Screaming Trees: Celebs Rumors

A guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain has sold at auction for almost $600,000 – around ten times the original estimated price.The black Fender Stratocaster was used by Cobain during touring for Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album and shows signs of having been broken and repaired a number of times. Eventually it was gifted to Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan in late 1992, with inscriptions from each band member written to him on the body of the guitar.While the electronics in the guitar still work – making it technically playable – part of the neck and half of the headstock is missing, leaving it less than fully functional.Originally it was estimated that the guitar would sell at auction in New York for $60,000 – $80,000.

Mark Lanegan “co-wrote” Nirvana’s closing ‘Nevermind’ track ‘Something In The Way’.An excerpt from the new book Lanegan featuring former Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri claims that the late Screaming Trees frontman helped write lyrics for the track with Kurt Cobain, which went uncredited.“Mark said he wrote some lyrics on ‘Something In The Way’ with Kurt on ‘Nevermind’,” Oliveri told author Greg Prato via Consequence. “But Kurt had played on some of Mark’s solo stuff, ‘The Winding Sheet’.“So, instead of getting paid, they just did this thing where, ‘Hey man, I added a lyric on your song and you added a lyric on my song. Let’s just call it even.

Mark Lanegan‘s final ever video prior to his death has been released.‘Hiraeth’, from the late grunge icon and Joe Cardamone’s side project Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe, features the final filmed footage of the Screaming Trees frontman, with a collage of clips throughout his career.The second half of the video shows Lanegan and Cardamone wandering the forests around Killarney, Ireland, where Lanegan moved to towards the end of his life.The pair filmed the video after his near-death experience from COVID-19. Lanegan died at the age of 57 in February.“When I made it over to Killarney to visit Mark post-COVID/coma, we only had a week to work on filming things and humble resources,” Cardamone told Spin of the video.“We just got together every day and tried to make a go of it.

Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin has recalled how he regrets throwing a beer can at Mark Lanegan’s head – but recalled how it resulted in the pair becoming like “brothers”.Martin paid tribute to Lanegan on his social media pages this week, sharing a story about how the band used to throw beer cans at one another.The grunge icon passed away at his home in Killarney, Ireland on February 22, age 57.Martin wrote: “With the passing of our brother and bandmate, Mark Lanegan, I have found that humour is really the best medicine, and Mark knew this truth, perfectly. So I outlined 7 stories about Mark and the Trees, which I am currently writing and will post here on my pages.

Eddie Vedder was joined by The Police drummer Stewart Copeland at a California show this weekend to perform ‘Message In A Bottle’ – check out footage below.Vedder and his all-star band The Earthlings, which features Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and former RHCP guitarist (and current Pearl Jam touring member) Josh Klinghoffer, are currently towards the end of a short US tour behind Vedder’s new solo album, ‘Earthling’.At Friday night’s (February 25) show at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, Copeland joined the band on drums for an extended run through one of The Police’s biggest hits.It also saw Chad Smith, usually drummer for the band as he is in Red Hot Chili Peppers, taking up guitar duties instead.See footage of the performance below.At an earlier show on the tour in Seattle, Vedder paid a moving tribute to the late Mark Lanegan following the grunge icon’s death.The former Screaming Trees frontman passed away yesterday morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.There was an outpouring of grief from artists across the music world from the likes of Manic Street Preachers, The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, Anton Newcombe and many others.Vedder, who was performing at the Benaroya Hall, paused his show to honour the late 57-year-old.“I got here about four o’clock and all of a sudden my body started shaking a little bit,” he told the audience. “I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness.“Because we lost… there’s a guy called Mark Lanegan.

Nick Cave has shared an emotional tribute to grunge icon Mark Lanegan, who died earlier this week aged 57.Lanegan – known as the former frontman of The Screaming Trees and for his work with Queens Of The Stone Age, among other bands – passed away at his home in Killarney, Ireland on Tuesday morning (February 22).In a statement, the late musician’s family asked fans to respect their privacy at this difficult time.

