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Following in the steps of other reuniting 70s bands, The Police have announced that they will in fact tour this summer, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of “Roxanne”.
Music fans are already speculating whether 2009 will bring a 20th anniversary reunion tour of Wayward Sun.
Following in the steps of other reuniting 70s bands, The Police have announced that they will in fact tour this summer, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of “Roxanne”.
Music fans are already speculating whether 2009 will bring a 20th anniversary reunion tour of Wayward Sun.
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Hope they hit SLC
Well, I hope they hit SLC.
So the Police argued about hair and the music… what did Wayward Sun argue about?
The funniest moment ever was the moment that Kevin remarked on how a particular band fan looked with her shirt off, and the rest of us all said, “yeah” simultaneously, looked at each other, and laughed our heads off realizing that every single one of us had seen her with her shirt off…
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Matthew P. Barnson
Grand Canyon
I wore a rut the size of the Grand Canyon in my copy of Synchronicity. MAN I loved that Album.. especially “King of Pain”
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Huh?
Wait what? I don’t remember that. Who?
— Ben
Brandi Somethingorother…
I think this was when Jon was our bassist, Ben. We were standing in the hall just outside the Quince Orchard stage. I know Jon saw the boobs, because he saw ’em the same night I did 😉
But I could be wrong. You didn’t ever see Brandi’s breasts? How odd. I thought everyone had.
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Matthew P. Barnson
You knew I had to comment..
You know.. I know Sammy hates the idea.. and Kevin might be hard to get.. but a virtual reunion would be SO easy.
Think about it.. just record 3 songs a year. Release it every new years day. Matt does the bulk of work on his.. Sam onhis.. Ben on his. Write “in the style of Wayward Sun”, and then everybody contributes harmonies and/or a lick here or there. It could be done in a week. Then, if Kevin is game, he can do one too.. or at least add harmonies or a drum fill.. make it complete. Even get Jon on some of the bass, and the other guitarist (if he is findable) to do one lead.
Seriously..
Ben sings one, Sam sings one, Matt sings one. Everybody sings those huge harmonies. Heck.. even ONE a year.
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I Respectfully disagree
The joy of Wayward Sun was to hear them live. To hear an album put together by 4 or 5 people living across the U.S., some of which who probably haven’t played a drum, uhm, I mean their instrument in 5 years wouldn’t do the memory justice.
Now if you could get them together in the same studio for two weeks with nothing to do but record, play video games, surf the net and blog/chat, and watch HBO, then you might have something. But probably not even then, because that was college. Now, you’d have to have the kids in there, and you’d change the focus of the songs. Think of the difference between Van Halen and Van Hagar. Both were good, but they were different. If Wayward Sun could get that mythical studio time for 2 weeks and get some songs out, it would be a different WS than you’d remember.
But that could be a good thing. As soon as I hit the lottery, we’ll test it out. 🙂
My $.02 Weed
Gotta disagree..
But maybe that was the difference between the two WS eras. What I mean is that YOUR WS is without Matt, a live band known for jamming 9 minutes of Chica’s Rag and with playlists that include songs I don’t know that well. I’ve listened to Ben’s posts and I like a lot of it.. but its not MY WS.
MY WS is a lot more of a songwriting band. Their strength is in the lyrics, and in the recordings. I liked “No Further Questions” fine.. but TAFTFT and Right of Way (AWESOME COVER) – well listen to the recordings… why are they a little substandard? Because my tape was worn out from all the listening.
TAFTFT was the tape I listened to the entire summer after 9th grade, nonstop. I played it for Kelly when I met her that summer – and it carries for me a lot of memories.. in fact, when I learned that “The Sky is always there” wasn’t for a chick, I was sad to know it… cuz for me, it was.
“Right of Way” was smilar for me.. it expanded as my sensibilites did. I came out right as I broke up with my then Girlfriend (who coincidentallt lived a block from Matt) – and “All over Again” got me through it (again, pissed when I learned it wasn’t about a romantic breakup). “House of Dreams” helped me deal with some of my bizarre homelife.. and it even followed me through another relationship and breakup at SMC, where I learned that THAT ex-girlfriend was a friend of one of Ben’s friends.. and the last gift I ever gave her was my extra copy of the tape.
I only ever saw the band twice live.. and they were good.. but for me the strength was in the harmonies and the songs.. and the live component was just secondary.
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Well Hold On Now, Pardner
We’ll always have “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” 😉
My Wayward Sun was much more than just watching them jam live. You have to realize, I lived in the same apartment as Ben and Sam for 2 years. As your high school memories are entwined with the early Wayward Sun, my college years are entwined with the later Wayward Sun.
And no matter which WS you look at, they’re gone. The following is a quickly-compiled, by no means exhaustive list of things that have occurred to WS members since they’ve played in the band:
1) Ben got married 2) Sam got married 3) Matt got married 4) Did Kevin get married? I didn’t feel the fundamental shift in the fabric of reality if that were to occur, but I know he had a serious girl 5) Ben procreated twice, I believe 6) Matt procreated quadrupally 7) Ben moved to NY and devoted his energies to opera 8) Sam got an MBA 9) Matt lost his religion 10) Kevin went into the Marines 11) Sam started his own buisness 12) Matt started this little bloggy thing 13) Kevin got a job on Capitol Hill 14) Ben entered law school 15) Sam played a lot of jazz
Something tells me that the WS you knew and the WS I knew is long gone. That’s my point. Nothing they do now will hit you like you were hit during your formulative years in high school.
