, going back is not an option
That's exactly where I'm at . I don't even worry about a relapse into addiction because I just don't want it anymore. I didn't want it for several years when I had to have it. I generally try to avoid situations where I might be around dope but being a musician who absolutely has to play, I naturally come into contact with people who are still doing it. But I'm never tempted because I associate dope with misery, loss and sickness. . I've always told people who ask that for every hour of pleasure you get from opiates, you will pay with 50 hours of misery.
It's freaking crazy......when you look at someones face, looking at you...freaking out....then it still doesn't register 💀💀💀💀🎸🎸🎸😎😎
Congratulations, stay sober brother
@@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973Straight up 💯
Thanks Mark. You give people like me courage and hope that all isn't lost yet. Much appreciated.
Sing Backwards and Weep is so good! I have the hard copy and audiobook. If you don’t listen to the audiobook version you are sincerely missing out. Mark has my favorite chainsaw, two-pack a day voice of all time. We love and miss you Lanegan❤
This man never got the recognition he deserved
Only cos of this channel’s videos I ever heard of Mark Lanegan and after listening to his full autobiography which is the only one I’ve ever heard all the way through and bought the book I’ve started to listen to his music which I was surprised I’d never heard before, partnering up with PJ Harvey and his solo stuff. So a big thank you for teaching me about him. Love your documentaries too
What a fucking book! By the end i wanted to hear even more stories. Its a damn shame Mark Lanegan died before he could record an audiobook version of "Devil In A Coma". Man after my first listen of "Sing Backwards And Weep" I immediately winded back to the start and listened to the whole thing all the way through again.
If you really enjoy gritty memoirs with true crime elements within such as this book I highly recommend Brandon Novak's "Dream Seller" and "The Streets of Baltimore". Both of which have audiobooks available on audible and are narrated by Brandon Novak himself. It really does hit different when you hear Lanegan and Novak tell their epic stories in their own voices in the way they were intended to be heard!
I love Novak, but even he says "Dream Seller" in particular was he being a hypocrite, because he was still getting loaded when he published it... Having said that, Novak is totally clean now, and the very fact that he STILL posts his own number on Instagram and tirelessly tries to help others going through the hell of addiction says so much good about him as a person. Watching his glow up in recent years has been just awesome.
His boook of "Where's My Needle?" is another book of Novak, or the same with another title? Thx, all the best!
Epic is not the best word to describe addiction. Harrowing maybe.
Mark is a straight shooter.
I love no matter who it is, he tells it like it is. Lile it or not.
Rest easy , Lanegan ... You are missed.
I was in rehab with the guy from Coheed and Cambria in about 2006 or so. Michael Todd. He got clean for a year or two and eventually he relapsed and robbed a pharmacy in Boston. It’s a shame how many musicians develop such horrible drug habits.
I met him the night he was admitted to Las Encinas. I sat near him on the bench. I never heard of him. We became fast friends.
I can confirm. I was the old lady's robe.
You should totally do a video explaining Layne's work with 40 Years of Hate/The Black Holes and with Jesse Holt. It would be awesome to hear the story behind songs like Daily Bread and Things You Do, along with his other unreleased songs.
Courtney intervened in Scott Weilends sobriety too....I hate her but she at least tried to help other musicians ( without being sober herself)
Layne's passing is obviously tragic but nobody can blame themselves. Only the addict can help the addict. I've been a heroin addict for over 20 years and before turning their backs, everyone who loved me tried helping me. My mental and physical suffering goes too deep. Heroin's the only thing that touches it.
I'm an average nobody though. Layne was loved worldwide. Still is. I wish he beat his demons. We've lost way too many legendary greats to the shit.
I hope you are doing ok now. I spent 20 years with the needle. I've wasted my life. If only...
If Demri had survived maybe Layne would have been still here, it was not only the addiction, he was very depressed.
You're not an average nobody.
You're a unique one and only....
I sometimes find it hard to love myself and be good to Me....then I realize: if I don't love and care for myself, no one will. Narcotics work.They are not the problem, although their lack of availability leads to other problems, they're the solution, or symptom.
Opiates are not a problem.
Not having them: that's
the problem. I've been on methadone for 16 years this time and I don't see me getting off of 210mgs at the age of 55.....it's not ideal, but, it did help me to kick everything else....now just methadone and Cannabis....California sober.
Better than fucked up.
Plus...having spent most of my heroin years in Detroit,where they had real heroin, I couldn't imagine slamming this black tar crap onto my veins...there is no real heroin anymore apparently.....it's all fentanyl, tar, and garbage.
@@JohnBock-nq9lri completely agree with what you said, except for saying that tar is garbage. Its definitely a bit worse on your veins if youre shooting up but besides that its no worse than #3/#4 and imo feels way better than #4 (never had #3 given how rare it is here in the us and i dont really wanna order from europe). Ig it depends on the quality of the tar though. Ive never had heroin off the streets (because of how much harder it is to find now that this synthetic mystery drug cocktail bullshit is taking over) so i cant speak for how good street tar is, but high quality darknet tar is amazing. Way better than high quality #4 imo. If you tried tar and hated it then it was probably just trash quality. And if you havent tried tar, then youre missing out.
