MORPHINE - Honey White live

[wvreddd]

so sexy

[zkxb]

Lisa Simpson also plays baritone sax.

[FranciscMadeira]

hi! I have made a tribute to Morphine and specially to Mark playing this amazing song! hope you guys like it, best regards

/watch?v=ICcQ0oPz8fU

[Giocaporla]

lsd!!!

[AeolisticFury]

Bare-bones rock and roll.

[perilla1990]

grande banda!

[justinbieberburn]

FUCK I CAME ON MARK SANDMAN'S CLOSE UP

[contrabassbob]

At 1:27 the vocal and bari sax REALLY line up nicely!

[toriphile426]

it is a strange instrument arrangement: sax (sometimes double), drums, and a two string slide bass. i mean 2 string bass? and slide ta boot?  and no heavy lead guitar? he was a true innovator

[mcluskysf]

Someone have the videoclip for this one?

[EdvTheMan]

Véi, ducaraio...

[jacknarcotta]

Something a friend of mine said years ago still sticks with me: "When you're listening to Morphine, you feel cooler than everyone else."

[moop547]

this is the wierdest combination of instruments but it works soooooo well

[Janitor989]

@moop547 yeah who would have thought up bass and drums together.. ..y'know and a saxophone? wtf I thought those only worked in high school marching band.. :P

stupidest comment ever. ..from you. ..cept the working sooooo well part.

[Atma505]

@Janitor989 chill bro, it's just an unusual basis for a rock band is all he meant

[Janitor989]

@Atma505 no it's not... :P you know nothing about music if you think it's unusual.

[Atma505]

@Janitor989 unusual doesn't mean bad or anything. when you think of a rock band, guitar, vocals, bass and drums are the general consensus. The Beatles did it, so you can blame them.

[Janitor989]

@Atma505 I didn't say it's bad to say it's unusual.. ..it's just.. .....not unusual. ..it's NOT UNUSUALLL to be loved by anyone...

[alljunkys]

no comments

[Hrko1992]

I didnt know Jesus liked to play sax

[ABCmeltdown]

Thanks to Dana, I play a bari sax now myself. This music blows my mind!

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I only discovered Morphine a couple of weeks ago, have played the hell out of Yes, Good and Cure For Pain...amazing albums.

[WeenBanjo]

@Sesquipedaliantique check out LIKE SWIMMING!

[davdadasdd]

And everything that fell from the sun gathered in clumps and clouds

Spinning through the void on its way to the moment

When the gods would scrape the chaff from the piles of the harvest

[TheXmas50]

Man, that drummer is into it!

[Doctye]

Im argentinian, have 15 when mark dies. very sad day. THANKS FOR YOUR MUSIC MORPHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKES ME FLY!!

[mowgloves]

Check out Monkeys of White Glove!!

We play some covers of morphine with unusual instruments like tuba. It's our beggining. We hope that you enjoy it :D

[Hermunkle]

John Stewart Vocals, Steve Martin on Drums, and Jesus plays Sax

[pattonPwr]

one of the most creative and original rock bands in music history. miss them

[kaptainkarkass]

holy shit this is hot. what a killer fucking band.

[mariocesarcruz]

o banda boa do caralho , jesus !!! fucking awesome band and tune

[bubblezen]

I really wish my voice sounded like Mr. Sandman´s... there´s no woman on earth who wouldn´t fall for that voice! I suppose Jeezus, next to him, blessed the man!

[norbertxan]

Jesus Christ plays sax in this band.

[TheManWhoWasTooLoud]

You'd think Morphine would've be more popular with Jesus on the sax.

[raphaelsilva22]

rock de classe sem guitarra e com um baixo de duas cordas, só morphine, nunca me canso

[FlavioMOliveira35]

this is the deppest place music went ever ..miss you morphine!!!

[ETElephantTrain]

Fuck ya...! i just assploded!

[signsandwondersca]

the one kind of morphine that you cant get enough of

[maxyudin]

Need more strings? Two are enough )

[nahum8095]

un poco zarpado!!

[achickensandwich]

Bass and sax... my kind of band.

