The bookback CD edition includes 30 pages of new liner notes by band historian Pat Thomas and new interviews with Kendra Smith, engineer Paul Cutler and the album’s producer, Chris Desjardins - plus rare photos, gig posters and more.īelow, check out the full tracklists for the CD and vinyl editions, and hear two of the tracks off the expanded edition: the debut EP version of “That’s What You Always Say” and a live recording of “Some Kinda Itch.” We would actually listen to these cassettes back then religiously, simultaneously for study and clues for what to do next but also just out of amazement that we were suddenly playing in our own favorite band, doing a kind of music we had only dreamed somebody might do someday.” “Hearing these bonus tracks of live and rehearsal performances of The Dream Syndicate, culled by Pat Thomas from the cassette collection of Dennis Duck, I remember things about that band and what we were doing in 1982 that I had long since forgotten. The second disc features both tracks off a 7-inch Wynn recorded with an earlier band called 15 Minutes, plus Dream Syndicate rehearsal takes from 19, and a pair of live radio performances from ’82.ĭisc 3 includes a mix of live recordings and rehearsal takes, while the fourth disc features 15 live cuts from a concert in Reseda, California, in 1982 and material recorded backstage in Tucson, Arizona, that same year. ![]() The 4CD edition includes a wealth of bonus material by the original lineup of Steve Wynn, Dennis Duck, Kendra Smith and Karl Precoda, with the first disc featuring a newly remastered edition of the original nine-song album, plus the band’s four-song, self-titled debut EP, also released in 1982 on Down There Records. We could spend a whole page just talking about the original Dream Syndicate and their debut album The Days of Wine & Roses – but suffice to say that the NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Rolling Stone, et al – all loved it.The Dream Syndicate’s 1982 debut album The Days of Wine and Roses - a classic of Los Angeles’ early-’80s Paisley Underground scene - will receive a 40th anniversary reissue this summer in the form of 4-disc, 54-track collection boasting 10 rarities and 31 previously unreleased recordings.įire Records will release History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days Of Wine and Roses on June 23 in digital formats worldwide, and, in North America only, as a 4CD bookback edition and a 2LP vinyl edition, featuring the remastered album plus the band’s debut EP. But before MTV switched to reality shows, The Dream Syndicate of The Days of Wine & Roses were no more. ![]() When the Dream Syndicate emerged in the early 80s, frontman Steve Wynn declared that “we’re playing music we want to hear because nobody else is doing it” – he added, “I’ll comprise on what I eat or where I sleep, but I won’t compromise on what music I play.”īoth were true, although their template of Velvet Underground meets Crazy Horse may seem commonplace today (and let’s not forget, the Syndicate spawned many imitators), their raw twin guitar, bass and drums approach was not common during an era when slick polished MTV bands ruled. Set to release their new album this summer ‘Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions’ features singer/songwriter/guitarist Steve Wynn, drummer Dennis Duck, bassist Mark Walton, lead guitarist Jason Victor plus their newest member Chris Cacavas on keyboards (you remember him from the 1980s Los Angeles band Green On Red). After several reissues of vintage recordings, The Dream Syndicate recently revealed they had signed to indie institution and ‘international guardian of wonky psychedelia’ (Uncut), Fire Records.
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