Then, there are solo albums as well as records with his band, The Miracle Three. Wynn’s side projects dwarf many of his peers’ careers, beginning with Danny and Dusty (with Green on Red’s Dan Stuart and others), the legendary Gutterball (with members of the Silos and House of Freaks) and handfuls of others. “We don’t have to say, ‘All right, here is who we are,’ and give you the two songs you know and try to help you wade into the waters of everything else. “It also means when we show up, people already know us,” Wynn adds. Nowadays, anyone in the world googling “’80s psych-rock” will find The Dream Syndicate.
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We reached the people who knew how to reach us.”
If you get curious about something anywhere in the world, you can hear it within minutes! And, as a musician, it is great, because when we started out, we could only be discovered by people who had a cool record store in their town or subscribed to New York Rocker or Bucketful of Brains magazines. Instead of lamenting how tough the business side of the music biz has become and moaning how difficult it was to search out obscure music in the old days, Wynn takes the opposite approach. In 1982, Wynn might have laid a stack of 20 records on the table: Modern Lovers, Big Star, The Velvet Underground, Only Ones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, as if to say, “These records add up to what we are trying to do.” Today, a young band might add The Dream Syndicate to that stack. I feel like we are a new band,” Wynn says. “We have the benefits of being a heritage band combined with the freedom to do whatever we want. The current line-up of original drummer Dennis Duck, longtime bassist Mark Walton and frequent foil guitarist Jason Victor makes for a versatile band that can nail the punchy tunes or ride the waves of improvisation, depending on the mood of the evening.
The solo records and side projects made it feel exciting when we got back together.” “In 1988, it felt like a dead end psychologically and creatively. “I think it helped that we broke up for a while,” he continues. But the record/tour/record/tour grind wore artists thin.
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“If someone would have said back then that 38 years from now you would still be making records and developing as a band, I would have said, ‘When is the Swing Era coming back?’”ĭecades ago, when it seemed like record companies had a license to print money, the circuit for alternative bands was ripe. Glenn Miller was really rocking at that point. If you play the numbers game and go back 38 years from when we started, it would be 1944. “When I think about how long it has been since The Days of Wine and Roses, it is pretty incredible that I can call this my job,” he says “It is 38 years at this point. Like sands through the hourglass, Wynn looks ahead yet has no problem taking the long view. He brings The Dream Syndicate to town for the new album These Times, released on the Anti- label. The years and experiences have only deepened his perspectives. Wynn is one of his era’s great raconteurs. As the punchline goes, “That’s a long time between drinks!” Their 2017 “comeback,” How Did I Find Myself Here, found them seamlessly picking up where they left off nearly three decades before. Since regrouping in 2012, the quartet has not made a misstep. The following year, the band recorded the modern classic The Days of Wine and Roses. Steve Wynn has helmed The Dream Syndicate since 1981.
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