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Although
Mark Lanegan and
Greg Dulli first met at a party in 1989, the two didn't start making music together -- and become friends, for that matter -- until the following decade, after both had experienced successful careers as members of the cult grunge bands
the Screaming Trees and
the Afghan Whigs, respectively. Their similarly troubled pasts (and presents) forged a strong bond between them, helped only by their similar musical tastes and expressions.
Lanegan showed up on the 2003 album
Blackberry Belle by
Dulli's new group,
the Twilight Singers, and
Dulli appeared on
Lanegan's 2004 solo full-length,
Bubblegum, and toured with his band as a piano player. It was in fact around this time, too, that the idea for
the Gutter Twins began to take shape, first with
Lanegan telling a journalist, unbeknownst to
Dulli, that the two were collaborating. The first recording happened at the end of 2003, but as both were heavily involved in other projects --
Dulli with
the Twilight Singers and the Italian band
Afterhours and
Lanegan not only with his solo work, but as a singer for
Queens of the Stone Age and on collaborations with
Soulsavers and
Belle & Sebastian's
Isobel Campbell -- the first actual live
Gutter Twins appearance didn't take place until September 2005, in Rome. In 2006
the Twilight Singers released
A Stitch in Time, an EP that featured two collaborations with
Lanegan, who was practically a member of the touring band at that point, anyway. Finally, signed to Sub Pop,
the Gutter Twins released their debut full-length,
Saturnalia, in March of 2008. ~ Marisa Brown