This is a really interesting historical and technical background to the unique and sexy sound of Morphine, one of my dear departed favorite 90’s bands. I knew Mark Sandman played a heavily modified bass with two strings, but didn’t know he played everything with a slide—and the action on his strings so high.
I also like how the host goes into the interplay between Sandman and Dana Colley’s baritone sax and how the latter complimented both the bass and vocal melodies in such a unique way. There’s something about a tight group with a rock-solid drummer high in the mix that does it for me; see: Soul Coughing, Smashing Pumpkins, early Queens of the Stone Age. It also just occurred to me that Sandman died two years before I started this weblog.