Following news of Mark Lanegan's passing yesterday, Eddie Vedder took time out of a performance to pay tribute to his fellow Seattle scene member.
During a solo performance in Seattle last night (February 22) alongside his Earthlings backing band, Vedder told the audience, "I got here about four o'clock and all of a sudden my body started shaking a little bit."
The Pearl Jam vocalist explained, "I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness. Because we lost… 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."
Both Pearl Jam and Lanegan's Screaming Trees both emerged from Seattle's grunge movement of the early 1990s, which also produced Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Soundgarden. Vedder's Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready contributed a guitar solo to "Dying Days" from what would be Screaming Trees' final album, 1996's Dust.
"It's hard to come to terms, at least at this point," Vedder continued. "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."
Lanegan published memoir Sing Backwards and Weep in 2020, and followed it with last year's Devil In a Coma, in which he details contracting COVID-19. 2020 also saw him deliver what would be his twelfth and final solo LP, Straight Songs of Sorrow.
Vedder is currently touring behind recent solo album Earthling, which features work with Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder and Elton John. You can watch fan-shot footage of his tribute to Lanegan below.
Pearl Jam last delivered 11th studio LP Gigaton in 2020.
During a solo performance in Seattle last night (February 22) alongside his Earthlings backing band, Vedder told the audience, "I got here about four o'clock and all of a sudden my body started shaking a little bit."
The Pearl Jam vocalist explained, "I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness. Because we lost… 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."
Both Pearl Jam and Lanegan's Screaming Trees both emerged from Seattle's grunge movement of the early 1990s, which also produced Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Soundgarden. Vedder's Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready contributed a guitar solo to "Dying Days" from what would be Screaming Trees' final album, 1996's Dust.
"It's hard to come to terms, at least at this point," Vedder continued. "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."
Lanegan published memoir Sing Backwards and Weep in 2020, and followed it with last year's Devil In a Coma, in which he details contracting COVID-19. 2020 also saw him deliver what would be his twelfth and final solo LP, Straight Songs of Sorrow.
Vedder is currently touring behind recent solo album Earthling, which features work with Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder and Elton John. You can watch fan-shot footage of his tribute to Lanegan below.
Pearl Jam last delivered 11th studio LP Gigaton in 2020.
