Life ain't too bad. Its certainly ain't as bad as it could be. That's what Mark Lanegan(Or the Mark Lanegan Band as they were now known) convince you of.
I've seen lanegan about 3 times now. First time was in about 98' with about 50 other people, when he was touring "scraps at midnight" (Mike Johnson - guitar, Ben Shepherd - bass, Marc Olsen - guitar, Mark Bouquist - drums). His music has got much heavier, probably due to his time spent with queens of the stoneage, and much more popular, definitely due to his time spent with queens of the stoneage.
Now we have full protools drums etc. Which is a far stretch from the traditional blues which he verged on before. He has however lost none of his angst, pain, hurt, and he still doesn't open his eyes when he sings.
The Melkweg was full to the brim. The more electric band makes it a far darker sound(Well it was dark before, but now its loud and dark). They played mostly from the new album "Bubblegum", and it was pretty good
I preferred it when it was 50 guys who liked screaming trees who had all went to the gig alone tho.
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