Talk:Morphine (band)

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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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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