{"id":276,"date":"2009-12-10T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youpoordevil.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-12-10T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:37:42","slug":"i-went-to-hi-n-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youpoordevil.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/i-went-to-hi-n-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"I went to Hi-N-Dry!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jacob
Jacob holding Mark Sandman's 2-string slide bass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been a fan of the band Morphine<\/a> since their second album, Cure For Pain<\/a>. An ex-girlfriend introduced me to their music, and I’ve loved it ever since. And, as is my nature when I’m into<\/em> something, I consume whatever I can. So I also really dug the band Mark Sandman<\/a> (songwriter for Morphine) started before Morphine, Treat Her Right<\/a>. Of course, I was terribly saddened by the death of Mark Sandman in 1999. I was working at a restaurant at the time, and played all of his albums back to back for the entire day.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I had some free time after a shoot in Boston ended a earlier than expected. I decided to check out some of the places Mark Sandman spoke about and performed, places like The Plough and Stars, The Middle East, and his studio dubbed Hi-N-Dry Studios<\/a>. (I didn’t get to make it to finding Mark Sandman Square<\/a>, the weather was terrible).<\/p>\n

When I got to Hi-N-Dry, it didn’t look like the kind of place I’d imagined. Most of the liner notes art for Morphine records made it look like a loft of some sort. It turns out it was. Had I read the page for The Mark Sandman Music Project<\/a>, I would have learned that the studio had moved in order to accommodate the project’s new mission, which is music education. It makes sense to be housed in a community center. The studio still functions as a recording studio and performance space, however.<\/p>\n

Andrew Mazzone, Boston-area musician and manager of Hi-N-Dry, generously showed me around the place, which housed most of Mark Sandman’s gear, including his famous 2-string slide bass (shown above), the original 2-string slide bass, and all sorts of other instruments and Morphine memorabilia.<\/p>\n

As a huge fan of Morphine, it was a really cool experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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