The Dream Syndicate always ranked up there with X, The Blasters, and Los Lobos. Their style reminded me of The Velvet Underground with a Crazy Horse stampede. They were an important piece in a new jet fueled, early 80's eclectic swing at west coast americana. If you ever pursue listening to them farther, their Days of Wine and Roses was a real statement, real raw; Medicine Show took some flack as too 'big label', which I always thought was funny. It is great and my favorite (a best of 80's lp) --Karl Precoda still nailing delicious, malicious licks--Live at Raji's absolutely slays, and there is a great off-shoot called Danny and Dusty's Lost Weekend (1985) that is a real floor stomper (the brilliant Steve Wynn and Dan Stewart from Green on Red), drunkenly singing Song for the Dreamers recorded in much the same air as Tonights the Night and Alex Chilton's Like Flies on Sherbert)--a fine carefree ol' time in the studio. NP... some ECM, Flying Burritos live at the Palomino '69, NRPS Anthology--
Just got a U-Turn turntable a few days ago. Really enjoying it so far. I have not had a record player for 29 years or so.
Mine is going on more than 3 plus years and I love it !! I always recommend to those getting into vinyl
Good to know --- looking forward to getting back to listening to records. I was able to grab all my records that I had stored at my parents' house for over 30 years. Looking forward to hitting up the used record shops and estate sales -- the current prices of new records are killing me a bit -- took my kids to Barnes and Noble yesterday and I couldn't pull a trigger on a $25 - $30 record, yet... my wife did buy me a new copy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot from the Wilco site a couple of weeks ago, while we were waiting for the turntable to be manufactured. Foxtrot sounds greats. 1st 2 records I played when I got the table going was Joshua Tree then Led Zeppelin IV. My wife couldn't wait to play her copy of Thriller.
'The I Did It My Way Cockail Hour'... a loaded Manhatten in a tall glass, perfect for witchtit weather: Elvis goes soul, ska, R&B and some happy fun w/ the Attractions, Link Wray wreaks string mayem on another rockabilly fresh fish special. Danny and Dusty must be having what Los Lobos was recording, a very cool tex- mex tall tale called A Jockey Full of Bourbon. Lobos covers some Richard Thompson and The Blasters on this great little EP... w/ Shoot Out the Lights and Marie Marie. I figure somewhere in this world it's happy hour So I went down to get properly disposed Went 'n' ordered me a whisky sour And the man said sorry son we're closed Seems that lately I've been paying For things I used to get for free Don't you know I hear the music playing Wow I know the word is out on me. ``danny and dusty 'the word is out' '85
Been making art for my live Queen collection. Giving this a listen tonight - one of the top 5 or 6 audience recordings of the Works tour. Great show!
In some other thread (psychedelic maybe, or prog album from unexpected band etc.) someone mentioned Horslips - the Táin. I like it so far, a fusion of Prog rock and traditional Irish tunes backing a poetic telling of Cú Chullain and the Táin Bó Cúailnge. In one way it's possibly the nerdiest thing ever, but it's cool.
