Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

Screaming Trees were a Seattle band who benefited from exposure in "Singles"/"Reality Bites" and of course being from Seattle. But they really were different than other "grunge" bands. First off, there's Mark Lanegan, one of the best singers of that decade. The Vann brothers, big, beautiful, and prone to conniption fits. Barrett Martin, great drummer, greater hair. Screaming Trees was the first concert I ever went to by myself (I had seen Marshall Tucker Band and The Band-minus-Robbie Robertson with my parents as a kid). It was the MTV Alternative Nation Tour, with Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum (who didn't show up), and Screaming Trees. So I just saw two bands, but it was really, really great. (And I liked Spin Doctors too, and it doesn't mean I'm a hippie.)