I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true : a memoir of life, music, and the Dream Syndicate / Steve Wynn.

Wynn, Steve, 1960-, author

London : Jawbone, 2024.

288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

A vivid and revealing memoir from the leader and founder of one of the most revered indie rock bands of the 1980s. Summer 1984. I've got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself, partly because I'm the lead singer but more likely because it means the rest of the band won't have to deal with me for the rest of the day. Just two years earlier I was flunking out at UCLA, working the day shift in a record store, living out of my father's basement. Now I'm living the million-to-one reality of touring the country with my band, The Dream Syndicate, opening for up-and-coming rock darlings R.E.M., and making a big-budget sophomore album for A&M Records. I'm also untethered and unbound, drinking a fifth of Jim Beam every day, barely speaking to my best friend and guitarist, and looking for trouble in all the wrong places. How did I get from there to here? And how do I get out? Stick around and find out. I'll be here, dreaming my dream . . .

9781916829060 (pbk)

782.421660922

ML421.D7

782.42166

English

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