8/21/2023 0 Comments Dream syndicate![]() Everybody has challenges and stories far worse than I’ll ever have, but the thought that we might not touring for the rest of the year is a real bummer. Normally I might have been cancelling 40 or 50 shows, but I was only cancelling 20, maybe. But we did have a few shows planned at South By Southwest. “We didn’t have that much booked for this period, so we kind of lucked out there. “We normally do around 100 shows a year,” he explains. However, with a new effort out, it’s also curtailing any ability to get out and promote. It’s bad enough to think that the situation is affecting his daily life. He mentioned that he hears the ambulance sirens day and night. He says he lives only a block away from the city’s Elmhurst Hospital, an epicenter of triage in the current crisis. But what we’ve done in the last five years… we’re kind of dumbfounded by the high rung we’re on right now.”Īt the moment, Wynn is speaking on the phone from his Queens New York apartment in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We have a history and there is that success. It’s convenient to have that name because me, Mark and Dennis have been playing together for 39 years now. But in reality, we could change the name of the band because we’re doing something entirely different now. We know we’re the same band that made Days of Wine and Roses and Medicine Show, and we’re proud of those albums we still play many of those songs in concert. We’ve made three albums in four years because we’re excited. I hear things that we would never be compared to - Miles Davis, Can - it’s all in there, but it still sounds like us. With with this one, I don’t know what the hell is going on there. I’m not too thrilled.’ Likewise, with every record we’ve done, I’ve always been able to pick out the influences. There’s always someone who says, ‘Ummm, no. “Everyone else in the band feels the same way. “It’s a bit of a cliche because every musician says it about their latest album, but I do think this is the best thing we’ve ever done,” Wynn reflects. ![]() It’s reflected decidedly in the outcome of the album. It was a lot of fun writing that way.”Īs Wynn is quick to explain, that new attitude is one of the things that distinguish the current incarnation of the group from the seminal ensemble. It was like an archeological dig, and I was the scientist looking for clues. I started writing lyrics, finding verses and choruses. So after listening to it for like the 400th time, I thought, ‘Well, this could be turned into something,’ We could have pressed maybe 500 albums for record store day, but I thought this was something we could play around with, edit down, find some structure where maybe structure wasn’t intended. Every time I played it through, I really enjoyed it, and I started discovering little things I hadn’t noticed before. But the following year, I found myself listening to it hundreds of times. “We thought maybe we’d hold onto it for the archives. “The next morning we listened to it and really enjoyed what we heard,” he remembers. Wynn says that he work seemed to resonate, even when he listened later. Every time it seemed like we didn’t know where else to go, somebody in the band would pick up on a riff, and it was like, ‘Here we go again.’ “ It was the kind of thing you live for - everybody connecting and having fun, not knowing where it was going. I don’t think I’ve ever done that in my life. or 11:30, and one of our friends, Stephen McCarthy, came by the studio, and though we were pretty tired, we said ‘Why don’t we go make some music?’ The six of us, and our producer and engineers were still hanging out, so we went back into the studio and played for 80 minutes straight, starting around midnight. ![]() We were working on songs, overdubbing, working on the arrangements and all the stuff we normally do. “When we were making the last record, These Times, we reached what was supposed to be the end of one our usual 12 hour days. “That’s exactly what it was,” Wynn reflects.
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