MORPHINE---MARK SANDMAN

[tanoka]

Hi to everybody, I´m new i this forum, my name´s David and I´m from Spain.
I´m a great fan of Morphine and their personal sound, I´d like to know how did Mark Sandman to get that hypnotik-dramatik tune. I know he played slide in a 2 string-bass, I´ve also read that he had a kind of mix betwen bass & guitar, but I´m lookig for how he made this.
Any information, picture or coment is wellcome
Thanks & greetings from Barcelona

 

[cosmodrome]

i also love morphine. i thought he used his A & D string with the D string tuned to an E. so when u use the slide it's 1 & 5th chords.

 

[Matt Till]

He has amazing tone.... I'd love to learn more about him. It's so weird, he can play simple droning riffs and they sounds like a symphony. Only a bassist like Mark Sandman could make a band like Morphine work.

Why must the talented die young?
Morphine is one of those bands that could be around for a long time.

 

[courderoy guy]

I actually got to meet Mr. Sandman for a few minutes at a bar in Minneapolis around the "yes" years. I asked him about his bass, and he told me he played a four-string bass with the D and G strings removed, and also had his frets removed from a fretted bass. Don't know if he played that his whole career, but at least during that album he was. Nice guy, by the way, real decent to a guy who just sort of walked up to him and said hi.

 

[Mon Rominee]

iirc, he used an old Premier scroll-horned bass, which was strung with the two middle nut slots filled (as in a & D string positions) and he used a whole set of P pickups, on e coil placed in the neck position, and one of the coils in the bridge position.

He was the coolest, smoov-est cat ever. Great band, sorely missed.

 

[mr e]

The Twinemen

 

[Brendan]

H It's so weird, he can play simple droning riffs and they sounds like a symphony.

I know, it's weird. I have some live videos, and it's live, too, so it's not production magic.

He's one of my favorite bassists. I absolutely adore Morphine; Cure for Pain is one of my favorite albums.

 

[Adam Barkley]

I dig everything I have heard by Morphine, and I wish I could come up with some the riffs that Mark Sandman did.

Like Swimming is my favorite album by them, narrowly beating out Cure for Pain.

 

[Erlendur Már]

I own 2 Morphine cd's (Good and Yes) and I love them.

 

[watspan]

well, I'll be the odd man out--I didn't like morphine--but I loved Treat Her Right! Saw them live in 87 or so--Mark played "Low Guitar" as I recall it was a regular guitar run through an octave pedal. Billy Conway on the "cocktail" drum and jim fitting on the harp made for an awesome blues/roots/punky kind of thing.

 

[Matt Till]

I know, it's weird. I have some live videos, and it's live, too, so it's not production magic.

He's one of my favorite bassists. I absolutely adore Morphine; Cure for Pain is one of my favorite albums.

Hell yeah, I heard the live tracks on the B-sides CD and damn I would have guessed it studio.

 

[Matt Ides]

D and G string tuned up to A. I know he also play a tritar (sandmans creation) with 1 bass and 2 guitar strings.

D was the key of Morphine.

Night proves how great they were as band.