[robbie69612]

Awesome!!!!! Morphine were a great original group loved it, Thanks for the upload,

[MsFlorida11]

: )

[MOUTHTROMBONE]

fuckin' awesome!!!! They were incredibly original!

[OrionDive]

Actualy it's a Premier bass, very rare but not a custom bass...

The only thing I think he customised was the neck pickup, it look like a precision pickup.

[pretentiouspigeon]

I love how the camera isnt cutting every five seconds so we can actually see the band in full glory! Such an insane bass player i mean talk about reinventing the whole instrument! Excellent

[DamageDone13]

Unique band,unique sound,Mr.Sandman was one of a kind!

[TheHarecat]

Coolest group on the planet....We miss you, Mark, man.

[lullachild]

wow i'd do anything to keep Sandman alive. I stumbled on Morphine thinking I was going to get Jacksons's "Morphine". In the throws of extreme MJ obsession this is the only group that can compete for me. Didn't realized that he too had died until recently. Need a cure for pain...

[bakedzale]

No one can touch Morphine. One of the most original bands ever.

[fuzzy8475]

i used to get really fdup to these guys.

[Mrius86]

OMFG this song is so freaking good!! I love it!!

[jburwi]

oh!!!! how i like morphine!!

[rollo131]

Best. Band. Ever.

[Veganbel1]

wow1

[icutyouupsobad]

anyone know what brand bass he plays because it's the niest looking and sounding thing i've seen since the beatles' rickenbacker

[Ishikabibble]

@icutyouupsobad He plays an old Premier bass. "Premier" being an amp company. The only "custom" part of the bass was the setup and playing style, which was removing the E and G strings, raising the action to 3/4s an inch (supposedly), then playing it with a slide and using a bunch of effects pedals. Also had a bit of an oddball tuning too, but I don't know that offhand.

[dusaovox]

só faltou eu no baixo

[MrErikmartins]

@dusaovox KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

[dusaovox]

@MrErikmartins e não falta?

[4848steven]

I saw them live seven times. Mark sandman's death was a true loss to their art-form. Nobody makes music like that anymore. Dana Colley playing the double sax blew my mind the first time I saw them in 96'. Yeah, DustyPeople1, your absolutely right, man.

[snowgod37]

a.k.c.o.d minus the sandman.

[SativaBeliver]

when I saw les claypool at the house of blues the remaing members came on stage and played this

[LoveNotLabels]

I saw the remaining members last night at Atwood's in Cambridge, MA - they did this song. They are still amazing - they are there every Wednsday

[begily]

i discovered this band about 2 weeks ago, and i was so sad when i found out what happened to mark sandman.

[BurgessPenguin]

Needs more baritone sax! ;)

Seriously, there's NOBODY on the planet that sounded like Morphine. Mark Sandman was an original ,no doubt.

[mulj0k]

this is so great that i am about to ****** in my pants.

[pipiboca]

altos pulmones tiene el melenudo

[Pagio994]

It's similar to Don't misunderstand me by Rossington-Collins Band.

[Sonicmale]

Search for "members of Morphine" or google it and you can see that they are playing out.

I saw them last night in Rhode Island. They play some of the greatest Morphine songs.

Maybe they will be at your city next. Keep checking their myspace page

[Nitro487]

Mark Sandman is dead though, Morphine isnt anything without him.

[DustyPeople1]

You can still see them now I'm sure, but Its like watching Queen, its not the same and can never be the same without their original lead singer.

[xbfalcon351coupe]

Anyone got a good clip of Sharks patrol these waters?

[CowboyMidnight]

i love this band....

[mulj0k]

I WANT THIS HAT!!!

[wwgt]

What a unique rocking sound..

rare in these days of FM mediocrity and

sound alikes.....

guys you are sorely missed ...

[redneckdiva33]

used to listen to this with an exbf who is dead now this song brings back so many good memories thanks 4 posting it :)

[gagishy]

Gosto dessa banda! Música da poesia noturna. Vai-se o homem, fica a obra. Magnífico!

