Kendra Smith left the band and joined David Roback, formerly of the band Rain Parade. The next year saw the UK release of the album’s anthemic lead track, “Tell Me When It’s Over” (Rough Trade), as the A-side of an EP that also included a live cover of Neil Young’s “Mr. The band was signed to Slash Records, whose subsidiary Ruby Records released its debut and by far best album, The Days of Wine and Roses in 1982. It was very weird, and it screwed us up in some ways.” “It was an overnight thing,” Wynn recalled of their success. A four-song EP was recorded in the basement of Wynn’s house, and released on his own Down There label, and the band quickly achieved local notoriety for its often aggressively long, feedback-soaked improvisations – obvious sources were The Velvet Underground (the Dream Syndicate might be styled an early adopter of Velvets revivalism) and Television, but echoes of the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Credence Clearwater Revival could also be discerned. On February 23, 1982, The Dream Syndicate performed its first show at Club Lingerie in Hollywood. Smith came to play bass, and brought in drummer Dennis Duck, who had played in the locally successful, Pasadena-based Human Hands.ĭuck suggested the name “The Dream Syndicate,” a reference to Tony Conrad’s early 1960s New York experimental ensemble (better known as The Theater of Eternal Music), whose members included John Cale. Rehearsing in a band called Goat Deity, Wynn met Precoda, who had answered an ad for a bass player, and the two joined to form a new group, with Precoda switching to guitar. Moving back home to Los Angeles, Wynn recorded a single under the name 15 Minutes (as in “of fame”) as his intended farewell to music. While attending the University of California, Davis, Wynn and Smith played together (with future True West members Russ Tolman and Gavin Blair) in The Suspects. ![]() The rest of this article describes the first group for the second, see. John Cale (strings), Tony Conrad (strings), Angus MacLise (percussion), La Monte Young (vocals), Marian Zazeela (vocals) An ensemble dedicated to the realization of La Monte Young’s work, composed of: After a long hiatus they emerged with a new album, How Did I Find Myself Here, in 2017 followed by 2019’s release, These Times.Ģ. that formed in 1981 and was originally associated with the Paisley Underground music movement. The Dream Syndicate is a guitar-driven band from L.A. Those desperate for Tom Verlaine's next one might conceivably settle for Sandy Pearlman's ampliclarification of Karl Precoda's guitar, but now that Steve Wynn is flexing his literary imagination we know where the interpersonal vignettes on the debut came from: when he grows up, Steve wants to write new journalism about adolescent anomie for California magazine.There are two groups known as The Dream Syndicate:ġ. Very subtle-the sharper you listen the duller it sounds. ![]() But Steve Wynn's take on the usual world-weary table topics is gratifying matter-of-fact and no more, and music like this-music where the fun is in the no-fun-feels incomplete when it stops there. Punctuated as well as buoyed by drummer Dennis Duck, Karl Precoda shapes a guitar master's trick bag of basic chords and ungodly electric accidents into drones that won't quit, so abrasively tuneful I get off on this album strictly as a groove-the way I get off on perfectly mindless funk like, say, the Gap Band singles. Denying the Velvets ever cross his mind is a nice conceited Loulike touch, though. Karl Precoda has the feedback down, and Dennis Duck simulates Mo's style while intensifying her groove and doubling her drive, but Steve Wynn needs to work on his Lou-he projects too much.
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