1.26.10: Steve & the Miracle 3 Revisit The Dream Syndicate

Steve and the Miracle 3 will take a break from the recording of their new album with a 2-night stand at the 529 club in Atlanta to kick of the reissue of "Medicine Show" by The Dream Syndicate.

The band will play "Medicine Show" from start-to-finish the first night and then "The Days of Wine And Roses" on the second, both sets fortified with many extra songs both old and brand new.

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1.26.10: Steve Wynn Live Music Archive

After a year of designing, dubbing and moving bits and pieces into place, the Steve Wynn Live Music Archive and Tape Traders Database is up at traders.stevewynn.net.

The site houses an incredible collection of Steve's shows from all of his various projects over the last 30 years. You can look up Steve's live music by band, tour, year and even song by song. And all the music is available for free, quick and easy download. (kudos to Jens Jakob Sorensen and Thomas Mejer Hansen).

1.23.10: Chicago Tribune: Baseball project combines indie rockers' love of hardball, music

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1.23.10: Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY): Baseball music

Every song on “Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails” is about baseball; the liner notes helpfully explain what each song is about. The Baseball Project have a wry sense of humor, but they also really care about baseball — its history, mystique, characters and legends...

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12.06.09: Guitar Hero Series: Steve Wynn

"There's a reason why Philadelphia Weekly calls Steve Wynn "One of rock's true heroes of the underground." Playing guitar, writing song, and performing for 25 years, Steve Wynn has a style of music that has been compared to Neil Yong and John Lennon. He has a contemporary flare with a classic rock sensibility. He was said to be part of the pioneers who brought indie rock to the trendy music scene of the 1980s. "

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10.31.09: Music Legend Steve Wynn Loves the Yankees

Quote: "Steve, a devoted Yankees obsessive (friends have expressed concern) weighs in here with his feelings about the 2009 Yankees and what we can expect from a truly intriguing series."

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1.08.10: Steve on the World Cafe | Wednesday Oct 28

Steve says, "I seem to remember it being a good session".

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1.23.10: Video: Steve, Peter Case and Marvin Etzioni at McCabes

"Wait Until You Get To Know Me" at McCabe's for a 2008 taping of Extra.

10.27.09: Steve talking baseball & a little bit of music

On Atlanta Baseball Talk:

Steve Wynn discusses The Baseball Project's album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails as well as this year’s post season.

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10.01.09: Live Review: The 40 Watt, Athens, September 28

Quote: "The band hit the stage at 9:30 with Wynn looking youthful and dapper in a classic smoking jacket (of all the musicians from the early ‘80s, he seems to have aged the best — yet another reason why he may be the luckiest man alive!), Buck on bass, and McCaughey taking on the role of the Master of Ceremonies with his extemporaneous witty banter."

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9.26.09: Sports and rock unite! Wynn brings Baseball Project to town

Quote: "Steve started a ground-breaking band called the “Dream Syndicate” back in the 1980s, had a successful solo career and last year launched, “The Baseball Project,” with Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M., Minus 5), Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Linda Pitmon (Miracle 3, Zu Zu’s Petals). Their CD, “Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails,” is a collection of songs about baseball, but not in the “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” or “Talking Baseball” sense (mercifully).

They’re great songs, rock and ballads, with rich lyrics that tell stories about Jackie Robinson (”Jackie’s Lament”), Harvey Haddix (song of the same name for the man who threw a 12-inning perfect game but isn’t credited with it), Satchel Paige (”Satchel Paige Said”) and Curt Flood (”Gratitude,” a great gritty tribute for the man who paved the way for free agency). The CD is well worth the buy."

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9.25.09: Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn talk baseball (some more)

Quote: "Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn co-captain the Baseball Project, a four-piece that brings its diamond-centric songs (not to mention some non-national-pastime-themed works of McCaughey and Wynn) to Cat’s Cradle on Saturday night. We asked the pair to name their five favorite ballplayers and five favorite baseball songs. And because there wasn’t a game on, they agreed...."

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9.23.09: Supergroup The Baseball Project sings stories of the dugout and beyond

Quote: "And The Baseball Project's just-regular-folks-in-the-bleachers personality has led to some memorable adventures and connections for the foursome. McCaughey played Baseball Project songs live on mlb.com, and the band has been written up in Sports Illustrated and other sports publications. "Past Time" gets played at Twins home games, and a couple states over, Cubs announcer Len Kasper recently joined the band onstage to sing a Cub-centric verse that he wrote for the number. Ex-pitcher and dabbling musician Black Jack McDowell has even given his song, "The Yankee Flipper," a thumbs-up. A relative of Big Ed Delahanty showed up at a concert bearing newspaper clippings and family stories. An especially warm correspondence has taken root between the band and Marcia Haddix, Harvey the pitcher's widow.

Oh, and Craig Breslow—relief pitcher for the Oakland A's, aspiring physician and the season's American League leader in appearances—has made it known what a fan of Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails he is. Breslow, incidentally, pitched for John Stuper at Yale."

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9.19.09: Now batting: Baseball Project

Quote: "“It fits alongside what Scott or I or Peter or Linda would normally do,” Wynn said by phone from Philadelphia. “It has hooks, a good groove and it’s about subject matter we like. We wrote songs about things and players we care about. You find some universal story that touches you and (you) give a minute detail more importance. We would do that if we happened to be writing about bank robbers or murderers or broken love.”"