@@taxevader7777sounds like old school gunpowder dope
I'm literally listening to this memoir right now! This must be my 30th -50th time listening to it in it's entirety since I got it a few years back. It's as addicting as the heroin and crack that's talked about in it 😂
So sad what a loss.both layne and mark
Kurt Cobain as well. Mark harboured a ton of guilt over (in his own words) using Kurt for his easy access to heroin. That's really sad seeing how Mark was one of the first to acknowledge Kurt and view him as a musical equal at a time when most of the Seattle scenesters looked down on Nirvana. I hope he found peace with that before he passed, and realized Kurt and Layne were on their own paths, and made their own choices.
Thank u so much for post this ,your amazing and incredible RUclipsr ever ,have a wonderful day ❤️
im crying, that made cry
Has that photograph ever been released?
God, hearing his stories puts me at my lowest, and i was nowhere near as bad as him. Being homeless, and constantly sick, living only for those moments when you can get high. Only addicts can truly relate what that headspace is like.
Great audio Mark, I have listened to it many times,thanks
It’s crazy how amazing music comes from such pain and excess trying to heal from past trauma. Creating new trauma in the end.
It’s so sad how mark made it out but Layne couldn’t
Mark Explained a touch from God very well.
The authenticity in Lanegan's voice hits all of us like a freight train. I was blown away the first time that I heard the Screaming Trees and shortly thereafter Mark's solo work.
R.I.P. mark L. U were & will b remembered by ur great talent ❤
Best audio book I've ever listened to aside from AIC, The Untold Story. Miss you Mark. 😢❤
This is a great channel. Thank you for all the videos.
I'm also listening to this right now. Normally, I prefer to read for myself but, once I saw Mark reads his own story, I was sold.
That took a lot of guts on Mark's part to do the audiobook as well. Just WRITING the book must've been harrowing for him as it was. Then deciding to go back and revisit those memories again to make a recording of it... Mark had some serious willpower. He was one of a kind.
The story of Mark and John Frusciante visiting Layne is SO sad. John and Mark were asked to visit Layne to try and talk sense into him by Layne's mother; but Frusciante, having just recently gotten clean, didn't think it would work. They went over to see Layne, who was in pretty bad shape; Layne knew why they were there, and would not listen. John, unfortunately, was right.
What year was that?
Anyway, thanks for sharing the story. It's cool to know.
@@xxLonniExxprobably 99 - 01
He gave wrong info. It was John and Bob Forrest
@scottudell7202. Dont spread false info. It was john and bob forrest
That was a powerful moment he experienced in that lawn chair. A moment of reckoning.🙏🙏RIP Mark🙏🙏🙏
This book led me to Patty Schemel's book Hit So Hard. It's on the same level as Mark's.
All Of Marks Music Is Amazing…. His Autobiography Is A Trip….. He Lived…. We Watched And Admired…..
Wow, hearing about Courtney Love doing something selfless for a change almost moved me
Seems like she was hell-bent on trying to help Mark get sober. Wild.
Shouldn't believe everything you read, especially stories about entertainers. Thimg is w a personality like courtney love people are instantly going to.think the worse without knowing anything about her...she tells it like it is and that intimates the hell out of people!
“Here out of spite”….my favorite shirt❤️🙏🏼❤️
I could listen to his voice all day.
The one thing Courtney love did that i like was she helped Mark lanegan R.I.P. to all our fallen brothers of the 90s movement u are all missed and loved forever rest easy brothers ❤️👊🤘🤟🤘🤟😎✌️
I spent 3-4 days with Lanagan in 1994. Holy shit.
This will be a great movie
Im knew to Mark Lanagen but I remember screaming trees way back. I cant relate to drug addiction but can relate to depression and how we both felt. The mans voice, singing gets right into your bones like an east wind, chilling.. I do have interest with his life and how he faught the demons of life and drug addiction. His battles and what gave him joy?
Very powerful stuff.
6:45 Mark narrates a common sense of those who , trying or to escape from "traumas/mental wounds" got caught by the grasp of addiction. Life starts when we get off the addiction. Dropping drugs makes us feel Alive, doesn't vanishes problems but give us the real overview of life , without any anesthesia of drugs. Hats off to you Lanegan, and all of us who got rid of that illness and still try to fix things in our heads. Thank you whatever you are, hope in True Eternal Peace. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Keni Richards died on April 8, 2017, reportedly in a drug-related homicide.
Reminds me so much of Bob Forrest
People that romanticise drugs listen to this, and it will change your mind very quickly! I've been there myself! Everyone needs to reach a low! To change, accept your wrongs and let your pride go away!
