Morphine — Live in New York
Recorded March 27, 1999
Bowery Ballroom · New York · 
United States
Setlist
Wrong timestamp?
Latest album at the timeLike Swimming1997The last studio album released up to that night, it appears in five songs, including Potion and Eleven O'Clock.“To see Morphine at the Bowery Ballroom with its two drummers, a little more than three months before Sandman's death.”
Context
On March 27, 1999, Morphine arrives at the Bowery Ballroom with one concrete difference: there are two drummers in the lineup. Jerome Deupree is back playing alongside Billy Conway. After Like Swimming, the group is working on the sessions that will lead to The Night, still unreleased that spring.
On stage, Mark Sandman takes vocals and two-string slide bass, while Dana Colley fills the space of the saxophones. Have a Lucky Day opens the musical run. Rope on Fire and Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer sit alongside Thursday and Cure for Pain, bringing the next album close to the earlier ones.
A little more than three months later, Sandman dies during a performance in Palestrina, Italy. The Night arrives in February 2000, with the work finished by his bandmates. The Bowery footage preserves this four-musician setup before the break, with the new songs already sharing space with the established repertoire.
- Rope on Fire and Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer preview the posthumous album The Night.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Mark SandmanVocals and two-string slide bass
- Dana ColleySaxophones, including bass sax and two saxophones at once
- Billy ConwayDrums
- Jerome DeupreeguestDrums; special guest on the tour
Trivia
Jerome Deupree, Morphine's original drummer, plays alongside Billy Conway, bringing together the four musicians in the band's history.
Rope on Fire, Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer and A Good Woman Is Hard to Find appear before the release of The Night.
More concerts by Morphine
Morphine
1990·Live in Cambridge
BootlegMorphine
1990·Live in Cambridge
BroadcastMorphine
1994·2 Meter Sessions — Bullet Sound Studios
Era of Cure for Pain (1993)
BroadcastMorphine
1994·Pinkpop 1994
Album Cure for Pain (1993)
BroadcastMorphine
1995·Live on French TV
Album Yes (1995)
Morphine
1997·SummerStage 1997
Tour of Like Swimming (1997)
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