[Malookoo008]

Ah gande TUGA! XD bem dito :D

[rboxo]

nem mais

[Thorum13]

Great band!! Brilliant!!

[PoireauMan68]

...every so often the British press go on about such and such and often it's a band with no testicles they is talkin about...I mean not litterally, when I saw MORPHINE on telly they were just...SOMETHING ELSE...like when I saw SOUL COUGHIN in NYC just by chance...man..what a revelation? then I think they argued amongst themselves ans split Now I listened to Stravinsky...ahahaha ...thanks 4 yr correspondance!

[nmatavka]

Mark, the singer, is *dead*. The band did not split up. He died at age 45 from a heart attack, possibly caused by 20-plus years of chain-smoking, or being stabbed in the chest while working as a cab driver to pay his way through college. The other two members, Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree, hired pop singer Laurie Sargent and changed their name to Twinemen. They're still alive and kicking.

[heinzie5]

i clicked on this by accident. its will good though xD

[mihail1111]

I just disovered this guy and already love him! He is my brother forever !!!

[MrFuriousFresh]

He died in Italy in 99.

The next show on the tour was in Portugal.

Fuck Mark, don't hang on me like this....

[Nightfall95]

Dana Colley is on the new Big D and the Kids Table album, "Fluent in Stroll" I heard a few tracks with him and I personally think those are the best ones on thee album. He knows how to wail on a sax!

[andrzej66]

God, I miss these guys.

[3MDMP]

What a great band... The music is so warm and powerful. I´ve heard that Mark died playing "super sex", is that true? LOVE MORPHINE 4 EVER!

[cretinolf666]

yes he died in palestrine just before super sex..he had an heart attack because of his use of cocaine..

[Moissenjeff]

palestrine?

[cretinolf666]

it's a smalle town near Rome in Italy..

[ShotgunHeroX]

you talkin' a lot o shit boy.

Get your facts straight. The man was in his fifties, he died because he had a damaged heart because of a knife stabbin'. Man never even touched dem drugs.

[cretinolf666]

actually he died at the age of 46..

[chowderhead]

The knife stabbing happened in 1979. It was very serious, his diaphragm split open after the initial ER visit and all his upper organs slipped down towards his abdomen. However he got good care for that, and after a few months in an array of bandages he healed up pretty good. Mark was my roommate at the time, having moved into my apt during his recovery from this incident. My feeling was that his heart attack was caused by cigarette smoking. He chain smoked for as long as I knew him -- 29 years.

[Gibsonrocker15]

when did he die?

[chowderhead]

July 3, 1999.

[PoireauMan68]

whats that about?? I never knew...what was the circun=mstanvces of this...er...incident? SOUL COUGHIN and MORPHINE best music of the NINETIES beats any BRITPOP nonsense by 8000 miles...R I P...

[chowderhead]

Long before Morphine OR Treat Her Right, Mark drove a cab in Boston to put himself through college. One night a customer had Mark drive to an out of the way location and robbed him. He then reached around the plexiglass and stabbed Mark in the abdomen. The situation became complicated as previously stated, but Mark seemed to have healed up okay. He never even finished his painkillers -- gave them to me for a broken ankle a few months later!

[PoireauMan68]

thanks a bunch.I saw MORPHINE on telly in the UK,I think it was a GLASTONBURY show.then they played THE GARAGE in LONDON and I went along.them and SOUL COUghin' were the best bands to come out of the US round that time. I saw SPEEDBALL BABY and they were great too but shortly disbanded after I saw them...I too assume MARK was a big druggie cos' to die like the French playwright MOLIERE you had to be a GENIUS or a druggie...I mean wasn't there an italian doctor in the audience for goodness' sake.

[chowderhead]

Mark was not a big druggie by any means. He smoked a fair amount of pot, but never any hard stuff. I hadn't seen him for about a year before he died, so this may have changed, but he always seemed almost constitutionally against it. He also drank, but very rarely to excess. I can't answer your question about the doctor, I just don't know.

