#Steve Wynn

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The Baseball Project - Sometimes I Dream Of Willie Mays (2008)

my hero as a kid - R.I.P.

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Happy Valentine's Day |2024|

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Steve Wynn  *February 21, 1960

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Steve Wynn - Making Good On My Promises

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3/23/23.

The Dream Syndicate have been a growing favorite over the past decades. My friend Rick was always pushing them, and while I never resisted, I never really embraced the band. However, I can state unequivocally that "That's What You Always Say" was an immediate favorite. "Halloween" soon followed. Then my friend Eric played "The Days of Wine and Roses" at one of our many listening parties.

Then I bought "The Complete Live at Raji's" and got the chance to see the band live. Wow.

I'm probably not telling anyone anything they don't already know. But this reissue of The Day of Wine and Roses by UK-based Fire Records is special. The extras are just incredible. People often list other "Paisley Underground" bands like The Three O'Clock, The Bangles, Green on Red and Rain Parade when discussing The Dream Syndicate. And while I have no doubt those bands were part of a scene, they don't necessarily sound like one another.

To me, The Dream Syndicate recalls the work of True West, The Wipers and Television. Steve Wynn started bands here in Davis, California (with Kendra Smith and later Scott Miller), but he formed The Dream Syndicate in Los Angeles.

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Listen to: Ichiro Goes to the Moon by The Baseball Project

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The Dream Syndicate - Crystal Ballroom, Somerville, Massachusetts, September 18, 2022

There's a very expanded edition of The Days of Wine and Roses coming out in June — and it looks very cool, chock full of rarities and live jams. While we wait for that, let's listen to this: Daniel Bourque's fantastic tape of the reunited/reconfigured band in Somerville last year. A generous, two-set affair with one half devoted to new material and the other presenting a complete Wine and Roses run-through. Killer from start to finish (and with a very special guest towards the end) ...

Here are Dan's notes:

This was the fourth time I've had a chance to see The Dream Syndicate and it was great night all around. The band played two sets with a break and no opener: one of recent material and the second a full performance of The Days of Wine and Roses. The show took place at the Crystal Ballroom in Somerville with the band in great spirits as Steve Wynn bantered with the audience and reminisced about playing in and around Boston over the years. While the shows on this tour were meant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Days of Wine and Roses, the opening set is just as strong as the second, and the whole performance really rocks.

During the first set the band play songs exclusively from their post reunion records, leaning heavily on the recently released Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and Confessions. After "Out Of My Head" Steve asks if anyone in the audience saw Roxy Music the night before in Boston (I was there) and confesses to feeling jealous before introducing the other musicians. "We're of course the opening band," says Steve referring to the two-set structure of the show "we're going to blow them off the stage — we saw their set, they're playing a bunch of old songs so we can wipe the floor with them!"

Once the set is done there's a short break before the band return to play The Days of Wine and Roses in full with a guest vocal from Thalia Zedek on "Too Little, Too Late" filling in for Kendra Smith. As an encore the band play a loose jam called "Open Hour" incorporating bits of "John Coltrane Stereo Blues," "The Regulator" (from The Universe Inside) and "Morning Dew," an often-covered folk ballad.

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The Dream Syndicate — History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days of Wine and Roses 40th Anniversary Edition (Fire Records)

The Days of Wine and Roses (Expanded Edition) by The Dream Syndicate

A 40th anniversary is sort of an odd date to celebrate with pomp and fanfare, which makes this overstuffed edition of the Dream Syndicate’s The Days of Wine and Roses exude at least a whiff of opportunism. And to be sure, History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned is overstuffed: four compact discs, 260 total minutes of music, five different versions of “Definitely Clean” and seven (yep) of “That’s What You Always Say” (from the original record; the Down There EP version; a 1981 recording by the 15 Minutes, a band Steve Wynn formed with members of Alternative Learning; a rehearsal rendition and several live recordings—it’s a good song, but that’s a bit much, by any measure). Dream Syndicate completists and musicologists with big historical investments in the Paisley Underground will rejoice. What about the rest of us?

At the very least, we have occasion to remember a great rock record, one of a select few released from the California underground in the early 1980s that still feel absolutely necessary, song for song and note for note. If we stick specifically with punk and punk-adjacent LA, we might mention Black Flag’s Damaged, X’s Under the Big Black Sun, Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime and Gun Club’s Fire of Love. That’s some fierce company. The Dream Syndicate shared a label with the Gun Club, and likely shared a stage or two with at least a couple of those bands. But they were outliers in LA in those crucial years: not hair-trigger punks like Fear or Circle Jerks, not rootsy like Green on Red or the Blasters, not self-consciously arty like Screamers or Bpeople. Musically the Dream Syndicate was more aligned with New York bands, like Television or the Voidoids — and the Dream Syndicate confessed as much by name-checking La Monte Young’s famous NYC drone ensemble in their band’s moniker.

