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I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True : A Memoir Of Life, Music, And The Dream Syndicate
The Dream Syndicate - Book - by Steve Wynn
(2024)
Summer 1984. I ve got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself,
partly because I m the lead singer but more likely because it means the
rest of the band won t have to deal with me for the rest of the day.
Just two years earlier I was flunking out at UCLA, working the day shift
in a record store, living out of my father s basement.
Now I m
living the million-to-one reality of touring the country with my band,
The Dream Syndicate, opening for up-and-coming rock darlings REM, and
making a big-budget sophomore album for A&M Records. I m also
untethered and unbound, drinking a fifth of Jim Beam every day, barely
speaking to my best friend and guitarist, and looking for trouble in all
the wrong places. How did I get from there to here? And how do I get
out? Stick around and find out.
I ll be here, dreaming my dream . . .
I Wouldn t Say It If It Wasn t True is a tale of writing songs and
playing in bands as a conduit to a world its author could once have
barely imagined -- a world of major labels, luxury tour buses, and
sold-out theaters, but also one of alcohol, drugs, and a low-level rock n
roll Babylon. Beginning with Wynn s childhood in California in the 60s
and 70s, the book builds to a crescendo with the formation of the first
incarnation of The Dream Syndicate in 1981 as an antidote to the
prepackaged pop music of the era. It charts the highs and lows of the
band s early years at the forefront of the Paisley Underground scene
alongside Green On Red, Rain Parade, and The Bangles; the seismic impact
of their debut album, The Days Of Wine And Roses; the spiraling chaos
of the sessions for the follow-up, Medicine Show; the dissolution of the
band s first line-up and the launch of a second phase of The Dream
Syndicate with Out Of The Grey and Ghost Stories; and more, culminating
with the release of the landmark live album Live At Raji s.
This
is Wynn s story, but it also features some of the biggest and most
colorful characters of the period, offering a detailed field guide to
the music business that manages to both glorify and demystify in equal
measure. And, ultimately, it s a tale of redemption, with music as a
vehicle for artistic and personal transformation and transcendence.
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