Talk:Morphine (band)

Anyone have a date of birth for Sandman? He's listed as 46 at death in his personal entry, but 47 here. I checked the newspaper obits from the time, but the Boston Globe said he was 46 and the New York Times said 47. Jbenton 22:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

September 24, 1952, according to IMDB [1] Nareek 23:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I will go ahead and add that to the article. matt kane's brain 15:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

To Mark Sandman, that is.

Introduction - Deleted content

I decided the introduction could do with mentioning that the band is no more, and that it ended with Mark Sandman's death. However, my edit was deleted. I think this is important for the introduction of the article, as it should be a brief outline of the whole band's history. Currently there is no mention if the band ever ending. I'm putting it back for now. If anyone has issue with this please discuss it here. SIGURD42 (talk) 16:49, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

CONC: Laurie Sargent

I amended the article to correct a mistake - Colley and Conway did not meet Laurie Sargent when forming Orchestra Morphine, as Sargent is Conway's girlfriend/life companion. They do not advertise or even mention this when promoting Twinemen, so I decided not to add it as a fact. I do not know how long they have been together.

-- J. Wooten

Tritare

It says Sandman played a Tritare, however on the instruments page, it is listed as being "invented in 2003 by Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier", but Sandman died in 1999, he could not have played an instrument that was not yet invented. Sandman is known for inventing unusual instruments, so perhaps the Tritare article is incorrect, I have not done the appropriate legwork on this, so if no one gets around to it, I will look further into it.

I don't have the album with me, but I think it was spelled "tritar" in the liner notes. I always assumed it was just a three stringed guitar (a "bassitar" in PUSA lexicon). Lizmarie (talk) 01:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Bass tuning

The article states that Mark Sandman usually tuned both strings of his bass to the same note. I'm not familiar with all the albums but certainly on the first three the bass is tuned to a Fifth - possibly C-G if the riff from Buena is anything to go by. The interaction of the two notes in a perfect 5th produces a difference tone at an octave below the bottom note, which is why the sound is quite deep even though the actual range is only just below that of a normal guitar; and the sliding parallel 5ths give a unique feel to the harmony on songs like Candy. Phosph 20:23, 30 August 2007 (UTC)phosph

Pictures/Photographs

Does anyone know how we can obtain a picture of Morphine to put here? Alex.angelov (talk) 13:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Recording Dates

In the info box for Cure for Pain a question mark is listed in the box as to when the album was recorded. Does anyone know when this was recorded who could fill in the info box? WesUGAdawg (talk) 21:55, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

On the case to move the information surrounding post-Morphine projects exclusively to Low rock article

This is regarding the removal of the post-Sandman's death section of the Morphine (band) article which the user Nmatavka instated, wherein the information was moved to the Low rock article which chronicles the genre coined by Morphine.

I am against the deletion herein and subsequent move of this information into the article for a number of related reasons - while it's true that Morphine 'proper' ended with the death of Sandman, it is an incomplete telling of the band's story to end the article at this point and neglect the various posthumous works significant to the Morphine catalog and overall story. While the information does in fact relate to the genre of Low rock, it is inappropriate to relegate said information to a lesser-trafficked and secondarily significant article such as Low rock, since the term was coined by (and is ultimately in reference to less popular works within a genre of music that directly stems from the more significant and noted entity of) Morphine itself. The information belongs in the Morphine story - at the very least it should remain in some form, perhaps edited down a bit with a concise redirection the Low rock article for further information, rather than a strict and unapologetic deletion that abruptly ends a story that in reality continued.

In conclusion and summary, while I very much appreciate Nmatavka's work in amassing the story of the Low rock genre, I oppose the relegation of the information surrounding the band's activity following Sandman's death to the Low rock article. I think the information is much more appropriately placed in the Morphine (band) article - and after all, there's no reason it can't be in both places! I went ahead and reinstated the information. Let's discuss further if need be. Colinclarksmith (talk) 21:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

I attempted an edit of the article in the hopes of reducing the (presumably) bulky posthumous section, but decided that most of the information therein was economical, well-stated, and very much relevant to the Morphine story. If anyone else would like to take a crack at streamlining or restructuring it, I'm all for it; but please, let's not simply delete it all wholesale - the subject does not end as abruptly as the band ended. Colinclarksmith (talk) 21:50, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

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