Mostly the Dream Syndicate was a guitar band, Wynn and Karl Precoda playing tangled and brash lines and working the space between dissonance and rock dramatics. You can hear that impulse, toward volume and catharsis, on a great-sounding live set included on Disc 4 of the edition, captured at the Country Club in Reseda, CA, sometime in 1982. “Then She Remembers” sounds like early Sonic Youth until Wynn drags the song back toward the textures of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their most ragged and feral. In between songs, Wynn quips, “This is San Francisco psychedelia, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Blue Cheer...” He’s goofing on Cali punk’s north-south rivalries, but it’s not a bad set of references for the kinds of guitar antics the band gets into. That Reseda set is one of the real treats among all the accompanying recordings included in History Kinda Pales…, along with a recording of “Open Hour” from a 1982 live performance on KPFK, in which the guitarists channel Verlaine and Lloyd’s sense of interplay. Also check out the cover of “Folsom Prison Blues,” recorded in Tucson that same year; the band sounds like Rank and File on an especially whiskey-soaked night.

Amid all those extras, the most substantive music on the four discs can still be heard in the studio recordings that appeared as The Days of Wine and Roses in late October, 1982. Kendra Smith was still in the band, and her moody presence plays up the record’s Paisley Underground affiliations, as do the psych-rock acrobatics of “When You Smile.” But a lot of the story is told in the record’s first five seconds: those glorious, crashing notes that form the signature riff of “Tell Me When It’s Over.” It’s a great song, one of a few palpably heartbroken, sort-of-love songs from the decade (along with the Replacements’ “Unsatisfied” and Leaving Trains’ “Light Rain”) that laid some formative groundwork for the 1990s’ indie rock. The Days of Wine and Roses reaches its highest peaks on its several sort-of love songs: those just mentioned, “Halloween,” “Then She Remembers.” Those last two address desires that simmer with threat or explode into violence, and the music follows the same logic. If you haven’t for some time, listen to the ecstatic, free-falling guitar break that takes up the second half of “Then She Remembers.” It’s breathless, propulsive and razor sharp. Sort of like the passage of history. 

Jonathan Shaw

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Steve Wynn · Johnny Hott, Invisible (Unreleased Demo) I My Midnight, 2020

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Our American Century

Our latest profile of groups seeking to influence the 2022 midterm elections is about Our American Century -- a super PAC financed by Steve Wynn and Donald Trump's leadership PAC, Save America.

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"Santa Monica" by Steve Wynn https://ift.tt/UysX48p

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CONTRA2024 - 9

OUT OF YOUR MIND

TRACKLIST:

Amyl and the Sniffers - Facts Straight Arrows - Don't Shoot Me Fidlar - Get Off My Wave Die Nerven - Das Glas Zerbricht Und Ich Gleich Mit Dion Lunadon - Goodtimes Osees - Cassius, Brutus & Judas ORB - You Do Steve Wynn - Make It Right Chime School - Give Your Heart Away Shellac - Scrappers Ménage Détroit - I'm A Fool Beak> - The Seal Shop Regulars - 7 Winds The Jesus Lizard - Hide & Seek Split System - Force Field The Drin - Elude The Torch Moron's Morons - I'm Afraid You Will Die CB Kiddo - Out Of My Mind

The 9th playlist of the year!!

HEAR here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2024-9-out-of-your-mind/

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The Dream Syndicate - That's What You Always Say - Live Zaragoza, Spain, 1986.

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New Video: Steve Wynn Shares Punchy "Making Good on My Promises"

New Video: Steve Wynn Shares Punchy "Making Good on My Promises" @stevewynn @_DreamSyndicate @BaseballProject @firerecordings @pacoloco_

Steve Wynn is an acclaimed singer/songwriter and musician, solo artist and frontman of the revered alt-rock/indie rock outfit The Dream Syndicate and The Baseball Project.  This year will be a very busy year for Wynn: Make It Right, the acclaimed singer/songwriter’s first solo album since 2010 is slated for an August 30, 2024 release through Fire Records. The album also coincides with the…

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No Roses Red - Chris Cacavas