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[264] The Shield Around The K
I can’t remember when I bought this DVD, Wikipedia says that it was released in 2006, so it was probably then, or not long after that. When I bought it I didn’t know that Dean was a talking head in the film… so, it was bought for my love of K rather than my love of Dean.
The Shield Around The K is a documentary about K Records, and to be honest Dean’s appearances are a little lightweight, and almost seem a little incongruous given that he didn’t really have much of a K connection beyond his covers of Indian Summer. Maybe he just happened to be in town at the time - but, nice to see him turn up all the same.
Dean calls Indian Summer the “Knocking on Heaven’s Door of indie rock, everybody has to do it”, he also says he prefers Beat Happening’s version over his own (solo) cover. Sonic Boom disagrees, he says that Spectrum covered it because of Dean Wareham’s version and that he didn’t really like Beat Happening’s original!
He’s wrong though…
Someone has kindly popped the whole film on YouTube:
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 13/017
- Title: The Shield Around The K:
- Format: DVD