The festival scene helped Morphine build an international audience as fans all around the world discovered the band in live settings, including in Norway at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival.

Speaking Mark’s language at Pinkpop in 1994

As music festival season kicks into gear, we’ll be highlighting Morphine's performances and appearances from fests around the world.

Mark's typed observations on the back of a homemade Morphine flyer from 1991 inspired what would become one of the most iconic songs in the Morphine catalog. morphineband.com/collections/cu…

When working on early drafts of lyrics, an artist can become another type of artist.

Morphine's rider always included 'Exotic Mood Modifiers' before weed was legal. Sometimes the promoters would get it and sometimes the band would find themselves in a dressing room filled with lava lamps, tie-dye and incense. morphineband.com/collections/on…

The song Kerouac featured on “B-Sides & Otherwise” was an homage to one of Mark’s literary inspirations, novelist and poet Jack Kerouac.

#TBT to Morphine’s show at Irving Plaza in NYC 29 years ago with this poster by Frank Kozik. Who was able to swing low at this show?

Patrick Rasmussen Morphine

“I don't know how to tune a brain. Do you?'

“I always knew you would succeed, no matter what you tried. And I know you did it all in spite of me.”

In 98, Mark performed a stripped down version of 'In Spite of Me' at the Kendall Cafe with Pale Brothers, one of his side projects with the incomparable Jimmy Ryan on mandolin.