Musicians are beginning to pay tribute to the late Mark Lanegan after he passed away on February 22.
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Best known as the frontman of Screaming Trees, Lanegan passed away at his home in Ireland on Tuesday.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl had worked with Lanegan as part of Queens Of The Stone Age and spoke to The Independent about the impact he had. Grohl called Lanegan’s talent and artistry “so pure and so real” explaining how much of an effect it had on him. “If he sang about pain, you believed it and if he sang about love, you believed it,” Grohl said.
“If you know anything about his story, or have read any of his books, you’ll understand why he sang what he did and why he sang it the way that he did. There was nobody like him. In Seattle he was much loved.”
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Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder also took the time to honor Lanegan during a recent concert in Seattle. Vedder told the audience that upon arriving at the venue that afternoon, his body “started shaking a little bit.”
“I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness,” Vedder said. “There’s a guy called Mark Lanegan. You know, there are a lot of really great musicians, some people know Seattle because of the musicians that have come out of the great Northwest. Some of those guys were one of a kind singers. Mark was certainly that and with such a strong voice.”
Vedder told the crowd that it was “hard to come to terms” with Lanegan’s passing, “at least at this point.”
“He’s gonna be deeply missed, and at least we will always have his voice to listen to and his words and his books to read, he wrote two incredible books in the last few years. Just wanted to process it and put it out there, let his wife and loved ones know that people in his old stomping grounds have been thinking about him and we love him.”
Check out fan shot footage of Vedder’s tribute here.
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