Thank goodness Mark Lanegan thought to do this. Everybody else was either too fkd up to care, lacked the fortitude or didn’t survive long enough. Something that, if you were a noble rockstar, you just did it. Not realizing until you were there , that inalienable path of despair, that took place in a kingdom of rockstars. These are cautionary tales..
I got that when I kicked. Your emotions all suddenly come back all at once. Crying turning to laughter and back to crying. If you feel disgust towards a junkie, try to imagine them when they were a little child. Do you think that child wanted to end up this way?
I was surprised how good Mark's book is. Definitely worth a read/listen. Glad he got these stories out or they would have died when he did.
lol that autograph video is hilarious, it’s SO bad
There’s been more rockstars who have died from the 90’s scene than from the 70’s and the ones from the 70’s are 20 years older.
I hear the word crack, I hold my breath ☠️
so many thoughts, feelings an situations ring true ( except getting high with rockstars) been clean 12 years
Very amazing story
VOICE...R.I.P MARK........
Mark had a magical voice. Why he pizzed it all away…. Just as he was separating himself from the awful trees band he was in and going solo.
i cant believe the guilt he mustve had to live with
Survivor's remorse. He was neck deep in with those guys, doing the same stuff, but they died while he survived. And he shouldered a lot of the blame for not only Layne's descent, but Kurt's as well. I can't imagine the hell Mark went through with that guilt.
I think everyone in highschool knew someone named Matt Barnum and his house was the place to party at.
Miss you Mark
Mark was at the same rehab John Frusciante was at around the same time
Does anyone know if theres a physical book available?
Sing Backwards and Weep
@Ohmytvc15 thank you! 😁
A lot of shade is put on Courtney but she did something for Mark that helped change his life
How the hell did Lanegan get to be such a great writer? This is on par with William Burroughs or JIm Carroll (though Mark made a lot better music than Carroll)
Many, when consumed with unspeakable suffering in the present, or an unspeakable fear of a known or unknown future horror, cry out for aid and mercy to a god who is not there. Those who do so are not deserving of ridicule but of compassion. There may be a greater purpose and plan for our lives. It is impossible to say with certainty. What can be said with certainty is this: The universe (and any god that may dwell within or without it) is not interested in communicating such information to us. Nor in alleviating the physical, emotional and existential pain of our human existence.
I wonder if things would have been different for him if he knew that there's no observable earth curvature.
Screw Courtney Love for slandering Mark and alleging that he never said anything positive about her in his books. He always made it VERY abundantly clear that she helped him several times when he was at his lowest.
Goddamn goddamn goddamn the pusher man, i have some very personal memories of my very heavily induced self where pride disappears with every time a memory in one of those moments appears goddam
On one hand I dislike Kortny so much, but on the other hand if she helped save Mark it’s something to her credit.
Dylan Carlson too ...I might be wrong but this "generosity " you mention ,and all about those stories , always seemed dodgy to me .
@@saraivatoledo1842 I think the song Just One Fix by ministry comes to mind where he says Never Trust a Junky. But Dylan was once Kurt’s best friend. Supposedly. Anyway Mark did a service by getting better and recording things
He never got sober to Guiness and thank god for that.
I never was a junkie, but i was dependant on a substance for 7 years straight and i smoked used fags from ash trays, nothing compairs to that scent.
Smells like Tuberculosis,I been there.
Ruined it for people who deal with real Pain ❤
What you can't get heroin, fent, suboxone or methadone? It's pretty easy.
No, that was Perdue and their incredibly unethical marketing which they were fined a billion dollars for.
Why would I listen to this pretentious reductive disaster of a life when I could just think about mine?....really....another junkie memoir? No surprises here
Eye roll
@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 my sentiments exactly.....
@@JohnBock-nq9lr let me ask you this : why would you spend your time watching videos about a subject you don't like? What exactly did you expect to hear about on a video about the life of Mark Lanegan? Wouldn't your time be better spent looking at things you like and enjoying it rather than looking at videos you don't like and complaining about them?
@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 curious about what he had to say.
Don't know if " I like it " or not until I listen. Being an opiate addict myself I was wondering if he had anything interesting/ inspiring or NEW and unique to contribute to the topic .
One does not know until one listens.
@@JohnBock-nq9lr I had my own battle with opiate addiction and self destructive behavior . I don't hear a lot of pretensions in this story . I thought his memoirs seemed pretty honest . You will be a lot happier if you find the strength to get professional help and get off the dope before you do irreparable damage to your body and mind . I say this with all respect. I know what it's like to be a slave to that shit. I woke up every day with stomach cramps and misery . I had to do my hit before I could even have my coffee. Then I started thinking about how to get more before the cold turkey. Like any other junkie. Nothing in my story is unique. But I can tell you that you'll look up one day and realize that years have gone by . I genuinely hope you can put it behind you, (if you want to)
Blessed Lord Jesus Christ,forgive us for blasphemy. Requiescat in Pace Van Conner. That dream was our Blessed Lord warning him of Hell.