The Dream Syndicate 1ST EP TEST PRESS ORIG. DOWN THERE hand titled by Steve Wynn
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The Dream Syndicate- The Dream Syndicate EP [test pressing with press sheet/hand titled by Steve Wynn in 1982] (Down There DT-2)
This is truly where it all began, this is a pre-release 1982 TEST PRESSING of The Dream Syndicate's debut EP on Steve Wynn's Down There Records. HAND ASSEMBLED by The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn back in 1982 (including Steve's hand written titles, band members, etc and including a Down There press sheet) this is a pivotal piece of the dawn of Los Angeles' Paisley Underground scene.At this point The Dream Syndicate were:
Steve Wynn- Guitar And Vocals (later of solo reknown/The Baseball Project with Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Gutterball)
Karl Precoda- Guitar (later of The Last Days Of May/Rainy Day)
Kendra Smith- Bass (later of Opal, Rainy Day and The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers as well as a solo artist on 4AD)
Dennis Duck- Drums (ex of LAFMS bands (Dennis is all over Blub Krad)/The Doo-Dooettes/Human Hands)
The record would go on to be issued by Down There, garner substantial college radio attention and get reissued by Slash Records...this is one of the first off the stamper.
The Dream Syndicate would go on to influence bands as disparate as Nirvana and Galaxie 500 (and Luna) as well as The Black Crowes and they remain one of the more essential and important band from the 1980's.
12" EP is MINT-/Cover is VG+ (small corner bend, light staining on the back, but really, this is virtually a one of a kind records)/insert is MINT-.
Tracks are:
1. Sure Thing 3:57
2. That's What You Always Say 4:18
1. When You Smile 3:05
2. Some Kinda Itch 5:26
A M G says of The Dream Syndicate:
Dream Syndicate are at the foundation (alongside the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, and R.E.M.) of contemporary alternative music simply because at the time when most bands were experimenting with new technology, the Syndicate deigned to bring back the guitar. Fronted by Steve Wynn (b. Feb. 21, 1960) and including Karl Precoda (guitar), Dennis Duck (drums), and Kendra Smith (bass), the band formed in Los Angeles after Smith and Wynn had relocated there from Davis, CA. They debuted with a self-titled, unbelievably Velvet Underground-like EP on Wynn's own Down There label. It was shortly off to Ruby/Slash for Days of Wine and Roses, the most lauded record on the college charts that year. The record has been cited as influential from artists as diverse as Kurt Cobain to the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson. Live, they had developed into an assaultive guitar band prone to jamming, which helped earn them the tag as leaders of L.A.'s paisley underground movement.
A M G says of The Dream Syndicate EP:
Reputedly recorded for a mere 100 dollars at a Pasadena studio, this self-titled release was the first offering from Southern California's Dream Syndicate. The comparisons to the Velvet Underground that would dog the band for most of their career originated here. From the opening, icy arpeggios of guitarist Karl Precoda's "Sure Thing" to the six-string train wreck that brings frontman Steve Wynn's "Some Kinda Itch" to a close, the mark of the seminal pre-punk outfit is all over these recordings. A larger kit doesn't stop drummer Dennis Duck from locking the band into a rigid, primal framework à la Maureen Tucker and the White Light/White Heat-style recording tactics of the self-production only enhance the gritty sound of the group's twin-guitar attack. On "That's What You Always Say," Wynn lays down a ragged, metallic strum over which Precoda delivers his buzzing, atonal solo. The two then engage in an exchange of fractured chords and six-string shards against the stark rhythm section. Precoda speaks a similar language on "When You Smile," though here the notes seem to corrode to his guitar strings in a rusted mess. As derivative as the sound may be, Dream Syndicate were clearly onto something. Just months later, a similar combination of Wynn's deadpan vocals and the band's austere soundscapes would surface on the triumphant The Days of Wine & Roses, the group's acknowledged masterpiece and a classic from the (paisley) underground.
Wi k ipe d ia says of The Dream Syndicate:
The Dream Syndicate was an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California active from 1981 to 1989. The band was associated with the Paisley Underground music movement.
While attending the University of California, Davis, Steve Wynn and Kendra Smith played together (with future True West members Russ Tolman and Gavin Blair) in the Suspects. Moving back home to Los Angeles, Wynn recorded a single called "15 Minutes" (as in 15 minutes of fame) as his intended farewell to music. Instead, while rehearsing in a band called Goat Deity, Wynn met Karl 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.
Duck suggested the name "The Dream Syndicate" in reference to Tony Conrad's early 1960s New York experimental ensemble (better known as the Theater of Eternal Music), whose members included John Cale.
On February 23, 1982, the Dream Syndicate performed its first show at Club Lingerie in Hollywood. A four-song EP was recorded at the home of Tom Mehren in Pasadena (not in Wynn's basement as has been rumored) with Paul B. Cutler (guitarist for 45 Grave and The Consumers) engineering and producing and released on Wynn's Down There label, and the band quickly achieved local attention for its often aggressively long, feedback-soaked improvisations. Obvious sources were The Velvet Underground (the Dream Syndicate could be called early VU revivalists) and Television, but echoes of the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Creedence 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."
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 (Rough Trade Records) release of the album's anthemic lead track, "Tell Me When It's Over," as the A-side of an EP which also included a live cover of Neil Young's "Mr. Soul."
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.
The Medicine Show was recorded in 1984 in San Francisco with producer Sandy Pearlman (Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash). The commercial failure of the album contributed towards the group's temporary breakup. They opened tours for R.E.M. and U2 and released the 5-song EP 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.
In 1985, Wynn and Dan Stuart of Green on Red wrote 10 songs together which were recorded with Dennis Duck, among others, and released by A&M as Danny and Dusty: The Lost Weekend. 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.
Posthumous releases include 3½; The Lost Tapes 1985–1988, a collection of unreleased studio sessions including cuts produced by Vitus Matare (of L.A.s Paisley Underground heroes The Last and later Trotsky Icepick,) 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. Mark Walton went on to play with the Continental Drifters.
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