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An Evening with The Minus 5, the Baseball Project, and the Steve Wynn IV
Performed by Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon

Venue:
The Bowery Ballroom
Date:
Wed 9/23
Notes:
21+
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
$15 advance / $17 day of show
Tickets
The Minus 5
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Scott McCaughey. Charioteer, optometrist, master brewer, or corpse? The blatherers rage on. What HAS been established is that “McCoy” is long addicted to rock’n’roll and its variable sidekicks, at great expense to family and friends. To wit:
Young Fresh Fellows (1983 - present) - songwriter, singer, instrumentalist
The Minus 5 (1993 - present) - songwriter, singer, instrumentalist
R.E.M. (1994 - present) - intrumentalist
Tuatara (1996 - present) - instrumentalist, songwriter.

With these groups Scott has made many records (best seller: 5 million; worst seller: 450) and played many shows (highest attendance: 125,000; lowest: 8). “McOi” is always available and enthusiastic when it comes to these activities. In fact, there have been many other bands that have “benefited” from Scott’s talents (first documented stage appearance: 1972, with Vannevar Bush & His Differential Analyzers). A complete discography may never exist.

Thee Minus 5 itself started when McCaughey realized he had a dumptruckload of songs that the Young Fresh Fellows would either never get around to, or wisely chose not to. His friends and fellow Seattleites Peter Buck, Ken Stringfellow, and Jon Auer were quick to volunteer to help Scott capture his “Let The Bad Times Roll” vision, and these early sessions produced The Hello EP and Old Liquidator. Many other luminants have since joined the ranks of the Minus 5. (See Down with Wilco, the recent pop masterpiece that’s a collaboration uniting the Minus 5 with Wilco.) It’s a bit like a cancer, really.
The Baseball Project
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From Portland Seattle, baseball and Rock come together to make The Baseball Project. Band members Include Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck and Linda Pitmon, all top it up to make an unique band,in their own original style. Producing songs such as “Past Time” that was recently performed on The David Letterman Show. And paying tribute to their favorite baseball players in such songs as “Sometimes I Dream Of Willie Mays”, and many others that conclude a good listen to Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (came out July 8th 2008.
The Steve Wynn IV
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Steve Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is a songwriter based in New York (born in California). He led the influential band the Dream Syndicate from 1981 to 1989 and afterward began a solo career.

Before forming the Dream Syndicate, Wynn played guitar in the Davis, California-based band The Suspects, whose members included vocalist Kendra Smith (who later played bass in the Dream Syndicate) and Russ Tolman and Gavin Blair (who would form True West (band)); in 1979 they released a single, “It’s Up to You” b/w “Talking Loud. ” Two years later, under the name 15 Minutes, he self-released another single, “Last Chance for You” b/w “That’s What You Always Say” (later performed by the Dream Syndicate), which owed much to Joy Division.

Though they were popular with critics, an influence on other musicians, and signed briefly to a major label, The Dream Syndicate were never really commercially successful. They did establish, however, the fan base on which Wynn built his solo career.

Since 1990, Wynn has released a number of albums exploring various musical styles. His first solo album, Kerosene Man, included backing work by bassist Fernando Saunders (a frequent sideman of Lou Reed, to whom Wynn was often compared early in his career), drummer D.J. Bonebrake from the L.A. punk band X, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand and saxophonist Steve Berlin from Los Lobos. Peter Buck, from R.E.M., played on its follow-up, Dazzling Display, and co-wrote the title song. Backing on Melting in the Dark (1996) was provided by the Boston band Come.
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