Steve Wynn Tours with Three Bands At Once
August 30, 2009 by Andrew Watt
Filed under Around The World
Steve Wynn gets a regular mention on this website because a/ he is good and b/ he sends good emails.
The latest Steve Wynn news sees him touring with a band that makes your mouth water. Steve is joined by Linda Pitmon and REM’s Peter Buck and virtual REM member Scott McCaughey and will be hitting the US highways in various musical disguises as the Minus 5, The Baseball Project and the brand new Steve
Wynn IV.
Confused? Well all three bands will be comprised of the same players with a possible costume change or two. According to Steve, “I’m fairly certain it won’t a typical 3-band bill with separate sets and repertoires-I have a feeling we’ll be mixing it up and changing from night to night.”
The tour is going to all the fun American towns and playing at venues that give live music a good name. It sounds like a good excuse for a vacation.
Steve Wynn Revisits Dream Syndicate
June 7, 2009 by Andrew Watt
Filed under Around The World
The Dream Syndicate were one of the great bands of early alternative rock. The bands leader Steve Wynn has continued and has built a sizeable catalogue of great music that he continues releasing and touring today.
Wynn is willing though to embrace his past as well as continue to move forward.
Wynn and his band the Miracle 3 will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the release of the Dream Syndicate album “Medicine Show” with 2 shows in New York City and Los Angeles where they will play the classic album from start to finish for the first time. The Miracle 3-Steve’s long-time band of Jason Victor, Dave Decastro and Linda Pitmon-did similar shows for “The Days of Wine and Roses” in 2001.
Despite charting on the Billboard list of top LPs and topping the CMJ singles chart for 2 months, the album was met with mixed reviews in the US when it was first released. The band’s debut album “The Days of Wine and Roses” had been a critical sensation. However overseas it was a different story. “Medicine Show” received the highest accolades across Europe and the UK (the album made the London Guardian’s “Top 40 Albums of the First 40 Years of Rock” list in the mid-90s).
“’Medicine Show’ is the weirdest, most idiosyncratic, nastiest, funniest and most revealing record the Dream Syndicate ever made,” said Wynn in the liner notes from the record’s 1991 reissue. “It’s also my favourite.”
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