Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist. An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. Sandman was also known as a prominent member of the Boston blues band Treat Her Right and the founder of Hi-n-Dry, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based recording studio and independent record label. Wikipedia
Last Saturday, July 3, Mark Sandman collapsed on a stage just outside Rome. He was performing with Morphine, the Boston-based trio he'd led for the past decade. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He'd suff www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/99/07/08/MARK_SANDMAN...
July 21, 1999 I t was last fall at the Middle East, the no-frills center of the alt.music scene in Cambridge, Mass., and more- or- less the personal musical sandbox of Mark Sandman. www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/07/21/sandman/index.html
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