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...high expectations for this show. Lead singer Dean Wareham has a reputation for musical brilliance, going back to his days fronting Galaxie 500. Moreover, Luna's compositions have a dreamy and yet biting edge that picks their way into your mind and refuses to leave. The band's latest album, The Days Of Our Nights, is a sublime piece of mellow and dreamy Velvet Underground-inspired pop. That fact, along with the other Luna songs that had filtered into my brain, suitably impressed and intrigued me enough that I desired to check out their live show...
...Indeed, the voice of lead singer (and guitarist) Dean Wareham, so soothing and haunting on recordings, was reduced to a nasally twang straining to hit the top notes. While this may have been part of the band's charm, I found it difficult to listen to and rather annoying. The sedentary nature of the crowd was also unnerving. While Luna is not a band to which one dances madly, sitting down and occasional nodding meant the excitement inherent in concerts was absent...
Richard Wheeler wants to tell you a story about a bird--a fine but flightless bird that lived a long time ago in the North Atlantic. "A magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great...
...Galaxie 500 (Harvard Bands, Part One). This year, three Harvard alumni re-released their Sterling Morrison-influenced pop albums from the late '80s. Headed by New Zealand's Dean Wareham (now of the band Luna), Galiacie 500's Rykodisc release included the debut Today, On Fire and This is Our Music...
Walsh brings a wealth of experience to Harvard baseball, having served as the coach of the Cape Cod League's Brewster Whitecaps in 1988 and the pitching coach of the Wareham Gatemen since 1991. He has also coached the Simonelli Oilers of the Boston Park League...