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Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer.
Mark Sandman – vocals, 2-string slide bass, organ, guitar, tritar; Dana Colley – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, double saxophone, triangle, backing vocals on "You Look Like Rain" Jerome Deupree – drums; Additional musicians. Billy Conway – drums on "You Speak My Language" and "You Look Like Rain"
Sandbox: The Music of Mark Sandman (also known as Sandbox: Mark Sandman Original Music) is a posthumously-released 2-CD/1-DVD set by the former Morphine frontman Mark Sandman, released in November 2004 by Hi-N-Dry and distributed by KUFALA.
[7] [8] Mark Sandman employed an octave divider to make his guitar sound similar to a bass. [9] Much of the percussion came from cocktail drum , tambourine, and wood block. [ 10 ] The band had written 20 songs over the previous two years; they recorded all of them and then chose 12 for the album.
Morphine was an American rock band formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989.Drummer Billy Conway replaced Deupree as the band's live drummer in 1991.
Sandman died of a heart attack while onstage with Morphine in Italy in 1999. In 2004, Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set was released. The 2-CD/1-DVD compilation was culled from Sandman's personal archive. It included several Treat Her Right songs, although for some unknown reason, Jim Fitting's name did not appear in the credits.
In 1996, when Morphine's record contract with Rykodisc was sold off to DreamWorks at the band's request, the band still owed Rykodisc two albums. An agreement was made in which Rykodisc obtained the exclusive rights to the two future archival releases B-Sides and Otherwise and 2000's Bootleg Detroit.
Like Swimming is the fourth studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine, released in March 1997 by DreamWorks/Rykodisc.It was Morphine's first album (out of two) released as part of their multi-album deal with DreamWorks [1] and the last album released within the lifetime of singer and bassist Mark Sandman.