i think they usually do like 3-4 galaxie songs in their sets.

id go but im seeing them tue at bowery.

i just finished dean's book...not a bad read at all.

his book is actually quite good. but wow what an egomaniac

"i think they usually do like 3-4 galaxie songs in their sets."

It says, "On this night we are going to concentrate on songs by Galaxie 500."

achtung Damon and Naomi: get on board, make a reunion happen. I'm sure Pitchfork would give them a boatload of money to have their first reunion gig at their fest next summer. Dean said he would do it "if the money was right." that would be AMAZING.

i would be so on board with Galaxie 500 reuniting

The book is great.

This'll be a good show. I'm jealous.

No way a reunion will happen - too much bad blood there.

Nice that he's playing the songs (I guess), but it ain't Galaxie 500 without Damon's drumming and Naomi's bass. Even if you do have Jem singing with you...

no reunion ever. they're all independently wealthy, and nobody does a reunion for any other reason except needing money. (Unless they actually like each other, which doesn't seem to be the case.)

damn, i didn't know they were all independently wealthy.

let's pray that the Israel or US nukes Iran, they block the straits of Hormuz, oil shoots up to $300 a barrel, and Galaxie 500 will have to go on tour in a restaurant grease-powered van to maintain their lifestyle.

Nice, 3:31.

El May (SvetLara Meyerratken) opened for Dean and Britta last (Thursday, 082108) night at the Zipper Factory, and transported me back to the late 1960s with her acoustic guitar folky material mixed with ... well ... herself, herself and herself through the use of a stamp on/stamp off foot-controlled recording device that enabled Meyerratken to create simple acoustic percussion washes and multiple harmonies featuring ... well ... herself. Think Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention done solo, and think this analogy a compliment.

Dean and Britta were wonderful, but jeeeeeeez, I'm a fan.

This performance -- one of three scheduled at the Zipper Factory, where by the way, a NEW Zipper Factory is going up at the old Zipper factory parking lot across the street -- was heavy on Galaxie 500 material (Tugboat, Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste, Fourth of July, Blue Thunder, et al.), which was interesting (to me) to hear played by D&B and the Back Numbers, but I have to admit to a preference to ALL Luna and D&B material.

That being said, I'm still amazed by Wareham's guitar playing, and how effortlessly he tosses off runs whose foundations are the song structures themselves, and whose peaks are majestic launches that NASA scientists should be sent to study.

There was also a relatively new piece that D&B trotted out -- something about getting older -- that sounded like Loaded-era Velvet Underground played by late-era Feelies. Nice.

Be there for Dean and Britta at the Zipper Factory next time on September 20, 2008, where I'm hoping that D&B focus on their newer material, and dig deeper into Luna territory.

Dean Wareham is god. Love galaxie 500.