Cool ! Thank you for the post ! I'm happy to see that they were fans...couldn't imagine !! Nice interview !

It makes absolute sense to me that Mark Sandman felt an affinity for Prince---he was not a "fan"...he was a fellow muscian that invented instruments, would more often than not vere from the platlist of a show, quite often as the band was playing something already...he was innovative, followed his heart, his soul, and he followed the music...sorry, the word "fan" really makes me sick to my stomach, it is short for "fanatic" and really is a cheap word to describe what any work of art does for someone when it speaks to them: it rocks one to the core, has a greatness that cannot be explained....it is visionary, prophetic, a message from God.....If you are standing in front of a VanGogh, either it moves you or it does not: either way noone can expalin it's greatness: VanGogh once wrote that success is the worst thing that could happen to an artist: VanGogh could not not paint, just as Mark Sandman could not not make music, just as Prince can not not make music.....Mark Sandman was making music long before Morphine and with local bands at the same time as Morphine, he would jam with bands on the road.....TREAT HER RIGHT and MORPHINE were not the beginning and the end for Mark Sandman.....The first song I heard was "YOU LOOK LIKE RAIN".....from MORPHINE record GOOD...check out that song and the Mark Sandman/Prince connection will smack you in the face.....sorry, forgive my rambling on and on, but I will wrap up all my blah, blah,blah with this, something someone once quoted to a studio full of wanna be, gonna be painters who would never be: it goes something like this: the hand can't go where the soul won't let it.....if anyone understands this, well...maybe, just maybe, y'all would get that what makes a great piece of art great is the magic, that snap, crackle, pop, that cannot be analizied, probed, examined, explained: y'all would be out there doing whatever it is that does it for you to see GOD is love and the world is a gift, watch the grass grow, smile at the gal that pours your cup of coffee everyday.....what do I know.....I had to go all the way down before I could come back up and really really SEE what matters: a great song matters, FAITH matters, GRACE matters.....