14 December, 2001, Teatro Breton, Salamanca, Spain

review by Paco

I´d like to thank Mark his visiting to this country and in special to a city like Salamanca. I´ve been so lucky for seeing him in Madrid and Salamanca and it has been a great experience for meeting one of the most beautiful and personal voices.

The concert in Madrid surprised me for his energy. The songs were more directs than in studio where they have more production (in special some songs like No Easy Action) with some songs the crowd was just about to explode and with others the people entered in a state of hypnosis with the voice and the long parts instrumentals; cause the band was extraordinary. The concert had a lot of great moments, I can´t take only one!! Amazing was "Pendulum", "Borracho", "No Easy action", "Because of this" and the great surprise of the night "Gospel Plow" from Screaming Trees.

So next day I moved to Salamanca. Then I met that the concert was in a theatre/cinema were usually are played movies, in fact in the entrance there was only a little reference to Mark Lanegan´s show beside the rest of the films.

Then inside the strange feeling of being in a concert sitting, but in this case I thought it was a good opportunity for appreciating all the details. In my opinion it lost a little of intensity but not feeling.

So in some songs you could see the people trying to scape from his siting. The concert began with Brett Netson with his electric guitar (the day before was Mike Johnson who opened the show) and I enjoyed both of them, Mike more mellancolic and Brett more energical.

The Mark Lanegan songs was exactly the same than the night before, but if I could I´d go to a concert like this everynight.

The people was sitting all the concert but after Gospel Plow in the last encores the people stood up and came closer to the scenary, so when Mark began to sing River Rise (the last song) and saw all the people there he really got surprised.

Two great shows and two great nights I´m just only waiting for the next time.