Word: wareham
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...canonized Galaxie 500 didn’t receive much press during their rather brief existence, perhaps because the label that released their three excellent LPs between 1988 and 1990, U.K. press Rough Trade, went bankrupt at almost the same time Wareham announced that he was quitting the group. This left all of Galaxie 500’s music, albums as well as performances, virtually impossible to find...
...show went on, the movement from recent material towards older pieces was apparent. One key moment occurred during “Moon Palace” when Wareham broke into the high, yowling vocal style that has been conspicuously absent from their post-millennial output. It drew howls of approval from some of the more inebriated members of the crowd...
About this time the audience began to grasp that there was less than an hour between them and the last time they would see Luna. Cries of “Say it ain’t so, Dean!” shot stageward, leading Wareham to preface a song with an ironic reply of “Let the healing begin...
Though he’s clearly the driving force behind the group, Wareham is hardly a tyrant. This is two-guitar music, and both guitarists, Wareham and Sean Eden, were given plentiful opportunity to shine throughout the set. Eden even stepped to the microphone for “Broken Chair,” revealing himself as a more than able vocalist while giving Wareham a chance to rest his uniquely nasal voice...
...monolithic and massively influential “Sister Ray”) came across as an averaging of the band’s entire output as well as input, merging both their old and new styles with those of their progenitors. By the end every eye was transfixed on Wareham: the past and the future were both on stage at once, and it was beautiful...