This isn’t to say anything they’d put out now wouldn’t rock. But…being apart for 10-15 years like they have, and being as geographically dispersed as they are, I wonder if they could capture that spark they had so many years ago. I doubt very many bands can produce compelling music if they don’t have any personal interaction to infuse into the music.
Hence, my previous post about when I win the lottery, I put them up in a studio for two weeks on my nickle. Probably somewhere warm and tropical. And if that occurs, Justin, I’ll make sure to invite you. Promise 🙂
My $.02 Weed
The real question is..
If you were a Beatles fan, did you dig “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” when the surviving Beatles recorded music to John’s vocals in the mid 90’s.
I did. While I realized it lacked the amazingness of the 60s Beatles.. it was cool to hear those guys again. If they had released a song every year, I would have been thrilled.
I also dug the new van halen songs.
But you;re right.. it will likely never happen.. so I will have to listen to the next best thing.. http://www.timpane.com/mp3
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hee
I must say that I’m greatly enjoying the debate between Justin & Weed.
In my mind, we were always (in both incarnations) a live band that also made recordings. Not a “jam band” per se, but a band that achieved a real “synergy” (not unlike the tone patch Matt invented for “Pushing Us Down” on his Ensoniq – inside joke) by playing together. Our live shows never reached their full potential, however, because we never had the right equipment (the complete lack of monitors, for instance). And our recordings never reached their full potential because we so often had to record instruments separately and lost the joy of playing off each other.
That said, I’d love the chance to play with you all again. Not because I want to reform Wayward Sun – whatever we did together would be something else entirely – but because you’re still my best friends and I’ve never enjoyed a musical experience as much as I enjoyed playing with you all. Sure, it’d be fun to see if we all remembered our harmonies for “The Sky Is Always There”, but the real joy would be in creating something new.
I’m a Luddite though – recording tunes over the internet doesn’t interest me. Matt and Sam will simply have to visit the East Coast.
— Ben
A voice from the basement
Having read through all the postings I feel compelled to respond. I’m the forgotten member of Weed’s Wayward Sun. First and foremost, it was a challenge and honor to follow in Matt’s footsteps. Many of his guitar lines were a challenge to figure out and I often gave up and did my own thing. I could not begin to fill his role in the magical harmonies that were such a critical component of the WS sound. I had the opportunity to see WS with Matt before eventually joining the band a few years later. I will always consider WS, regardless of who was in the band, a “happening” that came from the enthusiasm and musical communication that occurred between musicians. Whether it was a tight, well-constructed song or a 20 minute free-form jam, WS had fun interacting with each other and whoever was listening at the time through music and laughter. The most important reunion occurs every time you put on a WS tape or CD and drift back 10-15 years ago.
For the record, I do not know and have never seen Brandi.
Ed
Dont get me wrong.
Granted, I’m a Matt fan (unhealthily in HS, perhaps). BUT.. I loved most of your guitar work. I enjoyed the raw sound you brought with you.. and while I have an attachment to the old WS… I do listen to the CD frequently as well.
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Jaw On Floor
Ed? ED?!? Unreal.
Folks, I present to you the power of the internet.
Ed, please get me your contact info via private message, as I’ve been trying to reach you periodically over the years to no avail.
Broke the streak…
If you’d have met her, I bet she would have shown you her… tracts of land. Too bad, though, that the sixth member of the band (Jon Brusco, also on this blog, quit the band eventually and Sam learned bass in order to fill his shoes) had not seen them. Alas.
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Matthew P. Barnson
heh… yeah…
Wow… talk about a voice from the past, I had missed this posting before somehow. I had forgotten about Brandi. Her and a girl named Virginia (i think) used to be pretty happy about sharing that type of thing. 🙂
Virginia…
Yes, Virginia and I were involved for about two years… through various other girlfriends. It was messy 🙂 Virginia always struck me as basically bisexual, and apparently decided to exclusively date women after we broke up for the last time. My brother ran into her quite a few years ago, and mentioned that she and her partner have a baby girl (erm… probably more like an eight-year-old now). Haven’t heard anything since, though.
But yeah, I remember the time you and I were hanging out at my house with her, and said we wanted to watch “Working Girl” since it had just come out on video (man, that makes me feel old, it was in theaters in 1988???), and Virginia went and rented “Working Girls” instead… I often suspect that the selection wasn’t a mistake 😉
Wild chick. She was uneven, sometimes disturbing, and overly dramatic, but an amazingly fun and compassionate person to be around. We broke up because, although I think the two of us always had a lot of chemistry, we couldn’t maintain an even relationship. We were always fighting about something or other.
Virginia was a great example to me of a person I might enjoy being around, but couldn’t be with with my personality. I knew I had to have someone in my life who didn’t like unnecessary drama in her life, because I’m enough of a drama queen for two! I found the right gal.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Hee…
Hi Ed. I like the idea of WS as a “happening”, a “moment in time”, if you will. Lends us a little more credence. Always was fun though.
And you did meet Brandi. She was at that concert when you saw us with Matt.
— Ben