Dave Grohl has paid tribute to Mark Lanegan who died earlier this week, remembering him as an artist that could expertly express emotion through singing.The Foo Fighters frontman said that Lanegan, whom he joined in being a sometime member of Queens Of The Stone Age, was “so pure and so real” in his artistry.“If he sang about pain, you believed it and if he sang about love, you believed it,” Grohl told The Independent about the late singer.“If you know anything about his story, or have read any of his books, you’ll understand why he sang what he did and why he sang it the way that he did. There was nobody like him.

Eddie Vedder paid a moving tribute to Mark Lanegan at a concert in Seattle last night (February 22) following the grunge icon’s death.The former Screaming Trees frontman passed away yesterday morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.There was an outpouring of grief from artists across the music world from the likes of Manic Street Preachers, The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, Anton Newcombe and many others.Vedder, who was performing at the Benaroya Hall, paused his show to honour the late 57-year-old.“I got here about four o’clock and all of a sudden my body started shaking a little bit,” he told the audience. “I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness.“Because we lost… there’s a guy called Mark Lanegan.

Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan has died, aged 57. No cause of death has yet been announced.“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland”, reads a statement on his Twitter account.

A.D. Amorosi Mark Lanegan’s nickname — “Dark Mark” — was no accident.

Queens of the Stone Age star Mark Lanegan has passed away at the age of 57.The sad news was shared by loved ones, who confirmed the musician’s death via a statement on his official Twitter account.The statement read: “Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. "A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time.

Mark Lanegan, the singer for grunge pioneers Screaming Trees and frequent vocalist for the Josh Homme-founded rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died today at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57.

Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone – have announced their eponymous debut album, set for release later this year.They’ve coupled the news with a striking new single titled ‘No Justice’, marking a drastic leap into uncharted territory for both artists. It’s a dizzying, distortion-tinted techno thumper, with Lanegan and Cardamone trading vocals over almost five minutes of visceral and punchy industrial beats.Have a listen to ‘No Justice’ below:In a press release, Lanegan (who fronted grunge band Screaming Trees from 1985 to 2000, and has a sprawling portfolio boasting collabs with the likes of Mad Season and Queens Of The Stone Age) noted that Dark Mark vs.

Manic Street Preachers have shared their memories of an infamous US tour with Oasis and Screaming Trees in 1996 – which led to a feud between Liam Gallagher and Mark Lanegan.The Manics were talking to NME about their upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, which features a collaboration with grunge icon Lanegan on the track ‘Blank Diary Entry’. They first met the frontman when the Manics supported Oasis in the US along with his band Screaming Trees back in 1996.Details of the tour made headlines again last year with the release of Lanegan’s memoir Sing Backwards And Weep, in which he wrote about how a fight arose after Gallagher mocked the band backstage.

Mark Lanegan has announced the release of Leaving California, a poetry book “sequel” to his 2020 grunge memoir.The former Screaming Trees frontman released the book Sing Backwards And Weep last year, detailing in it his time in the Seattle music scene in the ‘90s.Leaving California will be published by Heartworm Press, whose website says new tome merges “the lines of harsh reality and paranoia, beauty and reflection, and the wisdom of the escape artist”.The 76-poem collection is also said to be “in many ways” the second part of Sing Backwards And Weep, “where loose ends are tied and others left for dead”.“A brilliant work of true transformation, these poems also chronicle Lanegan’s exit from California for the literal greener pastures of

Mark Lanegan is gearing up to release his second Christmas record this year.The ex-Screaming Trees frontman is dropping the follow-up to ‘Dark Mark Does Christmas 2012’ this festive season, giving the record the uncreative but appropriate title ‘Dark Mark Does Christmas 2020’.The record will be released through Rough Trade. The label has shared the album’s cover art which can be viewed below.Where the original Christmas album was a tour-only vinyl press, the sequel will be available on both vinyl and CD exclusively through Rough Trade’s website and record stores.Lanegan’s first festive record featured six tracks, including ‘We Three Kings’, ‘O Holy Night’ and ‘Coventry Carol’.

"You got your grungy little knickers in a twist."

IT was one of the big public bust-ups that revealed the true tensions in Oasis. But a huge fallout between Noel and Liam Gallagher wasn’t the only reason why the Britpop icons cut short their 1996 US tour.