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9.18.09: Rock the Pete Rose Way

McCaughey sent the lyrics and a demo of the Pete Rose song, "Pete Rose Way":

The Great American Ball Park
where the sun shines all day
Now I'm walking down Riverside
down to Pete Rose Way

the perfect chaos when he slid
and the way he made you pay
every single thing he did
He did the Pete Rose way

walk through hell in a gasoline suit
if there's one more game to play
diving down this boulevard
they call the Pete Rose Way

He'd be the first to tell you
how many outs he made
never said he was the best
but oh how hard he played

Ask about the Big Red Machine
what would Sparky say
I guess he'd probably tell you
that they played the Pete Rose Way

Oh Brandon, Bronson, and Joey
Oh, Aaron, Johnny and Jay
There are many lessons to be learned
Going down the Pete Rose Way

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9.18.09: In Studio Appearance on WFPK

Steve, Scott, Peter and Linda in the studio at WFPK Radio Louisville.

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9.17.09: Rich and riveting show has fun with national pastime

"From Bob Dylan's "Catfish" to Don DeLillo's Underworld to John Fogerty's "Centerfield," American writers and rockers have long been lured to the baseball diamond in search of metaphorical grist for the artistic mill.L

So why not a whole album of songs inspired by the national pastime? That's the concept behind Volume 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails, the 2008 disc credited to The Baseball Project. The collaboration teams up veteran clutch-hitters Scott McCaughey, the leader of the Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows (and also a prized utility player for R.E.M.), and Steve Wynn, the Dream Syndicate founder who has had a two-decade solo career as a hardboiled Raymond Chandler of rock, combining influences from the Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones."

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9.17.09: Four musicians, three bands and tons of hits

"R.E.M. Young Fresh Fellows. The Dream Syndicate.

These bands won't be playing at Valentines on Monday night in Albany. Instead, The Baseball Project, The Minus 5 and The Steve Winn IV will be rocking the joint, with all three bands using the same members from a distinguished lineage of power-pop bands of yore."

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10.26.09: Some Tour Clips

Some recent clips of Steve live from YouTube. There's a bunch in this player, hit the arrow keys along the sides to rotate through.

9.17.09: Oktoberfest's lineup includes R.E.M. and Dream Syndicate vets

"As a musician and also as a music fan, I like being in a situation where things change constantly, where it's not just a whole lot of one thing and then the curtain drops," Wynn said. "I like surprise. I like the random element. And there will be plenty of both in this show."

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9.15.09: Power-pop vets team up for Baseball Project

Quote: "The Baseball Project may not be the Yankees of rock supergroups, but if you're putting together a lineup for power-pop veterans, you'd want these guys on your team."

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9.15.09: Wynn's night of firsts in Louisville

Over the course of his 25-year career, Steve Wynn has fronted iconic '80s alt-rockers the Dream Syndicate, been called the next Bob Dylan and the next Lou Reed, opened for U2 and R.E.M., and released a dozen solo discs under his name.

But even after all these decades in music, he's still experiencing some firsts.

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9.15.09: Concert in South Side promises to be a home run

Quote: "For Wynn, formerly of the Dream Syndicate, one of the appeals of the rotating bands is he gets to be a sideman when McCaughey (formerly of the Young Fresh Fellows) sings lead.

"I'm always the guy in front of the microphone the whole night, missing everything that goes on onstage," he says. "I get to kick back and watch Scott McCaughey sing songs every night. I have a great time. It's a fun tour because there are three different bands, and different sets of songs to choose from. We mix it up, and there's no real rule of how the show will be from night to night.""

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9.15.09: Charging the Mound | AltRock veterans take a swing as The Baseball Project

"Wynn, 49, and McCaughey, 54, have been lifelong baseball fans. And Wynn, growing up in California, did sportswriting as a teenager and thought that would be his career.

“Then I saw the Sex Pistols play Winterland (in San Francisco) and that was the end of that,” he says.

His first band of note, L.A.’s Dream Syndicate, channeled the Velvet Underground’s prickly, shadowy, idiosyncratic Rock & Roll with uncanny intuition. How did he get from that to baseball, the all-American national pastime? He sees a natural connection.

“Baseball is such a game of eccentricity and individualism,” Wynn says. “You can be an absolute freak, a malcontent, out of your mind and still excel as an individual regardless of how good your teammates are. It’s a game of the oddball individuals, and that appeals to a Rock & Roll fan or musician. It’s not a jock mentality: 'Live and die for the team, rah rah rah.’ It’s where an out-of-shape pitcher can strike out a bonus baby or where a guy can pitch a no-hitter on acid.”"

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9.11.09: Line Drives, Pop Flies, Donuts and Chili Fries The Baseball Project Brings Steve Wynn Back to Home Plate

Quote: ""It's funny, but I'm still going to clubs and doing the things I did when I was 20," he said. "I would go see a band, maybe they had been around for 10 years and I'd think, 'Wow, they're 30.' Now 20-year-olds come to see me and I'm like, 'What must he be thinking?' Half the people who come see my shows are kids. I ask them how they know me and they say, 'My dad got me into your music.' Hey, that's great. As long as it's not, 'My grandfather got me into your music.'""