To their fans, The Dream Syndicate is one of the best alternative rock bands of the ’80s. But despite his last name, frontman Steve Wynn starred in one of the great rock loser stories of that era. A&M hired them to be stars, but they weren’t ready despite their big ’82 debut, “The Day of Wine and Roses.” His style was too arty, dark and distorted for the American public –only liked in Europe: in Spain they are still great, just like in the Eastern countries–. And when re-recording another cult album, “The Medicine Show” (1984) Wynn kicked out the whole band except the drummer, changing the sound to an original mix of 70s rock, Springsteen, Creedence and Neil Young, but with more lyrics. lunatics. Fans hated the change and mass audiences weren’t interested, so by 1985 Dream Syndicate was finished. Wynn fired everyone except the drummer again, and composed more direct songs, describing the darkest side of the American way, with gems like “50 in a 25 Zone”, “Drinking problem” or the black chronicle of the underworld in “Boston” . “Out of the Grey” is the kind of album that everyone would have liked, if only they had heard it: it had almost no promotion. Unavailable for many years, “Out of the grey” is reborn in a formidable 3-disc deluxe edition. Starting with the one that contains the extended version of the original album, with an impressive remaster. And quite a find is the second, dedicated to a show in a New York club in 1985. The third has demos and jams in the studio with spontaneous covers of classics by Cream, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd and even the theme of the series “The Munsters”.
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