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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Screaming Trees: Van Conner (bass guitar); Gary Lee Conner, Mark Lanegan, Mark Pickerel, Barrett Martin. | | Personnel: Mark Lanegan (vocals); Gary Lee Conner, Mike McCready (guitar); Milori (cello); Jeff McGraph (trumpet); Benmont Tench (piano, electric piano, organ, Mellotron); Mark Pickerel, Barrett Martin (drums); George Drakoulias (percussion); Chris Cornell, Chris Goss, 21st Street Singers, Brian Jenkins (background vocals). | | Additional personnel: Milori (violin); Chris Cornell, Chris Goss, George Drakoulias, Mike McCready, Benmont Tench, Jeff McGraph, 21st Street Singers, Brian Jenkins. | | Audio Mixer: Jonas G. | | Liner Note Author: Michael Azerrad. | | Recording information: 1994. | | Photographers: Ross Halfin; Charles Peterson ; Danny Clinch. | | Screaming Trees are often incorrectly lumped in with Seattle's countless 1990s grunge bands. While they shared a club scene and a love of classic rock with those groups, the Trees were always an island unto themselves. Heavily indebted to '60s psychedelia, they were virtually alone among their peers in veering closer to the Electric Prunes than to Black Sabbath. In the first half of their career, the band recorded for SST Records, churning out a NUGGETS-friendly sound full of swirling fuzztone guitars and serpentine vocal melodies. | | OCEAN OF CONFUSION documents the latter days of the Trees, after stepping up to the majors. By this time, they were less slavishly devoted to the sounds of the '60s, and had upped the rock crunch of their sound considerably. The band's only real "hit," 1992's "Nearly Lost You," is an endearing mix of heavy-rock riffs and Motown melodicism, but much of the material here finds the group aiming for a modernized version of Led Zeppelin's progressive blues-rock, led by Gary Lee Conner's fiery guitar and Mark Lanegan's rough-edged baritone. OCEAN OF CONFUSION stands to prove that there was life beyond Nirvana in early-'90s Seattle. |
Producer: Chris Cornell; George Drakoulias; Don Fleming; Terry Date |
Engineer: John Agnello |
| | Artist Overview | | Screaming Trees was one of the marquee bands of the 1990s grunge movement. The band began its career playing a potent mix of 1960s classic rock and psychedelia infused with the urgency and power of punk rock. They released three albums on the famed indie SST during the late '80s, but like many of their Seattle brethren, the Trees had jumped to the majors by the dawn of the new decade, releasing four albums of well-crafted, melodic hard rock in the proud tradition of the many staples of FM radio. The Trees disbanded in 2000, and lead singer Mark Lanegan went on to further his already established solo career. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/24/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 92852 | | Label : Legacy Recordings | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00827969285220 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Uncut (p.128)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "Lanegan's voice is like the rumble of far-off thunder, while their blend of blues, metal and psychedelia was imitated widely..." |
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