[PoireauMan68]

I mean...a lot of people I loved in music were smoking the dragon or taking stuff...but a lot of them have abused them so much they snuffed it....I mean early...I'd only seen MORPHINE once and then...as they toured Italy I heard about Mark's death...I didn't make assumption but I thought such a sudden death and in such circumstances??? I was S A D cos' really MORPHINE was one of the best combo I'd seen in the NINETIES...living in LONDON I'd develop a sorta immune system against the music press..

[nmatavka]

And being stabbed in the chest 20+ years earlier couldn't account for a heart attack?

[orsonrockwell]

yes it could...what are you thinking?

[orsonrockwell]

of course it could...what are you thinking...not saying thats why it happened but thats a pretty crass and uninformed statement!

[nmatavka]

Mark drove a cab in his college years to pay tuition. One day, he got told to drive to some next destination, and he got stabbed. Collapsed his lung. And smoking cigarettes for 3o years didn't help his health either.

[Broadway5555]

you really don't know what you're talking about.

[gll84]

SUPERLOW Movement!!! This is ART!

[ruibumbo]

ganda banda

[uatemybueno]

Amen keefek, at least not any that I know of...

It sucks that this sound seems to have died with Sandman. The music is so rich and complete, and the lyrics provoke such a great depth of feeling and imagery. It's astonishing that such a sound was created by a band so stark its make up. Hard to believe that by using only vocals & three instruments, Morphine was able to manifest music so wildly complex and compelling.

Glad to see people still dig it, but how could we not?

[keefek]

Fact is, there was NEVER a band like Morphine.

Genuine, original, inspired, supremely talented.

[AcidDolly]

WOw those rings under mark's eyes say a lot abt the previous night to that performance.

[Vincentgriezelig]

what a godly sweet sax!

[freshgreeb]

love them! ooohm!

[milathewho]

he sings like knopfler and joe strummer together

[bemisuk]

Jeez, I LOVE this band.....and a classic song from them - great clip.

: )

Thanks for posting....

Gareth

[dinoherbert]

simplesmente geniais! pena que tudo de bom acaba!

[claudiocollica]

He used an audio effect in voice. Do you know wich is it?

[nmatavka]

It's his mike -- not visible here, but Sandman used a greenish-grey Shure torpedo mike, which isn't for voice (I seem to remember that it's for harmonica), and so it distorts the voice, to excellent effect.

[bostonconvic]

Bullet Mic.

[phildirt3]

i have a cassette of treat her right great tunes hank was my favorite

[nelsonnovoa]

so cool

[rossignoli]

muitoo manero

[antosabarbonio]

a melhor banda rock de sempre..........

[bes15108]

The only band that sounded good at the old Metropol in Pittsburgh; that bottom end sound just worked there. Danced all night with some big breasted gal I met there. But I never even got her name. One of the best shows I ever saw.

[wenders99]

Metropol sucked. Concrete walls. I saw Wilco there and the tunes are still stuck in reverb.

[phildirt3]

the best band period saw them twice was going to be a third had tickets mark died wow sos sad

[sunilthegreat]

on 9-9-99 we sat on the front porch, drinking red wine, and listening to all of Mark's work we had. Morphine, TreatHerRight, bootlegs, et al... i got to smoke a joint with him in 96. another great creative mind gone from our generation. i saw them 4 times and each one was incredible.

[phildirt3]

i was smoking a joint watching them playing this at bumpershoot in seattle had to be about the same year cant remember

[heymarlarae]

never saw them...

[nepenthean]

saw them during horde tour in the mid 90s. awesome. place was rocking. saw the drummer in his tour bus staring out the window.

[mushroomlounge]

That's billy conway, my mother's high school romance.

you're a lucky man for getting to see them.

[guaranteedkill]

The volume is too low. Can barely hear it even with my speakers all the way up.

[Sliverhandsonbass]

Fantastic!

[doctor22paul]

i saw them play on the street in cambridge. i feel lucky to have seen them rip their hometown to shreds.

[rokkaholic]

whyy does he only have a 3 string?

[ricbear]

It's actually a 2-string.

