A few tracks by other people that Dean has lent his voice and/or guitar to…
Angel Corpus Christi and Dean Wareham – Je t’aime/I Wanna Boogie With You
The Sixths – Falling Out of Love With You
Mercury Rev – Car Wash Hair
Fuxa – Cheree
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French webzine The Drone has a video interview (in English) with Dean Wareham talking about Galaxie 500 and including some live clips of Dean & Britta playing Galaxie 500 songs at the Fleche D’Or in Paris in last year.
Dean Wareham interview at The Drone.
Obviously “Friday recycling” will eventually involve me re-recycling… like this
On the back of the treat that was the video of Galaxie 500 at Glastonbury that turned up on Dimeadozen earlier in the week here’s a great recording of their complete show at The Roskilde Festival in Denmark a couple of weeks later. I wrote it up better before and took the opportunity to point out Dean’s opinion on festivals (because it’s similar to mine) “The truth is that you hate most of the bands. Well, you hate their music, and isn’t that the same thing?” – he had a similar dig at festivals in his Tokyo diary published a couple of days ago by The Paris Review “they come for the festival experience, that feeling of a rock-show community that, frankly, I never quite get myself”.
But for all that the Roskilde show sounds like it was worth it (and the Glastonbury video had me sad that I didn’t make the effort all those years ago).
Download Galaxie 500 at The Roskilde Festival – 1990 (68MB via Mediafire)
Roskilde 1990
A previously uncirculated DVD of bands playing at the 1990 Glastonbury Festival has just turned up on Dimeadozen – it includes four tracks by Galaxie 500 (Decomposing Trees, Melt Away, Snowstorm and Ceremony) and during Snowstorm you can spot Kramer turning up on stage (as mentioned in Black Postcards
In the middle of our third song I heard a sound behind me – it sounded like someone else was playing guitar. Kramer, He had given the house sound engineer some pointers and had quickly made his way through the crowd to the stage, where he found my spare guitar and a spare amplifier. He couldn’t resist – he was Kramer. He wanted to play the big stage at Glastonbury.
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Galaxie 500 and Kramer ... on "the big stage at Glastonbury"
Jan 052012
The Paris Review has posted Dean Wareham’s diary of his recent trip to Tokyo to play a couple of “Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500″ shows, 20 years after Galaxie 500 had split meaning they never got to play there.
From the stage tonight I notice three different people crying as I sing “Blue Thunder,” which is a song about the power-steering action in my old 1975 Dodge Dart and doesn’t quite seem worth crying about, though admittedly it is also a song about being alone behind the wheel, and I wail about driving “so far away,” so maybe that’s what did it.
Read the whole diary at The Paris Review
Backstage at the Liquid Room, we are trying to staying awake before the show, eating rice cakes and unusual candy bars and staring at the poster of Kurt and Courtney on the wall
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