Dream Syndicate, final form

Dream Syndicate was an early alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California that was active from 1981 to 1989. The band was associated with the Paisley Underground music movement. Image File history File links DreamSyndicateFinal. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paisley Underground is a term used to describe a genre of rock music, based primarily in Los Angeles, California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s. ...

• Initial line-up: Steve Wynn (vocals and guitar); Karl Precoda (guitar); Kendra Smith (bass); Dennis Duck (drums).
• Final line-up: Wynn, Duck, Paul B. Cutler (guitar), Mark Walton (bass).

Steve Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is a songwriter based in New York (born in California). ...

History

While attending the University of California, Davis, Wynn and Smith played together (with future True West (band) members Russ Tolman and Gavin Blair) in The Suspects. 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. He did not follow that course. 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. Smith came to play bass, and brought in drummer Dennis Duck, who had played in the locally successful, Pasadena-based Human Hands. The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ... True West, 1984 backstage Los Angeles Singer Gavin Blair and guitarists Richard McGrath and Russ Tolman were the nucleus of the 1980s guitar band known as True West. ...

Duck 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. Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. ... It was a mid-sixties experimental musical group featuring La Monte Young and John Cale. ... John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...

On February 23, 1982, The Dream Syndicate performed its first show at Club Lingerie in Hollywood. 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. "It was an overnight thing," Wynn recalled of their success. "There was no dues paying. It was very weird, and it screwed us up in some ways." Audio feedback (also known as the Larsen effect) is a special kind of feedback which occurs when a loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker). ... This article is about the American rock band. ... Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Franciscos original psychedelic bands of the late 1960s. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The band was signed to Slash Records, whose subsidiary Ruby Records released its debut and by far best-known album, The Days of Wine and Roses in 1982. 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. Soul." Slash Records is a record label. ... Ruby Records was a subsidiary of Slash Records, started in 1981. ... The Days of Wine and Roses was the debut long-play album of Dream Syndicate, released 1982 on Slash Records. ... Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ... Neil Percival Young[1] OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...

Kendra Smith left the band and joined David Roback, formerly of the band Rain Parade, to form Opal. She was replaced in the Dream Syndicate by David Provost. Guitarist and songwriter David Roback was a member of paisley underground 80s group Rain Parade. ... The Rain Parade were a band active in the Paisley Underground scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s. ... Opal were an American alternative/psychedelic band in the 1980s. ...

The group signed to A&M Records, which released the disappointing album The Medicine Show (1984). Recorded in San Francisco with producer Sandy Pearlman (Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash), it was a time-consuming effort whose arduous genesis contributed to the temporary breakup of the band. They opened tours for R.E.M. and U2 and released This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album - Live (1984), the last record to feature Karl Precoda on guitar (who soon after left to pursue a career in screenwriting) and the first appearance of bassist Mark Walton. The band left A&M after the label rejected its demo for "Slide Away" (later released on the semi-official It's Too Late To Stop Now). A&M Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Universal Music Group. ... Sandy Pearlman was the original producer, manager and a songwriter for the Blue Öyster Cult. ... Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band formed in 1967 and still active in 2007. ... The Clash were an English punk rock band who were active from 1976 to 1986. ... R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ...

In 1985, Wynn and Dan Stuart of Green on Red wrote 10 songs together that were recorded with Dennis Duck, among others, and released by A&M as Danny and Dusty : The Lost Weekend. Green on Red were an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground. ...

After a brief hiatus, Wynn, Duck and Walton joined with Paul B. Cutler (of the proto-Goth 45 Grave) to form the final version of The Dream Syndicate; they recorded two more studio albums, Out Of The Grey (1986), produced by Cutler, and Ghost Stories (1988), produced by Elliot Mazer (producer also of several Neil Young albums, including Harvest and Time Fades Away). A live album, Live at Raji's, was recorded (also by Mazer) before Ghost Stories but released afterward. There is disagreement among fans as to which lineup was the best, but in every permutation the band produced guitar-driven rock music at a time when Lou Reed, David Bowie, Miles Davis and many others were fooling around with drum machines. Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply, goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ... During 1979-1990 in Los Angeles, 45 Grave was born in the chaos of the punk movement and churned out their own brand of death rock. ... Neil Percival Young[1] OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. ... Neil Youngs 1973 Time Fades Away is one of the most remarkable live albums ever recorded. ... Lewis Allan Lou Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was one of the most influential musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...

Posthumous releases include 3 1/2; The Lost Tapes 1985-1988, a collection of unreleased studio sessions, and The Day Before Wine and Roses, a live radio performance recorded just prior to the release of the band's first album.

Steve Wynn has continued on as a solo artist with quite a growing collection of sonically diverse solo releases under his belt. Mark Walton went on to play with a bunch of other incredibly talented musicians with the Continental Drifters. Steve Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is a songwriter based in New York (born in California). ... The Continental Drifters were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s and dissolved in New Orleans, Louisiana about a decade later. ...

Albums

• The Dream Syndicate EP (1982)
• The Days of Wine and Roses - Ruby Records/Slash Records(1982)
• Medicine Show (1984)
• This Is Not the New Dream Syndicate Album......Live! (1984)
• Out of the Grey (1986)
• Ghost Stories (1988)
• Live at Raji's (1989)
• 3 1/2; The Lost Tapes 1985-1988 (1993)
• The Day Before Wine and Roses (1995)

The Days of Wine and Roses was the debut long-play album of Dream Syndicate, released 1982 on Slash Records. ... Ruby Records was a subsidiary of Slash Records, started in 1981. ... Slash Records is a record label. ...

DVD

• Weathered and Torn

External links

• Steve Wynn Site: Dream Syndicate
• Dream Syndicate collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• 80s Davis, CA music scene