[phonono]

Who needs 4 strings when you can pull this stuff with only two. Five-string basses are for pussies. Mark Sandman was the real shit. RIP Mark you're still alive in our dreams.

[kapdrums]

you spoke the TRUTH my brother...that's what's up!

[zxcv1234vcxz]

@phonono

"I have enough trouble with four strings!"

- Geddy Lee, on why he doesn't play a five string bass

[wrbliam]

AHH! Mark Sandman rocking on at the great gig in the sky! Billy Conway kicks ass on drums and Dana Colley(?) I had the pleasure of hearing THR at the plow and stars many a Tues night... Hail Dave Champaigne and jim Fitting

[ABCmeltdown]

How long would it take for someone new to the saxophone to be able to play this kind of song with average practice and average talent??

[ricbear]

To play the notes? Not long - to get the feel, a lifetime...

[kapdrums]

another DEAD ON comment!:)

[erry29]

yeah!!!!

[SaweetTooth]

wheres his bullet microphone

[Morituria]

He's not using it here; he didn't use it in all his songs. On some live clips you'll see two microphones in front of him, and one looks like a -- bulet. There's just some reverb on his vocal in this song.

[Spectrum345]

I have a fantasy... To play that song on the tenor sax (i'm too small for the baritone) WHILE sexy dancing and wearing heels... ^_^

[irishchaos]

I think we would all love to see that! Make a video and post it on here. Haha..

[bronk17]

Some years ago I was having a tough time, working a crummy job, crashing on a friends couch, etc. and the music of Morphine gave me the escape from my bleak reality that I so desperately needed. This music is fantastic--to say the least. Thanks for posting this.

[vasquito21]

lo mejor que vi en mi vida en vivo....fue en bs as

[marcosquis]

Impresionante, cada vez que lo escucho mi piel se eriza, mi alma y mi estomago se encrispa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mistabook]

YEAH!

[arlex6]

Great song great band great sound.

He seems the Lou Reed's clone. same face same attitude same instrument.

;)

[HumGuitar]

Uhh, Lou plays guitar. Mark is playing bass, a two string bass at that. Just four strings away and a couple of octaves. Good try, you were close.

[chef78704]

yer a dick

[HumGuitar]

Your comment lacks intellectual humor. I guess when you are lacking in the IQ department, its a good strategy to resort to foul-mouth name calling.

[SetTheControlsForThe]

Still a bit harsh though, he is a bit Lou like though i mean same kinda instrument string bassed amazingly probley unique style with it though but I can hear a bit of Lou in Morphine

[Morituria]

But arlex6 nailed it on the other two. Mark Sandman totally had the Lou Reed vibe going.

[alinefoxy]

LOVE THIS SONG!!!

[efrenlugo]

Mark Sandman die in 1999 on stage of a heart attack.

[beardstrike]

This sounds so much like a noir detective novel.

[madrfakr00]

How did Mark died?

[NachoDread87]

He died on-stage of a heart attack on July 3 of 1999, during a performance in Rome.

[liveon35mm]

i was there :-(

[Salgueirovsky]

Love the way drummer's playing

[Blacktelecaster]

I saw these guys at Toad's Place in New Haven in the late 1990's/ excellent show. You have to love the two string bass and the two saxophones at once; and whats with the smiles on that drummer with the hats?

[isryeale216]

Testify.

[myfriendadam]

amazing

[denandy]

hey im from belgium

i know these guys for a month or 2 now

i was shoked to hear what happend to mark

bet we'll all miss them

thanks for posting !

[DalHap]

i started listening to these guys after seeing them on the Conan O'Brien Show. i was sold like that. i really miss them too.

[pusshat]

Same here ;)

[eldragondeginebra]

Same here at Colombia! thanks Mark!

[futrzak2143]

I've just dropped by and realized he's no longer here and how much we miss him...

[rmsmith666]

i think it was jon stewarts old talk show ted nugent was on it ......

[drummerwithafro]

where is this being performed? some Tv show is it?

[zoomparker]

late night with David Letterman back in 94 or 95

[rvvm76]

de la conchasuputamadre morphine... lo maximo