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Courtney Love posted a memorial “tribute” to late grunge icon Mark Lanegan Saturday that devolved into a rambling bit of score-settling about his first memoir — and, for some reason, Anthony Keidis’ as well.
According to Stereogum, who spotted the post on Instagram before Love deleted it, she began, “Rip mark. You were a good friend to me & Kurt. even if in your book you wrote our close friendship out, I’m still baffled & so sad about that. But sigh. ‘market forces of sexism’ #. It is what it is.”
Pivoting, she continued, “In #anthonykiedis’ book #scartissue despite us being roommates and hanging out ALOT & also in BED, for years previous to me begging Kurt not to kick @chilipeppers off the cow palace NYE 92 show due to @flea333 – whose never sold me out – generosity being the reason hole could even rehearse – in ‘ #scar tissue’ I first appear on Kurt’s arm? ‘whining’ ?”
“You f–king dudes and your stupid f–king books,” she added. “I’m finishing mine now so it’ll be riddled with lightning flashes of brutal truths & remembrances of all your little Weiners. So put your panties on cuz you’ll need them. I’m over taking your bs books where im a ‘whiny’ adjacent of mr cobain period, personally.”
Getting back to Lanegan, Love wrote, “In any event ‘the winding sheet’ & the stunning ‘whiskey for the Holy Ghost’ we’re [sic] my brilliant soundtracks for all of awful 1994, I always thought you were a man of great honor & underrated.”
“I’d have done anything for you & I did,” she went on. “I co signed your mortgage. I put you in sober living for a year. I paid for 3 rehabs. & of course I never wanted or needed any public acknowledgment or thanks for it. And. I didn’t get it either! Lol.
“I heard you had a long covid bad death & im so sorry. Rest in power. I’d like to think you’d have come around & made up for your appalling rendition of me in your tome mark, wherever you are.”
Love, 57, eventually replaced the post with a picture of her and Lanegan and the much shorter caption, “safe travels lanegan.”
Lanegan passed away at his home in Killarney, Ireland, at the age of 57 Tuesday morning. The Screaming Trees frontman’s death came less than a year after a months-long battle with COVID-19, which he outlined in his second memoir, “Devil in a Coma,” published in 2021.
Lanegan’s first memoir, “Sing Backwards and Weep,” contained a trove of juicy stories from his time in the trenches of the music industry, and does in fact mention that Love funded at least one of his stays in rehab. The two had a checkered relationship: Lanegan said he remained wracked with guilt for not taking Kurt Cobain’s call to him on the day the Nirvana frontman committed suicide out of fear the call would be about some drama with his wife Love.
And in at least one interview promoting “Sing Backwards,” Lanegan told Rolling Stone that Love — among the many musicians he shared a heroin habit with — “was directly involved in saving my life.”
Explaining that she took the ingenious step of leaving him literature about rehab at a pawn shop he frequented, Lanegan explained that while an organization called the Musicians’ Assistance Program (now MusicCares) funded part of his stay, “Courtney ended up paying for my rent there for months.”
“I remember waking up in rehab,” he continued, “and the room was filled with bags of new clothes that she had sent in.”
Asked about why he thought Love supported him, he said, “I remember Courtney leaving me a letter saying, ‘Kurt loved you as a big brother and would have wanted you to live. The world needs you to live.’
“That was powerful because I hadn’t done any good for anybody in years … I owe her a great, great debt that I can never repay.”
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