Artists-On-Albums: AOA#13 (Dean Wareham on Crazy Rhythms)

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Hearing Voices

Indian Summer

Tiger Lily

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Guitrarrorists was a compilation of solo guitar pieces curated by Kramer and released on No.6 Records in 1991. Contributions came from such indie lumninaries as Thurston Moore, Steve Albini and J Mascis. I listened to the whole album a few weeks back and must admit I found it mostly heavy going.

Dean Wareham’s contribution is this nice little number entitled West Broadway. Enjoy.

Mp3: Dean Wareham – West Broadway (5.1MB via box.net)

Dean and Lou have a drink together

Quick post to wish a Happy Birthday to Dean Wareham, who reaches 46 today. Anyone in the area can spend the day celebrating with Dean at the Celebrate Brooklyn festival in Prospect Park from 7:30 or at The Bell House in NYC from 10:30. If not… you can grab a bottle of coke and drink to him. That’s what I’ll be doing.

Happy Brithday Dean.

Don’t forget to wish Dean a happy birthday – he reaches the grand old age of one-year-older-than-me on Saturday.

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Dean Wareham has a in-depth article on the BOMB Magazine website detailing the process of selecting and scoring the Warhol Screen Tests used in 13 Most Beautiful.

I came home from the museum with a reel of about 40 Screen Tests, and we started thinking about music, watching individual Screen Tests, throwing different pieces of temp music at them, sometimes a cover or a half-finished song we had sitting about, and sometimes picking up guitar and keyboard and trying to conjure something simply as a response to the subject’s actions on screen. Narrowing the selection to 13 was difficult. We had to let go of a number of great subjects—Ivy Nicholson, Imu, Amy Taubin, Salvador Dalí.

Read the full essay on the BOMB Magazinbe website.

On August 4th Dean Wareham will be appearing at an event entitled Stories in High Fidelity at The Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. The event is described as being “an evening of musical readings” and will feature contributions from other authors. Tickets are $10 in advance and are available from The Union Hall website.

I think at a certain point I realized that several people are going to be upset by this and by that, and if I went back and took out every thing that was going to upset somebody, it would just be a puff-piece and not a very interesting book. And I think part of the larger point I was trying to make about being in a band is that it’s all about conflict. And so I wanted to go into some of that conflict.

Read part one of the Dean Wareham interview at Make Major Moves. Part two will be published tomorrow.

UPDATE: Part two of the interview is online now – more talk about the book, about 13 Most Beautiful and about Galaxie 500…

It’s hard to sing those songs, too. I feel like I need to cough, and I sing real high. Your voice naturally lowers as you get older, I think. And also, I didn’t know how to sing at all in Galaxie 500 [...] That’s absolutely part of the charm of it, when people say, you know, the vocals on the first Galaxie 500 album sound like I’m singing from outer space. I think I was thrown out there in front of a microphone and I’d never really been in that situation, I hadn’t practiced in front of a microphone, and I only got one take of everything. I’ve since learned that it’s on the third take that I start to get it good. It’s never the first. Sometimes the second. With vocals, that is.

Read part two of the Dean Wareham Interview at Make Major Moves.

Thursday we’ll be eating cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia; before our show at Johnny Brenda’s, Friday it will be chili dogs before our gig at the Black Cat in D.C., and Saturday night we will eat and perform at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. This last is an early show – Cheval Sombre will go on at 7:30, we’ll be on at 8:30. These will likely be our last non-Warhol shows of the year, at least here in the USA.

Read the full post at Dean & Britta’s iLike blog.

Don’t be a rock star. I’ve seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a “go” button and a “stop” button, and some people just have the “go” button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they’ll say, “Okay, I have to get more now.” I’m not that kind of person.

Read the full interview at Decider NY