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Mark Sandman and his "Super Sex" tritar.

“Super Sex” comes from Morphine’s 1995 album, Yes. Alongside his usual baritone vocals, Sandman played 2-string slide bass, piano, Chamberlin, tritar, and electric guitar on Yes—-and “Super Sex” is the song where Sandman happens to play the Chamberlin as well as the tritar.

There’s a brief flash to Dana Colley playing the alto and tenor saxophone simultaneously in the video.

Dana Colley playing double sax.

Morphine’s album, The Night, was posthumously released by Sandman's bandmates after his passing. On that note, Jean-Luc Nancy wrote something that holds my attention in The Fragile Skin of the World. I leave it here for future reckoning: “The idea of an authentic man or an authentic life can only be spoken of from a point of view that is neither human nor living, which is precisely what we lack. It is impossible for us to decide in favor of an authenticity whose content is not indicated to us.”